Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. at the rear of St. Theresa's Friary in Livingstone. The original caption reads: ‘In 1910 he left Ireland to help out in Hermiston, Oregon in the United States. Casimir began work and soon he had built a small church. Before he left Hermiston, Casimir built three mission churches. Casimir embarked on a new adventure, going to Cape Town, helping to establish a Capuchin presence there and then Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) where the Irish Capuchin Province had established a new mission. The Livingstone government had set aside a plot for a Catholic church and house. Casimir hired a contractor to build a house: ever since known as “217” (PO Box). Casimir was fifty-five years old when he arrived and was not in good health’.
Prospectus for the Capuchin formation and studies house in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The institute was open to Capuchin friars, Comboni fathers, Consolala fathers and Lazarist fathers.
Booklet titled 'Becoming a Pioneer / Lessons and Update' authored by Sister Mary Dympna O’Leary HCS and Sister Rita Brennan HCS. The booklet was intended to be used by Pioneer Total Abstinence Members in Africa. The publication was prepared by St. Raphael’s Printing and Computer Training Project, Mufulira, Zambia.
Silozi note book by E. Ndopu Kamitondo (London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1958). The volume has extensive annotations by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap.
A clipping from the 'Evening Telegraph' (6 Sept. 1913) showing the woman on the right collecting on O'Connell Street for a relief fund established in the aftermath of the Church Street tenement disaster.
Schedules containing statements showing the ‘number of persons who, prior to the disaster, resided in Nos. 66 and 67 (the houses were completely demolished), the number killed, injured, and left homeless. The statement also includes the number killed and injured in house No. 64, and the amount of grants given’. Other schedules refer to the number of persons who vacated adjoining properties ‘through a reasonable sense of fear at the collapse of the houses 66 and 67 …’ and other relief actions to be taken.
Schedule containing statements showing the ‘number of persons who, prior to the disaster, resided in Nos. 66 and 67 (the houses were completely demolished), the number killed, injured, and left homeless. The statement also includes the number killed and injured in house No. 64, and the amount of grants given’.
