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Photographic prints of Capuchin friars at a meeting in Cape Town. The print wallet suggests that the images were taken in January 1989 and were addressed to Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap. Includes some images of receptions which were attended by Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. The file also includes negative sheets for the prints.

Copies of ‘Our Pact: Newsletters of the Damietta Peace Initiative’ from June 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 6) to Aug. 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 7). The latter issue refers to the death of Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap., the founder of the Damietta Initiative.

A collection of prints of Irish Capuchins in Zambia. Most of the prints have been annotated by Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap. (1931-2016). The file includes:
• Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. and Patrick Mayengo ‘with the Litunga, Ilute Yeta’ at the Ngonye Falls (or Sioma Falls) on the Zambezi River in Western Zambia. June 1981.
• Fr. Philip Baxter OFM Cap. near the bridge crossing to Zimbabwe.
• Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. with Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap.
• Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap. with Fr. George O’Connor OFM Cap. and the Most. Rev. Donal R. Lamont, O. Carm., Bishop of Umtali, Zimbabwe.
• Exterior view of Mangango Church (built by Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap.).
• Group photograph of Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap., Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap., Fr. Donat OFM Cap. (a Swiss friar), Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. and others at St. Bonaventure’s, Lusaka.
• Fr. Patrick Lynch OFM Cap. and Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Br. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap., Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap.
• Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. on the rope bridge built by the American Capuchins over the Zambezi River.
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. at Lukulu.
• Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap. (1931-2016) working as a welder with Sr. M. Matthew. It is noted that Sr. Matthew is from the Falls Road, Belfast.
• Br. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap. with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
• A Capuchin friar and a religious sister waiting alongside an aircraft in Zambia.
Note: The file includes a cover letter to Fr. Richard Hendrick OFM Cap. (26 Jan. 2010).

Prints showing Capuchin friars (both Irish-born and local brothers) and various churches in Zambia. Many of the prints have been annotated on the reverse:
The perpetual profession of Br. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. in Livingstone, 3 Oct. 1999.
Br. Charles Chishimba OFM Cap. with Fr. Silvester Flynn OFM Cap. in Assisi House, Lusaka, 10 Dec. 1999.
Retreat group at Assisi House, Lusaka on 10 Dec. 1999. The group includes Fr. Silvester Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Damien Loughrey OFM Cap., Fr. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap. and Fr. Bede Dolly OFM Cap.
Altar servers in Malengwa in 2000.
Building work on the extension to St. Conrad’s Friary, Lusaka in 2000. The extension was completed in May 2001.
Friars at a retreat given by Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. in St. Kizito, Monze, Zambia, in 2001.
Fr. John Grace OFM Cap. with Fr. Godfrey Sinvula OFM Cap. at a silver jubilee celebration in Mongu in Apr. 2003.
Friars at a retreat in St. Kizito, Monze, Zambia in April 2005.
Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. at Mangango in 2005.
Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap. at a Corpus Christi Procession in Chinyingi in 2004.
Sunset over the Zambezi River in Chinyingi in 2004.
Bridge in the mist over Zambezi at Chinyingi in 2004. This footbridge was built by Br. Crispin Valeri OFM Cap.
Building a new church at Makanga village, Chinyingi, in 2004.
Fr. Kieran Shorten OFM Cap. and Sr. Immaculata ‘stuck in the mud just after the Sitaka turn-off heading towards Chinyingi during the rainy season in 2004’.
The church at Chinyingi.
A canoe crossing the Zambezi River at Senanga.
Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap., Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. and Fr. Bede Dolly at Kaoma.
The Capuchin Friary in Mahenge, Tanzania.
Br. Ephrem Onyanga OFM Cap. (Kenya), Br. Dominic Chanda OFM Cap. (Zambia), Br. Francis Chilufya OFM Cap. (Zambia) and Br. Deogratias Mwageni OFM Cap. (Tanzania).
Br. Michael and Br. Mishek at St. Bonaventure’s College, Lusaka, in Zambia, in 2006.
Br. Lawrence Katongo OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., and Br. Dominic Sanou OFM Cap. at Morogoro, Tanzania, on 29 Oct. 2005.
Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. and Br. Raphael Mwito OFM Cap. at Mangango.
Br. Rod Pieretti OFM Cap. at the site of the proposed St. Joseph’s Home in Livingstone.
Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Peter Rodgers OFM Cap. and Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. in Lusaka on 25 Aug. 2002.
Fr. Daniel and Br. John (a newly-professed Zambian friar) at Mangango mission in April 2001.
Br. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. (ordained a priest in 2001).
Friars of the Zambian Vice-Province with Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap. in Lusaka.
Fr. Beatus Kinyaiya OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Tanzanian Capuchin Province.
Zambian Vice-Province Retreat Group at St. Kizito, Monze, Apr. 2002. The group includes Br. Mattew Gormley OFM Cap.
Fr. James Connolly with Angolan refugee children in the Catholic church at Mayukwayukwa refugee settlement in the Kaoma district, Zambia, in Apr. 2001.

