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An image of the large congregation at a Mass held in the Phoenix Park during the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin on 26 June 1932. Some Capuchin friars (including Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., Fr. Andrew Carew OFM Cap., Fr. Benedict Phelan OFM Cap., Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.) and members of other religious congregations are visible in the photograph.

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. enclosing a prayer. Ó Laoghaire adds 'How I as detest the note of presumption which often pervades English prayers!' He later affirms that 'The English mind does not seem to know how to conduct itself even in the presence of the Divinity. I have often read English players which actually patronise God'.

A photographic print of Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. and other clerics in a funeral procession on Dame Street in Dublin. The funeral may be that of Thomas Ashe (30 September 1917).

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to [Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.] referring to the poor state of the Santa Inés mission. He also expresses his satisfaction on hearing of news in Ireland. He writes ‘I get the "Irish World" and occasionally "Sinn Féin" and so I am kept in touch with Irish affairs – Frank Gallagher’s Prison Daily and other articles I devour even though they pierce my very soul and make me sob like a child’. Bibby asserts that he has said mass for Erskine Childers on his anniversary and will do ‘tomorrow for Rory, Liam, Dick & Joe’. He adds ‘I can never forget what was said, what certain Friars said when my dearest friend Erskine and Rory etc. were slain, oh how their bitter words tore my very soul asunder’.

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. referring to the Munster Feis. Ó Laoghaire wrote ‘I used to be mad when I used to see the citizens of Cork profiting by the Feis and contributing next to nothing to the cost of the Feis’. He adds 'The people of Cork would actually let a few earnest men work themselves to death and then pay the cost of their own funerals'.

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.

Ticket for the annual concert of the Colmcille branch of Conrad na Gaelige in Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, on 30 April 1920. An address by Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC was given at the concert.

Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. consenting to the publication of Fr. Augustine Hayden’s appreciation of Seandún (Tadhg Ó Murchadha) so long as ‘he keeps clear of politics’. Fr. Laurence also confirms that he has sent copies of ‘The Father Mathew Record’ to Douglas Hyde.

Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. with pupils at the Capuchin Seraphic School, Rochestown, County Cork. Identifiable individuals include:
Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. College Rector (seated, second row, third from the left). Fr. Augustine was Rector at Rochestown from 1896 to 1907.
Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (1873-1950) (standing adjacent to second row).
Fr. Damascene Kenny OFM Cap. (1873-1913) (standing adjacent to third row).
Patrick Joseph Collins (first row, first on the left). (later Fr. Ignatius Collins, 1885-1961).