This series includes a collection of rare books which were formerly held in the Library of Holy Trinity Friary, Father Mathew Quay, Cork. They were transferred to the Irish Capuchin Archives in Dublin in 2012. The collection is divided into six sub-series. In all of the sub-series the volumes have been arranged chronologically by date of publication. The series includes works published in Latin, French and English. Most of the volumes are in an extremely poor condition due to exposure for many years to inappropriate environmental storage conditions in the attic and in other locations in Holy Trinity Friary.
Photograph of the Capuchin friary adjacent to Holy Trinity Church in Cork. An empty jarvey stands outside the entrance to the Church. Photographer/Studio: E. O’Callaghan, 2 Parliament Street, Cork.
Photographic prints of Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. (1912-1995) and Fr. Ephrem O’Sullivan OFM Cap. (1904-1958) blessing a Holy Year Cross atop Muckish Mountain (Derryveagh Mountain Range, County Donegal) on the Feast of the Assumption (15 August) in 1951. The file includes a note written by Fr. David giving information on some of the people in one of the photographic prints. See also CA DL/6/10.
A postcard publicising the 1950 Holy Year announced by Pope Pius XII in his ‘Jubilaeum maximum’ papal bull. The card has an illustration of St. Peter’s Basilica.
A photographic print of large crowd assembled on O’Connell Bridge and around the O’Connell Monument for a Home Rule demonstration in Dublin. The event was held on 31 March 1912. The large banner on the platform at the base of the O’Connell Monument reads ‘Ireland A Nation’. The rally was organised by the moderate nationalists in the Irish Parliamentary Party.
A flier with the text of a satirical ballad concerning the desire for Irish independence and referencing the Lord Lieutenant Viscount John French and Chief Secretary for Ireland Ian Stewart Macpherson. To be sung to the air of ‘I don't mind if I do". The first line reads ‘Lord French and MacPherson, old Long and old Short …’.
Date: 1685 Author: J.B. Le Vray Publisher: A Paris, Chez Edme Couterot, rue Saint Jacques au bon Pasteur MDCLXXXV [1685] Full title: 'Homelies, ou Explication litterale & morale des Evangiles de tous les Dimanches de l'année, oùles veritez les plus importantes de la morale chrêtienne sont traitées; avec des resolutions de cas de conscience les plus difficiles & les moins connus, qui font expliquez & decidez o dans le corps, ou à la fin des Homelies … Tome Second'.
Homily for Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. (1912-1989). He died in Cape Town, South Africa, on 10 August 1989. The homily was preached in the Welcome Estate Church by Fr. Wilfred Aherne OFM Cap. It was noted that Fr. Albeus ‘spent almost thirty years a missionary in Zambia and the past eighteen years ministering in the Capuchin parishes of the Cape Town Archdiocese. His brother Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. died in 1968, also in Cape Town’.