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Photograph of a group of Capuchin friars taken on the occasion of a visitation by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. The group includes (standing) Fr. Fergus Lawless OFM Cap., Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Fr. Conleth Killian OFM Cap.; (seated) Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Fr. Joseph O’Mahony OFM Cap., and Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap.

A group of Capuchin friars outside the new St. Francis parish rectory in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.

A group of Capuchin friars outside the new St. Francis parish rectory in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.

A group of Capuchin priests and novices in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin. A manuscript annotation provides the names of the friars. The group includes Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Sebastian O’Brien, Stanislaus Walsh OFM Cap., Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Paschal Stapleton OFM Cap., and Luke Sheehan OFM Cap.

Photograph of Capuchin friars at the Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.

Photograph of Capuchin friars at the Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.

A bound collection of printed pamphlets titled (on the spine) ‘Communism unmasked’. A manuscript index is extant on the first three pages. Includes pamphlets by Professor Alfred O’Rahilly, Fr. Stanislaus M. Hogan OP, Fr. A.M. Crofts OP, and Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. Many of the pamphlets refer to Catholic social teaching.

Correspondence of William Connolly & Son, contractors, 37-39 Upper Dominick Street, Dublin, regarding the repair and decoration of the altar and other furnishings (including confessional boxes) at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Correspondents include William Connolly, Ashlin & Coleman, architects, 7 Dawson Street, and Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street. On 21 Jan. 1908 William Connolly proposed to Ashlin & Coleman that he would ‘execute the works in the manufacture and erection of screens at St. Mary of the Angels … in accordance with your designs … for the sum of £575. The work to be executed in the best, seasoned Austrian oak, wax polished, and in the highest class of workmanship’. Other work included the building of a new stone porch to the south side of the Church. With bill of costs for said works. See also CA CS/2/6/1/1.

The fliers claim the support of Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Church Street, calling them ‘distinguished representatives of the Order which in dark and evil days held aloft the lamp of learning in Ireland’. Father Lawrence wrote ‘I am glad Mr. John Farren is seeking election as a member of the Dublin Corporation. …’. The fliers were printed by Mitchell & Co., 29 Capel Street, Dublin, and published by the candidate.

A photograph of Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. (seated, second from the right), and his brother Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. (seated, second from the left) with presumably other siblings and relatives.