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An appeal in support of exiled French Capuchins in Cork. The appeal notes that the friars have been exiled as part of 'the policy of persecution adopted by the present French ministry, and which has resulted in breaking up the whole religious system of that country'. This original printed appeal is pasted into the volume at p. 4.

Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (centre) with Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (left), probably onboard a ship during their first voyage to Africa in late 1931.

Fr. Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap. (left) with Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap. at a parish council meeting outside the new church in the Mangango Mission in Zambia.

A view of the Loanja mission station, Barotseland. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Back view of the Loanja Station with little oratory in foreground. They were just clearing the brush and scrub away when this was taken'.

Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., (right), Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (seated), Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (second from left), and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (first on left) in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The annotation on the reverse notes that the original image was taken from an album belonging to Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. On the reverse was written: ‘I think this is not a bad piece of architecture for a school master’s son’.

Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. boarding an aircraft in Mongu, Zambia, at the conclusion of his Provincial Visitation.

An image of the mission car in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, in 1941.

An image of local chiefs in Sesheke in Northern Rhodesia.