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Cutting from an article by Terence O’Hanlon in the 'Sunday Independent' referring to Fr. James O’Mahony’s recent publication, 'African Adventure' (1936), which covers the pioneering missionary work of the Irish Capuchins in Northern Rhodesia. The article includes photographic prints of Fr. James and the church in Parow parish, Cape Province, South Africa. See CA AMI/1/8/1.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘III’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Fr. John Moloney (Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin), William Tisdall (Charlesfort, Kells, County Meath), Fr. Henry S. Glendon OP (Holy Cross Church, Tralee, County Kerry), Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Pearse Hutchinson, Germaine Stockley, Thomas MacGreevy (24 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin), John James Nee (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts), Patrick John Little, J. Patrick Byrne (Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada), Benedict Kiely, M.C. McEllistrim (Ahane, Ballymacelligott, County Kerry), Nellie M. Lennon, Séamus Campbell, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM (Papal Nuncio to Ireland), Herbert Mackey (The Thomas Moore Society of Ireland), Julester Shrady Post, C.P. Curran, Maud Gonne MacBride, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Dr. Albert Dryer (Fairfield, Sydney, Australia), Fr. Thomas J. Martin SJ (Catholic Chaplain’s Office, Palace Barracks, Holywood, Northern Ireland), Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Fr. J.S. Sheehy CM (St. Joseph’s, Blackrock, County Dublin), Bishop Patrick Collier, Ian Stuart (Laragh, Glendalough, County Wicklow), D.L. Kelleher, Eoin O’Mahony, Bishop John Dignan, Canon Patrick Rogers, Bishop William MacNeely, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Archbishop Anselm Edward John Kenealy OFM Cap., Mary O’Connell (Beckett Street, Melbourne), Anne Hansen (West Ocean View, Norfolk, Virginia), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Seán Lemass (Minister of Supplies), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Frederick May, Vincent O’Brien, Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (Prefecture Apostolic of the Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia), Cahir Healy, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Mary Hardebeck, Seán Ó Baoighill, Leo O’Brien, Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Fr. Juan José Barahona Martín (Salamanca, Spain), Francis McCullagh, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Sister M. Gerald (Convent of Mercy, Portlaw, County Waterford), Michael Tobin, Rev. John L. Robinson (Glenowen, Delgany, County Wicklow), Helena Concannon, and Joesph Connolly (Office of Public Works), Enclosures include a printed programme for a recital by Michael O’Higgins at Marymount College, New York, on 28 October 1946; an original letter dated ‘the 30th, Stonyhurst, 1848’. The signature may read [D. de Arambury?].

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers associated with 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume contains letters to: Fr. J. Doyle, James Flynn, Lieutenant-General M.J. Costello, Dr Patrick J. McLaughlin, Cahill & Co., printers, Dollard Printing House, Professor J.J. Murphy, Pauline Maguire, Patrick Cunningham, secretary of the Tuam Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Kathleen M. Murphy, James Lyons, Fr. Denis Keogh OFM Cap. J. Fairbairn, the Rank Film Organisation, John Irvine, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., Sister Joseph Xaveria, Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, National Gallery, London, The British Museum, London, Tate Gallery, London, Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Stephen Rynne, Mannix Joyce, Sydney Z. Ehler, Charles C. O’Connell, Patrick J. Meagher, Arthur O’Callaghan, Fr. J.J. Galvin CSsR., Elizabeth Rivers, Capitola R. Guthrie, National College of Art, Dublin, David O’Mahony, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., and Doran Hurley.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘XIII’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Clare Sheridan (sculptor), Henry H. Hill (architect), D.L. Kelleher, P.J. O’Donoghue, Fr. Sheehan (Orange, New South Wales, Australia), Dom Aubert Merten OSB, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., the Catholic Writers Movement, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Patrick Joseph Ruttledge, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (‘An Seabhac’), Francis McCullagh (enclosing captions for photographs relating to the Russian Civil War and the Soviet Union), John Gibbons (writer, 1882-1949), and Patrick John Little. Enclosures include manuscript draft and printed copy of ‘The Poems of Philip Francis Little’ by Michael Walsh (published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’, 1944).

Letter from Bishop Francis Costantin Mazzieri OFM Conv., Ndola, Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Northern Rhodesia, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking an assistant for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., education secretary for the Vicariates of Northern Rhodesia.

Letter from Richard Smyth, 924 Summit Avenue, New York City, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, regarding a proposal for the reparation of the bodies of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., the latter from a ‘non-Catholic cemetery in Oregon, USA’. He affirms that ‘it was impossible to make any move before this time, as one or more of the political parties in Ireland would use the occasion to forward their own political interests’.

Letter from Peter Hill, The Presbytery, Clonakilty, County Cork, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., enclosing a cheque for £10 for the ‘foreign missionary work of your Order’.

Letters from Archbishops Arthur Hinsley, Antonio Riberi, David Mathew and James Robert Knox, successive Apostolic Delegates in Mombasa, Kenya, to Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The letters refer to the work of the Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. Archbishop David Mathew also refers to his hope that the Irish Capuchins may be prevailed upon to take charge of the College of St. Louis in the Seychelles (23 Apr. 1947). Archbishop Knox expresses his hope that an assistant will be appointed for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. to assist in his work with the Conference of Northern Rhodesian Bishops (24 May 1957).

Letters from the Most Rev. John Colburn Garner (1907-1993), Archbishop of Pretoria, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, offering missionary work to the Irish Capuchins in the Archdiocese. The Archbishop offers the district of Rustenburg (5 Nov. 1948); Zeerust, near the boundary with Bechuanaland. He encloses a copy of an agreement between the Archdiocese and the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptortists) re work in the township of Rustenburg (5 Apr. 1953); the district of Groblersdal (1 Aug. 1955).

Letters from the Most Rev. Owen McCann (1907-1994), Archbishop of Cape Town, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (1923-2004) , Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) reporting on the missionary efforts of the Irish Capuchins in Parow (Parish of the Immaculate Conception); Matroosfontein (Parish of the Holy Trinity); Athlone (St. Mary of the Angels); Welcome Estate (St. Theresa’s); Langa (St. Anthony’s). The Archbishop also requests that an Irish Capuchin priest (Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.) be sent to St. Helena and Ascension Island – part of the Cape Town Archdiocese. He writes: ‘There are 5,000 persons on [St. Helena] Island but only 3 to 4 Catholics at present … the prospect of conversions is uncertain. The Anglicans are well established. The schools are under the Government, as also the hospital’. Reference is also made to an application of Ronald Hinrichsen, a convert from the Dutch Reformed Church, to join the Capuchin Franciscan Order (24 Sept. 1952); to the death of Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. and the resulting vacancy in Parow parish (16 Aug. 1957); to a draft agreement with the Capuchins re Belgravia parish which has been separated from Parow (1 July 1961); to the need for new priests to meet the growing population in the Cape Flats district (20 June 1966); to Archbishop McCann’s desire to see Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. return to South Africa (4 Nov. 1968). Later, Archbishop McCann expresses his condolences on hearing of the death of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (22 Mar. 1984).