The Irish Republic Alive, Alive O
- IE CA CP/3/16/2/6
- Deel
- 1922
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A flier titled 'The Irish Republic Alive, Alive O’. (Volume page 31).
The Irish Republic Alive, Alive O
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A flier titled 'The Irish Republic Alive, Alive O’. (Volume page 31).
Roll of Honour / Killed in Action Easter 1916
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A printed list of Irish Volunteers killed in action during the 1916 Rising. (Volume page 37).
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An election flier for Eamon Donnelly (1877-1944), an Independent Republican candidate for the County Armagh constituency in the general election. (Volume page 51).
Éamon de Valera versus George Bernard Shaw
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of an article titled ‘Mr de Valera and Mr Bernard Shaw’. The article refers to a dispute between the two men over British requests to use the so-called ‘Treaty Ports’ in Ireland. (Volume page 88).
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of an article titled ‘Father Albert Dead / A prominent figure in recent Irish history’. The article provides a biographical sketch of his life (with a photographic print). (Volume page 89).
To Father Albert OSFC from Lily O’Brennan
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of tribute poem to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. / Kilkenny Friary by Lily O’Brennan. (Volume page 101).
Letter from Rory O’Connor to Fr. Albert Bibby
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A letter from Rory O’Connor to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. recalling the republican occupation of the Four Courts and the assistance rendered by the friar during that time. Reference is also made to ‘co-ordinated military action against N.E. Ulster’. O’Connor concludes ‘We have never acknowledged the heroic services which you rendered us during the days you were with us in the Four Courts, during the attack, it seems unnecessar[y] as your devotion to Ireland’s liberty is no less than ours’. (Volume page 112).
Father Albert’s last letter to President de Valera
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of an article reprinting a copy of Fr. Albert Bibby’s final letter to Éamon de Valera pledging his ‘unchanged and unchangeable, and uncompromising’ allegiance to the Republic and to you, its President’. He argues that ‘in the movement for the independence of Ireland I have always endeavoured to remember that I was a Capuchin Priest’. The volume also includes a covering letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to de Valera enclosing Bibby’ letter and referring to the latter’s ailing health. O’Connor concludes by stating that it is ‘better to die in agony than for freedom than live in luxurious freedom’. (Volume page 116).
Bibby, Albert, 1877-1925, Capuchin priest
Lady Aberdeen and the Women’s National Health Association
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of members of the Women’s National Health Association (WNHA) in Dublin in 1915. The image was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (19 February 1915) on the occasion of the departure of the WNHA’s founder Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon (Lady Aberdeen) from Ireland. She is the central figure in the front row. (Volume page 155)
Irish Volunteers Concert Ticket
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A ticket for an Irish Volunteers concert held in the Antient Concert Rooms on Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street) in Dublin on 9 April 1916. The concert included an address by Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945), a Gaelic scholar and Irish nationalist who had established the Irish Volunteers in 1913. (Volume page 187).