An image of a large group of Capuchin friars. A cover annotation reads: ‘Fr. Edwin and students’. Identifiable individuals include: Second row, second from the right: Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (1874-1938) Second row, third from the right: Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (1877-1925) First row, second from the right: Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. (1885-1961) Third row, first from the right: Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (1886-1971) Third row, third from the right: Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968) Third row, fifth from the right: Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935)
A print of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. The verso is endorsed: ‘Group of schoolchildren at Saw mills school. … This is not [a] full crowd about half [are] missing in this group. After a while one gets accustomed to their strange faces. The little fellow second from right, front row, must have been playing rugby’.
Fr. Flavian Welstead OFM Cap. before his departure for the Zambian Mission . A typescript description on the reverse reads: ‘Present at a farewell party for Rev. Fr. Flavian OFM Cap., who is leaving this week for the Missions in Zambia, which was held in St. Columba’s Hall, Douglas, were …’. Photographer / Studio: Donal J. Crowley, 19 South View, Ballinlough Road, Cork.
