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Community of Maredsous votes in favour of foundation of Glenstal. Letter sent from Maredsous on Good Friday explaining this and how the vote was unanimous.

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(On the right) Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (1876-1958) and altar servers outside Maramba Mission Church, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. The original caption reads ‘First mission chapel outside the centre of Livingstone, at Police Camp Maramba, opened on the Feast of Christ the King, 1932. A better church opened in Marmaba in 1940’.

The exterior of the first friary at Maramba in Zambia.

The interior of the church at the Christ the King mission at Maramba, Northern Rhodesia.

The exterior of the first church at Maramba built by Br. Dominic O’Callaghan OFM Cap.

A map of the Prefecture of Victoria Falls showing the locations of Irish Capuchin mission stations in 1950. The former place names are given in brackets such as Kaoma (formerly Mankoya).

Colour map showing the locations of present-day and former Irish Capuchin mission stations and foundations in the Western Province of Zambia (formerly known as Barotseland in the colonial era).

Notes in both English and Irish probably written by Patrick Pearse. Includes a sketch, possibly of the medieval Christian monastery on St. Macdara’s Island off the coast of County Galway. Also includes references to St. Enda, a sixth-century saint who founded a Christian monastic settlement on Inis Mór, and Mochuda of Lismore who ‘did fishing’.

Manuscript transcript of Robert Emmet’s ‘Speech from the dock’ (1803) by Terence MacSwiney. The text is a copy by MacSwiney of an Irish translation of Emmet’s speech made by Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’). The text was later bound into a volume by Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Manuscript copy by Terence MacSwiney of Robert Emmet’s speech’. A manuscript addition suggests that the original translation by Ó Murchadha was published in ‘Fáinne an Lae’ in May 1899.