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Letters from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to May Barrett, Watercourse Road, Cork, referring to the execution of Captain Pat Moran in Mountjoy Jail (died 14 Mar. 1921). Fr. Dominic wrote ‘What a lot of my friends have gone down since I was last in Cork or indeed in Ireland’. He expresses the hope that ‘they’d make Irish compulsory for the Dáil as it would put an end to some of the … long winded speeches’. With a newspaper clipping of a poem titled ‘Subvenite’ by Father Dominic, Parkhurst Convict Prison, ‘written in Prison on hearing of the execution of Captain Patrick Moran and Volunteer Thomas Whelan, both of whom were fellow-prisoners with him in Kilmainham’. (16 Mar. 1921). In Irish and English.

Letters from J.H MacDonnell, solicitor, 3-7 Southampton Street, Strand, London, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin, referring to his hopes for a settlement in relation to the release of Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. He writes: ‘I think the Prisoners will be released during the negotiations. I know Bob Barton is very keen on the matter and as I am personally known to all of the delegates who are coming over, I shall press them to push this matter forward’. He also refers to improving conditions of Fr. Dominic’s confinement.

Letters from R.G. Browne, Town Clerk, Urban District Council, Westport, and John Maher, Town Clerk, Cashel Urban District Council, offering their sympathies to the Capuchin Order on the death of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. The resolution from Cashel Urban District Council reads: ‘During the martyr struggle of Terence MacSwiney (Lord Mayor of Cork) in Brixton Prison, the late Father Dominic by his attention and fidelity to the noble sufferer and the cause for which he suffers, he has left to Ireland a name that links him with the bravest and most heroic we boast of’.

List of justices for Sinn Féin (Republican) courts in Cork city. The names are subdivided by administrative region: ‘North’; ‘South’; ‘Centre’.

List of names and addresses of people resident in the United States. Includes a business card from Joseph Smith, Director, Boston Commercial and Industrial Bureau.

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’.

Newspaper clipping of a letter by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. published in the nationalist newspaper the 'Cork Free Press' (8 Nov. 1911). The letter is titled ‘The Brown Friars: their education in “the dark days”’ and refers to the long history of the education of Irish Capuchins in continental colleges. The article was sent to the editor of the 'Cork Free Press' and was signed 'Segan Eireannac'. With cover and annotation by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap.