Note from Military Headquarters, Parkgate Street, to Dublin Metropolitan Police. The note reads: ‘Please tell the Franciscan Fathers at Church Street that the two men they wish to see at Kilmainham Detention Prison should be seen by them tonight’. Printed heading reads: ‘Dublin Metropolitan Police Telephone’. Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke were executed on the morning of 3 May
A note from George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) referring to his financial circumstances which forces him to refuse any charitable requests made to him. A manuscript addition to the note reads 'Sorry; but you must write me off-your list of Maecenas. The above is serious, and at present acute. / GBS'.
Note from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain), An Cumann Gaelach, University College Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
A note from Éamonn O’Neill to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. confirming his order for ‘Bonaventura’. The note is extant on a circular letter from Fr. Senan publicising the quarterly review.
A note signed by Adjunct Thomas Slater (on behalf of Commandant Thomas MacDonagh) to Patrick Pearse during the 1916 Rising. The note refers to the examination of his ‘dispositions’ by ‘umpires and two assistants’. He expresses his satisfaction that these ‘intermediaries’ are in touch with both sides. The note may refer to possible negotiations for the surrender of the Jacob’s factory garrison. The note provides a time of 1pm.
Note from C. Burgess [Cathal Brugha], Dublin Castle Hospital, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Franciscan Capuchin Church, Church St. It reads: ‘I should be obliged if you dropped in here any time tomorrow or Friday to hear my confession. As there has been a new regulation made here with regard to the admission of the clergy it might be as well if you brought this card with you’. During the Rising Brugha was severely wounded by a hand grenade, as well as by multiple gunshot wounds, and was initially not considered likely to survive. He recovered over the next year, but was left with a permanent limp.
An Irish-language text written by An Craoibhín (Douglas Hyde). The title refers to Seághain Mhic Neill. The text is signed by Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland, and is dated May 1945.
Note about Glenstal, the Sisters and Msgr Shanahan. Language is French.
A bound volume containing photographic prints complied for publication by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the spine reads ‘People’. Most of the prints are not captioned and the individuals are unidentified. The volume includes prints of prominent ecclesiastical and political figures and artists. The album includes the following prints (the index number refers to the pagination within the volume):
- William T. Cosgrave (1880-1965).
- Thomas J. Kiernan (d. 1967).
- John Redmond (1856-1918).
- The Most Rev. James Naughton, Bishop of Killala (d. 1950).
- Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971) and her husband, Thomas J. Kiernan.
- Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (1900-1970) and an unidentified man.
- The Most Rev. James Joseph MacNamee, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise (d. 1966).
- The Most Rev. Joseph MacRory, Bishop of Down and Connor, later Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh (1861-1945).
- Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. in a factory staffed by female workers.
- Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. with Éamon de Valera.
- The Most Rev. Edward Mulhern, Bishop of Dromore (1863-1943).
- Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. in a bookshop.
- The Most Rev. Joseph MacRory, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh (1861-1945).
The file includes photographic prints of prominent individuals compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Many of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes prints of the following individuals:
• Pope Pius X (1835-1914) (Postcard print).
• Pope Benedict XV (1854-1922).
• Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) (Postcard print).
• Pope Pius XII (1876-1958).
• Cardinal Joseph MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh (1861-1945), at his consecration in the Aula di Benedizione, Vatican. 19 Dec. 1929.
• W.T. Cosgrave (1880-1968) with Cardinal Joseph MacRory and other clerics.
• Members of the Dublin Corporation Lane Bequest Claim Committee including Mary Sheehy Kettle (1884-1967), widow of Tom Kettle, J.J. Howe, secretary to the City Manager, and J.J. Reynolds, councillor.
• Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara OFS (1900-1999).
• Saint Leopold Bogdan Mandić OFM Cap. (1866-1942).
• Seán MacBride (1904-1988).
• Neil Armstrong (1930-2012).
• David Giles (1926-2010), BBC Director.
• Richard King (1907-1974).
• Douglas Hyde (1860-1949).
• Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911-1978).
• Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) (Postcard print).
• Robert Kennedy (1925-1968).
• Most Rev. August Hlond SDB (1881-1948), Cardinal Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and Primate of Poland. (Lying-in-state following his death on 22 Oct. 1948).
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician.
• Jack Lynch (1917-1999) at a religious procession in Cork.
• Seamus Murphy, sculptor (1907-1975).
• Cliff Michelmore, broadcaster (1919-2016).
• Patrick Hillery, politician and President of Ireland (1923-2008).
• Seamus Hughes, first announcer on 2RN (later Radio Éireann).
• Gerard A. Hayes-McCoy, historian (1911-1975).
• Most Rev. Arthur Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (1904-1988). One of the photographs shows Archbishop Ramsey with the Most Rev. John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, during a visit to Archbishop’s House, Drumcondra, Dublin.
• Most Rev. John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, with President Seán T. O’Kelly at a garden party in honour of the Boston Pilgrims at the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin.
• John A. Costello (1891-1976) with an unidentified Franciscan friar.
• William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne (1868-1942).
• Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971).
• Elisabetta Barbato (1921-2014), an Italian operatic soprano.
• Rev. Brother Bernardine, a Marist brother, Sligo.
• Very Rev. Adrian Convery CP, Irish Provincial Minister of the Congregation of the Most Holy Cross and Passion.
• Very Rev. P. McLoughlin, Salesian College, Pallaskenry, County Limerick.
• Fr. Mannes Cussen OP.
• Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1936-2010) at the Berlin Conference for Peace in 1972.
• Fr. Charles O’Mahony, Superior, House of St. Camillus, Order of Clerics Regular Ministers of the Sick.
• Mervyn Wall (1908-1997).
• Fr. Rudolph Blockinger OFM Cap., Kansu, China. He worked as a missionary in China from 1922 until he was expelled by the Communists in 1952.
• Philip Monahan, Cork’s first city manager.
• Máire Cotter.
• Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) with dignitaries in Dublin.
• Most Rev. Edward Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin (1872-1940).
• Most Rev. Patrick Morrisroe, Bishop of Achonry (1869-1946).
• Most Rev. Michael Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe (1859-1955).
• Most Rev. Jeremiah Kinnane, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (1884-1959).
• G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936).