A view of the scenery around Mizen Head in County Cork, Ireland’s most south-westerly point, in about 1950. The building perched on the top of the cliff is Mizen Head Fog Signal Station built by the Commissioners of Irish Lights in 1906.
An image of St Columba's Church in Drumcliffe in County Sligo. An annotation on the reverse of the print notes that the church graveyard is the final resting place of William Butler Yeats.
A view of a road running through the Phoenix Park in Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Sunshine in the Phoenix Park, Dublin'.
Metal stereotypes (set on wooden blocks) of illustrations (many by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. with some by Grace Perry) of Franciscan life published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The themes include Christmas festivities, pranks and mischiefs involving Capuchins (some of the friars depicted, including Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., were known to Fr. Gerald), sports, music, everyday chores and religious rituals. Several of the blocks depict more general aspects of religious devotion including representations of saints, the nativity, symbols and crests, missionaries and the clergy. Some of the blocks have annotations on the reverse indicating the theme of the illustration. These include: • ‘This place is holy’. • ‘Joy in the struggle’. • ‘St. Francis of Assisi / the builder’. • ‘People in love’. • ‘Building together’. • ‘Call to praise’. • ‘Peace and goodness’. • ‘St. Francis and the Wolf’. The cover illustration of 'The Capuchin Annual' by Seán O’Sullivan RHA. • Richard King at work on a Station of the Cross in his studio. Some of these stereotype blocks were found in box marked with an annotation suggesting that they had been returned from ‘Kelly’s Printers’.
A letter from Val Mulkerns (1925-2018) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter thanks the Capuchin friar for payment for a poem and refers to her reasons for moving to England and to her work on her novel.
A letter from Francis McCullagh (1874-1956) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to photographs relating to the Russian Civil War and the Soviet Union which he sent to the Capuchin Publications Office. He also refers to an Irish translation of a 1798 ballad published by George Sigerson (1836-1925).
