This series comprises a small collection of glass plate negative images of seventeenth century manuscripts and other original records pertaining to the lives, ministries, and writings of several early Irish Capuchins. These were acquired by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), another prominent Irish Capuchin historian, for research and publication purposes.
Bill and certificate of costs to James Finbarre McMullen (c.1909-1957), 30 South Mall, Cork, and Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, for contract work by J.A. O’Connell & Sons, sculptors, and Bartholomew Barry, builder, in ‘erecting an Altar, marble rails and floor at the shrine of St. Anne in Father Mathew Church, Cork’, and for work on the new addition to the side of the Church leading to the vestry room.
A postcard print of the exterior of Holy Trinity Church and adjoining Capuchin friary, viewed from opposite bank of the South Channel of the River Lee in Cork.
A copy print of an engraving of Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c.1655-1693), an Irish Jacobite soldier. The source of the original print is not given but it likely dates to the mid-eighteenth century. A note states that the likeness of Sarsfield is derived from the ‘original picture in the possession of Sir Charles Bingham Bart. of Castlebar in the County of Mayo, in the Kingdom of Ireland’.
A postcard depicting the so-called ‘Ramillies Flag’ captured by soldiers of the Irish Brigade fighting for France at the Battle of Ramillies (23 May 1706). The Irish Brigade was comprised of soldiers of the defeated Irish Jacobite army who arrived in France in an event known as the ‘Flight of the Wild Geese’. The Battle of Ramillies (fought near a small village in what is now Belgium) was a significant Anglo-Dutch victory (led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough) over a combined French and Spanish force. Despite their defeat, an Irish officer managed to capture the remains of an English flag, referred to in the Irish captioned postcard as a ‘Bhratach Shasanach’. The flag remnant shows a gold harp on a pale blue background. It was subsequently presented to a community of Irish Benedictine nuns residing in the town of Ypres. It is now held by the Benedictine community resident in Kylemore Abbey in County Galway.
A typescript copy of a letter from Sir Francis Vane referring to the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising. The letter was originally published in the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (27 July 1916). (Volume page 34).
An image of the River Suir at Clonmel in County Tipperary. A typescript caption on the reverse of the print reads 'The River Suir, at Clonmel (Picture taken from the Convent Bridge), with St. Mary's Church in the foreground'.
