A view of pet shops on Gresham Street in the Smithfield Market area of Belfast in about 1950. There were several pet shops located in this part of city which became a popular local attraction. This is reflected in the title of the print: ‘Pocket Zoo’.
This section comprises the correspondence of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with the wives and relations of republican detainees and prisoners including those who were executed in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. Many of the correspondents were significant political figures in their own right including Kathleen Clarke, Áine b. Ė. Ceannt and Eva Gore Booth.
Letter from Sinéad de Valera to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. referring to her anxiety over ‘the midnight raid and Saturday’s paper’. She adds ‘Dev is in Gloucester prison. I had a message from the Governor saying to send on some clothes’.
A newspaper clipping from the 'Santa Barbara Daily News' (21 Jan. 1925) containing photographs of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at Mission Santa Inés in California.