‘Beta Komos Photographics Limited, Letchworth, England’ box. The box is annotated: ‘Negatives. Irish Friars. Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.’. The box includes twenty-two plates. The plates include: (a) A family portrait of six unidentified individuals. The plate is contained within an envelope with has manuscript annotation of dates and places from c.1915-27. (b) Br. Elzear Kelly OFM Cap. (1857-1937). With cover annotation. (c) Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926) sitting in front of ornamental rug. Two plates within an annotated envelope. (d) A view of two Capuchin friars in the garden of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. One of the friars is cutting the lawn grass. With cover annotation. (e) Interior view of Rochestown Friary Church. With cover annotation. (f) Portrait of ‘the late John Bowe, Kilkenny Friary’. With cover annotation. The plates marked g-u do not contain any annotations. They are views of unidentified Capuchin friars (either as individuals or in groups). Includes some views of friars in the interior of houses, playing hurling or outdoors such as on a horse and cart.
The file comprises ten plates and includes images of both individual Irish Capuchin friars and scenery and locations. 35 (a) A view of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, from a slightly elevated position. The print shows the building before the addition of the Sacred Heart Chapel which was built as an aisle church in 1908. The caption refers to the ordination of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (1790-1856) in the previous chapel on Church Street in 1809. With cover. A copy of this image is extant at CA-PH-1-71. 35 (b) Two plates of Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OFM Cap. (1880-1942). With cover. 35 (c) Two Capuchin friars and two dogs in the Church Street Friary garden. With annotated envelope suggesting that this is likely a poor quality image. 35 (d) Fr. Alphonsus Carroll OFM Cap. (1874-1934). With cover. 35 (e) Fr. Salvator Maria Corrigan OFM Cap. (1835-1919). The annotation on the cover suggests that this may be a poor quality image. 35 (f) An unidentified family group (six standing and five sitting or kneeling). 35 (g) Two plates of two separate and unidentified women. The annotated cover suggests that they are ‘Jenny & May’. 35 (h) An unidentified church and graveyard.
‘Barnet Red Seal Plate’ (Elliot & Sons, Ltd., Barnet, England) box. The box contains nineteen slides. None of the plates have annotations or captions and most of the descriptive content has been inferred. The box includes the following images: (a) A junior football team. The ball is annotated with a date of 1908. (b) Two images of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. at a hurling match at Croke Park, Dublin, and at the head of a temperance procession. (c) The hallway of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork. (d) A group of Capuchin friars with musical instruments in the Kilkenny Friary in c.1905. The group includes Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (e) A group of Capuchin friars in Kilkenny in about 1905. The title, ‘Conradh na Gaeilge’ (Gaelic League), has been superimposed on the original glass plate. (f) Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with a group of students possibly at a hurling match in Rochestown, County Cork.
A view of a procession headed by an elaborate tapestry seemingly depicting Erin. The caption on the plate reads ‘Language Procession’. The Church of St. Paul on Arran Quay, Dublin, can be seen in the background. The plate is by Mayne, Lord Edward Street, Dublin.
A file (with original box lacking a cover) containing eight slides. The file includes images of individuals, groups and landscapes. 36 (a) A glass stereo plate image of four women at the seaside cliffs known as Bridges of Ross, on the north side of the Loop Head peninsula in County Clare. 36 (b) A view of two Capuchin friars taking a break from an excursion on a jaunting car near Rochestown in County Cork in c.1908. The two friars are probably Fr. Jarlath Hynes OFM Cap. (1867-1918) and Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (1876-1958). The same image is extant at CA PH-1-23-S. 36 (c) A glass stereo plate of what appears to be unidentified deceased Capuchin friar in a coffin. This is probably an image of a deceased Fr. Sebastian O’Brien OFM Cap. (1867-1931). 36 (d) An interior view of Rochestown Friary Church in County Cork. 36 (f) A large group of both men and women (both sitting and standing) outside the main door to St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. Some of the men in the back row appear to be wearing temperance badges. They are probably part of a lay temperance association attached to the Church. 36 (g) A portrait of a man with beard (he does not appear to be a cleric) with a long waistcoat carrying a top hat. The plate has been scrubbed clean around edges and the upper right-hand portion of the plate is cracked with a fragment detached. 36 (h) A view of Lower Main Street in Graiguenamangh, County Kilkenny, in about 1905.
A file containing eleven glass stereo plates of views of landscapes, scenery, and people. The images include: 33 (a) Three individuals on the roadside just overlooking the village of Raffeen in County Cork. 33 (b) A group of five individuals (probably a family group) collecting berries along the roadside. 33 (c) A portrait of a sitting woman with a cottage in the background. 33 (d) Four individuals working on the train line at Mageney Railway Station, County Kildare. 33 (e) A family group of seven individuals (two women and five children). 33 (f) A kneeling religious wearing a broad-brimmed hat cradling a young dog. 33 (g) A view of the Strawberry Beds in Dublin in about 1910. 33 (h) A woman wearing a long dress and a flat cap standing at a garden gate. 33 (i) Five dray horses standing harnessed to carts hauling large kegs at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin. A view of some of the working horses used at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin, in about 1910. The photograph was probably taken from atop of the old Capuchin Friary which fronted onto Bow Street. 33 (j) Two women (one sitting and holding a jug) on a forested hillside. The plate is missing a portion of the right-hand bottom corner. 33 (k) A large group of schoolchildren outside presumably a school building.
The series includes lantern slides and glass plate photographic images relating to the life and career of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (1790-1856), a famed nineteenth century temperance campaigner and Capuchin friar. It is very probable that these lantern slides were used as illustrative aids by the Capuchins for public talks and auditorium lectures on Fr. Mathew’s campaign against intoxicating liquor. Temperance activity was revived in 1905 when the Irish Catholic hierarchy invited the Capuchins to preach a National Crusade. This revival generated widespread public enthusiasm and by 1912 the Capuchins had administered over a million pledges throughout the country. The lanterns slides were, in all probability, used in this campaign. The collection includes images of various places associated with Fr. Mathew’s life and notable events associated with his crusade against intoxicating liquor which began in Cork in 1838. Other images relate to later commemorations of Fr. Mathew and include photographs of the ‘Father Mathew Pavilion’ at the Cork International Exhibition of 1902 which displayed historical artefacts, devotional objects and personal paraphernalia associated with his campaign.
