A view of the old Franciscan Monastery just outside the village of Roundstone in County Galway in about 1960. The Franciscan Brothers left Roundstone and their monastery was sold to the Irish Development Authority (IDA) in 1974. The building was subsequently demolished, and the site was repurposed by the IDA into Michael Killeen Park, a small indigenous craft centre with various factory shops. All that remains of the former monastery is the bell tower.
A clipping of an image of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington who was shot dead in Portobello Barracks in Dublin during the 1916 Rising, after having been detained by British soldiers.
Fragmentary notes seemingly compiled by James Joseph O’Kelly (1842-1916). One of the notes opens with ‘The glad news of the release of the prisoners had hardly reached here …’. Other notes contain addresses ‘Mr. Martin Lynch, Kilmore Lock, Ballinasloe, County Galway’ and ‘Mr William Duffield, Society Street, Ballinasloe, County Galway’ with references to them being notified of the ‘departure of goods’.
A photographic print of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (right) with Peadar Seán Doyle, Lord Mayor of Dublin, outside St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street.
A clipping of an article paying tribute to the editorship and work of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The article was published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ (29 December 1935).
A photographic print of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. with Judge John J. Kelly (first on the right) at Dublin Airport. Kelly was President of the Irish Fellowship Club in Chicago and Chairman of the Chicago National Bank. The individual on the left is identified as a Mr. Fitzgerald. An annotation on the reverse of the print credits the image to the ‘Irish Independent’.
A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Father Senan & Father Gerald’. The volume contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera relating to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., editors at the Irish Capuchin Publications Office. It includes images of the sculptural busts of the two friars by Laurence Campbell (1911-2001) and some photographs of both attending various social gatherings. A biographical sketch of Fr. Senan published in the 'Connacht Sentinel' (4 Feb. 1941) is also extant in the volume. It also includes correspondence and ephemera relating to Fr. Senan’s membership of the Mark Twain Society in the United States. The volume is not paginated, and a good portion of the pages are blank.
A photographic print of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (third from the left) and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. (second from the left) at a social gathering. The identifies of the other individuals in the image has not been ascertained.
