A group portrait of several Capuchin friars outside the Capuchin Friary on Church Street in Dublin. The photograph may have been taken on the occasion of a jubilee celebration for Fr. Salvator Maria Corrigan OFM Cap. The group includes: Standing at door: Fr. Benedict Phelan OFM Cap. (1874-1947) Second row, first on the left: Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) Second row, second on the left: Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (1861-1935) Second row, third on the left: Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1875-1965) Second row, fourth on the left: Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926) Second row, fifth on the left: Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. (1881-1962) Second row, sixth on the left: Br. Leo Cronin OFM Cap. (1859-1949) First row, first on the left: Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (1975-1950) First row, second on the left: Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (1870-1957) First row, fourth on the left: Fr. Salvator Maria Corrigan OFM Cap. (1835-1919)
The fonds consists of the correspondence and papers of Capuchin friars detailing their involvement with participants in the national struggle. The majority of the material dates from 1916-1925 and includes many records highlighting the roles played by Irish Capuchins in ministering to republican leaders and their relations. Of particular interest is a large collection of prison letters including the correspondence of some of the leading figures of the Irish Revolution. The fonds also contains a large collection of republican publicity material, newspapers and miscellaneous items of ephemera and artefacts mostly relating to the military and political campaign organised by nationalists for Irish independence. A smaller collection relating to the repatriation of the bodies of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. from the United States to Ireland in 1958 is also extant.
A view of (front) Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. and (directly behind) Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. walking in a temperance procession. A large banner depicting Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (1790-1856), the 'Apostle of Temperance', is prominent in the procession.
A view of a temperance demonstration on Sackville (O'Connell) Street in Dublin. A large crowd is assembled in front of a packed platform draped in a large banner reading ‘Ireland Sober Ireland Free’. Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC is seated in the front row on the platform.
File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes: • ‘The Church’s Peril / Crusade against the drink evil / Glasgow’s Great Welcome to Father Hays’. [c.1905]. • ‘Temperance Legislation for Ireland / The Very Rev. Father Aloysius Travers OSFC’. [c.1912]. • ‘Father Mathew: Leader and Priest / Oration by Very Rev. Father Aloysius Travers OSFC’, 'Irish Catholic', 18 Oct. 1913. • ‘Intemperance / Powerful Sermon by Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC’. [c.1912]. • ‘Temperance Cause in Enniscorthy / A Capuchin Father on local topics’. [c.1912]. Refers to a sermon given by Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. • ‘Twelve “Half-Ones” / Drunk by a youth of 17’. • ‘Our Pioneer Column / Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart / Annual Meeting’, 'Irish Catholic', 14 Dec. 1912. • ‘The Temperance Cause / Great Mission by Capuchin Fathers / Demonstration at Graigue, County Kilkenny’. • ‘Father Mathew’s Day’ / Reminiscences of his visit to the United States’. • ‘Total Abstinence in Scotland / The League of the Cross in Glasgow’, 'Glasgow Observer', 12 Sept. 1891. • ‘Father Hays and the Apostolate of Temperance / Father Mathew’s work revived’. 26 Jan. 1901. • ‘For Total Abstinence / The Rev. Thomas F. Burke CSP preaches in St. Joseph’s Cathedral’, 'The Hartford Daily Times', 7 Aug. 1901. • ‘The Great Catholic Veteran / Right Rev. Monsignor Nugent’s Long Career’, 'The Monitor and New Era', 27 May 1904. • ‘The Cause of Temperance / Demonstration in Ardmore’. Refers to a total abstinence mission given by Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC.
The 'Feis Maitiú' was established in 1909 by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., who saw the need for a festival to encourage people interested in preserving Irish culture and language. The programme for the annual Feiseanna gradually expanded to include competitions for singing, instrumental music, speech and drama, in both English and Irish. The collection consists of organizational records and promotional materials which document the activities of the Father Mathew Feis from its inception. Correspondence and financial records document the development of the Feis, while other records such as competition results, photographs, posters and fliers primarily document competition productions and performances.
Letter from Belton & Co., Tullow Street, Carlow, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC regarding an estimate for the installation of acetylene gas lighting in the library of the Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, Kilkenny.
