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Terence MacSwiney Funeral Procession

Terence MacSwiney Funeral Procession

An image showing funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork on 31 October 1920. Several Capuchin friars are identifiable in the procession including Fr. Cyril O’Sullivan OFM Cap., Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.

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’.

Spanish Tribute to Terence MacSwiney

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.

Photograph of the Wedding of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy

Photograph of the Wedding of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy

A photographic print of the wedding of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy in June 1917. In February 1917 MacSwiney was deported from Ireland and interned in Shrewsbury and Bromyard internment camps until his release in June 1917. It was during his exile in Bromyard that he married Muriel Murphy, a member of a wealthy brewing family in Cork. Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. an Irish Capuchin friar (2nd row, third from the right), was the celebrant at the wedding.

Passport of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.

Passport of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.

Passport of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. issued by the British Foreign Office. Fr. Dominic’s age is given as 36, his profession as a Roman Catholic Clergyman and is defined as a ‘British-born subject’. With half-length portrait photograph pasted into document. The ink stamps on the passport indicate that Fr. Dominic travelled through France and Belgium in 1919.

Memorial photographic print of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.

Memorial photographic print of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. The caption reads: ‘zealous Chaplain to the martyred Mayors of Cork, Tomas MacCurtain and Terence McSwiney, remained ever loyal to the cause of the Irish Republic’. The memorial notes that Fr. Dominic ‘died in exile in Bend, Oregon, U.S.A. in 1935. In June 1958, the remains were repatriated and re-interred in the Capuchin Cemetery in Rochestown, County Cork’.

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