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An image of construction work on the new Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal.

An image of construction work on the new Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal.

An image of the near-completed new Ard Mhuire Friary and adjoining Capuchin House of Studies in County Donegal.

An image of construction work on the new Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal.

An image of the near-completed new Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. The old friary building (formerly Ards House) stands in the foreground.

An image of the Convent of the Holy Cross Sisters in Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of copies of off-prints of 'Orange Terror / The Partition of Ireland' by 'Ultach' on sale in a shop window (probably in 'The Capuchin Annual' office on Capel Street in Dublin).

A copy letter from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. to the Most Rev. Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, claiming that he knew nothing of Fr. Dominic O'Connor's appointment as chaplain to the IRA until his attention was drawn to a report in the local newspapers.

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.