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Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby [to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.] referring to arrangements for sailing on the 'Republic' steamship from Cobh on 20 June. He also refers to his meeting in Goresbridge with Angela Cook, ‘a niece of Mrs McCurtain’, who is keen on joining a congregation of nuns. He concludes by stating that he has had a letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. who is in ill-health.

Photographic album of Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap. The album contains many black and white photographic prints (on card) of views of the Capuchin Mission at Santa Inez, California. First leaf contains a memorial card for Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. who ‘died in exile for the Republic of Ireland at Santa Barbara, USA, 14 Feb. 1925’. The album contains:
Photograph of Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap. and Fr. Leo Sheehan OFM Cap. outside a house in Ukiah, California.
Photograph of Most Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna, Archbishop of San Francisco, with a confirmation group of Native American children.
Photographs of the mourners at the funeral of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (Feb. 1925). The photograph is captioned: ‘Fr. Urban [Riordan OFM Cap.], Peter Murray, Fr. Stephen [Murtagh OFM Cap.], Rev. Paul Dillon, Eamon Martin, Mrs [Mary] McWhorter, Fr. Dominic [O'Connor OFM Cap.], Mrs [Sara] Mellows, Fr Leo … Funeral, Fr. Albert, Feb. 1925’.
Portrait photograph of an ‘Indian Girl’, Ukiah, California.
Photograph of Br. Conrad standing in front of the portico of Santa Inez Mission.
Photograph of a group of ‘Californian Indians (Pomo), Ukiah, 1925’.
Photograph of a group of ‘Pomo Indian Boys, 4.1.25’.

A photographic print of mourners at the funeral of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at the Santa Inés Mission in California in February 1925. The group includes Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap., Fr. Raphael Quinn OFM Cap., and Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap.

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 photograph of a group of Capuchin friars possibly on one of the small ferries which conveyed passengers to and from the towns and villages located around Cork harbour. The friar first on the right is likely Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.

An image of Tomás MacCurtain (seated on the tractor) with a nationalist pipe and drum band at a demonstration of a Fordson tractor (manufactured locally by the American Ford Motor Company) in Cork in 1920. Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. is among the crowd at the event.

Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a check for $150 intended for ‘100 Masses’. He also refers to a cutting from that week's ‘Tidings’, which he believes was sent in by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. Reference is also made to the death of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. Father Fenelon mentions that all the Franciscan Sisters at the hospital were present at the time of Albert’s death, and that Fr. Reginald O’Hanlon OFM Cap. was there just a few hours prior.

Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (left) and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. at the Church Street Capuchin Friary in Dublin.

An image of a group of Capuchin friars on a excursion to Inistioge in County Kilkenny in about 1907. Identifiable individuals include:
Third row, first on the left: Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. (1885-1961)
Second row, first on the left: Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (1886-1971)
Second row, second on the left: Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (1875-1950)
Second row, first on the right: Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935)
First row, second on the left: Fr. Cyril O'Sullivan OFM Cap. (1887-1921)
First row, first on the right: Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. (1881-1962)

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).