Letters from Brigid E. Whelan, Staplestown Rd., Carlow, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., regarding a subscription from local people ‘to have a Mass said in the Cathedral, Carlow, for the repose of the soul of the I[rish] V[olunteers] who died in connection with the 1916 Rising which proposal was refused by the administrator ’. (2 May 1916). She later reprobates the ‘clergy [who] had abandoned the cause of their motherland’. She added ‘Thank God that there are such men as you and your “Beloved Brethren”’. (4 May 1917).
Letter from Alice and Laurence Ginnell, Liverpool, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin, apologising for not been able to visit as ‘details of preparation kept us both busy since we leave here today for Canada for the benefit of my health’.
Letter to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. from [signature indecipherable], St. Brigid’s Clara, giving family news and referring to Fr. Albert’s exile in America. With cover annotated on reverse: ‘Fr. Albert died on Feb. 14th [1925]. Return this letter unread, Joseph’
Copy letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., St Francis Hospital, Santa Barbara, California, to Eamon de Valera, President of the Republic of Ireland, pledging his ‘unchanged and unchangeable, and uncompromising’ allegiance to the Republic and to you, its President’. He argues that ‘in the movement for the independence of Ireland I have always endeavoured to remember that I was a Capuchin Priest’.
Letter from Sinn Féin, 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Church St., Dublin, forwarding a resolution from the party regarding the recent death of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. In Irish
Photographic print (black and white) of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. outside the Church Street Friary, Dublin. A woman, carrying an umbrella, and a young boy are following them. The print is pasted onto card and is annotated on the reverse: ‘donated by Mrs. H. Cass, Huntstown, Kilmanagh, County Kildare’. It is noted that the copyright of this image was held by J. Cashman, 13 Manor Place, Dublin, and the 'Irish Press'.
Photographic print of the coffin of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at Santa Inez, California. Stamped on the reverse: ‘Greene, Photographer, 19 W. Figueroa St., Santa Barbara’.
Memorial print of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., ‘Chaplain of the Irish Republican Army’. It notes that on ‘his deathbed he renewed his allegiance to the Irish Republic. In deference to his life-long wish, his remains, together with those of this loyal pupil Fr. Dominic now lie side by side in Irish soil in the little cemetery, Rochestown, County Cork’
