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IE CA CP/3/16/39 · File · 1949-1955
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A bound volume titled ‘Communism in Ireland / Vol. 2 / private papers’. The volume contains numerous newspaper clippings and printed ephemera compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. relating to the activities of various socialist and communist groups in Ireland. The volume contains much material relating to the Irish Workers’ League which was founded in 1948. The League was a re-establishment of the southern part of the Communist Party of Ireland. In 1970 the League merged with the Communist Party of Northern Ireland to reunite the party across the island. The file also includes correspondence, notes and lists generated by Fr. Senan on various prominent Irish communists. Many of the clippings in the volume are ‘red scare’ type articles taken from Irish newspapers including the ‘Irish Independent’, the ‘Irish Press’, and the weekly Catholic title ‘The Standard’.

The volume includes much material on the political career of Michael O’Riordan (1917-2006), the prominent Irish communist who fought with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. O’Riordan emerged as a central figure in the leftist republican movement in Ireland in the second half of the twentieth century. He was the founding secretary of the Irish Workers’ League, and general secretary thereafter of its successor grouping, the Irish Workers’ Party, from 1962 to 1970. He later served as general secretary of the reconstituted thirty-two county Communist Party of Ireland from 1970 to 1983 and acted as party chairman until 1997. The volume is a ‘Richview Account Series Book’ printed by Browne & Nolan in Dublin.

Communism or distributism
IE CA CP/3/17/8/4 · Part · 1937
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A programme of events organized by the Green Cross Committee in Dublin for the benefit of ‘prisoners and internees in the six counties’. The events were organised for the week from 12-19 March 1944.

IE CA CP/3/16/39/36 · Part · 27 Jan. 1952
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A clipping of an article claiming that two prominent communists spoke at the second delegate conference of the Irish Workers’ League held in Dublin. The clipping is taken from the ‘Sunday Press’ (27 January 1952).

IE CA CP/3/16/39/7 · Part · 11 Jan. 1950
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A clipping of a report a debate in the Northern Ireland senate referring to fears that ‘communist influences’ were at work in the trade union movement in Ulster. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (11 January 1950).

IE CA CP/3/16/39/8 · Part · c.1949
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A short assessment of the strength of communist groupings in Belfast by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Reference is made to named individuals in the Communist Party and to an ‘International Bookshop in Church Lane which seems to be [a] clearing house for printed propaganda’. Moynihan also warns of communist ‘fellow travellers’ who exude strong anti-Catholic sentiments.

Communists bid for power
IE CA CP/3/16/39/18 · Part · 1951
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A flier urging members of a branch of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union not to vote for any member of the Irish Workers’ League at the forthcoming annual branch elections. The flier refers to ‘Red agents’ and a ‘Communist Clique’ which threaten Catholic trade unionists. The flier was issued by Conductor Larry Whitehead.

Community
IE PVBM 24/1 · Series · 1829 - 2007
Part of Presentation Sisters Congregational Archives

Series includes material which documents the foundation of Castlecomer Convent n 1829 including annals of the convent and material related to the closure and sale of the convent in 2007. Also includes material related to members of the community including a register of Superiors and register of Profession, community statistics, minutes of community meetings and personal documents of the Castlecomer Sisters.

Presentation Sisters