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Copy of Br. Andrew O’Shea’s oral account of his missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). With a copy cover letter (and reply) from Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap. to Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap, describing what they affirm is Br. Andrew’s 'Fioretti'. Br. Andrew served as a missionary in Africa from 1943-86. The script is given the following headings:
• Father Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Brother Xavier Cox OFM Cap. going on a journey.
• As a farmer sees it and as a city lad sees it.
• Somili and the Mubishopo – that is Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap.
• Monsignor and the Maramba Girls Lapa (compound).
• Monsignor and the Sisters’ washing.
• Father Raymond Dillane’s Silver Jubilee.
• Father Raymond Dillane OFM Cap.
• Father Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. and Linda Friary.
• The visit of the Fatima Statue of Our Lady to Mongu.
• The Holy Ghost and the oil stocks.
• My friend Kadom (by Father Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.).
• Tripe or fishtails.
• Kadom and the radio.
• The grand finale of Kadom.
• Snippets from mission life.
• Father Albert O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Father James O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Father Aquinas Carroll OFM Cap.
• African Holy Cross Sisters.
• Sister Rudolf.
• Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap.
• Brother Xavier Cox OFM Cap.
• Sister Martin.
• Father Albert O’Mahony OFM Cap. on his first walking tour.
• Archbishop Matthews.
• Cardinal Spellman.
• A man from the agriculture department visits Lukulu.
• Father Ronan Herlihy OFM Cap. and Brother Andrew go fishing.
• Father Luke Browne’s attempt to cross the Zambezi in a jeep.
• Mission Buildings.
• Father Flannan Buckley OFM Cap. and the jam pots.
• Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap.
• Monsignor’s typewriter and the donkeys.
• Father Macanise, the donkeys and their scotch cart.
• Father Brian Browne OFM Cap. and his method of winter heating.
• Fr. Jerome MacQuillan OFM Cap. and the Divine Office.
• Spenser flies his plane.
• Father Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap.
• Father Livinus Keane OFM Cap.
• Brother Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap.
• Another cook called Peter, and the marmalade.
• Brother Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap. and the bricks.
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and cars.
• The Thames trucks.

A complete copy of the 'Livingstone Mail', 17 July 1968 (63, No. 7639), containing a photographic print of Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap. celebrating Mass at Mongu.

Letters of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (1898-1953) relating to his experiences as a missionary in Barotseland. The correspondents include Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.; Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap.; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Reference is made to the work of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. who is in ‘some God-forsaken native village about 9 days from here building a school [and to] Fr. Phelim [O’Shea OFM Cap.] and Fr. Seraphin [Nesdale OFM Cap.] in Loanja’. (11 Dec. 1933). Later, Fr. Fintan refers to the establishment of further mission stations around Mongu and ‘other remote centres … where we won’t conflict with already established Protestant missions’. He also affirmed that ‘Barotseland is not “virgin soil”, it is chuck full of Protestant Missions, some of them 30 days by river from Livingstone’ (20 June 1934).

35 mm colour slides of photographs taken by Br. Joseph Murphy OFM Cap. (1929-2009). The majority are images of missionary work in Zambia. Br. Joseph ministered in Zambia from 1958-79. Many of the slides relate to the visitation of the mission undertaken by Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (1923-2004), Provincial Minister, in 1968. The file includes:
• Local leprosy patients
• Fr. Berard inspecting construction work on mission buildings
• Capuchin friars with Irish religious sisters working in Zambia
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. and Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. greeting Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
• Mission churches and residences in Zambia
• Friars performing baptisms and celebrating other religious ceremonies with the local populace
• Victoria Falls.
• Patients undergoing procedures in mission hospitals.
• Fr. John Grace OFM Cap.
• Sioma Falls
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Capuchin friars at Dublin Airport awaiting his return journey to Zambia. Several general views of the airport are also extant.
The file also includes several non-mission photographs including images of a Pontifical Mass celebrated by Pope Paul VI in St. Peter’s in Rome in September 1970, St. Bonaventure's Hostel in Cork, and several images of family and other relations of Br. Joseph.

A collection of photographic prints documenting the visitation of the Zambian Vice-Province by Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Includes images of Fr. Eustace with Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Regular Superior, Fr. Michael Duffy OFM Cap., Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. John Grace OFM Cap., Fr. Eugene Mooney OFM Cap., Fr. Philip Baxter OFM Cap., and Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. The file includes images of the grave of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in Lukulu, the grave of Fr. Gerald Joyce OFM Cap. (d. 15 July 1944), superior of St. Patrick’s Mission in Sihole, Kalabo, and the first missionary to die in the Victoria Falls Prefecture, visits to Capuchin mission stations and parishes, the Chinyingi Suspension Bridge built by the Capuchin friars, religious sisters at hospitals and schools, and local inhabitants of the Western Province of Zambia.