Item 1 - Declaration of Lillie Agnes Connolly’s reception into the Catholic Church

1 p.; Autograph typescript

Declaration of Lillie Agnes Connolly’s (wife of James Connolly) reception into the Catholic Church. It reads: ‘I Fr. Aloysius OSFC declare that … I have this fifteenth day of August 1916 received into the Catholic Church Mrs Lily Agnes Connolly observing the prescribed rites and ceremonies’. The document is signed by Lillie Agnes Connolly and witnessed by Fiona Connolly (1907-1976)

Fiona Connolly accompanied her mother to Dublin Castle to see her father James Connolly as he awaited execution. Three months later she was the sole witness on 15 August when her mother was received into the Catholic Church at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.