Photographic print of the Cross of Cong used to illustrate an article by C.J. Finn titled ‘The Cross of Roscommon’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977) at p. 291. The original print is credited to the National Museum of Ireland.
An account by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. of the imprisonment and death of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork. Fr. Dominic wrote: ‘His sufferings, no pen could write. Try and conceive the pain you suffer in your shoulders and back and in your knees, the stiff, numbing pain in the calves of your legs, the agony in your heels, instep and ankles, even if you remain for six hours outstretched on your back. What a relief to bend your knees and draw them up toward your body. But even that little relief our heroic sufferer could not have, for the flesh had wasted from his knee’.
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
Draft article by Gearóid Ó Broin titled ‘Our cultural traditions’ submitted for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Manuscript annotations indicate that this lecture was given to the Dublin City VEC Board of Principals (18 May 1958) and to the New Ross Archaeological Society (18 Dec. 1961).
Draft article titled ‘A History of Haulbowline’ compiled by Lieutenant-Commander D.M. Brunicardi and submitted to 'The Capuchin Annual' for publication. The article includes a black and white reproduction of a nineteenth-century view of Haulbowline Island in Cork Harbour.
Draft article by Seán Ó Briain titled ‘In Jail with Brendan Behan’. The article refers to the author’s experience as a fellow prisoner in Mountjoy, Arbour Hill, and in the Curragh from 1942 to 1946.
A narrative account of the 1916 Rising by Liam O’Hogan, D. Company, 11th Battalion, Irish Volunteers. The narrative refers to fighting in the Church Street area and around the Four Courts. The text refers to role played by Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. in securing the surrender of Edward Daly and he volunteers in the Four Courts’ garrison.
