Photographic print of Con Colbert
- IE CA IR-1/3/1/8
- Item
- c.1916
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Photographic print of Con Colbert seated and dressed in an Irish Volunteer uniform.
Photographic print of Con Colbert
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Photographic print of Con Colbert seated and dressed in an Irish Volunteer uniform.
Photographic postcard print of St. Enda’s School
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Photographic postcard print of the study hall of St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, founded by Patrick Pearse.
Photographic postcard print of Grace Gifford
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Photographic postcard print of a half-length portrait of Mrs Joseph Plunkett (Grace Gifford) ‘who married Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Prison a few hours before his Execution on May 3rd, 1916’. Printed and Published by the Powell Press, 22 Parliament St., Dublin.
Passes signed by Lord Powerscourt, Major, Assistant Provost Marshal, Dublin
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Passes signed by Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt, Assistant Provost Marshal, Dublin, permitting Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. and Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. to travel between ‘Dublin and England via North Wall or Kingston’ and to the ‘Capuchin Convent, Church Street’.
Note from rebel participant in the Easter Rising
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
The note reads: ‘Dear Mother, we had to surrender so we march to Phoneix [sic] Park, don’t forget to pray us’. A partially decipherable name and address is given on the reverse: ‘Matthew [ ], 12 Great Longford St, Dublin, off Aungier St.’ The item was found within an envelope annotated: ‘Farewell letter to His mother of a soldier of the I.R.A. who fought for Ireland in the Rising of Easter Week, 1916’.
Note from Military Headquarters to Dublin Metropolitan Police
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Note from Military Headquarters, Parkgate Street, to Dublin Metropolitan Police. The note reads: ‘Please tell the Franciscan Fathers at Church Street that the two men they wish to see at Kilmainham Detention Prison should be seen by them tonight’. Printed heading reads: ‘Dublin Metropolitan Police Telephone’. Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke were executed on the morning of 3 May
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letter from [T. Martin?], 12 Trinity Street, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing an Irish Volunteer button. One is in brass with a harp decoration. Also enclosed is a uniform badge: I.V. (Irish Volunteers) with green enamel inlay, initials and central harp, the reverse stamped ‘P. Quinn & Co., Belfast’. The letter informed Fr. Aloysius that ‘in searching among the ruins of G.P.O. I found the enclosed. I thought it might interest you and took the liberty of sending it to you’.
Letter from Major Gerald Henry Pomeroy Colley to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letter from Major Gerald Henry Pomeroy Colley, Headquarters, Irish Command, Parkgate, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., declaring that he is ‘glad to say your kind offices will not be required to night’. Colley was referring to Fr. Aloysius’ attendance to imprisoned rebel leaders.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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.
Copy of last letter of Seán Mac Aodha (Seán Heuston) to his sister
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Typescript copy of last letter of Capt. Seán Mac Aodha [Seán Heuston] to his sister, ‘an Irish nun’.