Newspaper cuttings book compiled and annotated by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Printed stamp on inside front cover: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Library, Church Street, Dublin’. The pages have been numbered by Fr. Stanislaus. The cuttings includes (at pp 94-5) clippings of photographic prints of relating to the imprisonment of republican prisoners in Mountjoy Jail. One of the prints shows Fr. Augustine reciting the Rosary outside the Jail. 'Irish Independent', 15 Apr. 1920. Another print shows Fr. Augustine announcing the release of republican prisoners. 'Cork Examiner', 17 Apr. 1920.
Outline of chapters in a projected biography of the first Irish-born Capuchin friar, Fr. Francis Nugent OFM Cap. (1569-1635) by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. With a cover annotated by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap.
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 collection of street ballad leaflets assembled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), a Capuchin friar, in 1921. The handbills relate to events in the War of Independence from 1919-21. This contentious period produced its share of controversial literature mainly in the form of leaflets, handbills, ballads and other forms of popular street literature. The treatment of prisoners during the War of Independence was the subject of political and social outrage and was reflected in popular ballads celebrating the lives of Kevin Barry, Patrick Moran, Thomas Traynor and other republican prisoners executed in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin and in other locations following courts martial from 1920-1. Most of the ballads recounted popular stories told in simple metre, and set to (mostly) traditional airs. The ballad titles include: 'Kevin Barry' 'The Bould Black & Tan' 'God Save the Peelers' 'Commandant McKeown' 'My Little Grey Home in Mountjoy' 'Thomas Traynor / Died for Ireland / Mountjoy Prison / April 26 '21' 'Brave sons of Granuaile' 'The Standard of Green, White & Gold / A Song of Truce' 'Latest Hit / If you're Irish We're goin' to Suppress you'
The file comprises the following issues of this weekly Anti-Treaty newspaper: 3 Jan. 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 1)-29 June 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 27). The series is complete with multiple copies of some issues. The issue of 15 Mar. 1922 (no. 12) is endorsed ‘Fr. Stanislaus [Kavanagh OFM Cap.] … Dun Laoghaire’.
A file containing ‘Criterion Plates Ltd., Stechford, Birmingham’ box. The box holds four plates. The annotation on the box reads ‘Negatives of letters of Fr. Robert O’Connell OSFC in the Fr. Luke Wadding OFM [1588-1657] collection'. The annotation was made by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. in May 1922. The plates are labelled a-d.
A photograph of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (second from left) with two unidentified republicans in Freemasons’ Hall (or ‘Masonic Hall’) on Molesworth Street in Dublin. The two Capuchin friars visited the Hall following its seizure by anti-Treaty republicans in April 1922.
A file containing ‘Lastre a gelatine bromuro d’argento … di Cappelli, Milano’ box containing four large plate reproductions of an original manuscript. The box cover gives two dates of 1906 and 1911 (probably company awards). A faint manuscript annotation on the box reads: ‘Catalogo Campione’. The manuscript is titled on the first plate: ‘De haeresis Anglicanae in Iberniam intrusione et progressu, et de Bell Catholico ad annum 1641 caepto, exindeque per aliquot gesto, Commentarius’. The plates are images of the original copy of the ‘Commentarius Rinuccinanus’ held in the Archivio Storico Milano. The original text was destroyed in a bombing raid on Milan during the Second World War.
Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., St. Benedict’s Rectory, 320 West 53D Street, New York, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church St., Dublin, referring to his arrival in New York and his meeting with Fr. Solanus Casey OFM Cap. He also refers to a letter or photograph of letter ‘written by P.H. P[earse] to Joe Pl[unkett], 1916, and which I gave you to keep. I promised a copy of it to Mrs Tom Clarke … I would be grateful if can would, at your convenience, make a copy of it and send it to her or to Miss Daly, Bakery, Sarsfield St., Limerick for her’.
Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., referring to his difficult journey from Ireland to England and to his on-going ill-health. With cover, postmarked at Ilford.
