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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.

An image of children probably from a parish school or orphanage in Cape Province, South Africa.

An image of the ‘Irish Larch’, an Irish Shipping Limited merchant vessel, leaving the Port of Cape Town in South Africa.

An image taken from on board the 'Dominion Monarch' docked in the Port of Cape Town, South Africa. The ship in the distance is either the RMMV 'Stirling Castle' or her identical sister ship the RMMV 'Athlone Castle', British passenger liners built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast) for the Union-Castle Line's mail service from Southampton to Cape Town.

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.

Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls (Livingstone), in 1936.

The Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap., Vicar Apostolic of the Livingstone Vicariate, with Capuchin friars in Northern Rhodesia. The group includes Fr. James O'Mahony OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister), Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus MacQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., and Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap.