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Letter from Miceál Ó Coileáin (Michael Collins), Aire Airgid (Minister for Finance), Dáil Éireann, Mansion House, Dublin, to Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne (Terence MacSwiney), regarding monies from the city of Cork in connection with the advancement of the Dáil Éireann Loan. In Irish.

Typescript letter from Risteárd Ó Maolchatha (Richard Mulcahy), Chief of Staff of the IRA, to Terence MacSwiney, expressing his alarm on hearing that he ‘had been going about Cork during the day and even staying at home and elsewhere at night without any protection’. Mulcahy added ‘I want you to try and realise what a blow it would be to our prestige, if, after, what has happened in Cork, you should be attacked without having a scrap of protection … . A simple general instruction is being issued on this matter, but you must understand that your position is unique …’. Manuscript annotation on the reverse: ‘Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne’.

Letter from the Most Rev. Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to the withdrawal of Fr. Dominic’s faculties due to his inability to take the examination for renewal of faculties. Bishop Cohalan also refers to his unease on reading an announcement in the papers that Fr. Dominic is to be appointed honorary chaplain to a brigade of the IRA. The Bishop wrote: ‘Now I put it to you that a lay body has no authority to confer an ecclesiastical honour from a lay authority’. He later asks Fr. Edwin: ‘Are you not conceding to a military brigade what belongs essentially to the church?’ With a copy reply from Fr. Edwin claiming that he knew nothing of Fr. Dominic's appointment as chaplain to the IRA until his attention was drawn to a report in the Cork newspapers.

Letter to Lena May Murphy, Cork, from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (23 Nov. 1918). It reads: ‘I must thank you very sincerely for your great kindness to my dead father in his last illness. All at home are never done telling everybody of you and your wonderful goodness’. This letter was sent by [Maire] Murphy, 35 Mercier Park, Curragh Road, Cork, to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (13 Nov. 1991), explaining that Lena May Murphy was her late aunt. With a copy photograph of Lena May Murphy, and notes by Fr. Nessan re Lena May who worked as a nurse caring for elderly patients.

Letters from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. reporting on his research on the early Irish Capuchins in continental archives including repositories in Troyes and Charleville, ‘home of the Irish Friars of former days’. Fr. Dominic affirms that ‘further communications would be safer if addressed to c/o Mr. Seán T. O Ceallaigh, Grand Hotel, Place de l’Opera, Paris’ (3 Dec. 1919).

Two small flat-bottomed vessels with a narrow neck and integral spout. Possibly made of Pewter. With accompanying tray for holding the two vessels.

Memorial cards for Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (with photographic print). ‘Capuchin Pastor of St. Mary of the Angels, Hermiston, Oregon. Civic Chaplain to Lord Mayor Thomas MacCurtain and Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney, 1920. Died at Bend, Oregon, 17th Oct. 1935’.

The file includes clippings from the 'Daily Sketch', 'Cork Examiner' and the 'Freeman’s Journal'.

Copies of the 'Irish Independent' and 'Irish Times' carrying reports referring to the court martial of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. He was arrested following a raid on the Church Street Friary in Dublin in January 1921. He was court martialled in Kilmainham Jail and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment but was released the following year under the terms of a general amnesty following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

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.