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Record book of professions of sisters of the Third Order fraternity attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The professions are listed chronologically under name, address, section number and date of reception. Totals of receptions and professions within the confraternity are routinely given.

File relating to the procedures for applications for temporary and permanent residency permits in South Africa. The file includes copy correspondence from the Most Rev. John T. Dunkin, Bishop of Louis Trichardt-Tzaneen, and circulars from the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference to the Major Religious Superiors and Local Ordinaries. The documents refer to the difficulties encountered by Catholic religious in obtaining permits to work in Apartheid-era South Africa. One of the circulars affirms that ‘if asked, state that you are to minister to Whites … in such and such an area. It is recommended that you do NOT state that you are coming to minister to Blacks’.

Photographic prints relating to the state visit to Ireland by Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco in June 1961. The prints were compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1962). The prints show the couple greeting President Éamon de Valera and his wife at a state banquet in Dublin Castle, visiting a children’s hospital and at an official gathering in Croke Park, Dublin. Most of the prints are captioned on the reverse. The prints are mainly press photographs from the Lensman Press Agency, 9 Westmoreland Street, Dublin, Independent Newspapers Ltd., and Liam Kennedy & Sons, 42 MacCurtain Street, Cork.

Photographic prints compiled for an article by Donal Brennan titled ‘Prince Eugene of Savoy and the Belvedere’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977). The file contains photographs and copy prints of the Belvedere Palace and historical landmarks (including the Soviet War Memorial) in Vienna, Austria.

Press photographs (mainly of Capuchin friars and Observant Franciscan friars) compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Some of the photographs are annotated. The file includes the following images:

• The Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. at celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchins in Kilkenny in 1948.
• The celebration of Mass at St. Adam and St. Eve’s Church in Dublin.
• Gabriel Fallon (1898-1980) with rosary beads blessed by the Pope for presentation to the actress, Margaret O’Brien.
• The consecration of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 Sept. 1950.
• The arrival of President Seán T. O’Kelly and Archbishop John Charles McQuaid at St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, for a Mass commemorating the 1798 Rebellion.
• Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. preaching in St. Francis Church, Kilkenny, in 1948.
• Fr. Ephrem O’Sullivan OFM Cap. (1904-1958).
• The funeral of Chief Superintendent Sean Gantly at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Merchants' Quay, Dublin, in January 1948. With images of his funeral procession along O’Connell Street.
• Presentation by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. to Captain Robert Monteith.
• Rev. H. Canon Murray speaking at a Pioneer Total Abstinence Association meeting. Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. is also in attendance.
• Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap. (1896-1972) speaking at a sale of work in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions.

Letter to Fr. Augustine (Donal) O’Mahony OFM Cap. from Texaco Ireland, 6-7 Lower O’Connell Street, Dublin 1, enclosing photographs taken at the presentation of the Texaco bursary at the recent Father Mathew Feis. Ink stamp on reverse of prints: ‘Photographic P.R. Services, 10 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1’.

Photographic prints (11 cm x 8.5 cm) of the presentation of the ‘The Silver Tassie Cup’ at the Father Mathew Feis in 1994. With a cover letter from Michael J. Kearns who donated the Cup to the Feis. With a print showing the said cup (15 cm x 10 cm).

Two items in their own folder, labelled GF BDG, Preliminary survery 1926 and letter P.Seo Braun Nov 1936

Photographic prints compiled for an article by Breandán Ó Riordáin titled ‘Pre-historic Art in Ireland’, 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969), pp 223-232. The file includes prints of ancient Irish artefacts primarily from the collections of the National Museum of Ireland.