Review of 'The Capuchin Annual'. The review reads ‘"The Capuchin Annual" … is intimately bound up with the name of one man – Father Senan. He founded it twenty-five years ago and edited every issue until the present one. … Though indifferent health compels him to retire from editorship, his spirit, sensitive in love for Ireland, and attuned to what is great in Catholic affairs and lives, in "The Annuals" he edited, is enough to inspire and encourage future editors’.
A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) by Professor William Magennis. The article was published in ‘Model Housekeeping’ (February 1936).
Revenue accounts for Patrick Pearse and Saint Enda’s School in Rathfarnham, for the year ended 30 June 1912. The accounts provide details of expenditure and income relating to the operation of the school. Also includes a statement of the financial affairs of the school as of 30 June 1912 with details of liabilities and assets. The accounts were prepared by D. O’Connor, chartered accountants, 13 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. He notes that ‘the statement of affairs was prepared from the books, and from creditors’ statements of account, and from information supplied by Mr. Pearse. The valuations of assets were made by Mr. Pearse’.
A clipping of an account of the opening days of the Rising by Rev. Gordon Clements, The Manse, Donore, South Circular Road, Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Dublin Evening Mail’ (3 May 1916).
Return of mission personnel in Northern Rhodesia (St. Therese) Livingstone; Sancta Maria (Lukulu, Mongu); St. Fidelis (Sichili); St. Joseph (Mankoya) and in Cape Town, Church of the Immaculate Conception (Parow parish); St. Mary of the Angels (Athlone parish).
A large crowd welcomes the return of Harry Boland (central figure with straw hat) to Dublin following his release from prison in 1917. Boland had been arrested following the 1916 Rising and was sentenced to five years penal servitude serving his time first in Dartmoor Jail and later in Lewes Prison.
An article reporting on the return by Captain E.J. Hitzen of some mementoes and ephemera he captured following the 1916 Rising. The items included the white flag used by Éamon de Valera during the surrender of Boland’s Mill. The article also refers to Hitzen’s recollections of the Rising. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (5 April 1948).
The series includes records relating to the use of Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary as a retreat centre in the diocese of Raphoe. The section includes material pertaining to retreats given to both the diocesan clergy and other religious as well as lay people, parish communities and school groups.
