An image of a group of Capuchin friars on a excursion to Inistioge in County Kilkenny in about 1907. Identifiable individuals include: Third row, first on the left: Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. (1885-1961) Second row, first on the left: Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (1886-1971) Second row, second on the left: Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (1875-1950) Second row, first on the right: Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935) First row, second on the left: Fr. Cyril O'Sullivan OFM Cap. (1887-1921) First row, first on the right: Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. (1881-1962)
Circular letter from the Most Rev. Denis Kelly, Bishop of Ross, Bishop’s House, Skibbereen, regarding the number of Irish chaplains in the British Army and Navy. Distinctions are made between incardinated secular clergy and regulars ‘who have gone from the Irish Houses of their respective Provinces’. It is noted that two members of the Capuchin Order in Ireland are serving as chaplains. These were Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap.
Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. with pupils at the Capuchin Seraphic School, Rochestown, County Cork. Identifiable individuals include: Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. College Rector (seated, second row, third from the left). Fr. Augustine was Rector at Rochestown from 1896 to 1907. Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (1873-1950) (standing adjacent to second row). Fr. Damascene Kenny OFM Cap. (1873-1913) (standing adjacent to third row). Patrick Joseph Collins (first row, first on the left). (later Fr. Ignatius Collins, 1885-1961).
An image of a large group of Capuchin friars. A cover annotation reads: ‘Fr. Edwin and students’. Identifiable individuals include: Second row, second from the right: Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (1874-1938) Second row, third from the right: Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (1877-1925) First row, second from the right: Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. (1885-1961) Third row, first from the right: Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (1886-1971) Third row, third from the right: Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968) Third row, fifth from the right: Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935)
An image of a group of Capuchin friars. The group includes (second on the left), Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., (second on the right), Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. and (first on the right) Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the cover is addressed to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965).
Letter from Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, affirming that it would be advisable to defer the plans for the extension of Friary Church in Kilkenny for the present ‘in view of the recent extension and improvements and the present disturbed conditions of the country’.
Letter from the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, regarding the renewal of diocesan faculties for the Capuchin fathers in Kilkenny. Reference is also made to public mass times at the Church of St. Francis.
