Letter from the Most Rev. Peter Emmanuel Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, to Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., expressing his delight on seeing him after all his recent suffering. He also grants him full diocesan faculties for his stay in the diocese.
A copy letter from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. to the Most Rev. Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, claiming that he knew nothing of Fr. Dominic O'Connor's appointment as chaplain to the IRA until his attention was drawn to a report in the local newspapers.
Newspaper clipping of a letter by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. published in the nationalist newspaper the 'Cork Free Press' (8 Nov. 1911). The letter is titled ‘The Brown Friars: their education in “the dark days”’ and refers to the long history of the education of Irish Capuchins in continental colleges. The article was sent to the editor of the 'Cork Free Press' and was signed 'Segan Eireannac'. With cover and annotation by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap.
A ‘Savage Model 1907’ Pistol reputed to have been used by an Irish Volunteer during the 1916 Rising. The weapon was found by a Capuchin friar on North King Street after the conclusion of the hostilities. With leather holster and spare bullet cartridge. A manuscript note found with the pistol in the gallery of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street reads: ‘These are souvenirs of the 1916 Rising’. A revolver used in King Street. A scissors used in the Four Courts’. Fr. Col[umbus Murphy OFM Cap.]’.
A hopsack bag reputed to have been used by an Irish Volunteer during the 1916 Rising. Retrieved from the gallery of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
Handwritten document summarising information for the year in relation to All Hallows College. It gives the number of students in the College, the cost of the Aula Maxima, and the costs of some other improvements.
A bound volume containing photographic prints complied for publication by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the spine reads ‘Views’. Most of the prints are not captioned. Many of the prints are of scenic locations in Ireland (particularly on the western coast), and of major Catholic churches and places of worship. The album includes the following prints (the index number refers to the pagination within the volume):
Thatched cottages in The Claddagh, County Galway.
The statue of St. Patrick on the Hill of Tara, County Meath.
The un-restored McCarthy's Tower and Cross of the Scriptures at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly.
Exterior view of Queen’s University, Belfast.
Chapter Room, Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
Loreto Convent, Kilkenny.
Large crowd hearing mass on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, at the Eucharistic Congress, Dublin, 1932.
The weekly walk at the Carthusian Monastery of St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
View from a bay window at Ards House (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary), County Donegal.
The refectory, of St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
Church Street, Dublin, looking towards North King Street.
The Library, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
The Open-Air Swimming Pool, Victoria Cross, Cork city.
The refectory, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
The garden of the Capuchin Friary, Church Street.
The sanctuary, Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
The statue of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on O’Connell Street.
The unveiling of the Four Masters Monument in Donegal Town by the Most Rev. Dr. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe.
City Hall, Cork.
Front of the Church, St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
Four Courts’ and Capel Street Bridge, Dublin.
The destroyed Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, Madrid, May 1931.
Healy’s Pass, Glengarriff, County Cork.
Laneway in Killarney, County Kerry.
Kilkenny Caste.
Owenreagh River Valley, Killarney, County Kerry.
Community Choir, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
Interior of Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
Exterior of St. Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny, County Donegal.
A missionary ambulance in British Somaliland. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘My “house on wheels”, head-quarter, Berbera, Fr. Adoldf, Berbera, British Somaliland’.
The cloister garden, Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, North Wales.
The cemetery, Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, North Wales.
Catholic religious procession through Holloway, London in May 1931.
Reception Lodge, Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
Re-opening of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims, France. Note: The Cathedral was officially re-opened in 1938.
Exterior of the Church at the Capuchin Friary at Frascati, Rome.
Collegio Internazionale S. Lorenzo da Brindisi, Frascati, Rome.
Aerial view of Drogheda, County Louth.
The ‘Forty Steps’ (or Cromwell’s Quarters), Dublin.
The beach at Rossbeigh, County Kerry.
Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk.
Lake Isle of Innisfree, County Sligo.
The Customs House, Dublin
Rosses Point, County Sligo.
Strandhill Beach, County Sligo.
The Cathedral Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nathy, Ballaghadereen, County Roscommon.