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A clipping of an article reporting on a sermon delivered by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. during a religious mission at St. Patrick’s Church in York, Pennsylvania. The clipping is taken from ‘The Gazette and Daily’, York, Pennsylvania (11 March 1925).

A photograph of Thomas Ashe's funeral cortège moving along Ormond Quay in Dublin on 30 September 1917. Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965) is among the participants in the funeral procession.

Statement of Masses for the Capuchin Friary in Abbottstown in Pennsylvania from November 1922 to April 1925. The document tracks the number of Masses ‘Received’ (requested by the public, often with a donation) and ‘Said’ (actually celebrated by the friars). The document is signed by Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. among others.

A collection of street ballad leaflets assembled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), a Capuchin friar, in 1921. The handbills relate to events in the War of Independence from 1919-21. This contentious period produced its share of controversial literature mainly in the form of leaflets, handbills, ballads and other forms of popular street literature. The treatment of prisoners during the War of Independence was the subject of political and social outrage and was reflected in popular ballads celebrating the lives of Kevin Barry, Patrick Moran, Thomas Traynor and other republican prisoners executed in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin and in other locations following courts martial from 1920-1. Most of the ballads recounted popular stories told in simple metre, and set to (mostly) traditional airs. The ballad titles include:
'Kevin Barry'
'The Bould Black & Tan'
'God Save the Peelers'
'Commandant McKeown'
'My Little Grey Home in Mountjoy'
'Thomas Traynor / Died for Ireland / Mountjoy Prison / April 26 '21'
'Brave sons of Granuaile'
'The Standard of Green, White & Gold / A Song of Truce'
'Latest Hit / If you're Irish We're goin' to Suppress you'

A survey of the geographic reach, institutions, and specific outstations managed by the Capuchin Missions across the 3,460 square miles of Mendocino County, California. The text organizes the territory into four main pastoral centres: Ukiah (the county seat and mission headquarters, which includes responsibility for four Native American chapels, a state insane asylum, a boy’s orphanage, and the county poor farm), Fort Bragg, Mendocino, and Greenwood. Each section lists specific outlying stations – such as Caspar, Albion, Branscomb, Westport, and Boonville – along with the distance from the main parish and the frequency of scheduled Masses. The bottom of the page features a prominent, critical handwritten note attributing an observation to Fr. Laurence regarding the local population, stating that despite claims of 1,500 Italians living in Fort Bragg, there were ‘certainly not a hundred people at mass’ on the Sunday he visited. A shorter note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. identifies the handwriting as belonging to the late Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap.

A photograph of a group of Capuchin friars at a Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street Friary, Dublin. The group includes Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap., Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap., Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Fr. Malachy Hynes OFM Cap., Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.