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A collection of Zambian missionary photographs assembled by Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap. (1938-2010) for historical research purposes. Some of the prints are copies but the file does include some original prints. Many of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The collection includes images of:
• Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. outside the Rectory in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, in 1932.
• Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia in c.1935. The annotation on the reverse notes that the original image was taken from an album belonging to Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. On the reverse was written: ‘I think this is not a bad piece of architecture for a school master’s son’.
• Capuchin friars receiving their missionary crosses in Church Street before their departure for the African mission in 1943. The friars are Br. Xavier Cox OFM Cap., Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap., Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap., Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. and Br. Fergus Buckley OFM Cap.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. with a First Communion group in Livingstone in 1952.
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Fr. Patrick Peyton outside St. Theresa’s Cathedral in Livingstone in 1955.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. with religious sisters.
• Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. in Livingstone.
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with local religious sisters.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. during his visitation to Northern Rhodesia in 1957. The friars include Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. on the occasion of his silver jubilee in 1959.
• Br. Maurice Buckley OFM Cap. (1918-2003) and Fr. Agnellus O’Neill OFM Cap. at a missionary exhibition in Dublin, c.1960.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, in Sesheke, Zambia, in 1968.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. during his visitation to Zambia in 1968. The friars include Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Kenneth Reynolds OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap., and Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in 1968.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. with Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. and religious sisters (Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood) in Sesheke in 1968.
• Various scenes of friars at Malengwa during the visitation of Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. in 1968.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. boarding an aircraft in Mongu, Zambia, in 1968.
• Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap. and Fr. Bede Dolly OFM Cap. at the grave of Fr. Connor Brady OFM Cap. (d. 20 Apr. 1993) in Kaoma, in c.2001. It is noted that Fr. Bede Dolly OFM Cap. died on 18 Oct. 2004.

Photographic prints of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. The prints are extant on loose cards taken from a photographic album (CA AMI/2/10/1/2). Most of the prints have been annotated:
Capuchin friars at the Maramba mission station.
Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at the Livingstone Capuchin Friary.
Confirmations at the Maramba mission station.
Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap.
Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940.
‘Fathers, Sisters and girl boarders, Easter 1941’.
The mission car in 1941.
A trek to a mission station in 1937.
‘Hoisting a roof on a mission hut’.
A local cook with his wife at an Irish Capuchin mission station.
The building of the first Capuchin mission church in 1938.
The interior of a mission church in 1939.
Local game shot outside the mission grounds.
Preparations for an eight-week trek through the bush.
The Capuchin community in Sichili in 1937 (Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.).
A local teacher and altar servers.
The building of the father’s dwelling at a mission station.
Scenes on the way to Sesheke (including the local chief’s hut).
The Parish Church and Capuchin Friary in Livingstone.

Photographic album (titled ‘The Cambrian Album’) containing black and white prints of the early Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. Some of the prints were later annotated by Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap. The album includes:
• Two views of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone.
• Postcard print of the consecration of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic, 25 Nov. 1936.
• Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. with local Christians. (Fr. Agathangelus was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1936-49).
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. at Mulobezi. (Fr. Timothy was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1935-9, Fr. Fintan from 1933-9, and Fr. Christopher from 1933-44).
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. outside a tent; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. on the banks of the Zambezi River; Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the banks of the Zambezi; Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. on horseback.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. inspecting a van with rifles perched against wheel; A view of a barge crossing a river in Northern Rhodesia.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. with a fishing rod.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. hunting wild game in Northern Rhodesia (including leopards and zebras).
• Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. with a large group of worshippers outside St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone. Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1936-49.
• Livingstone Church and adjoining school; Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the banks of a river; a view of Victoria Falls.
• Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the veranda of Livingstone Friary; local Christians with a religious sister at a pageant.
• The installation of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic (25 Nov. 1936). The photograph includes: Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap., Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. and the Most Rev. Aston Chichester SJ, Archbishop of Salisbury, Rhodesia.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. at Sawmills School.
• Photographs of early missionary churches and buildings.

Scrapbook of Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. (1912-1989) re the history and personnel of the Irish Capuchin mission in Africa. Fr. Albeus arrived in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1942. The scrapbook includes cuttings from missionary periodicals including 'The Father Mathew Record', hand-drawn maps of mission stations and churches, and personal recollections and memoranda by Fr. Albeus re the Capuchin mission in Africa. The volume contains the following sections:
• Photographic prints of the early Irish Capuchins missionaries: Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap.; Fr. Alban Cullen Cap.; Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.; Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap.; Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap.; Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.; Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap.; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap.; Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.
