Holy Cross Sister, Kalabo Mission
- IE CA AMI/2/10/2/12/2
- Parte
- c.1965
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A Holy Cross sister working at the Kalabo Mission in Zambia. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Draining a swampy area and doing it together’.
Holy Cross Sister, Kalabo Mission
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A Holy Cross sister working at the Kalabo Mission in Zambia. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Draining a swampy area and doing it together’.
Franciscan Missionaries, Mangango
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An outreach project from the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood (FMDM) at Mangango in Zambia. The image shows Dr Kathleen O’Connor with a leprosy patient. Sr Martha Murtagh is in the background.
St. Bonaventure's Capuchin Hostel, Cork
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The exterior of St. Bonaventure's Capuchin Hostel, Victoria Cross, Cork. Construction work on the near-complete Cork County Hall on Carrigrohane Road is visible in the background. Completed in 1968 and designed by Cork county architect, Patrick McSweeney, the 16-storey building was some 64.3 metres high, and supplanted Dublin’s Liberty Hall as the country’s tallest building. It has since been superseded as the Republic’s tallest structure by the 17-storey (68 metre) high Elysian building also located in Cork.
Letter from Bishop Daniel Mageean
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Letter from Bishop Daniel Mageean to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. praising the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Mageean affirms that he was pleased ‘in discovering that you have refused to let emergency conditions lower your artistic standards’.
Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride
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Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the advance copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She also refers to the plight of republican prisoners on hunger strike in the Curragh camp in County Kildare. She writes ‘Though you may think the policy of these men unwise, no one can question their sincerity and courage’.
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Letter from Kees van Hoek to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing a cartoon taken from a German refugee newspaper in London titled ‘Die Zeitung’ parodying Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini as ‘Spanish monks’. He also refers to the availability of reprints of the partition articles published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943).
Letter from An tAthair Pádraig De Brún
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Letter from An tAthair Pádraig De Brún, Dunquin, County Kerry, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943).
‘New Zealand Tablet’ review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943)
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A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943) published in ‘New Zealand Tablet’ (10 November 1943). The article refers to the wartime prohibition on sending printed material to Ireland from New Zealand.
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Letter from Aodh de Blacam to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. affirming that a proof copy of his article is adequate particularly as paper is scare.
Letter from Richard Valentine Williams (‘Richard Rowley’)
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Letter from ‘Richard Rowley’ (Richard Valentine Williams) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., offering his opinion on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943). Rowley claims he is neither ‘a politician or a partisan’. He adds ‘It seems to me that one solution has never been attempted, and that is the power of love. No nation can be built up on mutual hate and suspicion between different parties and creeds’.