File 2 - African Mission Album of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.

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IE CA AMI/1/10/1/2

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African Mission Album of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.

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  • c.1945-1950 (Creation)

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42 pp; 18.2 cm x 12.4 cm; Bound volume; Black and white print

Name of creator

Gough, Jarlath, 1902-1983, Capuchin priest
(22 March 1904-30 November 1983)

Biographical history

Baptismal name: Michael Anthony Gough
Religious name: Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.
Date of birth: 22 Mar. 1904
Place of birth: Rush, County Dublin
Name of father: Thomas Gough (Carpenter)
Name of mother: Alicia Gough (née O’Donohoe)
Date of reception into the Capuchin Order: 18 Sept. 1921
Date of first profession: 15 Oct. 1922
Date of final profession: 29 Dec. 1925
Date of ordination (as priest): 29 June 1929
Educational attainments: BA (1925)
Missionary activities: Travelled to the United States in 1929; Pastor at Our Lady of Angels Parish, Hermiston, Oregon, 1930-3; returned to Ireland in 1936; Travelled to the Prefecture of Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia) in 1936; returned to Ireland in 1957; Parish Priest on the island of St. Helena from 1957-64 while attached to the Cape Town mission in South Africa.
Date of death: 30 Nov. 1983
Place of death: Little Sisters of the Poor Nursing Home, Sybil Hill, Raheny, Dublin
Place of burial: Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

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Irish Capuchin Archives

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Photographic album of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983). The album contains un-captioned black and white prints relating to Fr. Jarlath’s time as a missionary in South Africa. The album includes some views of local worship including communion groups and photographs of religious sisters (probably in South Africa). With prints of Athlone Catholic Hall in Cape Town, South Africa, Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. (1911-1968), and the grave stone of Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. (d. 2 Oct. 1949).

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      The spine binding of the album is detached. Careful manual handling is required.

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