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A clipping showing an image of the funeral cortege of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. on South Mall in Cork. An inset shows the relations of both the friars standing at their graveside in the cemetery attached to Rochestown Capuchin Friary on 14 June 1958.

Flier for a Grand Bazaar to raise funds for the completion of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The prizes included: ‘30 fat sheep or £100 (1st); pony and phaeton or 50 guineas (2nd); Kerry cow’ (3rd); Diamond ring’ (4th); magnificent medallion, pure gold’ (5th); splendid Harp by Egan’ (6th).

The file also includes a flier for the ‘Lottery for the Marble Pulpit exhibited by the Operative Stonecutters’ Trade Association’, 1 May 1886 and a blank authorisation card for collectors for funds to pay off ‘the heavy debt on this Church and New Convent which is giving the Fathers much anxiety’. The card is authorised by Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC. Another flier notes that ‘the new Church, which is now nearly completed, but over six thousand pounds in debt, is to be in every way worthy of being the temple of the Living God’. Reference is also made to the previous Capuchin chapel on the site: ‘The inhabitants of the neighbourhood are of the poorest class … at the ceremonies of religion in the old humble Church … the attendance of one thousand weekly attests the virtue of these poor Irish Catholics’. With a newspaper clipping from the 'Irish Press' referring to the discovery of a book of tickets for the said Grand Bazaar draw by Patrick Fitzsimons. The 'Irish Press' clipping is dated 20 October 1949.

A view of a fruit seller at an open-air market. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads 'Idle moments on the coconut stall'.

The front cover of the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (Vol. XXXIX, No. 14, 26 May 1922). The cover has drawings of Éamon de Valera and Michael Collins. The artist is credited as Frank Leah (1886-1972). (Volume page 203).

William Simasiku standing beside burnt poles and the remains of the site of first Irish Capuchin mission in Northern Rhodesia at Loanja.

Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. James Connolly OFM Cap., Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap. and other friars at a meeting in Malengwa.

Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap., Fr. James Connolly OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., Fr. John Grace OFM Cap. with other friars at a meeting in Malengwa.

Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap. Br. Crispin Valeri OFM Cap., Fr. James Connolly OFM Cap., Fr. Danny Gomez, Br. Isaac Sinkala OFM Cap. and Br. Rod Pieretti OFM Cap. at the Sisters’ Convent in Chinyingi.

Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars in front of a Raidió Éireann van at Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. is in the front row (first on the left).

Photographic print of Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap. and two other friars fishing on the beach at Sheephaven Bay near Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. An manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print also makes reference to Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap.