Note on the history and geography of the Caprivi Strip committed to the care of the Irish Capuchins ‘temporarily in 1944, and permanently after the War’. The memorandum refers to the establishment on 6 August 1944 of the Holy Family mission in the Eastern Caprivi Strip.
A memorandum outlining ‘some reasons for retaining our foundation in the Diocese of Raphoe’. The document provides bullet points on the rationale for retaining Ard Mhuire Friary. The document notes: 'To give up Ard Mhuire would not be good for the Province. It would mean bad distribution of Friars in the country, virtually confining them to three cities, Cork, Dublin and Kilkenny. Ard Mhuire can now be said to be our only country house. … Ard Mhuire is [also] one of the few foundations of clerical religious in Northern Ireland'. Reference is also made to the attitudes of the local parish clergy and lay community who are very favourably disposed to the friars remaining in the locality.
Memorandum by Monsignor Bruno Wolnik SJ (1882-1960), Prefect Apostolic of Broken Hill, re the establishment of the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland. He writes: ‘As soon as a piece of land is chosen and granted by the Paramount chief, settle there and start a few temporary buildings’.
Memorandum possibly compiled by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, Provincial Minister, concerning ‘properties which were purchased or exchanged by the superiors of the Province from time to time’. The schedule refers to transactions involving properties and lands held in Dublin, Kilkenny, Cork and Rochestown.
Memorandum possibly compiled by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, Provincial Minister, listing ‘properties which were purchased or exchanged by the superiors of the Province from time to time’. The schedule refers to transactions involving properties and lands held in Dublin, Kilkenny, Cork city and Rochestown. The Cork section refers to the ‘purchase of stores etc. at [the] sanctuary-end of Father Mathew Memorial Church, and the exchange of part of the same for the property upon which the new extension of [the] sanctuary is built …’. It is noted that the ‘annual rent of the Cork church house and garden etc. is about £160’.
Memorial card for Captain Richard Coleman ‘who fought for the Freedom of Ireland, Easter, 1916, and died in Usk Prison, England, on December 9th, 1918’.
Memorial card for Liam Mellows, Rory O’Connor, Joseph (‘Joe’) McKelvey and Richard (‘Dick’) Barrett who were executed by firing squad in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin on 8 December 1922.