This section comprises the correspondence of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with the wives and relations of republican detainees and prisoners including those who were executed in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. Many of the correspondents were significant political figures in their own right including Kathleen Clarke, Áine b. Ė. Ceannt and Eva Gore Booth.
Letter from Sinéad de Valera to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. referring to her anxiety over ‘the midnight raid and Saturday’s paper’. She adds ‘Dev is in Gloucester prison. I had a message from the Governor saying to send on some clothes’.
A newspaper clipping from the 'Santa Barbara Daily News' (21 Jan. 1925) containing photographs of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at Mission Santa Inés in California.
A carte de visite of the emblem of the Catholic Boys' Brigade founded on Church Street in Dublin in March 1894. The photographic print (on card) was produced by W.F. O’Connor, 1 Wellington Quay, corner of Parliament Street, Dublin.
The section includes documents relating to the construction and financing of the new Capuchin Friary building situated adjacent to St. Mary of the Angels on Church Street. Work on the new Friary commenced in November 1999 and was completed in October 2000.