An image of the clock tower of the Anglican Church of St. Anne, containing the 'Bells of Shandon', in Cork. A typescript annotation on the reverse reads 'Famous Shandon Church and steeple bathed in Spring sunshine'. The image is credited to Liam Kennedy, 48 MacCurtain Street, Cork.
A view of the tower of the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne (also known as the North Cathedral) in the Shandon district of Cork in about 1945. The photograph was taken from atop the bell tower of the Anglican Church of St. Anne just a short distance away.
File relating to an article on the Taize Community published in The Capuchin Annual. Includes a letter from Br. Charles Eugene, Secretary to the Prior of Taize (23 Aug. 1966) referring to the enclosed article and interview extracts with Frère Laurent, spiritual director at Taize. The file also contains several black and white prints: • A crowd of pilgrims at St. Sergius Monastery in Zagorsk (now Sergiyev Posad) in the Soviet Union. • The visit of Metropolitan Nikolin to Tilbury Abbey in 1964. • The interior of the Ecumenical Centre in Antwerp, Belgium.
A flier noting the establishment of a representative body in London to assist the work of the Emergency Committee in Dublin. The document notes that ‘in many parts of Ireland, owing to the state of terrorism which exists, persons who endeavoured to assert their legal rights cannot procure, except from great distance, the commonest necessaries of life, and are obliged to perform for themselves and families the most menial offices’. The flier expounds on the work of the Emergency Committee in assisting landowners and asks for financial assistance to aid their work.
Draft article by Tadhg Gavin titled ‘The Soldier Poet’. The article refers to the life of Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918). An article by Tadhg Gavin on Kilmer appeared in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977).
A flier with the text of a ballad celebrating ‘The Smith of Ballinalee by ‘“Sean”, East Limerick’. Seán Mac Eoin's exploits as commander of the IRA's north Longford flying column, which carried out successful attacks on British forces at Ballinalee (November 1920) and Clonfin, near Granard (February 1921), earned him the sobriquet ‘the Blacksmith of Ballinalee’.
A manuscript text titled ‘The significance of Fr. Peter O’Leary’. The text reads ‘He [Ó Laoghaire] visualized an Ireland without a city. The city pained him, and he misjudged it – reading “Sgothbhualadh” you sense that’. The article is likely incomplete.