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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 Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. among a large crowed at a public event. No information in relation to either the date or the location of the event is given, but it was likely in Cork. The central figure addressing the crowd may be Tomás MacCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork.

A photograph of the funeral of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at Mission Santa Inés in California. Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. leads the funeral procession (the individual first on the left).

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.

A copy of the ‘Evening Telegraph’ (29 October 1920). The edition includes extensive reports on the death (and funeral arrangements) of Terence MacSwiney. Reference is made to the ministrations of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to MacSwiney.

An image of a group of Capuchin friars in Kilkenny. An annotation on the cover indicates that (seated, second from the right) Fr. Camillus Killian OFM Cap. (1872-1941) was the house superior. Fr. Killian was superior in Kilkenny from 1907-10. Other friars in the group include:
(seated, first on the right): Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935)
(seated, second on the left): Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (1875-1950)
(standing, third from the left): Fr. Cyril O'Sullivan OFM Cap. (1887-1921)
(standing, fourth from the left): Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (1886-1971)

The file comprises copies of an interview with Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne. The title heading reads ‘The following document, in the handwriting of Father Welch, now a Novine in the Capuchin Friary Novitiate, Kilkenny, … given to V. Rev. Fr. Sylvester [Mulligan], Minister Provincial, and by him deposited in the Provincial Archives, Dublin, in April 1926’. The document refers to the ‘high terms’ in which Archbishop Mannix spoke of both Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. The file also includes a photographic print of Archbishop Mannix and other bishops.

A photograph of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.

Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, offering an update on the administrative and social growth of the Capuchin mission in Los Angeles during this period. He notes that Fr. Pacificus is being brought in to assist with the three (soon to be four) Sunday Masses, which are ‘all very well attended’. Father Fenelon affirms that work continues on the interior of the school in Watts, which is expected to be completed by March. He notes that furnishing it will cost an additional $5,000 to $6,000, though a promised bequest for this has not yet been ‘actualized’. He also mentions Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. who is unwell and suspected to have appendix trouble; as it is his jubilee year, Father Fenelon has offered him a holiday.

Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, giving a detailed account of the various problems and issues at the funeral of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. in Mission Santa Inés in California. The majority of the letter is taken up with expressions of Father Fenelon’s intense dissatisfaction with how Fr. Albert’s burial was handled. Against his specific instructions for a simple burial, a metallic/steel casket was placed over the coffin. This was requested by a Mr. Murray on behalf of the Irish Society in Los Angeles. Fr. Joseph attempted to countermand this order, but upon arriving at the undertaking parlor, he found the body already sealed in the steel casket, which the undertaker claimed could not be removed without ‘blowing the seal’.

Fr. Joseph had instructed that the grave be dug behind the Sacristy at the Santa Inés Mission. However, he arrived to find the grave already started in a different location, near the old Tower. The justification given was that the original site was part of an old burial ground containing ‘a number of Indians’. He affirms that Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. was master of ceremonies at the funeral service and that Fr. Gabriel Harrington OFM Cap. sang the Mass. The Watts Choir travelled to provide music and Father Fenelon said a few words at the conclusion of the service.