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Freemason’s Certificate, Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Ireland
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Certificate of registration of John Hill into the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Ireland (an Irish Freemasonry institution). The certificate is dated 10 November 1859 and is signed by Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster (1791-1874), Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland, and Lucius Henry Deering (1818-1887), Deputy Grand Secretary.
Expense Journal of William Woodlock
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Expense journal of William Woodlock, 13 Hardwicke Place, Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the title page gives the date 13 August 1863. A note on the first page by William Woodlock reads ‘1863 / Kate [his sister] left Dublin, August 11, (Tuesday) for Bruges. Joseph [his brother] left Dublin, Thursday, August 13 for Cork, on his way to Australia … Am now left alone, and open a new account. W[illiam] W[oodlock]’. An additional note at the bottom of the opening page reads ‘Joseph sailed from Queenstown for Brisbane, Queensland, in the “Fiery Star”, Wednesday, August 19, 1863’. The remainder of the volume contains entries for routine expenditures including washing, cigars, stamps, and stationary.
Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Prints
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Engravings from the ‘Illustrated London News’ showing the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable at Valentia and the ‘Telegraph Cable Fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, County Cork’. The prints are taken from an edition dated 28 July 1866. The captions for the images read (top) ‘The Atlantic telegraph cable fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay’ and (lower) ‘Laying the shore end of the Atlantic telegraph cable at Foilhommerum [Bay], Isle of Valentia’. Located off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Valentia Island was the eastern terminus of the first commercially viable transatlantic telegraph cable which came into operation in 1866. The prominent ship in the upper image is the ‘Great Eastern’, by some distance the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch.
Elegy to the memory of William Woodlock
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A transcript of ‘An elegy to the memory of my much beloved and lamented friend Mr William Woodlock (born 1741; died 1825) of the town of Roscrea’. The second page of the transcript has family history notes by William Woodlock (1832-1890), including a partial family tree which indicates that William Woodlock (1741-1825) was his great-grandfather. An additional entry notes that William Paul Woodlock (c.1780-1834) left Roscrea in 1798.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A carte de visite produced by Lauder Brothers’ photographic studio, 32 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Mary. 10/1/71’. Another date is given (25 February 1871).
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letter from John O’Mahony, Cork, to a ‘dear friend’ [likely either James Joseph O’Kelly or John O’Connor Power]. The letter reads ‘I have received orders to suppress any attempt at raising an “Irish Brigade” for any purpose than that of Ireland’. The letter adds ‘There are a great many persons here who would be only to anxious to fight for France, but in the face of the orders I have received, you cannot blame me for not giving you the assistance which in my heart I would wish’. Endorsed ‘Memo / written by O’Mahony … Cork’. 25 February 1871. Endorsed on front page ‘7197’.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letter from W. Howard affirming that he has been ordered to ‘hold no further communication’ with the letter writer. A manuscript note attached to the letter reads ‘D. Murphy / W. Howard / I am ordered to hold no further communication with you / Nino McEvoy … Craughwell’. Both the letter and the note are endorsed ‘7198’.
Letter from Patrick James Smyth
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A letter from Patrick James Smyth (1823-1885), Auburn Villa, Rathgar, Dublin, introducing James Joseph O’Kelly to Monsieur de Taillon in Caen, France. The letter is endorsed ‘7211’.
Ticket of James Joseph O’Kelly
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A single ticket of James Joseph O’Kelly for a journey from Le Havre to Dublin (via Southampton and London). 20 February 1871. With a cover addressed to ‘Monsieur O’Kelly, Hotel de Londres, Le Havre, France’. The one-page account note is endorsed ‘7205’.
Correspondence and Papers of James Joseph O’Kelly
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
The subseries comprises a small collection of papers relating to James Joseph O’Kelly, a Fenian, journalist, and nationalist politician. Born in Dublin in 1842, O’Kelly was sent to London at a very young age to learn sculpting from his uncle John Lawlor (c.1820-1901). His three brothers were artists, including the distinguished painter Aloysius O’Kelly (1853-c.1941). He was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1860 and joined the French Foreign Legion in 1863. He later distinguished himself as a journalist with the ‘New York Herald’. As the paper’s war correspondent, O’Kelly reported on the Cuban revolt against Spanish rule in 1873. Subsequently, O’Kelly accompanied the United States Army in its war against the Sioux and reported on the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, otherwise known as ‘Custer’s Last Stand’. Upon his return to Ireland, O’Kelly became a staunch supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell and the Home Rule movement. He represented the Roscommon constituency in the House of Commons as an MP from 1880 to 1916. O’Kelly was central to what was called the ‘New Departure’ which bound together the forces of land agitation, Fenianism, and parliamentary politics in the 1870s and 1880s. He died in London on 22 December 1916.
The small collection of papers listed here relate to O’Kelly’s efforts to garner support for an Irish brigade to fight on the French side during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Like almost all Irish Catholics O’Kelly supported the French during the conflict. The section includes letters from O’Kelly’s acquaintances and fellow nationalists, including John O’Mahony (1815-1877), the founder of the Fenian Brotherhood, Patrick James Smyth (1823-1885), a Home Rule MP, and John O’Connor Power (1846-1919). The file also includes a letter from Fr. Patrick Lavelle (1825-1886), a Mayo-born priest and nationalist agitator. Despite success in forming an Irish ambulance unit for the French army, the sudden fall of Paris and the French defeat at the end of January 1871 effectively ended O’Kelly’s project to raise an Irish brigade. In February 1871 O’Kelly went to America and embarked upon his journalistic career.
The documents listed below were found within an envelope annotated ‘Fenians’. However, it is unclear how (and from whom) Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. may have obtained O'Kelly's papers.