• List of African missions of the Capuchin Franciscan Order (with the names of mother provinces).
• Calendar of priests in the Irish Capuchin mission to Africa arranged under year, number and total. The calendar runs from 1929-39.
• Personal and mission record (with photographic prints) for Irish Capuchin friars in Africa. Details are given of where the friars were stationed and the duration. Information is given in respect of:
Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. First Superior of African Missions.
Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. (with postcard print of the Church at Parow, South Africa, dedicated on 8 Dec. 1935).
Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (with circular letter from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. re the appointment of Fr. Killian as Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls).
Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980)
Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap.
Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.
Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap.
Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.
Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983)
Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. (1898-1983)
Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.
Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. (died in Northern Rhodesia in 1944)
• Calendar of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia and South Africa from 1929-38 giving details of where stationed and the time spent at each mission station. (pp 42-3).
• ‘The religion of the Blacks’. Manuscript. Sub-title reads: ‘Paper read for the Bonaventure’s Philosophical and Historical Society, Tuesday, January 17th 1937’. (insert at p. 47). The article was possibly compiled by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap.
Maps include:
• Districts of Northern Rhodesia showing density of population. (p. 9)
• Detailed manuscript map showing locations of various Christian missionary stations in Northern Rhodesia. (p. 11).
• Map of Northern Rhodesia showing areas of Tsetse-Fly and Sleeping Sickness infestation (p. 15).
• Map re population and infant mortality in Northern Rhodesia (p. 17).
• Printed map of Cape Town, South Africa (p. 22).
• Manuscript map of the Cape Province, South Africa, showing principal towns and the locations of Capuchin churches at the Welcome Estate, Matroosfontein, Parow, Langa and Athlone. Scale: 2 miles to 1 inch. The key also provides the distances between the aforementioned mission churches. (Insert at p. 27).
• Population map of Barotseland (arranged by district). With information re the number of Protestant schools in the region. (p. 45).
Photographic prints include:
• Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. crossing the River Kafue, Northern Rhodesia, with a truck on a barge. Aug. 1937. (p. 27).
• Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap. with altar boys. (p. 27).
• St. Louis Mission School at Langa; Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. (priest at Langa in 1935); groups of children at Langa, with Sister Romana and Sister M. Vianney. (p. 29).
• Missionary scenes at Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (p. 33).
• The Friary at Livingstone and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (p. 34).
• Missionary scenes at Loanja, Northern Rhodesia. With Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap. and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (p. 37).
• Prints from 'The Father Mathew Record' of the ‘first Christians at Loanja, Easter, 1936’; ‘adult Christians at Loanja and a group at St. Francis’s School, Livingstone’. (p. 39).
• Br. Dominick O’Callaghan OFM Cap. (p. 44).
• The three Capuchin churches in Africa: Parow, Livingstone, and Athlone (p. 48).
• Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. (full length portrait); Sr. M. Vianney at Langa in 1936; First communion group at Langa, 1936. (p. 49).
• Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. (half-length portrait). (p. 50).
• Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (half-length portrait). (p. 51).
The volume also contains newspaper cuttings re a Capuchin-organised pilgrimage to Knock, County Mayo, organised by Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap. and Fr. Maurice Dowd OFM Cap. (p. 66).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office from Charles E. Kelly (enclosing a humorous cartoon of Fr. Senan), Eugene F. Collins (Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Sister Mary Gertrude Cain RSHM (President, Marymount College, New York), Tomás S. Cuffe (225 Harold’s Cross Road, Dublin), Sister Teresa Dymphna (Carmelite Sisters, Mount Carmel Convent, Nairobi, Kenya), Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Claude Vogel OFM Cap. