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A clipping of a positive review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1940) published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (24 December 1939).

Letter from Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Ard Mhuire Friary, County Donegal, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. He adds ‘It will be a fateful year for Europe, and by this time next year the war will have probably gone way or the other’.

Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan College, Rochestown, County Cork, to Winifred Etheridge, c/o Major F. Etheridge DSO, Broadway Cottage, Littleham, North Exmouth, Devon. The letter (27 January 1923) provides a detailed, eyewitness description of an engagement between Free State soldiers and irregular republicans near Rochestown College in August 1922. Winifred Etheridge was a sister of Ian McKenzie Kennedy, a Scottish-born republican, who died during the battle. The file also includes a photocopy of a letter (26 August 1922) from Nora Lucey, 3 Pembroke Street, Cork, to Mrs McKenzie Kennedy providing further detail on the skirmish and on the death of her son, Ian McKenzie Kennedy. A copy sketch map (drawn by Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap.) showing details of the battle between Free State forces and Anti-Treaty irregulars around Rochestown is also extant in the file.

An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Make the war-mongers pay for the war ...'.

An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'When the Black and Tans were here ...'.

Letter from Eva Gore-Booth, 33 Fitzroy Square, London, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.

A view of Dublin Bridge (formerly Whitworth Bridge and now known as Father Mathew Bridge) in the Irish capital in 1932.

A view of Cromwell’s Arch in Youghal, County Cork, in about 1945. It was from here on 26 May 1650 that Oliver Cromwell departed Ireland having overwintered in the town following his military campaign in the country.