A view of Shop Street in Galway City in about 1955. The street is the principal thoroughfare through Galway. As the name suggests, it is the city’s main shopping street, and contains numerous old brick buildings, storefronts, and an array of bars. To the right in the photograph is Lynch’s Castle, the only complete secular medieval building left standing in Galway.
A republican cartoon by Constance Markievicz published during the Civil War affirming that Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins are ‘marching heads up into the Empire over the bodies of their murdered Comrades’.
A collection of broadly nationalist newspapers and broadsheets. The sub-series includes cultural, Irish language and labour publications. The sub-series also contains contemporary newspapers reporting on the 1916 Rising and the major events of the War of Independence.
A clipping showing an image of the funeral cortege of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. on South Mall in Cork. An inset shows the relations of both the friars standing at their graveside in the cemetery attached to Rochestown Capuchin Friary on 14 June 1958.
Letter from Sinéad de Valera to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. referring to her anxiety over ‘the midnight raid and Saturday’s paper’. She adds ‘Dev is in Gloucester prison. I had a message from the Governor saying to send on some clothes’.
A newspaper clipping from the 'Santa Barbara Daily News' (21 Jan. 1925) containing photographs of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at Mission Santa Inés in California.