Fast and Abstinence (St. Patrick's Day) General grants dispensation for entire province from Church fast ans abstinence on St. Patrick's Day each year during his term of office
A clipping of an article reprinting a copy of Fr. Albert Bibby’s final letter to Éamon de Valera pledging his ‘unchanged and unchangeable, and uncompromising’ allegiance to the Republic and to you, its President’. He argues that ‘in the movement for the independence of Ireland I have always endeavoured to remember that I was a Capuchin Priest’. The volume also includes a covering letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to de Valera enclosing Bibby’ letter and referring to the latter’s ailing health. O’Connor concludes by stating that it is ‘better to die in agony than for freedom than live in luxurious freedom’. (Volume page 116).
Printed facsimile of a letter from Fr. Albert Bibby to the editor of ‘The Monitor’ referring to his worsening condition in in St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara, California. He writes ‘It is hard to feel that that I may not see dear old Ireland again, or my good mother, sisters and friends there. It would lessen the sacrifice to be laid to rest with Rory [O’Connor] and the boys in Glasnevin’. He adds that he has no bitterness towards his political opponents’. (Volume page 91).
Draft of an article by Fr. Clifford J. Stevens titled ‘Father Flanagan of Boys Town’. The article was written in 1967 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Boys Town, Nebraska, by Fr. Edward Joseph Flanagan. Fr. Stevens was a graduate of Boys Town and served as a chaplain in the United States Air Force stationed in Japan.
Author: Katharine Tynan (1859-1931) Publisher: London: MacDonald and Evans Language: English Series: The St. Nicholas Series / edited by Rev. Dom Bede Camm OSB Includes a frontispiece (portrait of Fr. Mathew) and colour plates. The Irish Capuchin Archives holds both the 1908 and 1910 editions.
Author: John Francis Maguire Publisher: London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green Language: English Edition: Second Edition Physical condition: Bound in contemporary hard covers with gilt title to spine. The volume is in poor condition. The spine cover has completely disintegrated and front cover is partially detached from the text block. Foxing to opening pages. The page-edges are frayed and brittle. Very careful manual handling is required.