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Letters of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. (1901-1979). The correspondents include Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap. Provincial Minister; Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary. The subjects include: Fr. Declan’s first impressions of the South African mission; negotiations with Bishop Bernard Cornelius O’Riley (1868-1956), Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope; Fr. Declan’s efforts to open a mission school in Claremont Parish, Cape Province, South Africa. Fr. Declan also refers to arrangements for the opening of the Irish Capuchin mission in Northern Rhodesia. He wrote ‘Looking at the map it may strike you that the Cape is a long way from N. Rhodesia – it’s nearly two thousand miles. Yet it’s quicker and at least as cheap, if not cheaper, for our men to land at the Cape and rail to N. Rhodesia’. (27 Feb. 1931). Fr. Declan also provides an account of Irish missionary activity for Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Provincial Archivist. (25 Sept. 1931). Reference is also made to the missionary activities of Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. in Barotseland.

Letters of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (1898-1953) relating to his experiences as a missionary in Barotseland. The correspondents include Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.; Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap.; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Reference is made to the work of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. who is in ‘some God-forsaken native village about 9 days from here building a school [and to] Fr. Phelim [O’Shea OFM Cap.] and Fr. Seraphin [Nesdale OFM Cap.] in Loanja’. (11 Dec. 1933). Later, Fr. Fintan refers to the establishment of further mission stations around Mongu and ‘other remote centres … where we won’t conflict with already established Protestant missions’. He also affirmed that ‘Barotseland is not “virgin soil”, it is chuck full of Protestant Missions, some of them 30 days by river from Livingstone’ (20 June 1934).

Letter from Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. (1908-1996) to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, affirming that his health has improved and thanking him for his kind words of encouragement. The file includes a copy medical report affirming that Fr. Timothy is ‘quite unfitted for work in the bush’ (28 Apr. 1938). With a letter from Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. referring to Fr. Timothy’s medical examination in Cape Town and thanking him for his three years’ work in Africa (24 June 1938).

Letters of Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1912-1988). The file includes letters from teachers and from the local populace to Fr. Alfred relating to his role as principal at mission schools in Sancta Maria Mission (Lukulu), in Malengwa, and later at Maramba. The file also includes letters pertaining to his role as Regular Superior in Livingstone, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The subjects include: the possibility of Irish Capuchins working in the Port Elizabeth Vicariate in South Africa; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy’s desire to return to Ireland. (25 July 1951); enclosing a list of personnel and statistics for both the South African and Northern Rhodesian missions. (16 Oct. 1951); the construction of churches at the Sancta Maria mission, and at Mankoya, and a friary at Kalabo in Northern Rhodesia. (5 Jan. 1952); developments in Athlone parish, Cape Province. (25 June 1953); the ‘education side’ of the mission in Livingstone. (20 Mar. 1954). The file incudes enclosed letters to Fr. Alfred from the Most Rev. Owen McCann (1907-1994), Archbishop of Cape Town. With a letter from Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. enclosing a list of Zambian churches with resident Capuchin friars, and the names of the titular feasts associated with each church. Reference is also made to the activities of the following Irish Capuchin missionaries: Fr. Jerome MacQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Anslem Griffin OFM Cap.; Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.; Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap.

