File containing photographic prints of the old Ard Mhuire Friary (formerly Ards House), Creeslough, County Donegal. A small number of these prints were reproduced in 'A history of Ards' (1991) by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. The file includes: • A view of corn harvesting in August 1940. The photograph is captioned: Left to right: Paddy McGinley, Paddy Ward, Br. Ronan McCabe OFM Cap., Willie Barr and Anton McBride in the fields around Ard Mhuire Friary. • A large crowd assembled at the front of Ard Mhuire Friary for a religious ceremony. • The gates to the demesne of the Ards estate. • ‘Rear view of Ards House’. • ‘Ards House from the Flagpole’. • Exterior (front) views of the gardens and the old Ard Mhuire Friary building. • The statute of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the front lawn of the old Ard Mhuire Friary. • Br. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. turning the pages of the psalter in the choir (formerly Ards House dining room) in the old Ard Mhuire Friary. • A Capuchin friar perusing the bookshelves in the library of the old Ard Mhuire Friary. • A Capuchin friar talking to a lay individual at the portico entrance to the old Ard Mhuire Friary. • Aerial view of the old Ard Mhuire Friary. • Fr. Columban McGarry OFM Cap. (1901-1987) picking apples in the orchard in the old Ard Mhuire Friary. • A view of the Friary from across Sheephaven Bay. The file also includes a photoengraving plate (mounted on a wooden block) for a photographic image of the old Ard Mhuire Friary. One of the prints has a Christmas greeting from Br. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap. and Br. De Sales Cullen OFM Cap.
Photographic prints of Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Fr. Nicholas O’Brien OFM Cap., Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap., Bishop Anthony McFeely and other clerics at a reception to celebrate the official opening of the new Ard Mhuire Friary.
Photographic prints of the interior (and High Altar) of the Oratory in Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary in County Donegal. The prints have annotations on the reverse: ‘Fr. Augustine [Donal] O’Mahony OFM Cap.’ and ‘A. O’Shea, Art Studios, Letterkenny’. The prints were probably for publication in 'Eirigh', an Irish Capuchin periodical.
Photographic print of the ordination of Capuchin friars at Ard Mhuire. The group includes Fr. Noel (Conal) Brennan OFM Cap., Fr. Dan Joe (Ephrem) O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Patrick (Oliver) Dowling OFM Cap. Fr. Michael (Ivor) Duffy OFM Cap. Fr. Laurence (Roderic) Heffernan OFM Cap. and Bishop Anthony McFeely.
Photographic print of the ordination of Capuchin friars at Ard Mhuire. The group includes Fr. John Joseph Manley OFM Cap., Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap., Fr. James Connolly OFM Cap. and Bishop Anthony McFeely.
Photographic print of the ordination of Capuchin friars at Ard Mhuire. The group includes Fr. Paul Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Kieran O’Driscoll OFM Cap., Br. Christopher Twomey OFM Cap., Br. Terence Harrington OFM Cap. and Bishop Anthony McFeely.
