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Letter from Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, affirming that he has sent the name of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to Cardinal Bourne for appointment as chaplain.

Letter from Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking priests to act as chaplains in the British armed forces for the duration of the war.

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.

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.

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.

Newspaper clipping showing Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. leading a procession of the clergy at the funeral of Tomás Mac Curtain at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne in Cork in March 1920. Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. is standing directly behind Fr. Albert. The image is credited to Cashman and was reproduced in the 'Irish Press', 12 Jan. 1958.