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An image of the Kerry and Dublin teams parading before the All Ireland Football Final at Croke Park, Dublin, on 25 September 1955.

An image of a woman kissing the Blarney Stone. Blarney Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house located in County Cork. According to legend, kissing the stone (which is built into the battlements of the castle) bestows upon the person the gift of eloquence, flattery, and persuasiveness. Though earlier fortifications were built on the site, the current castle structure was constructed in 1446 by the MacCarthys of Muskerry, a branch of the Kings of Desmond.

An image of Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. with parishioners in Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of the Catholic church built by Fr. James Kelly (1858-1933), a Waterford-born priest, in the Cape Flats area near Cape Town, South Africa.

A view of Table Mountain as seen from the bell tower of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of a group on an excursion (possibly a parish outing) in the countryside around Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. with a group of students at St. Louis Mission School in Langa, Cape Town, South Africa.

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.

• Photographic print (on card) of a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The print is by William Lawrence, portrait painter and photographer, Dublin. 16.5 cm x 10.5 cm. 2 copies.
• Photographic print (on card) of the Father Mathew statue in the workshop of Mary Redmond (1863-1930) before its installation on Sackville (O’Connell) Street, Dublin, in 1893. 16.5 cm x 12 cm. (See image above).
• Copy engraving of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 25 cm x 17 cm. Printed.
• Photographic print of the plaque on Cove Street, Cork, commemorating Fr. Mathew’s residence in a house (No. 8) on that street. The plaque was erected by Cork Corporation in 1980. 15 cm x 10 cm. Colour print.
• Cutting of a cartoon titled ‘The cause of the high death-rate / The Working-man’s Sunday’ showing ‘as it was spent before the Sunday Closing Act’ and ‘as it is spent now in unwholesome quarters of the city – as the working-man must get his beer’. [c.1890]. 1 p.
• Photographic print of the Father Mathew statue on O’Connell Street, Dublin, in c.1955. Ink stamp on reverse reads ‘Irish Tourist Board Photo’. 25.5 cm x 17.8 cm.
• Copy print (on card) of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 25.5 cm x 20 cm.