An image of Hore Abbey (or Hoare Abbey, sometimes known as St. Mary's), a ruined Cistercian monastery in County Tipperary. A typescript annotation on the reverse reads 'Through the window of the Rock of Cashel / A snap through one of the round windows of the Rock of Cashel showing Hore Abbey in the left corner'.
An image of a round tower (most likely the belfry tower associated with the adjacent Romanesque church) at the early medieval monastic site at Clonmacnoise in County Offaly. A Capuchin friar stands to the left of the image.
A bound volume containing photographic prints complied for publication by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the spine reads ‘Views’. Most of the prints are not captioned. Many of the prints are of scenic locations in Ireland (ecclesiastical sites and landscapes on the western seaboard), rural life and cityscapes (most notably in Dublin). The album includes the following prints (the index number refers to the pagination within the volume):
A young boy standing on the rigging of a boat opposite the Custom House, Dublin.
‘On the road to Achill, County Mayo’.
Ruins of Mellifont Cistercian Abbey, County Louth.
O’Connell Street, Limerick.
Main entrance to St. Peter's Church, Drogheda, County Louth.
A two-funnelled passenger ship enters Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Dublin.
The exterior of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Galway.
The exterior of St. Mel’s Cathedral, Longford town.
Loading turf on a small vessel for the Aran Islands.
Statue of the Blessed Virgin in the corner of the garden of the Church Street Friary, Dublin.
The exterior of the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’ pub, Lissoy, Athlone, County Westmeath.
Slish Wood as seen from Church Island, Lough Gill, County Sligo.
The Salmon Leap, Leixlip, County Kildare.
Glen of Aherlow, County Tipperary.
A lough in County Kerry.
Building a currach in the West of Ireland.
A view of Nelson’s Pillar and the Father Mathew Statue, O’Connell Street, at night.
Arklow Harbour, County Wicklow.
Unloading a currach probably off the Aran Islands.
A view of Ennis town from a Church tower.
The exterior of the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Barronstrand Street, Waterford city.
A view of Wicklow town and bay.
‘On the road to Rostrevor, County Down’.
Nelson’s Pillar, O’Connell Street, Dublin, as seen from outside the Gresham Hotel.
Troops on parade at Collins Barracks, Dublin.
The Ford Factory, Marine Quay, Cork.
The garden possibly at the Capuchin Friary, Burlingame, California.
Pilgrims at the Church at Gougane Barra, County Cork.
The exterior of the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’ public house near Athlone in County Westmeath in about 1930. Built in 1830, this bar was named after the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’, a public house that provided the setting for Oliver Goldsmith’s well-known play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’, written in 1773.
The extensive and often lavish use of photographs in 'The Capuchin Annual' set the publication apart from many other periodicals of the time. Photography in the 'Annual' served a very clear purpose – it projected an idealised image of Ireland to its wide readership in a way that was arguably more effective than any prose. In the early years, scenic views such as ‘Evening in Dublin’ or ‘Killiney Bay’ would appear randomly, but in later years photographic features became far more extensive. The 'Annual’s' photographic archive is particularly rich and constitutes a valuable pictorial record of life in Ireland in the twentieth century.
A view of Cromwell’s Arch in Youghal, County Cork, in about 1945. It was from here on 26 May 1650 that Oliver Cromwell departed Ireland having overwintered in the town following his military campaign in the country.