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Christopher T. Rooney, John Hennig, Fr. Peter Dempsey OFM Cap. (St. Bonaventure’s Hostel, Cork), Fr. Francis OFM Cap. (former Vicar-General of the Diocese of Allahabad, India), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Hospitals’ Trust Limited (20 Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Germaine Stockley, Thomas J. Carroll (Ballycolman Avenue, Strabane, County Tyrone), J.F. Reynolds, Patrick Duffy (Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Gary Mac Eoin, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad), Fr. P. O’Donnell (The Presbytery, Tilbury, London), Peter F. Anson, Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Charles G. O’Connell (St. Anthony’s Road, Cork), T.J. Kiernan (Via San Martino Della Battaglia, Rome), Percy Jones (St. John’s, Queen’s Parade, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Australia), D.L. Kelleher, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Patrick Begley (Radio Éireann announcer), Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Myers & Co. (80 New Bond Street, London, antiquarian booksellers), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa), Georgie Yeats, Tadhg Ó Séaghdha (Ros a’ Mhíl, County Galway), Maud Gonne MacBride, Peter F. Anson (enclosing a typescript article titled ‘Notre-Dame du Grand Retour’), Archbishop Finbar Ryan, Aodh de Blacam (enclosing a manuscript article titled ‘Talks with Æ (George William Russell) / and unpublished writing’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), and Robert Monteith. The file also includes some copy letters from Fr. Senan to Jarlath O’Connell, Eileen F. Quinn, Edward A. Harrigan, Phyllis Thompson, Rev. A.J. Cleary, Aodh de Blacam, John P. Moynihan, and David A. Garrity. The file has some copy letters re the Carl Hardebeck Fund (1946). Enclosures include a copy of the faculties granted to Fr. Senan for his appointment as Extraordinary Confessor to the Convent of Mercy, Gardiner Street, Dublin (1 Feb. 1945).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office from Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Maud Gonne MacBride (re Vincent Crompton, an Irish republican), Mary Sykes (‘Illilliwa’, 12 Belmore Street, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Michael A. Bowles (Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand), Simon Pederek, Margaret Irvine (Sandown Road, Belfast), D.L. Kelleher, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), John Hennig, Stephen A. McCarthy (Director, Cornell University Library, New York), James Roberts (Boulevard of Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Cormac Breathnach, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Bishop John Evangelist McBride OFM, C.J. Woollen, Phyllis Hogan (Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin), Jocelyn Harcourt, Derek Neville, Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), W.A. Rathkey (Balaclava Road, Cardiff), Roderick Wilkinson, Patrick F. Flood, Fr. A Doyle SM (St. Joseph’s Retreat House, St. Doolagh’s Park, County Dublin), Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), Críostóir Ó Floinn, Alice Mansfield (Barrettstown House, Newbridge, County Kildare), Mother Mary Martin (Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, Drogheda, County Louth), Sister M. Catherine (Holy Rosary Convent, Bridgewater, Somerset), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland, United States), Archbishop Bernard Mary Williams, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Monsignor Martin Brenan (President, St. Patrick’s College, Carlow), Peter F. Anson, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Aodh de Blacam, Doran Hurley, Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Colin Summerford (Bellair, Ballycumber, County Offaly), Tomás Ó Riain, Fr. Christopher OFM Cap. (Amalashram, Srirangam, India), Sister M. Bernard (Lisieux, France), Gary Mac Eoin, Order of Saint John of God hospital (Stillorgan, County Dublin), Adolf Morath (photographer), John English & Co. (printers), Rita McGoldrick, Fr. Demetrius Manousos OFM Cap. (Mary Immaculate Friary, Garrison, New York), Charles E. Kelly, John Desmond Sheridan, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Jarlath A. O’Connell (solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin), William F. Shaughnessy (The Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Fr. John Baptist Weldon OFM Cap., Fr. Seán Gordon (Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Rome), Padraic Bernard Gregory (25 Gresham Street, Belfast), J.C. McKew (Director, The International News Company, Varick Street, New York), Sister Ann Patrice (St. Patrick’s Convent, 100 Parker Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts), Pádraig De Brún, Helen Mannion, Séamus Campbell, Mary Hardebeck, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl’), D.L. Kelleher, Seán Mac Eoin, Fr. Stanislaus (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), Gerald Boland, Maurice Moyal (Marseilles, France), Dr. T.J. Walsh (Chairman, the Wexford Festival of the Music and the Arts), Seán Ó Súilleabháin (Irish Folklore Commission), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. Fr. J.G. McGarry (editor, ‘The Furrow’), Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Fr. Joseph Leonard CM (All Hallows College, Dublin), Archbishop John D’Alton, Margaret Mary Pearse, Tom Evans (Evans’ Towers Hotel, Glenbeigh, County Kerry), William Monk Gibbon, Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association, Rochester, New York), George Campbell (Seafield Road, Clontarf, Dublin), Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Ian Stuart (Laragh, Glendalough, County Wicklow), Maura O’Donoughue, Seumas MacManus, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Frank Duff (De Montfort House, North Brunswick Street, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Basil Clancy, Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, James Roberts (Boulevard of Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Ernie O’Malley (Burrishoole Lodge, Newport, County Mayo), Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, Fr. Wilhelm Kleinsorge SJ (Hiroshima, Japan), Noelmhuire McGowan (Capuchin College, Washington), Sister Harriet Nolan RSCJ (Tokyo, Japan), Sister Eveleen Coyle RSCJ (Convent of the Sacred Heart, Armagh), Alan C. Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Dorothy MacCarthy (4 Albany Road, Ranelagh, Dublin), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Sister Mary Joseph SL (Webster Groves, Missouri), and Paul H.S. Hutton (Rochestown, County Cork).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Hermes Kreilkamp OFM Cap. (St. Felix Friary, Huntington, Indiana), Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (re a Richard King exhibition in Boston College, Massachusetts), Fr. A. J. Molyneux (Presbytery, Glenflesk, Killarney, County Kerry), Adolf Morath (photographer), Tomás S. Cuffe, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Liam Andrews (Springfield Road, Belfast), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), C.J. Woollen, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Albert Dryer (11 Kenyon Stret, Fairfield, Sydney), Doran Hurley, Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Johanna Coakley (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Frieda Le Pla, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Colonel John L. Throckmorton (Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Washington, United States), Thomas MacGreevy, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Mannix Joyce, Hamish Fraser, Jennie Dowdall, Sister M. Patrick (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Liam Brophy (Roebuck Road, Dundrum, County Dublin), James D.B. O’Toole, James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Sister Mary Berchmans (Medical Missionaries of Mary, Rosemount, Booterstown, County Dublin), Maurice J. Moriarty (Muckross, Killarney, County Kerry), Mary Purcell (32 Gardiner Place, Dublin), Sister Mary de Pazzi (Presentation Convent, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister Angela (St. Joseph’s Convent, Upper Lindum Street, Lincoln), Alison King (Vico Terrace, Dalkey, County Dublin), Séamus Campbell, Winfred Ford (43a Albany Street, Leith, Scotland), Joseph Szövérffy (Irish Folklore Commission), Rev. H. Stoneley (Ince Vicarage, Westwood Lane, Wigan), Winfred M. Letts (Verschoyle), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), James McGurrin (President, American Irish Historical Society, New York), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Robert Monteith, Merrill Proctor Ball (Williamsburg, Virginia, United States), John Bennett Shaw, Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Dr. J. Vincent Carroll, Sister Mary Joseph SL (Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, refers to Kate O’Brien, 1897-1974), Michael A. Bowles, Marie J. McGee Hynes, Fr. J.A. Shiel SJ (St. Joseph’s Church, Bihar, India), Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Críostóir Ó Floinn, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Seán Lemass, Fr. Denis McEnery (Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Virginia, Minnesota), Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. J.C. Morgan (Redemptorist Fathers, Bangalore, India), Archbishop William Godfrey, Seán P. O’Reilly (Instituto Mangold, Madrid, Spain), Peter F. Anson, Pádraig De Brún, John English & Co. (printers), Canon T. Gunnigan (St. Mary’s Church, Ballinrobe, County Mayo), C.E. O’Gorman (De Villiers Street, Johannesburg, South Africa), William D. Ryan (North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois), John J. Kelly, Lillie Le Pla (St. Enda’s, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), David Marcus, Quintin Montgomery Wright, Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, John Jordan, James D.B. O’Toole (41 Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin), William F. Shaughnessy (The Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., R.T. House (‘Books Abroad, An International Literary Quarterly’), Susan Hughes Goetz, Willie Fitzpatrick (Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB (St. Mary’s Abbey, High Street, Newark, New Jersey), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Daniel J. O’Donovan (Sacred Heart Church, Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, San Diego, California), Bishop William MacNeely, James M.B. Wright, Móirín Chavasse, and Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ. The file also includes faculties granted to Fr. Senan by Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans (10 Jan. 1952); A list of licensed bookmakers in Dublin (26 Feb. 1952).