A collection of the personal papers of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. relating to his involvement with participants in the national struggle primarily from 1916-22.
Bibby, Albert, 1877-1925, Capuchin priestA copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The Papal Nuncio among the Irish confederates (1645-1649) / translated from the German of the Very Rev. Dr. Alphonsus Bellesheim / by the Rev. W. McLoughlin / Part II’ (Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1908).
A clipping of a report on the outbreak of the rebellion in Dublin taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (25 April 1916).
Copies of a poem titled ‘The Old Metal Man’ referring to the acquisition of Ards House by the Capuchin friars. The poem reads:
'Gone, gone the Ascendancy, “gentry” and others
That lorded it over the old native clan,
Replaced by the people, the friars and brothers,
Whilst still to the fore stands the Old Metal Man'.
The file includes a clipping of the poem published in the 'Derry Journal' on 30 Nov. 1935.
The Old Library
A flier with the text of a republican ballad titled ‘The Old Kings Inns / June 1st 1920’.
Photographic print of the old Capuchin Chapel, Church Street, Dublin, built in 1796. The photographic print dates to c.1865.
A view of the O'Connell Monument on the southern end of O'Connell Street in Dublin.
A view of the O’Connell Monument at the southern end of O’Connell Street in Dublin in about 1940.
A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘The North / Partition / Northern Ireland’. The volume contains original letters and draft manuscript and typescript contributions and commentary re the ‘Orange Terror’ article by 'Ultach' (J.J. Campbel) published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943). The file includes letters from Bishop Daniel Mageean, George Noble Plunkett, J.J. Campbell, Eamon Donnelly, Senator David Robinson, Maud Gonne MacBride, Jack B. Yeats (refusing to contribute a commentary on the article), and Sir Shane Leslie. The volume also contains many general newspaper clippings about partition. The volume also includes a printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (1943). The volume includes content mainly from 1941-9 but it also includes some newspaper and magazine clippings from c.1917-1932, particularly relating to the treatment of the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland. The volume is not paginated.