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Letter from Julia Breen, Upper Church Street, Tipperary, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., thanking him for all ‘the trouble you took with our prisoners while they were suffering in Mountjoy, it was prayer and the masses for our prisoners that saved them from death’. With an annotation in Fr. Albert’s hand on the first page: ‘Letter from Commandant Breen’s (I.R.A.) mother. He was on hunger strike at Mountjoy Jail and it was there I met his mother’

A collection of the correspondence of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with other members of the Capuchin Franciscan Order in Ireland.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., St. Benedict’s Rectory, 320 West 53D Street, New York, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church St., Dublin, referring to his arrival in New York and his meeting with Fr. Solanus Casey OFM Cap. He also refers to a letter or photograph of letter ‘written by P.H. P[earse] to Joe Pl[unkett], 1916, and which I gave you to keep. I promised a copy of it to Mrs Tom Clarke … I would be grateful if can would, at your convenience, make a copy of it and send it to her or to Miss Daly, Bakery, Sarsfield St., Limerick for her’.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin, stating that he is ‘getting weaker gradually – the end is apparently not far off’. Fr. Albert admits that the presence of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. is a great comfort as his death approaches.

This section includes letters to Capuchins referring to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., his ministry to prominent republicans, his exile in the United States, and his death. The section includes a copy of a letter written by Fr. Albert to Fr. Juan Antonio de San Juan en Persiceto OFM Cap., Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans, enclosing a vigorous statement defending his conduct during the revolutionary period and, in particular, his ministering to imprisoned republicans (CA IR-1-1-2-4-6).

Letter from Sister M. Gonzaga, Loreto Convent, Fermoy, County Cork, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., expressing her hope that the ‘brave Sinn Feiner you are anxious about is safe now’. She also declares that ‘1916 is a year marked in letters of blood, the heart blood of our best and noblest’. She concludes by asking for a prayer for ‘the brave boys you helped to die’.

Letter from Fr. William OFM Cap., Pantasaph Capuchin Friary, Holywell, North Wales, to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minster, extending his sympathy on the loss of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., ‘a brilliant member’ of the Irish community