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- 26 May 1941
Parte de Irish Vincentian Archive
Letter from Joseph Downes, Architect, to the Provincial, Father Henry O’Connor CM, enclosing sketches of altar.
Parte de Irish Vincentian Archive
Letter from Joseph Downes, Architect, to the Provincial, Father Henry O’Connor CM, enclosing sketches of altar.
Parte de Irish Vincentian Archive
For the souls of General P. H. Pearse and the Officers and Men of the Irish Republican Army
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Memorial card 'For the souls of General P. H. Pearse and the Officers and Men of the Irish Republican Army'
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Memorial card for Captain Richard Coleman ‘who fought for the Freedom of Ireland, Easter, 1916, and died in Usk Prison, England, on December 9th, 1918’.
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Dated 9.30 am. Letter from Major A.F. Owen Lewis, General Staff Officer, Irish Command, Headquarters to The Governor, Arbour Hill Detention Barracks: ‘Please allow Father [Columbus] Murphy to interview Pearse the rebel leader and any other rebels whom he may wish to see’. On Royal Arms embossed paper. Faded Ink-stamped: Headquarters Ireland.
Authorisation from Colonel H.V. Cowan to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Authorisation from Colonel H.V. Cowan, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Irish Command, Parkgate, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. The note reads: ‘The General Officer Commander in Chief directs that every facility be given to his Revered Father Aloysius OSFC to visit rebel prisoners at any of the places of detention or internment, to hear confessions and administer the rights of his Church, at all times’.
Copy note from Major William Sherlock Lennon to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Copy note from Major W.S. Lennon, Commandant, Kilmainham Detention Barracks, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. The note reads: ‘The Prisoner H.T. Pearse [sic] desires to see you and you have permission to visit him. Failing you he would be glad to see any of the Capucines [sic]’.
Note from rebel participant in the Easter Rising
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
The note reads: ‘Dear Mother, we had to surrender so we march to Phoneix [sic] Park, don’t forget to pray us’. A partially decipherable name and address is given on the reverse: ‘Matthew [ ], 12 Great Longford St, Dublin, off Aungier St.’ The item was found within an envelope annotated: ‘Farewell letter to His mother of a soldier of the I.R.A. who fought for Ireland in the Rising of Easter Week, 1916’.
Copy letter from Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to the editor of the 'Irish Catholic'
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Copy letter from Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to the editor of the 'Irish Catholic' protesting against the ‘obvious and unkind suggestion’ made in relation to Thomas MacDonagh in a recent edition of the paper. Fr Aloysius declared: ‘I feel bound to emphatically assert that his preparation for his last moment manifested a depth of Catholic Faith and a tenderness of piety most edifying and impressive and that he received the rites of his Church with a devotion which not easily be forgotten by The Priest who assisted him’
Postcard from Eibhlín Ní Fhoghludha to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Postcard to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Church Street, from ‘E. Ní F’ (Eibhlín Ní Fhoghludha) declaring that a ‘very small room for your friend’ is ready in August. The author also affirms that ‘we have had a very quiet time in Rinn but you know we are very much behind the times’. The photographic print of the postcard shows refurbishment work on Liberty Hall after its destruction in the 1916 Rising. The banner across the façade of the hall reads: ‘James Connolly murdered May 12th 1916’.