A photograph of Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Capuchin Minister General, Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. greeting civic leaders at City Hall in Cork. The group includes (first on the right) Seán French, Lord Mayor of Cork.
A photograph of (standing, first on the left) Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. (standing, second on the left) Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., and (standing, third on the left) Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. The group includes what is presumably a Dominican friar and possibly his parents.
Ledger and account book for the Capuchin community at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The ledger provides a daily record of income received and expenses incurred by the community. Notes are made of income derived from mass stipends, street collections, sodalities, Third Order payments and temperance publications. Reference is also made to monies received from donations, alms, bequests, and cheques. Expenses include travel tickets, lay staff wages, groceries, building repairs and other sundries. An entry from November 1908 refers to the payment of £30 to John Keogh for the completion of work on the Calvary at St. Mary of the Angels. The entries are periodically signed by the Friary Guardian and by the Provincial Minister at visitations.
Manuscript annotation on first page reads:
‘Particulars supplied to the Archbishop at his Grace’s request.
Church of St Mary of the Angels – building was begun June 12th 1868. Total cost including altar pulpit, altar rails, organ but not furniture was £60,000
Architect, James McCarthy
Contractors, Michael Meade & son.
The Sacred Heart Chapel built as an aisle church was begun in March 1908. Cost: £4,000.
Architects, Ashlin & Coleman
Contractors, Thomas Connolly’.
A later annotation (in the hand of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.) reads:
‘House ledger from October 1907 (Fr. Laurence Dowling, Guardian) to December 1929 (Fr. Angelus Healy, Guardian)’.
A List of Friary Guardians is supplied:
1907-1910, Fr. Laurence [Dowling]
1910-1913, Fr. Angelus [Healy]
1913-1916, Fr. Augustine [Hayden]
1916-1919, Fr. Fiacre [Brophy]
1919-1925, Fr. Benedict [Phelan]
1925-1928, Fr. Edward [Walsh]
1928-1931, Fr. Angelus [Healy]
1931-1934, Fr. Edward [Walsh]
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.
A photograph of Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, with a group of Capuchin friars and other clerics at St. Mary of the Angels on Church Street in Dublin.
A photograph of (left) Alfie Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. at the opening of a playground in Broadstone in Dublin.
Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, discussing the activities of Capuchin friars in California and in Oregon and their interactions with local church leadership. He also refers to the recent visit of the Minister General to the American mission houses. He writes ‘From Ukiah we came to Los Angeles where he stayed the night and next day we proceeded to Roseburg thence to Bend where Fr. Casimir and Vincent came to meet the General. He did not go to Lincoln or Abbottstown, but the Fathers met him on the way. I had to part with him at Bend as I was due for a Retreat here which started at Cathedral Chapel last night. The Father General expressed himself in very happy terms about the condition of our American Houses, but I am sure you will get a detailed account from him later on. He was very amiable and nice in every way, and by my fluency in the Latin tongue helped by the Secretary who speaks English pretty well. I spent a pleasant yet strenuous two weeks with him’. Reference is also made to the possibility of the Capuchins acquiring Santa Inés mission.
A group of Capuchin friars in the veranda adjacent to the garden in Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. The seated friar in the centre of the image is Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. (1881-1961).
A photograph of a group of Capuchin friars in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin. The group includes Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi Simla, and Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls.
Group photograph of Capuchin friars at Holy Trinity Friary in Cork, marking the golden jubilee of Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. The group includes Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., guardian of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Fr. Reginald O’Hanlon OFM Cap., Fr. Eunan Buckley OFM Cap., Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Fr. Thaddeus Field OFM Cap., Fr. Clement Connolly OFM Cap., Fr. Malachy Hynes OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., Br. Bernard Perry OFM Cap., Br. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap., Fr. Anslem Griffin OFM Cap. One of the prints is mounted on card and has a newspaper clipping identifying the friars present in the photograph. Photographer/Studio: 'Cork Examiner'.