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Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution
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Memorial cards

Kevin Barry, IRA. ‘Died for Ireland in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, on Monday, Nov. 1st 1920’. Coloured, with photographic print.
Michael Murphy, Boherard, Carrignavar, died 21 June 1917.
Terence McSwiney, ‘Lord Mayor of Cork, Died for Ireland in Brixton Prison, England on October 25th, 1920’. With photographic print.
Captain Richard Coleman ‘who fought for the Freedom of Ireland, Easter, 1916, and died in Usk Prison, England, on December 9th, 1918’. With photographic print.
Peadar Healy, 86 Phibsboro’ Road, Capt., A. Co., 1st Battalion, Irish Volunteers, died 12 Apr. 1919. One card with photographic print and another in Irish.

Memorial Cards

The sub-series comprises original memorial cards for deceased republicans collected by Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.

Memorial Cards for 1916 Rising Leaders

• Michael O’Hannrachain. With photograph. 2 copies
• Ėamonn Ceannt. With photograph. 2 copies
• Con Colbert. With photograph. Printed by Gill, Dublin.
• Pádraig MacPiarais and William MacPiarais
• ‘For the souls of General P. H. Pearse and the Officers and Men of the Irish Republican Army’.
• ‘For P.H. Pearse, Thos. J. Clarke and Thos. MacDonagh who died for Ireland, 3rd May, 1916’.
• In memory of John Daly, Thomas J. Clarke and John Edward Daly (combined card). 3 copies

Memorial cards for Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.

Memorial cards for Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (with photographic print). ‘Capuchin Pastor of St. Mary of the Angels, Hermiston, Oregon. Civic Chaplain to Lord Mayor Thomas MacCurtain and Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney, 1920. Died at Bend, Oregon, 17th Oct. 1935’.

Memorial Cards for Peadar Healy (Peadar Ó hÉaluighthe)

Two memorial cards for Peadar Healy (Peadar Ó hÉaluighthe), from Phibsboro in Dublin, who died on 23 April 1919. Healy was a captain in the 1st Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and was a participant in the 1916 Rising. One of the cards (with Irish text) has a photographic print. It was produced by Brian na Banban, a pseudonym used by Brian O’Higgins (1882-1963), a founding member of the Volunteers and himself a 1916 veteran.

Memorial Cards for Thomas Ashe

Memoriam card for Thomas Ashe who ‘Succumbed to prison treatment and forcible feeding in Mountjoy Prison and died 27 Sept. 1917’. Card with photographic print, coloured tricolour banner on pikes with interlacing legend: ‘Sinn Féin Abu’. With MS annotations.
‘In memoriam Thomas Ashe, 1917’. Cover has photographic print of Ashe and legend ‘He died that Ireland might have greater life’. Handbill containing the text of poem in remembrance of Thomas Ashe signed ‘“Benmore”, Glenar M., Christmas 1917’. 3 pp.
Memoriam card for Thomas Ashe who ‘answered the call and laid down his life for Ireland on Sept. 25th [1917]’.

Memorial photographic print of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.

Memorial photographic print of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. The caption reads: ‘zealous Chaplain to the martyred Mayors of Cork, Tomas MacCurtain and Terence McSwiney, remained ever loyal to the cause of the Irish Republic’. The memorial notes that Fr. Dominic ‘died in exile in Bend, Oregon, U.S.A. in 1935. In June 1958, the remains were repatriated and re-interred in the Capuchin Cemetery in Rochestown, County Cork’.

Memorial print of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.

Memorial print of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., ‘Chaplain of the Irish Republican Army’. It notes that on ‘his deathbed he renewed his allegiance to the Irish Republic. In deference to his life-long wish, his remains, together with those of this loyal pupil Fr. Dominic now lie side by side in Irish soil in the little cemetery, Rochestown, County Cork’

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