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Receipt and expenditure book of the Capuchin Publications Office. The accounts provide details of cash lodgements, and income accruing from advertising, sales of the 'Orange Terror' offprint, the 'Angelic Shepherd', the ‘Irish Saints’ Cards’, designed by Richard King, and from the Association Patrons of 'The Capuchin Annual'. Includes figures for expenditure in respect of salaries, postage, and payments made to John English & Co., printers. The first part of the journal includes a list of promoters (possibly for 'The Capuchin Annual') and two inserts of accounts from 1938 which are seemingly unconnected to the Publications Office.

Copy letters of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mainly to authors regarding articles they intend to publish in 'The Capuchin Annual' in 1976. Other letters refer to orders and requests for the 'Annual', expressions of gratitude for complimentary copies, and reviews of the text. The file also includes several original letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The file includes letters from Dr. Daphne Pochin Mould, Donal Brennan, E.M Lysaght, Mannix Joyce, Fr. James W. Kelly CC, Padraic Fiacc, Patrick W. Smyth, Fr. Theodore Crowley OFM, Pieter Otten, Maura Scannell, Conleth Ellis, Dr. Margaret Sheridan, Michael O’Beirne, Jack Lynch, Seán Cronin, Primo Basso, Fr. Paschal Larkin, Brian Scanlon, Alice Rynne, Seán Ó Síochán, Cathal O’Shannon, Marie O’Kelly, Monsignor Tomás Ó Fiaich, Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., Walter McGrath ('Cork Examiner'), Fr. Denis Faul, Alan Denson, Charles Conaghan, Tadhg Gavin, Alison King, Benedict Kiely, Margaret Sheridan, Arthur Mitchell, Elizabeth May, Fr. Sebastian Lee OFM, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Oliver Snoddy, Professor J. Weingreen, and Fr. T.J. Walsh.

A letter and notes from Conor A. Maguire re his article titled ‘Republican Courts’ in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969). Maguire provides some additional detail in relation to the photographic of the Republican Court sitting in Westport in 1920 (p. 383). The note reads: ‘I recognise John Kelly, later County Registrar, and J.C. Garvey, Solicitor, Castlebar, from whom I received the photograph after the Truce. He told me that he had arranged to have it taken and had kept it hidden behind the shutters in his office. Noticeable at the back are two of the IRA Police, easily identifiable, as they stand at attention with their caps on. One, I understand, was Seán Gibbons’

Letters from William Partridge to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. giving an outline of his career mostly in the labour and union movement under James Larkin. Partridge was among those rebels who surrendered at St Stephen’s Green in 1916. He was subsequently sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude and sent to Dartmoor and afterwards to Lewes Prison. He was released due to ill-health and returned to Ballaghadreen in County Mayo, but died on 26 July 1917. He refers to his physical condition in some of the correspondence. He writes ‘Please excuse scribbling as my sight got bad in prison and I have not yet got glasses’. With his memorial card and a newspaper cutting of his obituary notice. The file also includes a letter (probably from his brother, Felix Partridge) referring to his last days and thanking Fr. Albert for his words of sympathy.

Letters from Constance Markievicz, Holloway Jail, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Church St., Dublin, referring to her conditions of imprisonment and conveying her good wishes to Fr. Albert, Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., and Sister Brigid. She declares that ‘when we free our country I shall start a movement for the reformation of jails and jailors! I am proud of being selected as a candidate. I wonder whether I should have a better chance of election in or out of jail?’ With 2 covers.

• Michael O’Hannrachain. With photograph. 2 copies
• Ėamonn Ceannt. With photograph. 2 copies
• Con Colbert. With photograph. Printed by Gill, Dublin.
• Pádraig MacPiarais and William MacPiarais
• ‘For the souls of General P. H. Pearse and the Officers and Men of the Irish Republican Army’.
• ‘For P.H. Pearse, Thos. J. Clarke and Thos. MacDonagh who died for Ireland, 3rd May, 1916’.
• In memory of John Daly, Thomas J. Clarke and John Edward Daly (combined card). 3 copies

Memoriam card for Thomas Ashe who ‘Succumbed to prison treatment and forcible feeding in Mountjoy Prison and died 27 Sept. 1917’. Card with photographic print, coloured tricolour banner on pikes with interlacing legend: ‘Sinn Féin Abu’. With MS annotations.
‘In memoriam Thomas Ashe, 1917’. Cover has photographic print of Ashe and legend ‘He died that Ireland might have greater life’. Handbill containing the text of poem in remembrance of Thomas Ashe signed ‘“Benmore”, Glenar M., Christmas 1917’. 3 pp.
Memoriam card for Thomas Ashe who ‘answered the call and laid down his life for Ireland on Sept. 25th [1917]’.

Notebook belonging to Martin Savage, Irish Volunteer. The annotation on the first page reads: ‘This book belongs to Martin Savage. I [Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap.] got it from him at Richmond Barracks. It contained a list of the names and addresses of all the Volunteers of his company. I tore them out and burned them. Fr. Columbus’. A later note reads: ‘He [Savage] was subsequently killed in the attack on Lord French. Fr. C.’. The notebook also contains thirteen black and white portrait photographs of unidentified individuals and groups. Three of these photographs can be positively identified as Martin Savage. The other photographs may be of his relations. Some of the photographs have a printed company stamp on the reverse: ‘The Franco Art Co., Grafton Studios, 111 Grafton St. … Dublin’.

A pamphlet dedicated by the author to Casement’s ‘dearest surviving friend on earth his loving sister Mrs Newman’. The text was written by John Clarke (1868-1934), a County Antrim-born nationalist and journalist who wrote numerous articles on Gaelic cultural revivalist subjects, frequently using the penname ‘Benmore’.

A report of speech by the Bishop of Limerick, a self-proclaimed nationalist and land-reformer, referring to contemporary political opinion. Alone of all the Irish Hierarchy, O’Dwyer was the only one to support the leaders of the 1916 Rising. A sentence beginning ‘Ireland will never be content as a province’ is underlined in the text. With 'Irish Emigrants and English Mobs / Letter from the Bishop of Limerick' (10 Nov. 1915).