A copy of a letter carrying a report from Major General Sir Charles Asgill referring to a battle with the rebels at Goresbridge in County Kilkenny. The letter includes a reference to Fr. John Murphy, a Catholic priest who was one of the leaders of the rebellion in County Wexford. Father Murphy was executed on 2 July 1798.
A photograph of St. Francis Xavier Church on Upper Gardiner Street in Dublin.
A photograph of Granby Lane just off Parnell Square in Dublin’s north inner-city. An annotation on the reverse of the print notes that this is the location where Matt Talbot collapsed and died on 7 June 1925. A small shrine to Talbot can be seen to the right of the image.
A list of Matt Talbot’s surviving relations and people who knew him or who were associated with him.
A copy of ‘The life and acts of Saint Patrick, the archbishop, primate and apostle of Ireland / now first translated from the original Latin of Jocelin, the Cistercian monk of Furnes ... with [selections from] the Elucidations of David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory / by Edmund L. Swift, Esq.’. (Dublin: printed for the Hibernia Press Company, by James Blyth, 1809).
Letter from Fr. Kevin OSF to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking support for the building of the first local Franciscan Sisters’ convent at the Nsambya Mission in Kampala, Uganda. The appeal reads: ‘There is a great field of work to be done there, and we need the help of these native Sisters at all the missions so badly’.
'News from Basutoland and Barotseland', No. 12 (Dec. 1931). A monthly publication on the work of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Africa.
Publication by Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. on the history of the Irish Capuchins in Zambia, 1931-1981 ([Zambia, 1982]). The chapter headings include: the pioneers; the land and its people in a changing world; a beginning is made; working through schools; the friars’ conditions; progress step by step and stone by stone.
Leaflet referring to the traditional living village exhibition and complex on the Zimbabwe-side of Victoria Falls
Booklet by Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap. on the Christian martyrs of Uganda. The text was published by the Mission Press.
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