A hardbound volume containing copies of the ‘Daily Mirror’ (11 May 1916-17 May 1916). Gilt title to spine reads ‘Roger Casement / 1916’. The editions include numerous articles and photographic content covering the aftermath of the Easter Rising (including the executions of the rebel leaders) and the ongoing Great War. There is also extensive coverage and photographic images relating to the capture and trial of Roger Casement.
Letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. from Gertrude Parry, Rockport, Cushendun, County Antrim, re the life of her cousin Roger Casement. She thanks Moynihan for sending copies of the ‘beautiful and artistic Capuchin Annual’. She adds ‘I was so glad to read the articles about my beloved cousin, Roger Casement. There are two slight errors. His birthday was Sept. 1st not 15th Sept. and his eyes were grey not brown, real Irish eyes’. The other letter (dated 16 October) provides a long biographical account of Casement’s life and career (23 pp). An extract of the text reads: ‘He [Casement] left Ireland in 1914 (June) to collect funds in America for the arming of the Volunteers. Whilst he was there the war broke out. This put a stop to his activities over the Volunteers and he then turned his thoughts to trying to keep Ireland out of the war. He realised that the quarrel with Germany did not concern Ireland and in joining in it, she would only be sacrificing the flower of her young men to fight England’s cause’. The file includes a cover annotated by Fr. Senan. It reads ‘Notes on Roger Casement by Mrs Parry’.
Report on religious instruction in the Presentation Convent School in Doneraile, County Cork. The volume provides lists of student names (mostly first communicants) and notes regarding the quality, character, and content of religious instruction in the school. References are made to bible studies, catechism, and prayer recitation. The entries are made by Canon Patrick Sheehan. Manuscript title to front cover reads ‘Religious Report Book Doneraile C[onvent]’.
Letters from Douglas Hyde (‘An Craoibhín’), 1 Earlsfort Place, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. giving his recollections of Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’) and his commentary on the publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”’.
Clippings from ‘An Claidheamh Soluis’ of a articles written in tribute to Fr. Michael O’Hickey. The main article is written by Pádraig Ó Brolcháin and is titled ‘In Memory of Doctor O’Hickey’ (2 December 1916). The file also includes a response to Ó Brolcháin’s article by Fr. Walter McDonald, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth.
A bound volume containing clippings of articles chronicling the 1916 Rising by Michael J. Lennon (1891-1966). The articles were published in serial form in the ‘Irish Times’ from 1948-9. The articles appeared under the titles ‘Easter Week Diary I-VI’ (29 March-3 April 1948), and ‘The Easter Rising from the Inside I-VI’ (18-23 April 1949).
Photographic prints of an architectural model of the new Capuchin House of Studies and Ard Mhuire Friary, Creeslough, County Donegal. The model was prepared by James Rupert Boyd Barrett, architect, 5 Camden Place, Cork. The photographs show the model from various perspectives.
A group photograph of Capuchin friars probably on the occasion of ordinations at Holy Trinity Church in Cork. An annotation on the the reverse identifies the friars in the image: ‘Front: Frs. Fiacre (Guardian), Peter (Provincial Minister), the Most Rev. Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, Sylvester, Martin; Back: Frs. Macartan, Bonaventure, Cassin, Felix, Kieran, Pacificus, Edwin, Fintan, Conleth’.
Newspaper clippings from the 'Cork Evening Echo' and the 'Cork Examiner' reporting the ceremonies to mark the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone of Holy Trinity Church, Cork. With a printed flier for the Solemn High Mass.
