Newspaper clipping of an obituary for Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. (d. 20 Feb. 1962). Includes a photographic print. Reference is made in the obituary to his role in the 1916 Rising. It reads 'Fr. Columbus ... attended wounded and dying volunteers behind the barricades at Church Street. When Pearse issued the surrender order, Fr. Columbus was one of those entrusted to carry the message through the burning city streets to the area commandants. He was the last surviving member of the four Capuchin Fathers from Church Street - Fr. Augustine, Fr. Aloysius, Fr. Albert and himself - who risked their lives on many occasions during Easter Week to help wounded volunteers'.
A complete copy of 'The Southern Cross', 12 Oct. 1949 (No. 1,514. Vol. XXIX), containing an obituary for Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. referring to his work as a missionary in Barotseland (until Aug. 1947) and later in Cape Town, South Africa.
A clipping of an obituary or the sculptor Jerome Connor. The article includes an image of Connor with a section of his work for the ‘Lusitania’ memorial in Cobh, County Cork. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Press’ (23 August 1943). (Volume page 117).
A clipping of an obituary article titled ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916). The opposite page has a print of Fr. Michael O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’.
A report on Irish Capuchin missions in the Cape Province at Parow, Matroosfontein, Athlone, and Langa. Reference is made to the building and staffing of churches, friaries, schools, and halls at these locations.
A view of the White Star Liner ‘Oceanic’ leaving Queenstown (now Cobh) Harbour in 1905. Launched in 1899, it was largest ship in the world until 1901. At the outbreak of the First World War, the ship was requisitioned for service in the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser. In September 1914, the ship ran aground off the coast of Shetland and was wrecked. She was the first Allied passenger ship to be lost in the war.
