A letter from Fr. C. O’Neill, St. Peter’s Presbytery, Milford Street, to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., a Capuchin friar, referring to the effects of bombing raids during the Belfast Blitz in April 1941. He writes ‘A great disaster has befallen this city and I have lost a few very saintly tertiaries. Many people have left, for the houses are not habitable; others have fled in fear. But no-one on the Falls Road area was injured. The Catholic Church in the city was damaged save for a few panes of glass. The disaster will affect our Triduum somewhat, but I think it is better to have it, all the same. It would never do to give up on prayer and the people are saying the Rosary in the streets every night in this parish. The horror of an air-raid is inconceivable until one has seen it’.
A letter from Fr. Cassian O’Shea OFM Cap., Ard Mhuire Friary, County Donegal, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. giving his opinions on various articles in the most recent edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
Letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., c/o Commandant, Kilmainham Prison, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., detailing the charges which are be brought against him and informing him that he is to be tried by a General Court Martial on Saturday next at 10.30 a.m.
Letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., Hermiston, Oregon, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., regarding the disposition of Stanfield Church and the progress of building works on other churches in his ministry in Oregan. He wrote: ‘As soon as the weather moderates I will begin the building of the Church at Pilot Rock. I intended to call it Santa Clara but I will get a donation of $1,000 if I call it Saint Agnes. What’s in a name? I’ve been called many names myself, few of them as complimentary in the change as this one’.
Letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to Fr. Mark McDonnell OFM Cap. Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. Fr. Dominic refers to the existence of archives relating to the early history of the Irish Province extant in the Capuchin General Archives in Rome. He wrote: ‘the opinion was growing stronger in my mind … as I was advancing in the MSS that there must be a report of the Commissary Provincial about date 1711 in our own Archives in Rome and possibly also in the Propaganda ones. Perhaps a copy may be found even in Milan as many manuscripts were sent the Historian General of the Order at one time’. With cover.
Letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., Brussels, to Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap., St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, regarding information found in continental archives regarding the early Irish Capuchins particularly in respect of Fr. Francis Nugent OFM Cap. With cover.
Letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., c/o Commandant, Kilmainham Prison, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap, asking that a breviary and other spiritual reading could be sent to him.
A letter from Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on ‘The Capuchin Annual’. He also refers to Éamon de Valera’s plans to abolish the Senate. Walsh writes ‘I see by today’s papers that the Senate is to be abolished, so Dev is now free to ruin poor old Ireland as much as he pleases! Visions of Russia, Mexico and Germany!!!! God save Cosgrave’.
Letter from Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Ard Mhuire Friary, County Donegal, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. He adds ‘It will be a fateful year for Europe, and by this time next year the war will have probably gone way or the other’.
Letter from Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Ard Mhuire Friary, County Donegal, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the success of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and referring to his work on his article on the Pope.
