Correspondence between Thomas W. Bewley, secretary, W. & R. Jacob & Co. Ltd., and Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. regarding a cheque for £25 given by the directors of Jacobs to the Capuchins as a mark of appreciation ‘for the deep sense of thankfulness that our Factory was spared from serious injury during the time of the recent rebellion’. Includes a copy reply from Fr. Aloysius returning the said cheque. He writes ‘Any services that I may have rendered during the recent sad crisis were such as … any other priest in the same circumstances would render’. Fr. Aloysius suggests that the cheque should more fittingly be sent to the Lord Mayor’s Fund for the Relief of Distress.
Correspondence of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., with Robert F. Mahony, President, American Association for Recognition of the Irish Republic; Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Central Council of Irish County Associations; Eugene Twomey, Secretary, Fianna Fail, Inc., Irish Republican Party of America; Charles F. Tiernan; Joseph O’Byrne of the Fathers’ Albert & Dominic Committee; and the Irish American National Alliance. The letters refer to appeals from various Irish-American republican organizations calling for the repatriation to Ireland of the mortal remains of Fathers Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.
A collection of letters sent to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. by republican internees and prisoners including Cathal Brugha, William Partridge, Constance Markievicz and Austin Stack.
This section comprises the correspondence of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with the wives and relations of republican detainees and prisoners including those who were executed in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. Many of the correspondents were significant political figures in their own right including Kathleen Clarke, Áine b. Ė. Ceannt and Eva Gore Booth.
An Italian newspaper containing an article by Donal McHales, General Consular and Agent of the Irish Republic, regarding ‘Black and Tan’ atrocities in Ireland.
This Anti-Treaty publicity newssheet was distributed to journalists and republican supporters. Written from the republican perspective, it provides a daily account of the conduct of the Civil War and appeared in much the same format and was written in the same journalistic style as the earlier 'Irish Bulletin' (IE CA IR-1-8-2-1-5). It was produced by the republican publicity department and was probably edited by Erskine Childers until his arrest (November 1922), and later by Frank Gallagher and others. The file comprises the following issues: 27 Sept. 1922 (No. 1)-8 Aug. 1923 (No. 267). The series is incomplete but there are multiple copies of some issues.
Declaration of Lillie Agnes Connolly’s (wife of James Connolly) reception into the Catholic Church. It reads: ‘I Fr. Aloysius OSFC declare that … I have this fifteenth day of August 1916 received into the Catholic Church Mrs Lily Agnes Connolly observing the prescribed rites and ceremonies’. The document is signed by Lillie Agnes Connolly and witnessed by Fiona Connolly (1907-1976)
