Newspaper clipping of an obituary for Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. (d. 20 Feb. 1962). Includes a photographic print. Reference is made in the obituary to his role in the 1916 Rising. It reads 'Fr. Columbus ... attended wounded and dying volunteers behind the barricades at Church Street. When Pearse issued the surrender order, Fr. Columbus was one of those entrusted to carry the message through the burning city streets to the area commandants. He was the last surviving member of the four Capuchin Fathers from Church Street - Fr. Augustine, Fr. Aloysius, Fr. Albert and himself - who risked their lives on many occasions during Easter Week to help wounded volunteers'.
Copy ‘necrologia’ (obituary) of Fr. Albert Bibby from the 'Analacta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum', xvi, fasc. vi, 15 June 1925. In Latin. With manuscript translation into English by Fr. Padraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap.
An obedience from Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. requiring him to leave the Church Street Friary in Dublin and to take up residence in the Capuchin Friary in Rochestown in County Cork.
A view of O’Connell Street in Limerick in about 1940. The clock tower in the distance in the image stood atop Cannock’s Department Store. It was demolished after the store was taken over by Penneys (Primark) in 1980.
A view of O’Connell Street, Dublin, in about 1930. One of the prominent buildings on Upper O’Connell Street is the Grand Central Cinema which opened its doors in 1921. It was badly damaged in a bomb attack in 1923, and finally destroyed when a fire broke out in 1946. The location is now occupied by a bank.