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An image of Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. and a religious sister with a First Communion group in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa.

The first mission station at Loanja, Barotseland. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads ‘cleared and built in virgin bush. Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in the foreground / Our habit this was'.

The exterior of the first Sawmills Church (now known as Dambwa), Livingstone, Zambia.

An image of the first group of students at the Seraphic School in Rochestown, County Cork, in 1886. The individuals in the image include Fr. Matthew O'Connor OFM Cap., Guardian, Br. Leonard Brophy OFM Cap., Benedict MacDonald, and John Hayden (later Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.). Most of the individuals in the photograph (including Br. Canice Rice, Br. Jarlath Hynes, Br. Bonaventure Halvey and Br. Finbarr Sullivan) would go on to become solemnly-professed Capuchin friars.

A fisherman mending his floats at Ardmore in County Waterford in about 1955. A manuscript annotation to the print reads 'The lobster fisherman at Ardmore, County Waterford, repairs his floats'. The photograph is credited to F. O'Brien, Fermoy, County Cork.

An image of a fisherman on Cape Clear Island (‘Oileán Chléire’) off the coast of County Cork.

An image of a fisherman working on pots at the small harbour on Gola Island (‘Gabhla’) off the coast of Gweedore (‘Gaoth Dobhair’) in County Donegal. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Hughie McSweeney / Gola Island, County Donegal, works at his pots under the protecting shrine of Our Lady which was erected during the Marian Year [1954]’.

A view of two resting fishermen on the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway in 1959.