Tired of all the bad news

While we can't deny the difficulites for so many people at home and overseas, it's important to take account of the positives, and to spread the Good News. I don't know who said this but; "No-one ever injured their eyesight by looking on the bright side." Blessings..

Tuesday 13 August 2013

Fr. Bonaventure Murphy ofm.cap.

 
The information about this photo is supplied by Dr. Brian Kirby, Archivist, Capuchin Archives, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin 7. Ireland. I have blogged this partly in response to a question and replies on Twitter. (impossible to put this in in 140 characters! ) If you join the Capuchin Archives, Ireland on Facebook, you can find out much more about the historical collection at our Provincial Archives. As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Easter rising of 1916 for example, there will be further details of material of historical significance published.
 

Photographic print of Michael Collins attending a wedding party 

Nov. 1920

20.5 cm x 15 cm (pasted onto card)
Print by Keogh Bros., 124 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.

Photographic print of an unidentified family group (possibly a wedding party). Michael Collins is the second person to the left in the back row. Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. is seated at the left of the second row. Collins was Minister for Finance and TD for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently, he was both Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-chief of the National Army. Collins was shot and killed in August 1922, during the Civil War. Fr. Bonaventure, born in Carrignarvar, County Cork, joined the Capuchin Order in 1899.


 Fr. Bonaventure died in the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny on 26 April 1968.

A reader on Facebook subsequently supplied additional information in relation to the photograph:

The photograph was taken at 16 Airfield Road Dublin, on Monday, 22 Nov. 1920, a day after the Bloody Sunday incident. It was the wedding of Lil Clancy and Michael O’Brien. To the right of Collins is Gearoid O’Sullivan.

The image was posted on the Capuchin Archives, Ireland Facebook page on 2 March 2012.

 
 

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5 comments:

  1. thanks for sharing this. I know I've come across it elsewhere as well. Lily was a distant cousin, if my memory serves me correct, 16 Airfield Rd belonged to her Aunt Julia Donovan, the woman to the left of Collins and was where Collins hid during the war of independence. There's another more tenuous connection as well as Gearoid O'Sullivan's brother was married to a great grand aunt of mine.

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  2. thanks for sharing this. I know I've come across it elsewhere as well. Lily was a distant cousin, if my memory serves me correct, 16 Airfield Rd belonged to her Aunt Julia Donovan, the woman to the left of Collins and was where Collins hid during the war of independence. There's another more tenuous connection as well as Gearoid O'Sullivan's brother was married to a great grand aunt of mine.

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  3. Hi Conchubhair... for more info See Capuchin Archives Ireland on Facebook

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  4. Hi, I actually grew up with this photo. Ju O'donovan was my great gran aunt, her brother Paddy Barry, (seated, far right) was my grandad's father and also on the run when the photo was taken. The house was aunt Ju's, she was the brides maternal aunt. Lillie's mum (aunt Ju and grandpa Barry's sister) Ellen died early. The bride and grooms son Mahon went on to own the Vale View hotel in Avoca.

    During the civil war all in the picture were pro treaty except for the groom.

    There are debates as to the date the wedding took place but according to family history it was the day after Bloody Sunday.

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  5. Hi, I actually grew up with this photo. Ju O'donovan was my great gran aunt, her brother Paddy Barry, (seated, far right) was my grandad's father and also on the run when the photo was taken. The house was aunt Ju's, she was the brides maternal aunt. Lillie's mum (aunt Ju and grandpa Barry's sister) Ellen died early. The bride and grooms son Mahon went on to own the Vale View hotel in Avoca.

    During the civil war all in the picture were pro treaty except for the groom.

    There are debates as to the date the wedding took place but according to family history it was the day after Bloody Sunday.

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