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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).

Newspaper cuttings book compiled and annotated by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Printed stamp on inside front cover: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Library, Church Street, Dublin’. The pages have been numbered by Fr. Stanislaus. The cuttings includes (at pp 94-5) clippings of photographic prints of relating to the imprisonment of republican prisoners in Mountjoy Jail. One of the prints shows Fr. Augustine reciting the Rosary outside the Jail. 'Irish Independent', 15 Apr. 1920. Another print shows Fr. Augustine announcing the release of republican prisoners. 'Cork Examiner', 17 Apr. 1920.

Letter from the Most Rev. Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to the withdrawal of Fr. Dominic’s faculties due to his inability to take the examination for renewal of faculties. Bishop Cohalan also refers to his unease on reading an announcement in the papers that Fr. Dominic is to be appointed honorary chaplain to a brigade of the IRA. The Bishop wrote: ‘Now I put it to you that a lay body has no authority to confer an ecclesiastical honour from a lay authority’. He later asks Fr. Edwin: ‘Are you not conceding to a military brigade what belongs essentially to the church?’ With a copy reply from Fr. Edwin claiming that he knew nothing of Fr. Dominic's appointment as chaplain to the IRA until his attention was drawn to a report in the Cork newspapers.

Memorial cards for Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (with photographic print). ‘Capuchin Pastor of St. Mary of the Angels, Hermiston, Oregon. Civic Chaplain to Lord Mayor Thomas MacCurtain and Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney, 1920. Died at Bend, Oregon, 17th Oct. 1935’.

Photographic postcard print of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. with another Capuchin friar (possibly Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap.) dated 17 Mar. 1919; print of Fr. Dominic (full length and seated) attached to a greeting card with annotation: ‘To Helen, with best wishes, Fr. Dominic, OSFC, 1/1/19’; undated photographic print of Fr. Dominic (full length in Capuchin Franciscan habit).

The fliers claim the support of Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Church Street, calling them ‘distinguished representatives of the Order which in dark and evil days held aloft the lamp of learning in Ireland’. Father Lawrence wrote ‘I am glad Mr. John Farren is seeking election as a member of the Dublin Corporation. …’. The fliers were printed by Mitchell & Co., 29 Capel Street, Dublin, and published by the candidate.

Folder with four items:

Prospectus booklet: 'All Hallows Institute for Mission and Ministry: Outline of courses 1992 – 1993'.

Talk typed on A4 sheets: ‘Trends and developments in the life of All Hallows’, by Rev. Eugene Duffy, July 1992.

John Hand’s first mission statement on an A4 page, originally from 1840; this copy was printed in the 1990s.

All Hallows mission statement 1990 on an A4 page.

Two admission tickets to the first meeting of Dáil Éireann which took place in the Round Room of the Mansion House on 21 January 1919. In Irish: ‘Permit or ticket allowing bearer (unnamed) to attend the first assembly of Dáil Eireann on Tuesday 21 January 1919’. The tickets are signed by George Noble Plunkett.

The file includes
• Report of a Dublin Corporation housing enquiry into conditions in tenements in the Cook Street-Chapel Yard area ('Evening Herald', 2 Feb. 1933). Reference is made in the report to the ruins of 'a Capuchin convent, an old windmill and two Mass houses' in the Cook Street area.
• Article (with photographic prints) publicising the opening of a sale of work in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions held in the Catholic Commercial Club in Dublin. 'Irish Catholic', 1 Dec. 1938. The attendees included Alfie Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.