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File relating to an abortive attempt to establish an Irish Capuchin missionary presence in the Cape Colony, South Africa. In 1903, Bishop Hugh McSherry (1852-1940), Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope (Eastern District), invited the Irish Capuchins to establish missionary foundations in his Vicariate. The large missionary area offered to the friars comprised the civil divisions of Albert, Aliwal North, Herschel and Barclay East collectively known as the Gariep (later Aliwal) territory. The file includes:
• Ecclesiastical return of the numbers of missions and Catholics in the Eastern Vicariate. 30 June 1903.
• Correspondence between Bishop Hugh McSherry and Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister.
• Draft report of Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC on his visit to Port Elizabeth to view the proposed territory in March 1904.
• Draft letters to the Capuchin Minister General re the proposed mission.
• Draft memoranda of agreement for the proposed mission stations and properties to be held by the Irish Capuchins in the Vicariate.
• Colour trace map of the Eastern Vicariate showing the locations of the proposed Capuchin mission stations.
Other correspondents include: W.H. Butler, J. Commins, Fr. Lewis B. Gately, Fr. J.J. O’Reilly, St. Mary’s, Cape Town, and Fr. Bernard Christen of Andermatt OSFC, Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans. On 13 July 1903, Bishop McSherry wrote: ‘I fear it would be practically impossible for me in a letter to convey to you any fair idea of the state of things in this country. Everything here is quite different to what it is at home – climate, season, habits and customs of the people, conditions of travelling, the ways of the natives – everything’. Later, the Bishop explained that the ‘mission district is 175 miles in its greatest length and 75 miles in its greatest width. It contains the important towns of Ailwal and Burghersdorp and the following smaller ones, Jamestown and Barclay East. … There are no Catholic schools in the district. The climate is about the best in South Africa or in the world’. (4 Jan. 1904).

File containing newspaper clippings, correspondence and notes relating to articles on ecumenism published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1967). The file includes letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. from some of the authors who contributed articles on the subject including Rev. Robert A. Nelson, President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, Geoffrey Hand, Fr. Eoin de Bháldraithe (Waldron) O Cist., Moone Abbey, County Kildare, Robert McAfee Brown, Fr. William J. Sullivan Cssp., Kevin McNamara and Fr. Michael T. Irvin. The clippings (primarily from the 'Irish Times' and 'Irish Independent') include various reports on the ecumenical movement in Ireland.

Letters to Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. mostly referring to (or enclosing) literary and poetry submissions for publication in 'Eirigh' (formerly 'The Father Mathew Record'). The file includes letters and literary content from:
• L.H. Dalziel
• Fachtna O’Driscoll
• Patrick Lavin
• Breda Owens
• Eric Rayner
• Michael Hilton
• Dr. J.A. Murphy
• Una Brennan
• Br. Michael Murphy
• Mairi Cosgrave
• Tom M. Duddy
• Enda Halpin
• Phil Lynch
• Fergus Egan
• Liam Brophy
• Clare Holland
• Elizabeth Faye
• Tom McSweeney
• Gerard O’Donoghue
• Kathleen Clerkin
• Douglas Foley
• Tom Fallon
• Fr. Brian P. Power
• Maire Mooney
• Bernadette Sayer
• Tony Dunne
• Noirin Kearney
• Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. (re missionary work in Africa).
The file also includes a printed flier (1969) advertising 'Eirigh' as a magazine communicating ‘the Christian message to a modern family readership in the light of our inherited spiritual, national and cultural traditions’.

Ballot papers for elections of council members for the Third Order of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The file consists of a bound volume of completed ballot papers (tied together with chord) and a blank councillor election form (1932).

Flier for Alexander Edward Miller promoting his candidacy in the forthcoming Trinity College (Dublin University) by-election. The file includes a list of names of committee members supporting Miller’s candidacy.

Architectural plans (in ink) by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of the proposed extension and new library at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The plan shows west-facing and east-facing elevations and several sections. Two plans with varying elevation. One plan is coloured in ink with coloured washes. See also CA CS/2/6/1/5.

Photographic prints compiled for an article by Donal Brennan titled ‘The story of “failure”’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1976), pp 57-74. The file contains prints, postcards, and printed material used to illustrate the life of Engelbert Dollfuss (1892-1934), Chancellor of Austria, who was assassinated in a Nazi-inspired coup.