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Cutting from a Kilkenny newspaper referring to a report in 'The Father Mathew Record' on an inspection tour by Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. for the proposed Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. See also CA AMI/1/3/1.

Cutting from the 'Cork Examiner', 20 Oct. 1938, reporting on the opening of a bazaar in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, to aid the work of the Capuchin African missions.

Clipping of a poem by Lizzie MacDerby (dated 6 Aug. 1933) referring to the arrival of the Capuchin Franciscan friars in County Donegal. The poem was published in the 'Derry Journal'.

Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. It is noted that ‘much of the Fathers’ time is taken up with convert work, pre-nuptial courses and teaching Christian Doctrine to children attending the public schools’. Statistical information (population, racial composition, and number of priests) is given in respect of the friars’ work in Parow, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia and Langa. It is affirmed that the ‘bulk of the non-white people, i.e. the poorest of this diocese, is attended by the Capuchin Fathers’.

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Sectional plan and front-view elevation of the proposed Church of the Immaculate Conception in Parow, Cape Town, South Africa. The plan is initialed ‘GA’ and is dated 19 January 1935.

Fr. Macartan Hyland OFM Cap. (1939-2000) and William Simasiku at the site of first Irish Capuchin mission in Northern Rhodesia at Loanja.

William Simasiku standing beside Kan’yenza stream at Loanja, the site of the first Irish Capuchin mission station in Northern Rhodesia. He was a teacher at the mission station in 1936.

The exterior of St. Fidelis Church in Sichili, Zambia.

The wedding of Boniface and Gertrude Tawila at Lukulu. Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. is in attendance.

The interior of Sioma Church in Zambia.