Photographic print of Fr. Flavio Roberto Carraro OFM Cap., Minister General, with the friars of the Capuchin community at Ard Mhuire Friary. The group includes Fr. Fidelis O’Connell OFM Cap. Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap., Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap., guardian, Fr. Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap., and Fr. Joachim Lyttle OFM Cap. The file also includes a newspaper clipping of the photograph with caption details.
Clippings of articles from the 'Derry Journal' referring to the ordinations by Bishop William MacNeely of Capuchin friars in St. Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny. It is noted that Margaret Pearse, sister of Patrick Pearse, attended the ceremony on 5 June 1932.
Clipping of an article titled ‘With the Franciscan Capuchins at Ard Mhuire, County Donegal’ by J.D. The article was published in the 'Derry Journal'. The article provides a history of Ards House and refers to the life of the friars in the house with reference to significant geographic and topographical features of the locality.
Clipping of an article from the 'Strabane Chronicle' referring to the death of the Most Rev. Anthony McFeely, Bishop of Raphoe. The article includes a photographic print of the bishop at the official opening of the new Ard Mhuire Friary in November 1966.
Copy clipping of an article on the experiences of Catherine McGarvey who in 1907 (aged 15) entered the service of Lady Ena Dingwell Stewart at Ards House. The article was published was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (22 July 1987). The article has lengthy recollections of her experiences as a servant to the Stewart-Bam family. It reads: 'All the time in Ards, the house staff were completely insulated from the outside world. Catherine only saw her parents at Sunday Mass in Doe Chapel, and then only for a few snatched seconds as she hurried back to the big house'.
Headed note paper titled: ‘Ards, Cashelmore, County Donegal, Ireland’. A manuscript annotation reads: ‘Note paper of Ards House ere it became a Friary’.
This section includes files relating to the Capuchin community resident in Ard Mhuire Friary. The series includes records relating to various aspects of their religious life, to their ministries and their interactions with the clergy of the diocese of Raphoe and with various lay fraternities and associations.
Official dedication of the foundation at Ard Mhuire to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The document is signed by Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. With manuscript and typescript copies.
