Catholic Archives

Scene on a ship leaving the Aran Islands at sunset

IE CA CP/1/1/3/2/2
Part
c.1940

A photograph of a group on board a ship (possibly the 'SS Dun Aengus') leaving the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway in about 1940. The print is titled on the reverse: ‘Farwell to the Aran Islands’.

Scale of rates of estate duty

IE IE/GLA IE/GLA/2022-02-07/276/2022-02-28/289/2022-04-07/343
Item
01-01-1927

Part of Glenstal Abbey Archive

Estate Duty

Sawmills Church and School

IE CA AMI/2/10/3/33
Item
c.1935

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

The exterior of Sawmills Church and School near Livingstone in Northern Rhodesia.

Save Derrynane Appeal

IE CA CP/3/16/3/3
Part
25 May 1946

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A clipping of an article by Donal B. O’Connell appealing for funds to save Derrynane, the former home of Daniel O’Connell in County Kerry. The article was published in ‘The Kerryman’ (25 May 1946).

Savage Model 1907 Pistol and Holster

IE CA IR-1/6/1
Item
1916

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A ‘Savage Model 1907’ Pistol reputed to have been used by an Irish Volunteer during the 1916 Rising. The weapon was found by a Capuchin friar on North King Street after the conclusion of the hostilities. With leather holster and spare bullet cartridge. A manuscript note found with the pistol in the gallery of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street reads:
‘These are souvenirs of the 1916 Rising’. A revolver used in King Street. A scissors used in the Four Courts’. Fr. Col[umbus Murphy OFM Cap.]’.