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Rev. Peter Joseph Houben, Bl. Charles's brother

Rev. Martin Byrne C.P. Portrait

A clipping of an account of the opening days of the Rising by Rev. Gordon Clements, The Manse, Donore, South Circular Road, Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Dublin Evening Mail’ (3 May 1916).

Letter From Rev. Colman O' Driscoll in St. Augustine's Priory, Limerick regarding a question the Prior asked him about boys taking vacation on All Saints.

A clipping from the ‘Catholic Herald’ recounting a reunion in Smartsville, California, of three brothers who were all Catholic priests: Father Malachy Hynes (a Capuchin friar from Dublin, working in Oregon), Father J. J. Hynes (the host at the Smartsville rectory), and Father Michael Hynes (visiting from Maxwell). This gathering marked their first meeting together under one roof in many years before they separated to continue their respective ministries. The article also highlights a remarkable twist of fate for Father Malachy Hynes, who narrowly escaped the 1912 sinking of the ‘Titanic’. He had booked passage on the ill-fated steamship but cancelled at the last moment to attend a major Home Rule celebration in Dublin, an incident that ultimately saved his life and made the family reunion possible.

Return of mission personnel in Northern Rhodesia (St. Therese) Livingstone; Sancta Maria (Lukulu, Mongu); St. Fidelis (Sichili); St. Joseph (Mankoya) and in Cape Town, Church of the Immaculate Conception (Parow parish); St. Mary of the Angels (Athlone parish).

A large crowd welcomes the return of Harry Boland (central figure with straw hat) to Dublin following his release from prison in 1917. Boland had been arrested following the 1916 Rising and was sentenced to five years penal servitude serving his time first in Dartmoor Jail and later in Lewes Prison.

An article reporting on the return by Captain E.J. Hitzen of some mementoes and ephemera he captured following the 1916 Rising. The items included the white flag used by Éamon de Valera during the surrender of Boland’s Mill. The article also refers to Hitzen’s recollections of the Rising. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (5 April 1948).