Letter from A. de Staic (Austin Stack), Substitute Minister for Home Affairs,, to Terence MacSwiney, asserting that he has ‘deputed Mr. J.D. Kenny, BL, LLD, to make a tour of the Counties of Kerry, Cork and Limerick with instructions as to the setting up of the Courts. He will call on you shortly to discuss the subject’.
Letter from Art Ó Gríobhtha (Arthur Griffith), Acting President Dáil Éireann, to Terence MacSwiney, acknowledging receipt of ‘unanimous resolution of the Corporation of the city of Cork requesting the Executive of Dail Eireann to bring the verdict returned by the Corner’s Jury at the inquest on the late Lord Mayor of Cork to the attention of the Governments of the civilised world’. Tomás Mac Curtain, Lord Mayor of Cork, was shot on 20 March 1920.
Published in Dublin by the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland (1904). An annotation on end cover reads: ‘Prayer book used in Prison by Father Dominic’. The text of the book is in Irish.
Text of a poem or song signed by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and dated ‘9/4/4/20’. Fr. Dominic occasionally used the republican calendar to denote his years: 1920 was the fourth year of Republic founded in 1916. With a phonetic aid to pronunciation.
Flier for a commemorative event organised by the Corporation of Cork to mark the deaths of Tomás Mac Curtain and Terence MacSwiney, former Lord Mayors of the city.
Copy speech made by Terence MacSwiney on the occasion of his election as Lord Mayor of Cork after the assassination of Tomás Mac Curtain. The final page is signed ‘Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne’. MacSwiney noted that the ‘circumstances of the vacancy in the office of Lord Mayor inevitably governed the filling of it; and I come here more as a soldier stepping into the breach than an administrator to fill the post in the municipality’. In Irish and English. With Lord Mayor’s Prayer. A message to Republican prisoners on hunger-strike. The text begins: ‘To my Comrades in Cork. On your 57th day I greet you! …’.
Copy note ‘taken from a postcard (blood-stained) taken from the breast pocket of a dead German soldier by young Canniffe of Barrick St., Cork – Dec. 1914’. It is added ‘The p[ost] c[ard] was sent to Canniffe’s father by young Canniffe’. In German.
Circular letter from the Most Rev. Denis Kelly, Bishop of Ross, Bishop’s House, Skibbereen, regarding the number of Irish chaplains in the British Army and Navy. Distinctions are made between incardinated secular clergy and regulars ‘who have gone from the Irish Houses of their respective Provinces’. It is noted that two members of the Capuchin Order in Ireland are serving as chaplains. These were Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap.
Circular letter from Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne (Terence MacSwiney), Sinn Féin Executive, Macroom, re the collection of money for the Dáil Éireann Loan in Mid-Cork. MacSwiney confirms that ‘in our Constituency over £6,000 has been subscribed to the Loan for the Government of the Irish Republic’.
'Capuchin News', V, no. 3 (Oct. 1935). Bi-monthly publication of the Capuchino Club of Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, California. Page 9 contains a short obituary on Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. It reads: ‘[Fr. Dominic] came of a distinguished family that has given many members to the Church. He was a nephew of Father Luke Sheehan, one of the pioneer Capuchin Missionaries in the West …’.