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Copy Letter from Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap. re Civil War Battle

Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan College, Rochestown, County Cork, to Winifred Etheridge, c/o Major F. Etheridge DSO, Broadway Cottage, Littleham, North Exmouth, Devon. The letter (27 January 1923) provides a detailed, eyewitness description of an engagement between Free State soldiers and irregular republicans near Rochestown College in August 1922. Winifred Etheridge was a sister of Ian McKenzie Kennedy, a Scottish-born republican, who died during the battle. The file also includes a photocopy of a letter (26 August 1922) from Nora Lucey, 3 Pembroke Street, Cork, to Mrs McKenzie Kennedy providing further detail on the skirmish and on the death of her son, Ian McKenzie Kennedy. A copy sketch map (drawn by Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap.) showing details of the battle between Free State forces and Anti-Treaty irregulars around Rochestown is also extant in the file.

O’Shea, Michael, 1892-1958, Capuchin priest

Copy cable from Diarmuid Lynch to Terence MacSwiney

Copy cable from Diarmuid Lynch (1878-1950), New York, to Terence MacSwiney, City Hall, Cork, confirming that ‘Fogarty got no commission whatever from and was not authorised to act or speak for myself or friends. Advise Dublin’. Annotation reads: ‘Received 16 July 1920’. Copy in the hand of Liam de Róiste; With [copy] letter from Liam de Róiste (1882-1959) to Diarmuid Lynch acknowledging Lynch’s cable referring to the aforementioned Fogarty. In Irish.

With the Irish in Frongoch

A book written by W. J. Brennan-Whitmore referring to the experiences of Irish republicans imprisoned after the 1916 Rising. Published in Dublin by The Talbot Press.

Dublin College Green By-Election Flier

An election flier printed during the Dublin College Green by-election which was held on 11 June 1915. The flier was produced by John Dillon Nugent (1869-1940), a Dublin Corporation councillor and a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The flier accuses Nugent’s opponent Thomas Farren (1879-1955), a leading trade unionist, of ‘Larkinism’ and pro-German sympathies.

Letter to Fr. Canice Bourke regarding premises on ‘Island Nagay’

Letter to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. (1890-1969), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from Michael Murphy, solicitor, 53 South Mall, Cork, regarding the rent payable on premises on ‘Island Nagay’. Murphy explains that this ‘is a corruption of an old Irish name with which lawyers are familiar in the old deeds they meet, and which I have always found to mean the levelled ground between the two branches of the river, and always close to the south channel, and referring to the area between Parnell Bridge and Parliament Bridge’.

Flier re proposed memorial to the late Fr. Bernard Jennings

Flier reporting on the meeting of a deputation of the leading civic citizens of Cork with Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC, guardian, regarding the promotion of a scheme for the improvement of the sanctuary and altar of Holy Trinity as a fitting memorial to the late Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (d. 26 Dec. 1904). With a newspaper clipping of an article reporting on the dedication of the said sanctuary. (20 Apr. 1908).

Constitution of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade

Constitution of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade authorised under the patronage of the Most Rev. William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin. The original copy is amended to facilitate the founding of Catholic Boys’ Brigade (and Catholic Boys’ Home) in Cork. Endorsed to the effect that the patron of the local brigade will be the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan (1839-1916), Bishop of Cork.

Stations of the Cross Installation

Correspondence of Fr. Berchmans McCarthy OFM Cap., guardian, Ard Mhuire Friary, with Gill & Gunning, church furnishers, 50 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1, regarding the installation of a set wooden Stations of the Cross in the new church at Ard Mhuire Friary.

Mass Intentions Record Book

Booking diary recording the names of individuals and families for whom masses are to be said. The mass stipend is also occasionally recorded.

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