The file includes letters from various American Associations for the Recognition of the Irish Republic to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re the Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. Includes: Letter from Mrs John Flanagan, Secretary, Liam Mellows Council of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, Portland, enclosing a resolution protesting against the exiling of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and other Capuchin Priests. With annotated cover: ‘Not Answered, F[ather] P[eter]. Deserves none except mind own business’. 25 Mar. 1925. Letter from Martin Howard, American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, 3 East 42nd Street, New York, enclosing a resolution condemning the ‘victimization’ of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and other Capuchin priests who merely expressed ‘a deep rooted love of their motherland, Ireland … and were therefore looked on as a menace to the so-called Free State Government in Ireland …’. 21 Apr. 1925. Letter from Loretta A. Ryder, Secretary, Kevin Barry Council of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, enclosing a resolution condemning ‘the unchristian conduct of the Superiors of the Capuchin Order of Priests in Ireland in exiling Father Albert and other Priests of their Order because they had the courage to stand up for Ireland’s rightful independence’. 4 May 1925
Two full-length portrait photographic prints of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., at the door to Rochestown College, Cork, prior to his departure for the United States in 1924. With a photographic print of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with a friar and another unidentified lay individual at Rochestown.
The file includes a clipping reporting the ordination of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. in St. Mary’s of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin (Feb. 1902). With clippings re his involvement in ministering to the 1916 rebel leaders (including Seán Heuston), obituaries and tributes, and later the campaign to have his and Father Dominic’s O’Connor’s body repatriated to Ireland. The file includes clippings from the 'Kilkenny Journal', 'Kilkenny People', 'Cork Examiner' and 'Irish Press'.
• 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 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. …’.
Letter from Patrick J. MacNally, Commandant, Collins’ Barracks, Cork, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing a typescript copy of his unfinished account of the Easter Week Rising. Comdt. MacNally also encloses a rough sketch of the Church Street area upon which he asks Fr. Aloysius to ‘mark roughly the positions of any barricades you saw … [and] houses that were occupied’. He also attaches ‘a sketch of the Bride Street area … to enable you to fix the corner where you stood at the surrender of Eamonn Ceannt’.
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.
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.
