Reference code
IE CA IR-1/5/4/11
Title
Letters offering sympathies on the death of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.
Date(s)
- 6 Nov. 1935-12 Nov. 1935 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
2 items; Manuscript and typescript
Name of creator
(13 February 1883-17 October 1935)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Letters from R.G. Browne, Town Clerk, Urban District Council, Westport, and John Maher, Town Clerk, Cashel Urban District Council, offering their sympathies to the Capuchin Order on the death of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. The resolution from Cashel Urban District Council reads: ‘During the martyr struggle of Terence MacSwiney (Lord Mayor of Cork) in Brixton Prison, the late Father Dominic by his attention and fidelity to the noble sufferer and the cause for which he suffers, he has left to Ireland a name that links him with the bravest and most heroic we boast of’.