'Poblacht na hEireann (War News)', No. 47, 24 August 1922. This edition was published two days after the death of Michael Collins, the National Army's Commander-in-Chief, at Béal na Bláth in County Cork. Its editorial on Collins commences: 'Yesterday the Nation was shocked by the news of Michael Collins death … now his boundless energy and inexhaustible resource are no more ...' This is one of the last issues of 'War News' produced by Erskine Childers in West Cork before THE encircling National Army made anti-Treaty positions untenable, and he had to move the printing press into a vacant cottage at Ballyvourney. Helping him to print his news sheets were Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Sean Hendrick (all famous writers), and R. Longford who later established the Lee Press in Cork city.
The file comprises the following editions: 28 June 1922 (no. 1) – 16 Mar. 1923 (no. 175). The series is missing a small number of editions but there are multiple copies of other issues extant in the file. The publication began with the attack on anti-treaty republicans in the Four Courts, and the publication focused on ways of conveying news of the changing situation to journalists, republican supporters and the general public. The first (un-numbered) edition was styled as a communiqué from Rory O’Connor, Major General, IRA. It read: ‘The boys are glorious, and will fight for their Republic to the end. How long will our misguided former comrades outside attack those who stand for Ireland alone?’ Reference is made in this first communiqué to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. who were ministering to the besieged republicans.
A poem written by William Woodlock (1801-1803) for his grand-daughter Frances Woodlock 'on receiving from her a lock of her hair'. The poem is dated 12 June 1877 at Bruges, Belgium. This William Woodlock was the father of William Woodlock (1832-1890), the barrister and Dublin Police Court Magistrate.
Transcript of a poem titled ‘Ard Mhuire’ by Peter Kelly published in 'Ireland’s Own', 20 Feb. 1936, at p. 17. The poem refers to the presence of the Capuchin friars in Donegal.
Poems submitted by A.M. Sullivan, 99 Church Street, New York, for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The poems are titled ‘The Squall (Achill Island)’, ‘Storm at Dingle’, ‘The Return’, and ‘By the Cliffs of Moher’. The file also includes ‘Ballad of Tim Murphy-Morgan Rifleman’. With a covering letter from Sullivan to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. explaining that the ‘Tim Murphy saga is a story of a hero of the American Revolution, who was born in America but whose folks came from Carlow’. (25 Sept. 1957).
Letter from Anne Mills, 1 South Crescent, Windermere, Westmorland, to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. enclosing copies of two poems titled ‘The Snow Drop’ and ‘The Wise Innocents’ which she hopes may be suitable for publishing in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The letter is dated 4 July 1963. The file also includes copies of various other poems composed by Anne Mills from 1960-3
