Draft report by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, on the canonical visitation of the Irish Capuchin missions in the Cape Province, South Africa, and in the Livingstone Vicariate, Northern Rhodesia. The report is divided into the following sections: Mission in the Cape Province (South Africa) A. St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone
Parish of Athlone
Station at Welcome Estate
Location at Langa B. Friary of the Immaculate Conception, Parow
Parish at Parow
Station at Matroosfontein Livingstone Vicariate (Northern Rhodesia) A. Livingstone
Township: St. Theresa’s Pro-Cathedral
District of Maramba: Christ the King Mission B. Caprivi Strip
Katima Mulilo: Holy Family Mission Barotseland Protectorate (Northern Rhodesia)
Sichili: St. Fidelis Mission
Sioma: St. Anthony Mission
Malengwa: St. Francis of Assisi Mission
Lukulu: Sancta Maria Mission
Mangango: St. Joseph Mission
Sihole: St. Patrick Mission
Balovale Boma: Our Lady of Fatima
Chinyingi: Sacred Heart Mission Reference is made to the history of the various mission stations, the friars staffing the stations, and the apostolic activity undertaken by the Capuchins.
Draft resolution forwarded by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC, Vice-President, Father Mathew Hall. Fr. Angelus suggest that the resolution ‘asks two things … first to endorse the work of the Irish Temperance Association and secondly to appeal for further financial support to enable the Hall Committee to extend their temperance propaganda’. The resolution refers to efforts to curtail the sale of alcohol on Sundays. The report notes that ‘we have Sunday drinking not in the interest of the public but in the interest of the publican’.
Draft articles submitted by Mary A. Elliot, Station House, Castlefinn, Lifford Post Office, County Donegal. The articles are titled ‘The road to the rainbow’, ‘The fairy coach’, ‘Mischief in the bog’, ‘Tim the tailor’s pipe’, ‘The golden thimble’ and ‘The fairy millers’.
Postcard print of a drawing of the North Camp, Frongoch, Wales, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Frongoch was described as the ‘University of the Revolution’. Among the internees in the camp were leading republicans such as Michael Collins, Terence MacSwiney, Richard Mulcahy, and Gerry Boland.
Six dray (or draft) horses standing harnessed to carts hauling large kegs at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin. This is an image of some of the working horses used at the Jameson Distillery in Dublin, in about 1905. The photograph was probably taken from atop of the Capuchin Friary which fronted onto Bow Street.
A view of the town of Drogheda in County Louth in about 1955. Visible in the print is the River Boyne (Drogheda is the last bridging point on the river before it enters the Irish Sea). Prominent buildings include (on the right) St. Peter's Church situated on an elevated site on the north side of West Street in the centre of the town.
