A small collection of the personal papers of Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. mainly relating to his involvement with republican combatants in the 1916 Rising.
Card to Frank Fahy, ‘Irish Prisoner, Lewes Prison, Lewes, England’, from Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC. The card reads ‘Holy Thursday / You are always remembered since we met at the F[our] C[ourt]’s. May God bless you always. / Fr. Augustine OSFC’.
Letter from Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., Kapuzinerkloster (Capuchin friary), Appenzell, Switzerland, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The lengthy letter refers to his recollections of Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’) which Br. Senan would like to publish in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. Augustine also refers to his presidency of the Cork branch of the Gaelic League and to his first meeting with ‘Seandún’ in the Capuchin Friary in Cork. Fr. Augustine wrote ‘That night I saw his heart was in flame with love of Irish …’.
Author: Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954) Publisher: Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son Ltd. Language: English Full title: 'Footprints of Father Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / Apostle of Temperance'