The file contains volume 6, 20 Oct. 1921 (No. 1)-12 Dec. 1921 (No. 38), of the 'Irish Bulletin'. The series is complete up to issue no. 38 with multiple copies of some editions.
The file contains volume 2 of the 'Irish Bulletin'. The series is incomplete but multiple copies of some issues are extant: 7 May 1920. No. 5 28 May 1920. No. 19 1 June 1920. No. 21 2 June 1920. No. 22 4 June 1920. No. 24 14 June 1920. No. 31 7 July 1920. No. 46 8 July 1920. No. 47 22 July 1920. No. 57 23 July 1920. No. 58 26 July 1920. No. 59 4 Aug. 1920. No. 65 6 Aug. 1920. No. 67 7 Aug. 1920. (Weekly Summary: 2 copies) 9 Aug. 1920. No. 68 11 Aug. 1920. No. 70 13 Aug. 1920. No. 72 14 Aug. 1920. (Weekly Summary: 2 copies) 21 Aug. 1920. (Weekly Summary: 2 copies) 25 Aug. 1920. No. 80 28 Aug. 1920. (Weekly Summary: 2 copies) 31 Aug. 1920. No. 84
The 'Irish Bulletin' was the official daily gazette of the government of the Irish Republic. The first edition of the 'Bulletin' appeared on 11 Nov. 1919 shortly after the suppression of the entire republican press. The purpose of the 'Bulletin' was succinctly stated in the edition of 11 Nov. 1920 (Vol. 6 No. 17). ‘When it became certain that the majority party in Ireland was not to be proclaimed “illegal” the "Bulletin" had of necessity to be published secretly. It was designed to circulate principally not in Ireland but among the publicists in England and on the Continent. At its inception less than fifty copies were printed. To-day it reaches almost every country in the world and is reprinted in four European languages. It is received by the press, public men, and the leading political and other organisations of many nations’. The 'Bulletin' was published daily but weekly editions containing summaries of ‘acts of aggression committed in Ireland by the military and police of the usurping English government’ were also routinely circulated. These weekly summaries were not assigned volume or issue numbers. Daily issues consisted mainly of sometimes detailed lists of raids by British security forces and the arrests of republican suspects. Extracts from foreign publications and sometimes sympathetic English sources were also published in the 'Bulletin'. Accounts of the activities of Dáil Courts were likewise included. It was produced by the republican publicity department during the War of Independence, and its offices were located at 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin. On 26 Mar. 1921, after sixteen months of publication, the offices of the 'Bulletin' were raided. Later, forged issues of the journal were produced with printing machinery and paper captured in the offices. These fabricated issues were sent to all the usual addresses on the list of recipients, a copy of which had also been seized. Issues of these forged 'Bulletins' were subsequently circulated for over a month. The paper’s first editor was Desmond Fitzgerald, until his arrest and replacement by Robert Erskine Childers. The collection includes a chronological record of peace overtures which would eventually lead to the Treaty negotiations. The issue of 7 Dec. 1921 (Vol. 6, No. 35) carried an ‘advance copy’ of the articles of agreement between Great Britain and Ireland, more commonly known as ‘The Treaty’. Many of the issues of the 'Irish Bulletin' are stamped ‘Official Copy’.
The file contains volume 4, 3 Jan. 1921 (No. 1)-31 May 1921 (No. 100) of the 'Irish Bulletin'. The series is complete with multiple copies of some issues.
Two VHS tapes with recordings of the 'Brothers in Mission' documentary on the work of the Irish Capuchin missionary friars in Africa. One of the tapes is annotated ‘Master Copy with no commentary’.
‘Beta Komos Photographics Limited, Letchworth, England’ box. The box is annotated: ‘Negatives. Irish Friars. Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.’. The box includes twenty-two plates. The plates include: (a) A family portrait of six unidentified individuals. The plate is contained within an envelope with has manuscript annotation of dates and places from c.1915-27. (b) Br. Elzear Kelly OFM Cap. (1857-1937). With cover annotation. (c) Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926) sitting in front of ornamental rug. Two plates within an annotated envelope. (d) A view of two Capuchin friars in the garden of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. One of the friars is cutting the lawn grass. With cover annotation. (e) Interior view of Rochestown Friary Church. With cover annotation. (f) Portrait of ‘the late John Bowe, Kilkenny Friary’. With cover annotation. The plates marked g-u do not contain any annotations. They are views of unidentified Capuchin friars (either as individuals or in groups). Includes some views of friars in the interior of houses, playing hurling or outdoors such as on a horse and cart.
The file comprises ten plates and includes images of both individual Irish Capuchin friars and scenery and locations. 35 (a) A view of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, from a slightly elevated position. The print shows the building before the addition of the Sacred Heart Chapel which was built as an aisle church in 1908. The caption refers to the ordination of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (1790-1856) in the previous chapel on Church Street in 1809. With cover. A copy of this image is extant at CA-PH-1-71. 35 (b) Two plates of Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OFM Cap. (1880-1942). With cover. 35 (c) Two Capuchin friars and two dogs in the Church Street Friary garden. With annotated envelope suggesting that this is likely a poor quality image. 35 (d) Fr. Alphonsus Carroll OFM Cap. (1874-1934). With cover. 35 (e) Fr. Salvator Maria Corrigan OFM Cap. (1835-1919). The annotation on the cover suggests that this may be a poor quality image. 35 (f) An unidentified family group (six standing and five sitting or kneeling). 35 (g) Two plates of two separate and unidentified women. The annotated cover suggests that they are ‘Jenny & May’. 35 (h) An unidentified church and graveyard.
‘Barnet Red Seal Plate’ (Elliot & Sons, Ltd., Barnet, England) box. The box contains nineteen slides. None of the plates have annotations or captions and most of the descriptive content has been inferred. The box includes the following images: (a) A junior football team. The ball is annotated with a date of 1908. (b) Two images of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. at a hurling match at Croke Park, Dublin, and at the head of a temperance procession. (c) The hallway of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork. (d) A group of Capuchin friars with musical instruments in the Kilkenny Friary in c.1905. The group includes Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (e) A group of Capuchin friars in Kilkenny in about 1905. The title, ‘Conradh na Gaeilge’ (Gaelic League), has been superimposed on the original glass plate. (f) Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with a group of students possibly at a hurling match in Rochestown, County Cork.