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Photograph print of the funeral mass of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1897-1962) in Holy Trinity Church. An annotation on the reverse lists the Capuchin friars in the photograph including Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. and Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap.
Photographer/Studio: G.V. Healy, 85 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork.

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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.

Building a temporary church at the Mankoya mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

Bringing supplies to the Irish Capuchin mission station at Mankoya in Northern Rhodesia.

Funeral service at Mankoya mission station. The celebrant is Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.

An image on a canoe on the Zambezi River in Northern Rhodesia.

An image captioned 'Dominion Monarch / 1947'. The photograph shows a line-crossing ceremony on the ship, an initiation rite that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. Built in England between 1937 and 1939, the 'Dominion Monarch' was a passenger liner which regularly operated services between Britain and ports in the southern hemisphere (particularly in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand).

An image of a Marian Year procession in Cape Town, South Africa. Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) accompanies the procession.

A view of a replica Irish Round Tower located in the Philippi area of the Flats region near Cape Town in South Africa. The tower (formally known as St. Patrick’s Shrine) was built on the slopes of Table Mountain which overlooks the city of Cape Town. The tower was constructed by Fr. James Kelly, an Irish Catholic missionary. The tower was a noted landmark in the Cape Flats district and acted as a focal point for annual St. Patrick’s Day’s festivities for Cape Town’s Irish community with the spire bedecked with national colours. The tower was demolished in 1978.

An image of orphans from Parow parish on a boating trip off Kalk Bay near Cape Town in South Africa.