Letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. from Gertrude Parry, Rockport, Cushendun, County Antrim, re the life of her cousin Roger Casement. She thanks Moynihan for sending copies of the ‘beautiful and artistic Capuchin Annual’. She adds ‘I was so glad to read the articles about my beloved cousin, Roger Casement. There are two slight errors. His birthday was Sept. 1st not 15th Sept. and his eyes were grey not brown, real Irish eyes’. The other letter (dated 16 October) provides a long biographical account of Casement’s life and career (23 pp). An extract of the text reads: ‘He [Casement] left Ireland in 1914 (June) to collect funds in America for the arming of the Volunteers. Whilst he was there the war broke out. This put a stop to his activities over the Volunteers and he then turned his thoughts to trying to keep Ireland out of the war. He realised that the quarrel with Germany did not concern Ireland and in joining in it, she would only be sacrificing the flower of her young men to fight England’s cause’. The file includes a cover annotated by Fr. Senan. It reads ‘Notes on Roger Casement by Mrs Parry’.
A photograph of Robert Monteith showing a crowd at the position where he and Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand, County Kerry, in 1916. A stamp on the print credits the image to the ‘Irish Press’.
A copy of ‘The mystery man of Banna Strand / the life and death of Captain Robert Monteith’ by Florence Monteith Lynch (New York: Vantage Press, [1959]). Ink stamp on first page reads: ‘St. Francis Capuchin College, Rochestown’. Florence Monteith Lynch was the daughter of Robert Monteith. The book is illustrated with black and white photographs. The copy is signed by Florence Monteith Lynch.
A clipping of a short death notice for William Woodlock, ‘one of the Divisional Magistrates of Dublin’. The article is taken from the ‘Irish Catholic’ (June 1890).
Notes seemingly compiled by William Woodlock on matters pertaining to the reform of the Dublin Police and the Court Magistracy service. Some of the notes refer to more general legal matters and to extracts from historical state papers regarding procedures for the appointments of Irish judges and magistrates. Some of the notes take the form of letters. An extract from one of the letters reads ‘The Dublin Police District, besides the city of Dublin proper, comprises the large and daily increasing suburbs of Rathmines, Rathgar, Kingstown, Dalkey, Killiney, and the Pembroke Township. Rathmines and Rathgar in reality form a city of themselves: Kingstown, I need scarcely say is a seaport of some importance, and one of the most frequented gathering places, if not the most frequented watering place in Ireland’. The letters contain recitations and extracts from various Acts of Parliament relating to the administration of the magistracy and courts system in Dublin.
Report on religious instruction in the Presentation Convent School in Doneraile, County Cork. The volume provides lists of student names (mostly first communicants) and notes regarding the quality, character, and content of religious instruction in the school. References are made to bible studies, catechism, and prayer recitation. The entries are made by Canon Patrick Sheehan. Manuscript title to front cover reads ‘Religious Report Book Doneraile C[onvent]’.
A clipping of an article on Canon Sheehan by Rev. Herman J. Heuser on Canon Sheehan published in ‘The Book News Monthly’. The article includes photographic prints of Canon Sheehan and his gravestone in the church in Doneraile.
