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A postcard from Kathleen M. Murphy wishing Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. a happy Christmas. The picture side of the card shows Iona Cathedral and St. Martin’s Cross in Scotland.

A Christmas greeting card from Peadar Seán Doyle, a Fine Gael Teachta Dála. The card shows the then recently unveiled eighteen-meter-high granite obelisk on Leinster Lawn on the Merrion Square side of Leinster House, the seat of the Oireachtas or parliament of Ireland. The obelisk (designed by the OPW architect Raymond McGrath) commemorated Arthur Griffith, the President of Dáil Éireann, Michael Collins, the revolutionary leader, and Kevin O’Higgins, a leading Irish Free State minister who was assassinated in 1927.

A card conveying Christmas blessings from Archbishop Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.

A New Year card (‘Herzliche Neujahrsgrüße’ translates as New Year’s greetings) from Eduard Hempel, a diplomat who served as Germany’s minister to Ireland (his official title was ‘envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary’) from 1937 to 1945.

An image of a group of Capuchin friars in Kilkenny. An annotation on the cover indicates that (seated, second from the right) Fr. Camillus Killian OFM Cap. (1872-1941) was the house superior. Fr. Killian was superior in Kilkenny from 1907-10. Other friars in the group include:
(seated, first on the right): Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935)
(seated, second on the left): Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (1875-1950)
(standing, third from the left): Fr. Cyril O'Sullivan OFM Cap. (1887-1921)
(standing, fourth from the left): Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (1886-1971)

A view of the high altar of the Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny in c.1910.

A view of the interior and high altar of the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny, in c.1910.

A view of the interior (nave and high altar) of the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny, in c.1910. A solitary worshiper sits in the front row.

A view of the snow-covered garden attached to the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny in December 1917.

An image of Fr. Malachy Hynes OFM Cap. (1879-1955) and Fr. Kieran O’Callahgan OFM Cap. (1893-1967) on a horse and trap outside the Capuchin Friary on Walkin Street in Kilkenny in about 1920. The cover annotation provides the names of the two friars.