Photographic prints and photostat copies showing pages and detail from the Book of Kells (TCD MS 58), the Book of Armagh (TCD MS 52), the Book of Durrow (TCD MS 57), and the Codex Usserianus Primus (TCD MS 55). The photographic images are copyrighted to TCD and are credited to Green Studios, 118 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin. The file also includes photostat copies of pages from the Annals of Inisfallen (Bodleian Library, Oxford), The Book of O’Lees (Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 10), the Annals of Connacht (Royal Irish Academy, RIA MS C iii 1), and the Annals of the Four Masters (UCD Archives, MS A 13).
Photographic prints compiled for an article by Donal Brennan titled ‘The story of “failure”’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1976), pp 57-74. The file contains prints, postcards, and printed material used to illustrate the life of Engelbert Dollfuss (1892-1934), Chancellor of Austria, who was assassinated in a Nazi-inspired coup.
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.
Copy prints compiled for an article by Michael Corcoran (1930-2018) titled ‘Six decades of Irish Road Transport’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 325-39. The file includes many historical prints of trams, buses and other forms of public transport
A postcard print of the ruined fifteenth-century tower house and on the left the Round Tower (the Crimea War Monument) at Ferrycarrig in County Wexford.
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
