The series includes records relating to general missions, retreats and tridua given by the Capuchin friars to parishes, lay confraternities, sodalities and associations, working men’s clubs, and (particularly) religious congregations and societies. The series contains administrative records including mission lists, schedules and reports. A large assemblage of correspondence is also extant.
A republican flier with the text of a ballad be sung to the air of ‘Where the Blarney roses grow’. The first line reads ‘Twas over in Rathcormac, near the town of old Fermoy’. Cuthbert Lucas became Commander of 17th Infantry Brigade in Ireland in 1919. During the Irish War of Independence, in June 1920 he was captured by the IRA and held in East Clare. He was released four weeks later.
A view of the cliffs on Garretstown beach in County Cork. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Garrestown, County Cork / The Smugglers' Steps'.
Garda Siochana: Pilgrimages. Lourdes 1935. Details from Commissioner Eamon Brog. 20th September to 1st. October 1935. Further details to individual Pilgrims.