A bound volume with a manuscript title on the spine which reads ‘It’s Ireland’. The volume contains a very large number of postcard prints and photographic prints, newspaper clippings, original historical documents, and printed ephemera. Many of the pasted-in newspaper clippings (some of which are frayed and damaged) date from 1944 to 1946. These articles include references to the ongoing war in Europe, censorship in Ireland, the death of Frank Ryan, the execution of William Joyce (better known as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’), Eduard Hempel (the leading German diplomat in Ireland during the Second World War), and various political, artistic, and cultural events. Several invitation cards to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. for exhibitions and cultural events are also pasted into the volume. There are also a few clippings from the ‘Irish Travel’ magazine, the official organ of the Irish Tourist Association. The volume pages are not paginated.
The volume includes the following items:
• Postcard prints of historical sites in Assisi, Italy. Includes prints of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.
• Postcard prints of Cobh (formerly Queenstown) in County Cork.
• Postcard print of Mount Carmel Monastery, Haifa.
• Postcard prints of interior arrangements and altars for Catholic worship onboard several White Star ocean liners including the ‘Majestic’, ‘Megantic’, ‘Olympic’, ‘Homeric’, and ‘Calgaric’
• Postcard prints of the Capuchin Friary in Pantasaph, Wales.
• Post card prints of Port Said in Egypt and colour prints titled ‘Bedouin’, ‘The Pyramids of Gizeh’ and ‘Eventide in Desert’.
• Postcard views of various scenes in Jerusalem and in Bethlehem, Palestine.
• Postcard print of the entrance to the Irish College of St. Anthony in Leuven, Belgium.
• Postcard prints depicting aspects of the missionary work of French Capuchin friars (and female Franciscan religious) in India and in Africa (particularly in Somalia and Abyssinia).
• Postcard prints of the Abbey of Our Lady of Quarr on the Isle of Wight, England.
• Postcard prints of Saint Hugh’s Charterhouse (Carthusian Monastery), Sussex, England.
• Photographic prints of the Marian Grotto at the Capuchin Friary in Rochestown, County Cork.
• Postcard print of the memorial to 'Dr. Eadie (died 3rd June 1876), Landsowne Road Church, Dublin'.
• Postcard print of the Oostakker-Lourdes Grotto, France.
• Postcard print of Cologne Cathedral, Germany.
• Postcard prints of Franciscan female religious in Calais, France.
• Postcard print of various views of Avignon, France.
• Clipping, ‘Birth of democracy / Protestant settlers’ role’, ‘Unity’ (8 Feb. 1945).
• Clipping. ‘Old James Durnin of Croveigh’, ‘Derry Journal’ (9 Feb. 1945).
• Clipping, ‘Petrol pump summons / County Dublin TD cross-examined’, ‘Evening Herald’ (21 Feb. 1945).
• Clipping, ‘Obituary for Rev. J.J. Poland P.P.’, ‘Irish Times’ (22 Feb. 1945).
• Clipping, ‘The National Anthem’, ‘The Catholic Leaders’ Bulletin’ (Feb. 1945).
• Clipping, ‘The late Prof. C.P. O’Grady, Ashbourne Hotel’, ‘The Kerryman’ (3 Mar. 1945).
• Clipping, ‘The most savage censorship in Europe’, ‘The Irish Democrat’ (Feb. 1945).
• Clipping, ‘Máire Nic Shuibhne / Obituary for Mary MacSwiney’, ‘Cork University Record’ (Dec. 1944)
• ‘The Catholic Mirror’ (Mar. 1945). The edition includes articles on the life of Saint Patrick.
• Clipping, Seán Nolan, ‘In Memory of Frank Ryan’, ‘Irish Workers’ Weekly’ (Apr. 1945).
• A one-page typescript synopsis of a play titled ‘The truth about Nurse Cadden / a play by Don Alwyn’ (c.1945).
• Clipping, ‘Dr Eduard Hempel vacates Legation’ ‘Evening Herald’ (8 May 1945).
• Clipping, ‘Will the State save Dan O’Connell’s home for the Nation’, ‘The Kerryman’ (7 July 1945).
• Photographic print of individuals on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin. The image was likely taken by Arthur Fields (1901-1994)
• Photographic postcard print captioned ‘Learning Irish Dancing at Ring College’, County Waterford Baile na nGall, An Rinn (Ring), County Waterford.
• A postcard image of cottages in Baile na nGall (or Ballynagaul) in Ring, County Waterford. (c.1940).
• Postcard print of Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, County Antrim (c.1910)
• ‘Irish Press’ prints of Irish Army soldiers and vehicles (c.1942). Includes an image of the Fort Templebreedy naval guns in County Cork and troops on parade in Collins Barracks, Cork.
• Photographic prints of the Irish military tattoo at the RDS arena in Dublin in 1945. One of the images is annotated ‘Eoghan Ruadh O’Neill’s Army’.
• Clippings of articles from the ‘Evening Herald’ and the ‘Irish Press’ reporting on the execution of William Joyce ('Lord Haw-Haw) in Wandsworth prison in London on 3 January 1946.
• Clipping, ‘Freedom of Dublin offered to Mr. Shaw’, ‘Irish Press’ (5 Feb. 1946). Refers to a Dublin Corporation vote to offer the honour to George Bernard Shaw.
• Clipping, ‘Kark Marx, a Sinn Feiner / by Eden and Cedar Paul’, ‘The Worker’ (15 Nov. 1919).
• Photographic print of loyalist graffiti. The graffiti reads ‘Orange Glory / Boyne No Pope’.

Several historical clippings and documents have also been placed into the volume by Fr. Senan. Some of these are nationalist-themed and cover events during the revolutionary period (1916-22) and the Irish labour movement. These include:
• ‘Our Churches / the Cathedral, College and Catholic Buildings of Tuam’, ‘Weekly Freeman’.
• A clipping from ‘The Voice of Labour’ (9 Nov. 1918).
• ‘Heroic act of Rev. John Lowham CSsR, Belfast, ‘The Catholic Fireside’ (2 Mar. 1901)
• Clipping and ephemera relating to the Dublin University Election and the City of Dublin election in 1868. Includes cuttings from contemporary copies of the ‘Freeman’s Journal’, ‘Evening Express’, and ‘Saunder’s Newsletter and Daily Advertiser’ referring to various Unionist politicians.
• Prospectus and application form for shares in the Land Corporation of Ireland Limited. (1882).
• Blank voting form for Alexander Edward Miller in the Trinity College (Dublin University) by-election (1875).
• Flier for a meeting of the Property Defence Association (5 Sept. 1881).
• Clippings and ephemera relating to the Irish landowners Convention (c.1888-1893).
• Menu card for a Unionist banquet held in The Rotunda, Dublin (26 Jan. 1893). The event was held to honour several leading Unionist politicians including Horace Plunkett (1854-1932).
• An engraving of the Four Courts, Dublin, by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854).
• Printed flier for a meeting of the Alexander M. Sullivan Tribute Fund, Mansion House, Dublin. (24 Oct. 1884).
• Report of the Committee of the South City Special Coal Fund / 1872-73. (Dublin, 1872).
• Two original engravings from the ‘Illustrated London News’ showing the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable at Valentia and the ‘Telegraph Cable Fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, County Cork’. (28 July 1866).
• Clipping titled ‘On an Irish Island / a fifth-century monastery’. ‘Irish Independent’ (23 Oct. 1919). Refers to the ruins of a monastic site on the Maharees Islands off the coast of County Kerry.
• Page clipping from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ reporting on the sinking of the ‘Lusitania’. (8 May 1915).
• Pencilled portrait of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. by Fred A. Farrell in ‘The Universe’ (3 Mar. 1933).
• Flier for Alderman Alfred Byrne’s election campaign. ‘Irish Independent’ (16 Feb. 1932).
• Photographic copies of John Speed’s (1552-1629) maps of the Kingdom Ireland (1610).