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Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution
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Sunday Independent

The articles refer to attempts to secure a truce between Free State forces and republican irregulars in order to ‘avert a national disaster’.

Straight Talk

The file contains the following editions of this Anti-Treaty publication: 8 Nov. 1922; 22 Nov. 1922 (No. 2); 29 Nov. 1922 (No. 3); 14 Dec. 1922 (No. 5).

Statement by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. on the need to stamp out Freemasonry

Statement by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to the Chief of Staff of the IRA, Four Courts’ Barracks, on the need to stamp out Freemasonry in Ireland. The report reads: ‘Freemasonry is the same everywhere in principle and desire – to destroy all religion Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Pagan to make way for its own lewd and lustful phallic worship’. Fr Dominic urges that no restraint be shown in destroying Masonic emblems. He writes: ‘I think you may have no scruple in destroying them, I think they should be destroyed in as much as they are not religious emblems, but symbols of lewdness, lust and impurity. The reason for the destruction should be made publicly known’.

Speech made by his lordship the Most Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer on the occasion of the conferring of the freedom of the city of Limerick on him, on the 14th September, 1916: Full report.

A report of speech by the Bishop of Limerick, a self-proclaimed nationalist and land-reformer, referring to contemporary political opinion. Alone of all the Irish Hierarchy, O’Dwyer was the only one to support the leaders of the 1916 Rising. A sentence beginning ‘Ireland will never be content as a province’ is underlined in the text. With 'Irish Emigrants and English Mobs / Letter from the Bishop of Limerick' (10 Nov. 1915).

Spanish Tribute to Terence MacSwiney

A tribute to Terence MacSwiney seemingly published in Madrid, Spain, in August 1921. The text of the tribute is given in Spanish with an Irish and English translation. A portrait print of MacSwiney by the Spanish artist Maroto accompanies the text. This copy is signed by his sister Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne) dated 25 October 1922.

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