Copy letter from Richard Mulcahy to the Most Rev. Michael Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe (1859-1955), regarding apparent misrepresentations re the revolutionary period in a book by the historian, P. S. O’Hegarty (1879-1955).
Article by Edward A. Harrigan titled ‘A Bishop comes home’. The article refers to Bishop Edward J. Galvin (1882-1956), the founder of the Missionary Society of St. Columban, and the first Bishop of Hanyang, China.
Letter from ‘Kitty’ enclosing clippings from the 'Cork Examiner' (9 July 1938) re the handover by the British military of Spike Island in Cork Harbour under the terms of the Anglo-Irish agreement. The articles also refer to the escape of Irish republican prisoners from Spike Island in 1921. The letter is addressed to ‘Joe’ but also refers to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. It is dated 6 Jan. 1956.
File containing draft articles submitted by Liam Brophy, 39 Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, with a view to publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes: • Grief in a storm. Enclosed with a letter to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. noting the death of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., former Provincial Minister. • A dramatic poem (for four voices and chorus) on the Rising in Dublin, Easter 1916. 13 pp. • The Pungent Father Prout / Splendid Effrontery of the Wit of Watergrasshill. • Paul Claudel (1868-1955) / Poet of Seraph Joy’. 5 pp. • City Crowds. 1 p.
Drafts and notes compiled for an article by Kathleen M. Murphy titled ‘Balkan Byways’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1963), pp 110-124. The file contains manuscript notes by Kathleen M. Murphy and two soft-bound notebooks. One of the notebooks contains notes titled ‘Constantinople trip’.
File relating to an article on the Taize Community published in The Capuchin Annual. Includes a letter from Br. Charles Eugene, Secretary to the Prior of Taize (23 Aug. 1966) referring to the enclosed article and interview extracts with Frère Laurent, spiritual director at Taize. The file also contains several black and white prints: • A crowd of pilgrims at St. Sergius Monastery in Zagorsk (now Sergiyev Posad) in the Soviet Union. • The visit of Metropolitan Nikolin to Tilbury Abbey in 1964. • The interior of the Ecumenical Centre in Antwerp, Belgium.
Draft article by Pádraig Ó Broin titled ‘An Aerideacht at St. Enda’s fifty-five years ago’. It is noted that Ó Broin was a captain in the Irish Citizen Army, and was a member of the fourth battalion, Irish Volunteers.
Postcard print of a drawing of the North Camp, Frongoch, Wales, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Frongoch was described as the ‘University of the Revolution’. Among the internees in the camp were leading republicans such as Michael Collins, Terence MacSwiney, Richard Mulcahy, and Gerry Boland.
