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An image of the ruins of the Dominican Friary (also known as St. Saviour's Priory) in Kilmallock in County Limerick. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Dominican Friary, Kilmallock, showing east window'.

Photographic prints relating to the state visit to Ireland of King Baudouin (1930-1993) and Queen Fabiola (1925-2014) of Belgium in May 1968. The file was compiled for a photographic feature published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969). The file includes press prints showing their arrival at Dublin Airport, their attendance at a state banquet at Dublin Castle, laying a wreath at the military cemetery in Arbour Hill, and a visit to Áras an Uachtaráin where King Baudouin played hurling with President Éamon de Valera and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch. Frank Aiken, Minister for External Affairs, is also present in some of the photographs

An image of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. outside the main door to Jervis Street Hospital during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin.

A signed print of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). The card is signed ‘Constance de Markievicz, I.R.A.’ and is dated 4 March 1918. The postcard image is credited to the Lafayette Studio, Dublin.

Photographic prints of the noted Irish opera singer Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889-1958). The file includes the following images:

• The birth-place of Margaret Burke Sheridan in Castlebar, County Mayo.
• Burke Sheridan with Hilde Gueden (1917-1988), soprano, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
• Burke Sheridan with Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971) and her family.
• Burke Sheridan with Gladys Swarthout (1900-1969), opera singer, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1955.
• Burke Sheridan with Burton G. Tremaine, a noted art collector, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1952.
• Burke Sheridan with Vincent O’Brien.
The file also includes newspaper clippings ('Irish Press', 'Sunday Review') of tributes paid to Burke Sheridan following her death.

An image of the exterior of the Church of St. Francis and the adjoining Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny. The church is decorated to mark the tercentenary celebrations of the arrival of the Capuchins in Kilkenny in 1948.

An image of a presentation by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. (1910-1958) to Captain Robert Monteith (1879-1956), the veteran Irish republican.

The consecration of Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 Sept. 1950. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The Papal Nuncio and Dr. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe / Fathers Andrew and Brendan'.

An image of the funeral procession of the Most Rev. Paschal Robinson OFM, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, on O'Connell Street in Dublin.

An image of Taaffe’s Castle in the coastal town of Carlingford in County Louth in about 1950. This fortified town house was purportedly built in the early sixteenth century by the Taffee's, an affluent merchant family.