Trace map and plan of grounds of adjoining St. Mary of the Angels and the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The map divides the grounds into lots showing the endorsed names of landlords including More O’Ferrall, J. Cunningham and O’Brady. ‘Thunder’s Court’ and ‘Willis Court Yard’ are also marked on the plan. With a cover envelope addressed to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. endorsed: ‘What head rents do you pay and to whom? Name of solicitors?’
Photographic print of Fr. John Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. and a large number of other friars in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. The occasion was probably the golden jubilee of Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. Photographer/Studio: 'Cork Examiner'.
Register of masses at St. Mary of the Angels. The entries are periodically by the Provincial Minister at visitations. The title page is annotated: ‘at the Provincial Chapter, 8th Aug. 1928, it was decided that the Conventual Mass each day was to be offered a) for the members of the Province living and dead; b) for our benefactors living and dead. This ordinance took effect beginning on 15th August 1928. Father Stanislaus Kavanagh’.
A group of four Capuchin friars in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The cover indicates that the friars are (from left) Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (1873-1950), Fr. Bernadine Harvey OFM Cap. (1874-1953) and Fr. Joseph Fenlon OFM Cap. (1875-1963). The original glass plate of this image is at CA PH/1/58.
Letters of Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. (1902-1957). The correspondents include Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap.; Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Most of the correspondence relates to missionary activity in the parish of St. Monica’s, Parow, Cape Province, South Africa. The subjects include: arrangements for Fr. Oliver’s journey to South Africa on board the SS Adolf Woermann. (5 Mar.-22 May 1930); a request from Fr. Oliver to ensure that Parow parish is kept in addition to Athlone parish as it ‘contains the biggest coloured school in the vicariate’. (26 Feb. 1931); requests for mass stipends. (15 Jan. 1932); James Carlton Clarkein who wishes to join the Capuchin Order as a lay brother. (3 Mar. 1932); the resignation of Bishop Bernard Cornelius O’Riley, Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope. Fr. Oliver wrote: ‘It is the best thing he could have done. He had not the necessary qualities to be a bishop of such vicariate as this’. (22 July 1932); requesting that Matroosfontein parish come under Capuchin ministry. (3 May 1934); the opening of a church in Matroosfontein. (17 Sept. 1935); the future of the Capuchin mission in the Cape Province. (28 May 1940); the difficulties of sending priests to the mission during wartime conditions. (15 Oct. 1940); the opportunity of establishing a mission in the Port Elizabeth Vicariate. (2 Aug. 1949). The file includes a rough sketch map of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the Cape Province. The map also indicates the distances between the various mission stations. With two photographic prints including one of Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. The other may show his residence at Parow. References are also made to the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.; Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.; Fr. Livinus Keane Cap.; Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap.; Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap.
Notes compiled by John O’Connell (1843-1905), a grandson of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’. The book contains accounts of various Provincial Chapters of the Capuchin Order in Ireland, records of personnel changes in various Capuchin communities, and notes on meetings and other activities of the Third Order of St. Francis in Kilkenny. Records include membership and ordination lists. Newspaper cuttings are pasted into the volume. A photographic print of the Capuchin Friary at Rochestown in also extant in the volume. A partial index is also given: • List of Third Order Brothers in 1895 • List of Third Order Novices in 1897 • List of Third Order Novices in 1898 • Members of Council in 1895 • Collectors on Feast days • Canopy and Banner bearers • Monthly collectors • Portinuncula arrangements • Capuchin Chapter, 1898 • Third Order election, 1898 • Immaculate Conception and Christmas Arrangements, 1898 • List of Third Order Brothers for 1899 • Ordinations • Appointment of a Commissary Visitor to Third Order branches in England • Vergers and collectors, Holy Thursday • Sunday and Holiday collectors • List of Third Order brothers in 1902 A list is given on page 21 of ‘students who left the convent in Kilkenny … for Church Street, Dublin, about the ninth of April 1900, received the tonsure and minor orders on Saturday, 22nd September 1900’. The list includes the names of Brothers Sylvester Mulligan, Angelus Healy, Stanislaus Kavanagh and Albert Bibby’.
An image of a group of Capuchin friars. The group includes (second on the left), Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., (second on the right), Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. and (first on the right) Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the cover is addressed to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965).
A view of several Capuchin friars walking in a walled garden. The group includes (from left to right): Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968). His hand is partially obscuring his face. Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954) Fr. Matthew O'Connor OFM Cap. (1859-1930) Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926) Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965)