The file includes photographic prints of prominent individuals compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Many of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes prints of the following individuals:
• Pope Pius X (1835-1914) (Postcard print).
• Pope Benedict XV (1854-1922).
• Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) (Postcard print).
• Pope Pius XII (1876-1958).
• Cardinal Joseph MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh (1861-1945), at his consecration in the Aula di Benedizione, Vatican. 19 Dec. 1929.
• W.T. Cosgrave (1880-1968) with Cardinal Joseph MacRory and other clerics.
• Members of the Dublin Corporation Lane Bequest Claim Committee including Mary Sheehy Kettle (1884-1967), widow of Tom Kettle, J.J. Howe, secretary to the City Manager, and J.J. Reynolds, councillor.
• Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara OFS (1900-1999).
• Saint Leopold Bogdan Mandić OFM Cap. (1866-1942).
• Seán MacBride (1904-1988).
• Neil Armstrong (1930-2012).
• David Giles (1926-2010), BBC Director.
• Richard King (1907-1974).
• Douglas Hyde (1860-1949).
• Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911-1978).
• Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) (Postcard print).
• Robert Kennedy (1925-1968).
• Most Rev. August Hlond SDB (1881-1948), Cardinal Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and Primate of Poland. (Lying-in-state following his death on 22 Oct. 1948).
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician.
• Jack Lynch (1917-1999) at a religious procession in Cork.
• Seamus Murphy, sculptor (1907-1975).
• Cliff Michelmore, broadcaster (1919-2016).
• Patrick Hillery, politician and President of Ireland (1923-2008).
• Seamus Hughes, first announcer on 2RN (later Radio Éireann).
• Gerard A. Hayes-McCoy, historian (1911-1975).
• Most Rev. Arthur Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (1904-1988). One of the photographs shows Archbishop Ramsey with the Most Rev. John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, during a visit to Archbishop’s House, Drumcondra, Dublin.
• Most Rev. John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, with President Seán T. O’Kelly at a garden party in honour of the Boston Pilgrims at the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin.
• John A. Costello (1891-1976) with an unidentified Franciscan friar.
• William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne (1868-1942).
• Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971).
• Elisabetta Barbato (1921-2014), an Italian operatic soprano.
• Rev. Brother Bernardine, a Marist brother, Sligo.
• Very Rev. Adrian Convery CP, Irish Provincial Minister of the Congregation of the Most Holy Cross and Passion.
• Very Rev. P. McLoughlin, Salesian College, Pallaskenry, County Limerick.
• Fr. Mannes Cussen OP.
• Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1936-2010) at the Berlin Conference for Peace in 1972.
• Fr. Charles O’Mahony, Superior, House of St. Camillus, Order of Clerics Regular Ministers of the Sick.
• Mervyn Wall (1908-1997).
• Fr. Rudolph Blockinger OFM Cap., Kansu, China. He worked as a missionary in China from 1922 until he was expelled by the Communists in 1952.
• Philip Monahan, Cork’s first city manager.
• Máire Cotter.
• Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) with dignitaries in Dublin.
• Most Rev. Edward Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin (1872-1940).
• Most Rev. Patrick Morrisroe, Bishop of Achonry (1869-1946).
• Most Rev. Michael Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe (1859-1955).
• Most Rev. Jeremiah Kinnane, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (1884-1959).
• G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936).

Catalogue of books held in the library of the offices of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., editor of 'The Capuchin Annual', and Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap., editor of 'The Father Mathew Record'. The catalogue lists Irish history books and periodicals, as well as compilations and anthologies of Irish literature, prose and poetry, and religious texts. The file also contains information re a weekly draw in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions (21 Sept. 1968).

File containing unsigned drafts of poetry submitted for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The poem titles include:
‘The late Father Gerald McCann OFM Cap.’ (1910-1958)
‘Ordination Day’. May 1963. The poem is annotated: ‘To dear Father Simeon, Congratulations in fulfilling the noblest aspirations capable by man / Bro. Augustine [Donal] O’Mahony OFM Cap.’.
‘Into Space’.
‘On Visiting an Island’.
‘A Winter’s Day’.

Blank headed letter paper from the Capuchin Publications Office. The file comprises unused blank letter sheets (in different styles) used by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., editor of 'The Capuchin Annual', and Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap., editor of 'Eirigh'. The file also includes some blank sheets from the Capuchin Foreign Mission Office, Dublin, and from Casey’s Hotel, Glengarriff, County Cork, which Fr. Anglin used for correspondence whilst on vacation.

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’.

Letters from Colm Tóibín to Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. enclosing poems for publication in 'Eirigh'. The file includes a copybook containing a collection of eighteen manuscript poems by Tóibín written in 1971. The file also includes loose sheets of handwritten poetry with cover letters to Fr. O’Mahony. The letters are addressed from Tóibín’s residence at 9 Parnell Avenue, Enniscorthy, and at St. Peter’s College, Wexford. Some of the items note Tóibín’s age at the date of the poem’s composition – aged fifteen in January 1971. The correspondence refers to his childhood experiences, to the influences of some writers on his poetry, and his hopes for publication of his work. The poem titles include:
• ‘A Tragedy – 1970’.
• ‘There’s blood flowing out from the Rose-Bowl’. (29 Nov. 1971).
• ‘My hill’. (2 Jan. 1971).
• ‘New School’. (2 Jan. 1971).
• ‘To wait’. (17 Dec. 1970).
• ‘The despairing song of Mary Magdalen’. (1 Mar. 1971).
• ‘Lourdes’. (5 Apr. 1971).
• ‘Song from a distance’. (5 Apr. 1971).
• ‘Water-death’. (16 May 1971).
• ‘Old lady’. (23 May 1971).
The file also includes a clipping from 'Eirigh' of a poem by Tóibín titled ‘My Lady (To the Blessed Virgin Mary)’.