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The scene on Upper Church Street shortly after Kevin Barry’s arrest. A Dublin medical student, Barry was an Irish Volunteer who took part in an attack on a military truck outside a bakery on Church Street in which three British soldiers were killed in September 1920. He was captured at the scene, court-martialled and hanged in Mountjoy Jail on the morning of Monday, 1 November.

Letter commenting on an upheavel in Glenstal, and expressing sadness at no longer having the Benedictine influence over her life.

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Medical Missionaries of Mary
Rosemount, Booterstown, Co. Dublin

Sunday 20th 1938

My dear Father Prior,

It was good to hear your voice again on the phone. How I should have liked to have seen you, but I know this was impossible owing to the feast tomorrow.

We can all be united in prayer and i say suffering, for I do not think there is anyone in authority who has not a great deal of this. One great thing about suffering is that it leads us to God.

It would be difficult for me to express how much I miss the influence of St. Benedict's Fathers, but I suppose this must all be in God's plan.

Father O'Driscoll has been extremely kind to me. Is it not a strange thing how they Augustinians will be working in ?? Nigeria

I very nearly went down to the boat to see Father Abbot and you, but I feared I might have been in the way, as I would have been, as things turned out.

I am sorry to hear you are going to have another domestic upheaval. If Dom Mathias is in charge of this department, I think it is better for me to keep out of things and let him get his own staff.

If it were you who were in charge, I would do anything to help you get someone.

Say a Low Mass please Father, for both our intentions.

Your devoted and ever-grateful child,
Sr. Mary

... from writing rooms in Grafton Street

The official unveiling of the statue of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on Sackville (later O’Connell) Street on 8 February 1893. The statue was designed by Mary Redmond (1863-1930).

A plate showing a print of the unveiling of the Father Mathew statue (designed by John Henry Foley) on St. Patrick's Street, Cork, in October 1864.