Letters from R.G. Browne, Town Clerk, Urban District Council, Westport, and John Maher, Town Clerk, Cashel Urban District Council, offering their sympathies to the Capuchin Order on the death of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. The resolution from Cashel Urban District Council reads: ‘During the martyr struggle of Terence MacSwiney (Lord Mayor of Cork) in Brixton Prison, the late Father Dominic by his attention and fidelity to the noble sufferer and the cause for which he suffers, he has left to Ireland a name that links him with the bravest and most heroic we boast of’.
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).
Two statements of accounts. The first, dated 9 March 1912, is for the year ending 31 August 2911. The second is from 31 August 1911 to 29 February 1912.
File of draft letters regarding the question of transferring the administration of All Hallows College from the Vincentians to the Maynooth Mission for China, which was run by the Columbans, The suggestion came about due to the declining number of students, as well as the need of the Maynooth Mission for China for a major seminary for their own students. The letters show that the Vincentians do not want this transfer to take place. Some drafts are written by Father Thomas O'Donnell CM, Rector of All Hallows College, and there are contributions by Henry O'Connor CM, Provincial.
O'Connor CM, Henry, 1883-1960, Provincial of Irish Vincentian Province
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’.
