Draft recollections of deceased Irish Capuchin friars compiled by an unknown author (but certainly by another friar). The texts are titled ‘Some who have gone before’ and ‘Predecessors / A Capuchin Reverie’. The text includes personal recollections of: Fr. Leonard Brophy OFM Cap. (1869-1930) Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (1877-1925) Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap. (d. 27 Apr. 1930) Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (d. 11 Jan. 1935) Fr. Fidelis Neary OFM Cap. (d. 22 June 1932) Fr. Sebastian O’Brien OFM Cap. (1867-1931) Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. (d. 20 June 1939) The text also refers to several friars who have been given pseudonyms such as ‘Philemon’, ‘Junius’, and ‘Marcion’. The text includes references to Fr. Albert’s role in the 1916 Rising and in the later revolutionary period. It reads: ‘He felt, as few did, the piercing griefs of the young widows of Easter Week. Often would he visit them of an evening. … He made friends with the wistful little son and daughter who were orphaned by the bullets that took [Thomas] MacDonagh’s life away, and who were made motherless by the cruel waves that closed over the drowning body of the patriot’s bride [Muriel MacDonagh drowned in the sea off Skerries, County Dublin, on 9 July 1917]. For them he had a special corner in his affections. All his heart went out to that wee pair, so tragic, so utterly lonely’. The file also includes an attached clipping referring to the re-interment of the bodies of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. in Rochestown Capuchin Cemetery on 14 June 1958
Record of the Cork City and County Irish Volunteers during Easter Week 1916. An attached declaration by Seán Murphy, Irish Volunteers 1916 Association (Cork), refers to a statement made by Breid Ní Foghludhe referring to her role as a dispatch carrier for Seán MacDermott during the Rising. The record itself refers to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in Cork in 1913 and to their abortive role in the Rising. The record is incomplete as pp 8-21 have been torn from the bound copy.
Draft of an article by Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap. titled ‘Reflections on the morality of the 1916 Revolution’ submitted for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The draft is dated 21 March 1966.
A report of the operations of the Emergency Committee from 1 December 1881 to 25 January 1882. Reference is made to the placement of caretakers in charge of farms from which tenants have been evicted and to the assistance lent by the Committee in executing writs of possession on various properties.
Photographic print of a residential house. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘1913’. The location may possibly relate the area around Cullenswood House on Oakley Road in Dublin.
Circular letter from James Stopford, 5th Earl of Courtown (1823-1914) enclosing a printed copy of resolutions passed by the Property Defence Association at the annual general meeting held on 25 January 1884. The letter reads ‘It was the unanimous opinion of the meeting that there is nothing in the present condition or immediate prospects of the country to warrant us in relaxing in the smallest degree our efforts for the preservation of property’.
Circular reporting the resolutions passed at a meeting of the County Louth branch of the Property Defence Association held in Dundalk on 21 October 1881. The circular was issued by Townley Macartney-Filgate, honorary secretary.
