A photograph of Thomas Ashe's funeral cortège moving along Ormond Quay in Dublin on 30 September 1917. Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965) is among the participants in the funeral procession.
A photographic print of Cork Corporation who voted for the election of Tomás MacCurtain as Lord Major of Cork on 31 January 1920. The photograph shows the scene in the council chamber of Cork City Hall on the day Mac Curtain was elected Lord Mayor.
Negative film transparencies of various photographic prints and documents used to illustrate commemorative features on the 1916 Rising in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1942) and in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1966). Several of the prints show rebel leaders, scenes of destruction in the aftermath of the Rising, and an illustration showing the execution of a rebel leader in Kilmainham Jail.
Letter from Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (1899-1986) to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. enclosing photographs for use in an article on Capuchin missionaries in India. The letter is dated 22 Nov. 1954. The file includes the following images:
• The new Church of St. Anthony in Delhi. • The Most Rev. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi-Simla, on a visit to a school in Karnal, India. • Fr. Xavier with catechists in 1946. • Schools among the Bhil people in West India. • Bhilala people in Central India. • Archbishop Mulligan on visitation in a village outside Delhi. • Fr. Theodore Murphy OFM Cap. (1912-1993) in a local village. • Holy Family Hospital in Delhi founded by the Medical Missionaries of Mary. • Archbishop Mulligan performing a baptism in Khera Khurd outside Delhi (negative).
The funeral of Chief Superintendent Seán Gantly, head of the Garda Special Branch, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Merchants' Quay in Dublin on 23 January 1948. Gantly was leading a party of Gardai from the Detective Branch at Dublin Castle in a search for escaped prisoners at the Hammond Lane Foundry when he was accidentally shot.
Joseph Aloysius Lyons (1879-1939), Prime Minister of Australia, with Éamon de Valera, at Dún Laoghaire during the former's official visit to Ireland in June 1935. A typescript caption reads 'Australia's Premier's visit / Mr. J.A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia, and Mr. de Valera, who met him at his arrival at Dún Laoghaire'.
Photographic prints for article by ‘Hibernicus’ on the canonization of Blessed Pope Pius X (1835-1914), in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1955). The file includes press photographs from Foto Attualita’ Giordani. The prints have manuscript captions on the reverse. The file includes prints of the original tomb of Pope Pius X, the procession of the body and relics of Pope Pius X to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, and the mass of canonization at St. Peter’s Basilica, on 13 June 1954.
