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Cuttings from the Zambian Daily Mail, The NZ Herald and The South Cross referring to Fr. Jude McKenna’s role in training the Zambian national judo team for various competitions including the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch in 1990. With photographic prints of Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap.

Photographic prints of Fr. Ronan Herlihy OFM Cap. undertaking a trip to Chobe National Park in Botswana. The prints have been placed in sleeves in a folder which is annotated: ‘A Day in Chobe / April 1983’. The prints mostly show wild animals and river crossings associated with the trip.

A collection of prints including many of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (Bishop of Livingstone from 1959-74). Most of the prints are un-captioned. The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The captioned photographs include:
• Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia in c.1931. The images were probably taken during a trip to Victoria Falls.
• Group of Irish Capuchin friars in Northern Rhodesia. Front row (from left to right): Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. Back row: Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. The photograph was probably taken after the installation of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic on 25 Nov. 1936.
• Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. at a Parish Council meeting at the new church, Shimano, Mangango Mission. c.1970.
• Bishop O’Shea with Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. in 1967.
• Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.
• Bishop O’Shea at a retreat in Mongu in Aug. 1974. The group includes religious sisters and Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap.
• Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with the Little Sisters of St. Francis.
• Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with Sr. Colmcille and three new novices.
• Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with the President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda.

A collection of photographic prints showing the North and South Sioma Falls region of the Zambezi River, Western Province, Zambia. The prints were produced by Geo Survey International Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya, for Br. Andew O’Shea OFM Cap. Some of the prints have been annotated: ‘Linanga’, ‘Sioma Plain’, ‘Spencer’s Village’, and ‘Ferry Crossing’.

Copies of 'Impact: a newsletter from the Zambia Catholic Secretariat'. The file includes the following editions: Apr.-May 1993 (No. 135) and Jan.-Feb. 1994 (No. 138).

Two VHS tapes with recordings of the 'Brothers in Mission' documentary on the work of the Irish Capuchin missionary friars in Africa. One of the tapes is annotated ‘Master Copy with no commentary’.

Statistics compiled by the Regular Superior regarding the Irish Capuchin missions in South Africa and Northern Rhodesia. The statistical forms were compiled for the Capuchin General Curia. The forms include information in respect of the numbers of friars ministering at mission stations, the local populace (both European and indigenous), the numbers of Catholics and non-Catholics, the numbers of mission schools, hospitals and orphanages founded, and the numbers of baptisms and communions. The file includes a list of Irish Capuchins resident at mission stations in both Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa in June 1947 and in June 1952.

The catechism in Silozi (Lusaka: Teresian Press, 1967). With the Imprimatur of the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Bishop of Livingstone.

Letters from Archbishops Arthur Hinsley, Antonio Riberi, David Mathew and James Robert Knox, successive Apostolic Delegates in Mombasa, Kenya, to Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The letters refer to the work of the Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. Archbishop David Mathew also refers to his hope that the Irish Capuchins may be prevailed upon to take charge of the College of St. Louis in the Seychelles (23 Apr. 1947). Archbishop Knox expresses his hope that an assistant will be appointed for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. to assist in his work with the Conference of Northern Rhodesian Bishops (24 May 1957).

Letters from Fr. Callistus Lopinot OFM Cap. (1876-1966), a Capuchin friar from Geispolsheim, Germany, Capuchin General Curia, Vice-Secretary of the Missions, to Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, re the appointment of a Regular Superior for the Irish mission in Northern Rhodesia.