Showing 19162 results

Copies of a poem titled ‘The Old Metal Man’ referring to the acquisition of Ards House by the Capuchin friars. The poem reads:
'Gone, gone the Ascendancy, “gentry” and others
That lorded it over the old native clan,
Replaced by the people, the friars and brothers,
Whilst still to the fore stands the Old Metal Man'.
The file includes a clipping of the poem published in the 'Derry Journal' on 30 Nov. 1935.

A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘The North / Partition / Northern Ireland’. The volume contains original letters and draft manuscript and typescript contributions and commentary re the ‘Orange Terror’ article by 'Ultach' (J.J. Campbel) published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943). The file includes letters from Bishop Daniel Mageean, George Noble Plunkett, J.J. Campbell, Eamon Donnelly, Senator David Robinson, Maud Gonne MacBride, Jack B. Yeats (refusing to contribute a commentary on the article), and Sir Shane Leslie. The volume also contains many general newspaper clippings about partition. The volume also includes a printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (1943). The volume includes content mainly from 1941-9 but it also includes some newspaper and magazine clippings from c.1917-1932, particularly relating to the treatment of the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland. The volume is not paginated.

'The New World' was published in Chicago and claimed to be the ‘largest Catholic newspaper in the United States’. The file contains the issue: 11 Aug. 1916 (vol. xxv, No. 6). The paper contains an article titled ‘How they butchered James Connolly’. (p. 4).

Author: Jeremiah Dowling
Publisher: Printed by Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 94-96 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin
Language: English
Journal format: 'New Ireland Review', x (no. 3), Nov. 1898, has an article titled ‘Father Mathew’ by Jeremiah Dowling at pp 140-8.
Printed Franciscan Capuchin Library stamp on front cover.