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A view of the exterior of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in George, Western Cape, South Africa. Completed in about 1843, it is the oldest Catholic church in South Africa. A manuscript annotation reads '‘The oldest Church in use in South Africa’.

An image of SS 'Stratheden', a British ocean liner, docked at the Port of Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of the 'Dominion Monarch' passenger ship docked at the Port of Cape Town in South Africa.

Building a temporary church at the Mankoya mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

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

Funeral service at Mankoya mission station. The celebrant is Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.

An image on a canoe on the Zambezi River in Northern Rhodesia.

An image captioned 'Dominion Monarch / 1947'. The photograph shows a line-crossing ceremony on the ship, an initiation rite that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. Built in England between 1937 and 1939, the 'Dominion Monarch' was a passenger liner which regularly operated services between Britain and ports in the southern hemisphere (particularly in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand).

An image of a Marian Year procession in Cape Town, South Africa. Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) accompanies the procession.

A view of a replica Irish Round Tower located in the Philippi area of the Flats region near Cape Town in South Africa. The tower (formally known as St. Patrick’s Shrine) was built on the slopes of Table Mountain which overlooks the city of Cape Town. The tower was constructed by Fr. James Kelly, an Irish Catholic missionary. The tower was a noted landmark in the Cape Flats district and acted as a focal point for annual St. Patrick’s Day’s festivities for Cape Town’s Irish community with the spire bedecked with national colours. The tower was demolished in 1978.