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A truck on a pontoon at the Watopa ferry crossing in Northern Rhodesia.

Fr. Conor Brady OFM Cap. (1923-1993) and Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. at the grave of Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. in Sihole.

Photographic print of a postcard from Kenneth Kaunda (later President of Zambia) to Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea. The postcard was written during Kaunda’s visit to Rome and asks for ‘divine guidance … [during] our present crisis’.

Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in Livingstone.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea, Fr. Elzear Barry OFM Cap. and mission friends and supporters during a trip to the United States.

Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap. in Zambia. The original caption reads ‘Fr. Hugh Murphy arrived in Zambia in 1947; died in Livingstone on 9th March 1990’.

A national policy by Éamon de Valera: speech delivered at the inaugural meeting of the Fianna Fáil at La Scala Theatre, Dublin, May 1926 amplified and with complementary matter / Printed by the Mellifont Press, Ltd., Dublin and published by Fianna Fáil, 34 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin.

Blank postcard re a meeting of Conrad na Gaelige. The postcard notes that Patrick Pearse is the secretary.

A flier advertising a concert in the Mansion House in Dublin in aid of the family of Sylvester Pidgeon who died on 28 September 1914 from wounds sustained in the Bachelor’s Walk massacre which took place in Dublin on 26 July 1914. A printer by trade, Sylvester Pidgeon left behind a widow and five children ranging in age from three months to eleven.

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’.