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An autograph book signed by Anti-Treaty IRA prisoners detained in Limerick Jail in early 1923. The text includes patriotic and republican poems and statements composed by the detainees. The volume was compiled by James O’Mahony (Séamus Ó Mathúna) from Mitchelstown in County Cork. O’Mahony joined the Irish Volunteers in September 1917 and was active in the anti-conscription campaign. As an engineering student in University College Cork, he continued his republican activities and by July 1921 held the rank of adjutant of the 6th Battalion of the Cork No. 2 Brigade of the IRA. He participated in several engagements with British forces in Cork during the War of Independence and was appointed the brigade’s principal training officer. He took the Anti-Treaty side during the Civil War and was a member of the republican forces which fought in a large-scale engagement in Kilmallock in County Limerick in August 1922. He was captured by the National Army in December 1922 and was initially confined in Mitchelstown. In early January 1923, he was moved to Limerick Jail and was held there until he escaped on 31 March.

Copy letters of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mainly to authors and contributors re articles to be published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Other letters refer to orders and request for the 'Annual', advertising, and expressions of gratitude for complimentary copies. The file also includes several original letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The correspondents include from Geoffrey Coulter, Professor J. Weingreen, The Advocate Press (Melbourne), Alison King, Rev. William Grattan Flood, James Lyons, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Professor Desmond O’Connor, Kevin Faller, Bishop Michael Anthony Harty, Bishop Cathal Daly, Padriac Fiacc, James Lyons, Heinrich Böll, Maura Scannell, T. Ryle Dwyer, Fr. Nelson J. Ruppert OFM Cap., Alan Denson, Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., Máire Ní Ceallaig, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Arthur Mitchell, Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Ethna Waldron, Professor J.J. Moore SJ, Professor James C. Brindley, Mannix Joyce, Donal Brennan, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., T. Ryle Dwyer, Desmond Parish, Sr. Bernard Boran, Jim Fahy ('Tuam Herald'), Walter McGrath ('Cork Examiner'), Bryan MacMahon, Maire Scannell, Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, Mary Mathews, Michael W. Murphy, Dr John P. Cullinane, Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., Professor James P. Carney, Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., Alan Denson, Arthur Mitchell and Charles J. Haughey.
• A letter to Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. provides some detail on the work of the Irish Capuchin friars in Cape Town, South Africa. (4 Dec. 1973).
• A letter from Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. refers to Fr. Jeremiah Joseph O’Reilly OSFC (1799-1880), the first resident Catholic priest in Wellington, New Zealand (10 May 1973).
• A letter from Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. gives information on Irish Capuchin missionary work in Zambia (16 Mar. 1973).

Copy letters of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mainly to authors regarding articles they intend to publish in 'The Capuchin Annual' in 1976. Other letters refer to orders and requests for the 'Annual', expressions of gratitude for complimentary copies, and reviews of the text. The file also includes several original letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The file includes letters from Dr. Daphne Pochin Mould, Donal Brennan, E.M Lysaght, Mannix Joyce, Fr. James W. Kelly CC, Padraic Fiacc, Patrick W. Smyth, Fr. Theodore Crowley OFM, Pieter Otten, Maura Scannell, Conleth Ellis, Dr. Margaret Sheridan, Michael O’Beirne, Jack Lynch, Seán Cronin, Primo Basso, Fr. Paschal Larkin, Brian Scanlon, Alice Rynne, Seán Ó Síochán, Cathal O’Shannon, Marie O’Kelly, Monsignor Tomás Ó Fiaich, Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., Walter McGrath ('Cork Examiner'), Fr. Denis Faul, Alan Denson, Charles Conaghan, Tadhg Gavin, Alison King, Benedict Kiely, Margaret Sheridan, Arthur Mitchell, Elizabeth May, Fr. Sebastian Lee OFM, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Oliver Snoddy, Professor J. Weingreen, and Fr. T.J. Walsh.