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Remembered, a daughter of Erin, Dora Sigerson Shorter, died 6th Jan. 1918, gifted and patriotic, by ‘Benmore’ of Glenarm, Co. Antrim. With printed copy of the poem ‘Kitty’s Toys’, by Dora Sigerson Shorter. An annotation on cover reads: ‘Seán Ó Cléirigh’.

A collection of black and white and colour photographic prints associated with the work of religious sisters mainly in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Most of the prints are not captioned. The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual' and 'The Father Mathew Record'. The captioned photographs include:
• Sisters in a garden with African children, Basutoland (later Lesotho).
• A sister and an African worker draining a marshy area.
• ‘The sisters wear white habits when nursing’. (The Father Mathew Record).
• Nurses’ accommodation – ‘Sister and nurses sitting on a Basutoland blanket with students’. (Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape, South Africa).
• Two religious sisters and a crippled man at St. Francis Hospital, Aliwal, South Africa.
• Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood at Mangango leprosarium.
• African Sisters’ Convent at Kalabo, Northern Rhodesia.
• Two first-year African students at Kaoma Secondary School.
• ‘A petrified Sr. Lelia going to visit one of Sr. Elizabeth’s gardens – her first trip in a canoe’.
• ‘Sister Josephine FMDM, the sister in charge of leprosarium in Mangango. She comes from Leitrim’.

Photographic prints of religious sisters at the Sichili Mission Station in Northern Rhodesia. The images show the sisters providing food and medical care to local villagers.

Photographic prints of retreats for religious congregations at Ard Mhuire Retreat House, Creeslough, County Donegal. The file includes prints of the Franciscans Together Retreats at Ard Mhuire in August 1977 and in August 1978. The latter has an annotation attached giving the names of the retreat participants which included Capuchin friars, Observant Franciscans (OFM) and Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood (FMDM).

Photographs of a religious ceremony in Holy Trinity Church, Cork.

Photographic prints submitted for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes images of various religious ceremonies in both Ireland and in Europe. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. Some of the annotations provide details of the photographer or studio responsible for the print. The file includes the following images:
• Religious procession at Marian Shrine, Knock, County Mayo.
• International Eucharistic Congress, Dublin, 22-26 June 1932.
• St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, County Donegal.
• Religious sisters (possibly Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady) at the Convent of St. Francis, Monroe, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1919. The print is annotated on the reverse with the names of the sisters (including many Irish-born sisters).
• Waterford pilgrims visit Lourdres Grotto, Dublin. 22 June 1931.
• The opening of Seissens Cathedral, France, following its destruction in the First World War. c.1931.
• Procession of the Holy Blood at Bruges, Belgium. c.1931.
• Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, celebrating a solemn mass to Catholic Mission at the Colonial Exhibition in Paris. 17 Sept. 1931.
• Washing of the feet ceremony at Westminster Cathedral. c.1931.
• Opening of the Basilica at Lisieux, France. 19 May 1931.
• Procession of Young Catholic Associations at Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany. 26 Aug. 1931.
• Members of the Austrian government in procession to the Heldenplatz, Vienna, for an open-air mass. 6 Oct. 1931.
• Procession of the relics of St. Stephen in Budapest, Hungary. 22 Aug. 1931.
• The blessing of motor cars at the Coliseum, Rome. 12 Mar. 1931.
• Mass to celebrate the anniversary of the bishopric of Hamburg, Germany. 5 May 1931.
• Wedding of Prince Gaeten de Parme and Princess Marguerite Marie-Therese Alexandrine de Thurn-Taxis, Paris. 1 May 1931.
• Procession of religious relics of St. Chad, ‘the Apostle of the Midlands’ through the streets of Birmingham, England. 11 May 1931.
• Religious procession in honour of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to the Italian Church, Italian Quarter, Hatton Garden, London. 19 July 1931.
• Corpus Christi Procession in Berlin, Germany, led by Reich Ministers Schätzel and Guérard. 9 June 1931.
• Religious ceremony at Arbour Hill, Dublin, to commemorate the 1916 leaders buried there.
• Religious ceremony commemorating the tercentenary of the signing of a declaration in Jamestown, County Leitrim (12 August 1650), in which the Roman Catholic clergy repudiated the government of James Butler, 1st Marquis of Ormonde.
• Graveside commemoration in Midelton, County Cork, for the Irish Volunteers killed in the Clonmult ambush on 20 Feb. 1921.
• The reparation of the remains of Sergeant Wallace McCauley (d. 22 Feb. 1965) who was killed will on peace-keeping duty in Cyprus.
• The consecration of the Most Rev. Dom. Hickey OC at Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
• The Most Rev. Edward Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin, blessing the foundation stone of the new Church of St. Anne, Shankhill, County Dublin. (27 July 1931).
• Cistercian monks taking in the harvest at New Mellifont Abbey, County Louth.
• A group of pilgrims at Gougane Barra, County Cork, in 1910.
• The funeral of the Most Rev. Dom. Maurice Phelan OC at Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
• Crowning of the Blessed Virgin by the Sodality of the Nurses of Our Lady of the Lake on May Day, possibly in Los Angeles, California.
• Group of Religious Sisters at the Our Lady of the Lake, possibly in California in 1928.
• Scene at the graveside of the Lord Abbot of Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey in County Waterford. ‘Most Rev. Dr. Hackett DD, Bishop of Waterford with spade, the new Lord Abbot, Rt. Rev. Stanislaus Hickey is shown second on the left’.
• The burial of the Most Rev. Denis J. Moynihan, Bishop of Kerry. He died on 5 Dec. 1975.
• Corpus Christi Procession at the Church of St Peter and Paul, Clonmel, County Tipperary in 1938.
• Groups of religious sisters possibly in the United States in 1919 and in 1923.
• Catholic Emancipation Centenary celebrations in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, June 1929.