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.
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’.
Letter from Seán Tomás Ó Ceallaigh (Sean T. O’Kelly) to Terence MacSwiney referring to the occasion of the beatification of Blessed Oliver Plunkett. A delegation consisting of Count O’Byrne, Professor Stockley and Art O’Brien went to Rome on behalf of the Dáil to represent the Government of the Republic at the beatification ceremonies. Sean T. O’Kelly and Mr. D. Hales, Consul in Italy, were also part of the delegation. In Irish
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.
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.
Letter from the deputy governor of Parkhurst Prison to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Church Street, re the condition of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. He is in ‘his usual health. He is in hospital and receives any medical attention necessary’.
Letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., Hermiston, Oregon, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., regarding the disposition of Stanfield Church and the progress of building works on other churches in his ministry in Oregan. He wrote: ‘As soon as the weather moderates I will begin the building of the Church at Pilot Rock. I intended to call it Santa Clara but I will get a donation of $1,000 if I call it Saint Agnes. What’s in a name? I’ve been called many names myself, few of them as complimentary in the change as this one’.
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.
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.
