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Reverend Wilfrid Brodie
This file contains two issues of the religious journal ‘The Cross.’ The article regarding the Carmelites is contained in the first issue and has also been photocopied.

Carmelite Order

This file contains three copies of the centenary booklet published by the Carmelite Order. The booklet contains the aims and history of Mount St. Joseph, Clondalkin, Dublin. The first copy has some of the seventh page removed due to the fact, that is stated in the second copy, that the information held therein may be false or not the complete story. The first copy also has a small newspaper clipping inserted in it. The third copy is a photocopy.

A bound volume with a printed title on front cover which reads ‘newspaper cuttings’ containing original letters and clippings offering favourable testimonials on the short-lived quarterly review periodical ‘Bonaventura’ published by the Capuchin Publications Office. The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers. Correspondents include Peter F. Anson, William Frederick Paul Stockley (1859-1943), Lancelot Lawton, Frank Duff, D.L. Kelleher, Canon Patrick Rogers, León Ó Broin, Máiréad Ní Ghráda, Aodh de Blácam (1891-1951), Kathleen O’Connell, Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM, and Eamonn O’Neill (1882-1954). Reference is made in an article from ‘The Advocate’ (22 July 1937) to the deaths of seventy-two Capuchin friars in Spain during the Civil War.

Recollections by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. of the fighting of Easter Week, the surrender of the rebel forces and subsequent execution of their leaders. He provides an eye-witness account of the executions in Kilmainham Jail most notably that of James Connolly. The typescript copies are incomplete: 17 pp + 11 pp. With an undated typescript copy of ‘Connolly’s death speech’ taken from the 'Gaelic American'.

A record by Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. of events between 30 April and 4 May 1916. Most of the memoir refers to his interaction with British military officers and his efforts to minister to the rebel leaders prior to their executions in Kilmainham Jail. The memoir begins: ‘I have been asked repeatedly to write out a detailed and connected account of my personal experiences, what I actually saw and did during the Rising. At length I have decided to comply with the request. I do so however not with the intention of ever publishing this report. … As I sit then at my desk here in the silence and solitude of my monastic cell in Dublin, fourteen weeks have elapsed since those eventful days. I take up my pen. …’.

A bound volume with a title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ published in 1934 and 1935. The volume contains content from various prominent politicians, religious figures, artists, and writers including Peter F. Anson, Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM, Sophie Raffalovich O’Brien, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Archbishop William Hayden, D.L. Kelleher, Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell, Eamon Broy, John Whelan Dulanty (High Commissioner for the Irish Free State in London), Marion King, Frank Duff, Somhairle Mac Cana, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Bishop Patrick Finegan, Bishop Robert Browne, Eamonn O’Neill, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., and Bishop James Roche.

A bound volume with a gilt title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936). The volume contains content from various politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers. A solitary review for the 1937 edition of the ‘Annual’ is also extant in the volume.

A bound volume with a gilt title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1937-9). The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers.

A bound volume with a gilt title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1940-1941). The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers. Correspondents include Archbishop Paschal Robinson, Bishop Daniel Mageean, Robert Barron, Julester Shrady Post, Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (‘An Seabhac’), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, James O’Shaughnessy, Bishop James Joseph MacNamee, Bishop James Staunton SJ, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Dom Camillus Claffey O.Cist (Mount Saint Joseph, Roscrea, County Tipperary), Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Daniel ‘Dan’ J. Browne (San Antoine, Cross Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin), Alfie Byrne, Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., Br. Stephen Joyce O.Cist. (Mount Melleray Abbey, Cappoquin, County Waterford), and Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap.

A bound volume with a gilt title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942). The volume contains content from many prominent politicians (Seán T. O’Kelly), clergymen, artists (Jack B. Yeats), writers (Patrick Kavanagh), and diplomats (John loader Maffey, David Gray, and Eduard Hempel). Includes letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. from Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Daniel Corkery, Bishop Patrick Lyons, Canon Patrick Rogers, Bishop Thomas Keogh, Seán MacEntee, Oscar Traynor, George Noble Plunkett, Bishop Edward Doorly, Gerald Boland, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Bishop James Staunton SJ, Gerturde Parry, Thomas McEllistrim, Bishop James Joseph MacNamee, Robert Maire Smyllie, Art O’Brien (Art Ó Briain), Fr. Nicholas O’Brien OFM Cap. (refers to T.J. Kiernan’s arrival as Irish ambassador to the Holy See), and Eamonn Cooney.