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A clipping of a review article on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) published in ‘The Catholic Bulletin’ periodical. Reference is made in the article to various Capuchin friars including Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (‘whose body lies in a leaden casket in a graveyard away in South-Western California’), and to Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. who ‘lies amid the snows of the North West’.

Photograph of (second on the right) Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap. with other clerics at Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania.

A view of several Capuchin friars walking in a walled garden. The group includes (from left to right):
Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968). His hand is partially obscuring his face.
Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954)
Fr. Matthew O'Connor OFM Cap. (1859-1930)
Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926)
Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965)

Newspaper clipping of a photograph of a group of Capuchin friars with Fr. Venancio de L'Isle-en-Rigault OSFC, Minister General, in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. The printed title reads '"Cork Weekly Examiner" and "Weekly Herald Supplement", July 1st 1916 / The Capuchin Fathers, Cork, with the Superior-General of the Order / Standing: Brother Aidan, Brother Angelus, Rev. Father Angelus, Rev. Father Joseph, Rev. Dr. Edwin, Rev. Father Bernardine, Rev. Father Clement, Brother Egedius, Rev. Father Leonard, Rev. Father Finbarr; Sitting: Very Rev. Father Matthew, Guardian, Cork, Very Rev. Father Aloysius, Provincial; Most Rev. Father Venantius, Minister General, Minister General; Very Rev. Father Bernardine, English Provincial Minister, Father Fredigand, secretary to Superior General’.
Photographer/Studio: 'Cork Examiner'.

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

An image of the first group of students at the Seraphic School in Rochestown, County Cork, in 1886. The individuals in the image include Fr. Matthew O'Connor OFM Cap., Guardian, Br. Leonard Brophy OFM Cap., Benedict MacDonald, and John Hayden (later Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.). Most of the individuals in the photograph (including Br. Canice Rice, Br. Jarlath Hynes, Br. Bonaventure Halvey and Br. Finbarr Sullivan) would go on to become solemnly-professed Capuchin friars.

A studio portrait of Fr. Matthew O'Connor OSFC (1859-1930).

A clipping of a listing of priests who walked in the funeral procession of Thomas Ashe in Dublin. The article was published under the title ‘Historic Funeral Pageant’. The listing was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (1 October 1917). Several Capuchin friars are included in the list.

A clipping of an article reporting on a three-week mission at St. Agnes’ Church (East Forty-third Street, New York City) led by four Irish Capuchin friars: Fathers Joseph, Brendan, Matthew, and Aidan. The article notes a significant number of non-Catholics in attendance, some of whom reportedly converted. The clipping is taken from ‘The Catholic News’ (19 December 1925).

A clipping of an article reporting on a highly attended four-week parish mission conducted by the Irish Capuchin friars at the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle on West 118th Street in New York City. Formally opened on 4 October with a Solemn High Mass, the mission is being led by Fathers Joseph Fenelon, Matthew O’Connor, Brendan O’Callaghan, and Fintan Roche, with the opening sermon delivered by Father Joseph. The campaign dedicates individual weeks to married women, married men, single women, and single men respectively, drawing overflow crowds to both the upper and basement churches. The report highlights heavily attended early morning Masses, long lines for confession, the enrolment of local women into the St. Anne Society, and traditional sermons focused strictly on family life, marital duties, and contemporary social morality. The clipping is taken from the ‘Catholic News’ (17 October 1925).