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Following the deaths in exile of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (d. 1925) and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (d. 1935), there were numerous calls to have their bodies returned to Ireland. Prominent republican supporters in the United States and Old IRA men in Ireland frequently petitioned ecclesiastical authorities to have the bodies of the ‘two patriot priests’ repatriated. These calls were initially rejected, and the outbreak of the Second World War prompted a postponement of the campaign. In 1954, a repatriation committee was set up by Cork No. 1 Brigade of the Old IRA to collect the funds necessary to defray the expenses involved in returning the remains to Ireland. Florence O’Donoghue, head of intelligence for the Cork Brigade during the War of Independence, was appointed Honorary Secretary. Cornelius Neenan was appointed the Committee’s representative in the United States. Aside from the financial difficulties, the Committee also had to contend with a certain reluctance on behalf of the church authorities in having the bodies of two priests moved in such an overtly public manner. The reburial was a departure from the normal rule of the Capuchin Franciscan Order. Also, as they were priests, a high religious content would have to be included in any civil ceremonies connected with the repatriation. Having at length gained the approval of both the state and the church, the repatriation took place in 1958. On 13 June, the priests’ remains arrived at Shannon Airport to be greeted by Seán T. O’Kelly, President, Ėamon de Valera, Taoiseach, Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Capuchin Vicar Provincial, and many representatives of the Old IRA. The funeral cortege then proceeded to Cork for a requiem mass in Holy Trinity Capuchin Church. Fr. Albert and Fr. Dominic were interred in the cemetery attached to Rochestown Capuchin Friary on 14 June 1958. The sub-series consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed ephemera and photographs connected with the reparation campaign and ceremony in 1958. The series also includes records relating to the unveiling of a memorial to the two priests on the grounds of the Capuchin Friary in Raheny, Dublin, by veterans of Fianna Éireann in 1959.

Correspondence regarding the sale of properties in Kilkenny city formerly held in trust by the late Fr. Thomas (Hilary) McDonagh OFM Cap. and subsequently held by the FMC Trust. The file specifically relates to the sale to Thomas J. Barrett of a three-storey building over a ground floor shop located at No. 19 Rose Inn Street, The Parade, Kilkenny, and to a house situated at No. 1 Castlecomer Road. The correspondents include Fr. Daniel (Nicholas) O’Brien OFM Cap., secretary of the FMC Trust, John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, Donal O’Buachalla, valuers and estate agents, and John Stanton & Sons, solicitors. With manuscript notes regarding title to the said properties which John Lanigan affirms is ‘rather “messy” as most of the deeds appear to have been lost’ (5 Jan. 1972).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D1’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), D.L. Kelleher, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Sister Stella Phelan MMM, Frank Gallagher, John Englis & Co. (printers), Aodh de Blacam, Sister M. Bernard (Fribourg, Switzerland), Fr. J.G. McGarry (‘The Furrow’, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny), Francis MacManus, Pádraig De Brún, Fr. P.J. Dunning CM (All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., Michael O’Higgins, Br. Colman Butler OFM Cap., Michael Walsh (Lower Patrick Street, Kilkenny), Fr. Patrick Boland TOR (Catholic Mission, Bhagalpur, India), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association of the United States), Fr. Patrick O’Carroll CSSp., Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Fr. D.B. Kennedy, Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Adolf Morath (photographer), Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia), Fr. Stephen J. Moloney O.Cist. (Mounty Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Helena Concannon, C.J. Woollen, Clement O. Bradley (Manager, ‘The Tablet’), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Bishop Daniel Cohalan (John’s Hill, Waterford), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Gerald Pyne (Harehills, Leeds), Seamus Murphy (Wellington Road, Cork), Séamus Ó Braonáin, Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Capuchin Friary, Cork), Gunning & Son (Ecclesiastical Art Manufacturers, Fleet Street, Dublin), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Johanna Coakley (508 Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee), Rita McGoldrick, Sister M. Emmanuel (Mater Misericordiae Nursing Home, Eccles Street, Dublin), Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Cathal O’Byrne, Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), and Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth).

Enclosures include a typescript article titled ‘an open letter to Risteárd Ó Maolchatha [Richard Mulcahy] Éamon de Valera, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (An Seabhac)’ by Joseph O’Connor, and a typescript titled ‘Dublin, The Octopus / Draft Commentary by the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor [Cormac Breathnach] on Mr. Peterson’s script’ (1950).

Letters to Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. responding to invitations to attend the blessing and opening of the Capuchin House of Studies and the new Ard Mhuire Friary on 13 Nov. 1966. The attendees included many local parish priests, Capuchin friars, members of other religious congregations and various lay people involved in the construction of the buildings. The file also includes a copy of the official declaration of the blessing of the foundation (in Latin) signed by Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, a list of donations to the building fund, an invitation card to the solemn blessing and opening and a menu card for the celebratory dinner.

• Souvenir programme for the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations in Cork on Sunday, 24 June 1956. Printed, 25 pp.
• Souvenir programme for centenary celebrations for the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The events took place in City Hall in Cork on 9 Dec. 1956 and included an address by the Most Rev. David Mathew, Titular Bishop of Apamea. Printed, 3 pp. 2 copies.
• Newspaper clippings relating to the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s death. The file includes:
Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., ‘The mighty moral miracle wrought by Father Theobald Mathew’, 6 Dec. 1956.
‘Cork Centenary Celebrations’.
Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., ‘The secret of Father Theobald Mathew – Capuchin / What his Franciscianism meant to him’, 'Evening Echo', 7 Dec. 1956.
‘Fr. Mathew: One of the great men of history’, 'Cork Examiner', 10 Dec. 1956.
‘Ireland’s Great Tribute to the Apostle of Temperance’, 'Cork Examiner', 25 June 1956. A pictorial supplement.
’60,000 Pioneers pay tribute to Fr. Mathew’, Cork Examiner, 25 June 1956. Clippings, 12 pp.
• Letter from Rev. Patrick J. Hamell, Honorary Secretary of the Father Mathew Union, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., re preparations for the celebration of the Father Mathew Centenary. 15 Sept. 1956. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Offprint of an article by Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap., ‘Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / A Centenary Tribute’, published in the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (1956). Printed, 13 pp.