Catholic Archives

IE CA CP/1/4/12
Item
1975

Draft short story by Mairin Cregan titled ‘The bog fairy tells about star-people’. The story was published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975).

The Blue Lady of Ards

IE CA DL/7/14
Item
1977

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

Extracts from by John J. Dunne, 'Haunted Ireland / her romantic and mysterious ghosts' (Belfast, 1977) re an apparition called ‘The Blue Lady of Ards’ which supposedly haunted the old Ard Mhuire Friary (the former Ards House). The text reads:
'She did not make her presence felt until after the mansion had been taken over by the Capuchins and became their house of theological studies for Irish novices. … It is reported that the apparition was seen on top of the oak staircase in the mansion. The stairs were horseshoe-shaped, forming a horseshow meeting at the landing above. A priest is said to have seen the ghost, a lovely lady in blue, at the top of the stairs, just as he was about to ascend them'.

The Black and Tans' Lament

IE CA CP/3/16/3/75
Part
c.1921

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A republican flier with the text of a ballad titled ‘The Black and Tans’ Lament’.

The bishops' pastoral: a prisoner's letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin / Proinnsias Ó Gallchobhair has addressed the following letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin …

IE CA IR-1/7/3/20
File
12 Nov. 1922

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

Letter dated 13 Nov. 1922, signed Proinnsias Ó Gallchobhair (Frank Gallagher), and addressed to the Most Rev. Edward Joseph Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin (1872-1940). The letter refers to the treatment of Republican prisoners. Published in Glasgow and printed by Kirkwood & Co.

The Bishop of Limerick speaks: How the Irish prisoners are treated

IE CA IR-1/7/1/12
File
30 Apr. 1917

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A pamphlet in the republican interest referring to those interned by British authorities in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. Written by the Most Rev. Edward Thomas O’Dwyer (1842-1917), Bishop of Limerick. Published in Limerick, 1917.

The Bishop of Limerick speaks: How the Irish prisoners are treated

IE CA CP/3/16/3/25
Part
30 Apr. 1917

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A pamphlet in the republican interest referring to those interned by British authorities in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. Written by the Most Rev. Edward Thomas O’Dwyer (1842-1917), Bishop of Limerick. Published in Limerick, 1917.

The Big House

IE CA CP/1/1/4/73
File
1977

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

Photographic prints compiled for an article by T.F. O’Sullivan titled ‘The Big House’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977). The file includes prints of the interior and exterior of Borris House, the ancestral home of the MacMurrough Kavanaghs in County Carlow, and a depilated shopfront possibly in Borris. The prints are credited to T.F. O’Sullivan. The file also includes images of Glashganny Lock on the River Barrow.