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Cutting from a Kilkenny newspaper referring to a report in 'The Father Mathew Record' on an inspection tour by Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. for the proposed Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. See also CA AMI/1/3/1.

Cutting from the 'Cork Examiner', 20 Oct. 1938, reporting on the opening of a bazaar in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, to aid the work of the Capuchin African missions.

Clipping of a poem by Lizzie MacDerby (dated 6 Aug. 1933) referring to the arrival of the Capuchin Franciscan friars in County Donegal. The poem was published in the 'Derry Journal'.

Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. It is noted that ‘much of the Fathers’ time is taken up with convert work, pre-nuptial courses and teaching Christian Doctrine to children attending the public schools’. Statistical information (population, racial composition, and number of priests) is given in respect of the friars’ work in Parow, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia and Langa. It is affirmed that the ‘bulk of the non-white people, i.e. the poorest of this diocese, is attended by the Capuchin Fathers’.

The exterior of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia.

The exterior of St. Theresa’s Friary in Livingstone as viewed from the adjoining church.

The exterior of St. Theresa’s Friary in Livingstone. The original caption reads: ‘Our first car in Livingstone / Fr. Jarlath Gough’s Austin’.

(From left) Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. at Victoria Falls in Northern Rhodesia.

Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with locals at Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

Photographic print of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. at his installation as Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls in St. Theresa’s Church in Livingstone. The group includes Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.