This sub-series comprises papers mostly relating to the ministries performed by Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. in Oregon in the United States following his release from British detention in January 1922. The sub-series also includes records referring to Fr. Dominic's death in October 1935 and tributes and commemorations thereafter.
Newspaper cuttings book compiled and annotated by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Printed stamp on inside front cover: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Library, Church Street, Dublin’. The pages have been numbered by Fr. Stanislaus. The book includes on p. 69 cuttings reporting the exiling of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to the United States. ‘Boston Papers’, Dec. 1922; 'Cork Weekly Examiner', 21 Jan. 1925.
Photographic postcard prints of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. with a group of Irish Republican supporters at Fairpost, Northern California. Some members of the group hold tricolor pennants annotated: ‘St Patrick’s Day -1923. Irish Republic’. One of the photographs was reprinted in the 'Cork Evening Echo', 18 June 1958. The individuals are named as:
Front: Pat Fitzgerald, Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., Messrs M. O’Malley, J. McGuire, Barney Nolan.
Back: Messrs D. Godsil, M. Murphy, J. Shine, M. Barry, T. Sullivan, D. O’Keefe, J. Flynn, J. Leary, T. Curtin, J. Kelleher, J. O’Connor, P. Murphy, V. Daly.
List of names and addresses of people resident in the United States. Includes a business card from Joseph Smith, Director, Boston Commercial and Industrial Bureau.
Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Bend, Oregon, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., describing the last hours of his nephew Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.. He wrote: ‘Poor Dominic died rather unexpectedly. He had being ailing for a good many months, complained of a headache and more recently of dizzy spells and loss of memory’. The letter is incomplete.
Telegrams to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, concerning the death of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. in Bend, Oregon.
The sub-series comprises a small collection of prints and photographs connected with the life and ministry of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.
Copy penciled sketch portrait of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. in the uniform of a British Army chaplain. Titled: ‘Fr. Dominic of Cork, OFM Cap.’.
Newspaper clipping showing Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. leading a procession of the clergy at the funeral of Tomás Mac Curtain at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne in Cork in March 1920. Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. is standing directly behind Fr. Albert. The image is credited to Cashman and was reproduced in the 'Irish Press', 12 Jan. 1958.
Memorial photographic print of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. The caption reads: ‘zealous Chaplain to the martyred Mayors of Cork, Tomas MacCurtain and Terence McSwiney, remained ever loyal to the cause of the Irish Republic’. The memorial notes that Fr. Dominic ‘died in exile in Bend, Oregon, U.S.A. in 1935. In June 1958, the remains were repatriated and re-interred in the Capuchin Cemetery in Rochestown, County Cork’.