A bound volume containing printed copies of block pulls for illustrations in 'The Capuchin Annual' and in 'The Father Mathew Record'. The images are numbered and (in some instances) dated. The volume includes many copies of the illustrations of Richard J. King (including St. Patrick and St. Brigid), and photographs of various Irish Capuchin friars including the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone. The volume also includes several obituary articles (with image content) for Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., and images of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., Richard J. King, Aodh de Blacam, and missionary friars and buildings in Africa and in the United States. The volume also contains the following clippings:
• Signed cheque for £10 of George Bernard Shaw subscribing to 'The Capuchin Annual'. See image above.
• An article titled ‘Irish Franciscan Humor’ published in 'The Christian Family and Our Missions' (March 1950) reflecting on Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. and his artwork for the 'Annual'.
• Photograph of Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. presenting The Capuchin Periodicals’ Cup at the National Drama Festival of Ireland (June 1950).
A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘III’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Fr. John Moloney (Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin), William Tisdall (Charlesfort, Kells, County Meath), Fr. Henry S. Glendon OP (Holy Cross Church, Tralee, County Kerry), Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Pearse Hutchinson, Germaine Stockley, Thomas MacGreevy (24 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin), John James Nee (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts), Patrick John Little, J. Patrick Byrne (Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada), Benedict Kiely, M.C. McEllistrim (Ahane, Ballymacelligott, County Kerry), Nellie M. Lennon, Séamus Campbell, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM (Papal Nuncio to Ireland), Herbert Mackey (The Thomas Moore Society of Ireland), Julester Shrady Post, C.P. Curran, Maud Gonne MacBride, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Dr. Albert Dryer (Fairfield, Sydney, Australia), Fr. Thomas J. Martin SJ (Catholic Chaplain’s Office, Palace Barracks, Holywood, Northern Ireland), Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Fr. J.S. Sheehy CM (St. Joseph’s, Blackrock, County Dublin), Bishop Patrick Collier, Ian Stuart (Laragh, Glendalough, County Wicklow), D.L. Kelleher, Eoin O’Mahony, Bishop John Dignan, Canon Patrick Rogers, Bishop William MacNeely, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Archbishop Anselm Edward John Kenealy OFM Cap., Mary O’Connell (Beckett Street, Melbourne), Anne Hansen (West Ocean View, Norfolk, Virginia), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Seán Lemass (Minister of Supplies), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Frederick May, Vincent O’Brien, Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (Prefecture Apostolic of the Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia), Cahir Healy, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Mary Hardebeck, Seán Ó Baoighill, Leo O’Brien, Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Fr. Juan José Barahona Martín (Salamanca, Spain), Francis McCullagh, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Sister M. Gerald (Convent of Mercy, Portlaw, County Waterford), Michael Tobin, Rev. John L. Robinson (Glenowen, Delgany, County Wicklow), Helena Concannon, and Joesph Connolly (Office of Public Works), Enclosures include a printed programme for a recital by Michael O’Higgins at Marymount College, New York, on 28 October 1946; an original letter dated ‘the 30th, Stonyhurst, 1848’. The signature may read [D. de Arambury?].
A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘AIV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Aodh de Blacam, Sir Shane Leslie, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. T.J. Walsh, Tomás Ó Riain, Flor Crowley, Fr. George J. Waring, Monsignor Denis McDaid (Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Bishop William MacNeely, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Frederick May, Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Jack B. Yeats, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, enclosing an appeal for funds for the College), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Maureen MacManus, Alan Macauley, Fr. Robert J. McGoran, D.L. Kelleher, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Bishop John Dignan, Charles E. Kelly, Michael A. Bowles, H.I. McCourt, Seán Moylan, Dr. Thomas Joseph Walsh, Adolf Morath (photographer), Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Doran Hurley, Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. William Ferris, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Robert Monteith, and Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap.
An image of Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. on a visit to a school in Karnal in India.
A photograph of Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi and Simla, with Capuchin missionaries and clergy in India. Archbishop Mulligan is seated in the front row (fifth from the right).
A photograph of Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Capuchin Minister General, Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. greeting civic leaders at City Hall in Cork. The group includes (first on the right) Seán French, Lord Mayor of Cork.
A photograph of (right) Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap, Definitor General, with another Capuchin friar at the Vatican.
A photograph of (first on the left) Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. on board the Italian transatlantic ocean liner ‘Conte di Savoia’. Fr. Sylvester and his companions are seated in the ornate Colonna Hall on the ship.
A photograph of a group of Capuchin missionaries and bishops in India. The group includes Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Dehli and Simla (now Shimla).
A copy print of a pencilled portrait of Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. by the Polish Capuchin friar Fr. Ephrem Maria Klawitter OFM Cap. (also known as Fr. Ephrem of Kcynia). The print is signed by Fr. Ephrem and dated 1934.