Personal recollections, family history and local folklore in Donegal collected by Peadar MacMahon and submitted to Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. The memoir includes a short chapter titled ‘Anahire or Aultcrum / Ards House / Creeslough’.
A flier seeking support for the construction of a new chapel (St. Michael’s) at Cashelmore, Doe, County Donegal. The leaflet notes that ‘St. Michael’s Church, Cashelmore, is probably the oldest church being used by the Catholics of the diocese of Raphoe. Two inscriptions set in the eastern wall inform us that the church was built by Father Bernard Rodan in 1784 and re-built by Father Peter Gallagher in 1830’.
A guidebook to the Creeslough-Dunfanaghy locality published by the Doe Historical Committee. The booklet contains an illustrated chapter titled ‘The Peninsula of Ards’ which explores the history of the Ards estate and Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary and Retreat House. With inserts, photographs and a ‘a progress report on the work of the Doe Historical Committee’ written by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap.
Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. It is noted that ‘much of the Fathers’ time is taken up with convert work, pre-nuptial courses and teaching Christian Doctrine to children attending the public schools’. Statistical information (population, racial composition, and number of priests) is given in respect of the friars’ work in Parow, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia and Langa. It is affirmed that the ‘bulk of the non-white people, i.e. the poorest of this diocese, is attended by the Capuchin Fathers’.
A list of Capuchin friars attached to the Cape Town mission, South Africa. The list notes the friars ministering in Athlone, Belgravia, Bridgetown, Langa, Parow, Tyger Valley and the Welcome Estate.
A list of Capuchin friars in Cape Province, South Africa, and in the Diocese of Livingstone, Zambia. The directory gives the locations, missions, and parishes to which the friars are attached.
Letter from Vincent Boulle, Linda Road, Claremont, Cape Province, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re the establishment of a Third Order Sodality in the Cape Province, South Africa. Reference is made to receptions into the Third Order made by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. (1901-1979) and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
Report by Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior, on missionary work in the Cape Province, South Africa. The report asses the work of the Irish Capuchin friars in Parow parish (Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. and Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.); Matroosfontein (Fr. Marcellus O’Carroll OFM Cap.); Athlone (Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. 1900-1947); the Welcome Estate (Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap., 1913-1967); Langa (Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.).