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Booklet by Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. providing a brief history of the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa. The publication is divided into the following sections: A seed is sown; Key points in the Irish Capuchin Mission to South Africa; Irish Capuchin Mission in the Cape Flats; List of Capuchins on Missionary Work in Cape Town, March 1980; Growth and development of Missionary Work in Zambia; Mission stations in the Diocese of Livingstone; List of Capuchins involved in missionary work in the Diocese of Livingstone.

An image of an Aer-Lingus DC-3 aircraft at Shannon Airport in County Clare.

An image of the Kerry and Dublin teams parading before the All Ireland Football Final at Croke Park, Dublin, on 25 September 1955.

Members of An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil (the FCA, or local defence force) on parade, possibly at a celebration marking Corpus Christi in Dublin. The members appear to be from the 11th Cavalry Squadron (Eastern Command, FCA).

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Sectional plan and front-view elevation of the proposed Church of the Immaculate Conception in Parow, Cape Town, South Africa. The plan is initialed ‘GA’ and is dated 19 January 1935.

A view of the exterior of Athlone Catholic Hall in Cape Town, South Africa.

A view of Blarney Castle, a fifteenth-century tower house, in County Cork.

An image of orphans from Parow parish on a boating trip off Kalk Bay near Cape Town in South Africa.

Bringing supplies to the Irish Capuchin mission station at Mankoya in Northern Rhodesia.

Calendar of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and South Africa from 1929-38 giving details of where each friar was stationed and the time spent at each mission station. Includes a clipping of an article on the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia, taken from 'The Father Mathew Record'. The extract is extant on pp 42-5 in the volume compiled Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. (1912-1989).