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the letters refer to orders for ‘The Angelic Shepherd / The Life of Pope Pius XII’ (1950) authored by Fr. Senan. The file also includes correspondence from Margaret Mary Pearse, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Dr. T.J. Walsh (Chairman, the Wexford Festival of the Music and the Arts), Seán Ganly, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. Sydney MacEwan, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Johanna Coakley (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Fr. T. Maguire (St. Mary’s Church, Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh), Eric Rayner (338 Fulham Road, London), John English & Co. (printers), Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Margaret Bowles (Priory Drive, Stillorgan, County Dublin), D.L. Kelleher (enclosing a biographical statement), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell (Upper Ely Place, Dublin), Robert Brennan (42 Lower Dodder Road, Dublin), Diarmuid Breathnach, Peter F. Anson, Yvonne Jammet, Vivion de Valera, Frederick Evans (Bexleyheath, Kent), Bishop Thomas Pothacamury, Frank MacGeough, Fr. Joseph Ranson (Kilmuckridge, Gorey, County Wexford), Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), M. Devlin (Cawnpore Street, Belfast), Katherine Guilfoyle Edelman, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Adolf Morath (photographer), Fr. H. Russell SMA (Society of African Missions, 23 Bliss Avenue, Tenafly, New Jersey), Seán Collins, Aodh de Blacam, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Rosamond Jacob, Muiris Mac Murchadha, Vincent O’Connor (South Taylor Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois), Fr. Robert Mageean CSSr (Somerton Road, Belfast), Michael A. Bowles, Joseph J. Carroll (Whitestone School, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia), Sister Mary Joseph (Webster Groves, Missouri), Sister M. Dolorine (Webster College, Missouri, United States), Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Ernest Newman, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), H.L. Moiselle, Tomás S. Cuffe, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), J. Monahan (Seafield Road, Clontarf, County Dublin), John J. Kelly (attorney, West Washington Street, Chicago, United States), Patrick Duffy (Hazeldene, Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Seumas MacManus, Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Joseph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Fr. Seán Gordon (Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, Rome), Fr. Patrick Boland TOR (Catholic Mission, Chowki, India), Michael J. O’Mullane, Fr. Daniel A. Horan (Church of the Annunciation, Ilion, New York), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Fr. W.F. Conlon (President, St. Patrick’s Classical School, Navan, County Meath), Katherine Blake (c/o Irish Embassy, Madrid, Spain), Fr. Albin Fiedler (Benešova, Czechoslovakia), Sister Mary Joseph (Director, The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, Missouri, United States), Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap., John Hennig, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Tom Evans (Glenbeigh, County Kerry), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Demetrius Manousos OFM Cap., Fr. Gerard Fassler OFM Cap. (Catholic Mission, Kondoa, Tanzania), Alice Ginnell, Colin Johnston Robb, Sister M. Patrick (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Winfred M. Letts (Verschoyle), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Sister M. Frances Teresa (Convent of Saint Louis, Louisville, County Monaghan), Richard Mulcahy (Minister of Education), Sister Joseph Patrick (Sisters of Charity, St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, County Dublin), Sister M. Vincenzo (Dominican Convent, Muckross Park, Donnybrook, Dublin), Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), John Lloyd (Connaught Rangers Mutineer), Sister Mary Frances Hughes (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Archbishop Thomas Pothacamury (Bangalore, India), Francis MacManus, Bernard T. Hart (Montclair, New Jersey, United States), Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB (St. Mary’s Abbey, High Street, Newark, New Jersey), Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), Fr. Stephen J. Moloney O.Cist. (Mounty Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Br. Charles A. Lynam (Saint Patrick’s, Montgomery Place, New Rochelle, New York), Denis Gywnn, Fr. Luigi Fesce (Church of Our Lady of Pompei, 25 Carmine Street, New York), Richard King, Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Sir Martin John Melvin (Director, ‘The Universe’, London), Seámus Ó Mathúna (Youghal, County Cork), Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Edward Kavanagh (Manor Mills, Maynooth, County Kildare), Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Áine Ceannt, John Moynihan (St. Patrick’s, Donabate, County Dublin), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Mannix Joyce, Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Séamus Campbell, David Marcus, Merrill Proctor Ball (Williamsburg, Virginia, United States), F.L. Vickerman (Glenageary Road, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin), Fr. Philip O’Boyle (Parochial House, Termon, County Donegal), Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (Catholic Mission, Langa, Cape Province, South Africa), Dr. George A. Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Doran Hurley, Charles G. O’Connell, Fr. Florian Ruskamp OFM Cap. (Bluefields, Nicaragua), H. Martin Hamilton, Alison King (Vico Terrace, Dalkey, County Dublin), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, Máire de Blacam, Rev. John O. Buchmann (St. Leo’s Rectory, Irvington, New Jersey), Eoin O’Mahony, Joseph A. McCarthy (Circuit Court of Justice, Dublin), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Paul Martin-Dillon, Sister M. Emmanuel (Mater Misericordiae Nursing Home, Eccles Street, Dublin), Frieda Le Pla, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Seamus Murphy (Wellington Road, Cork), Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Mary Hardebeck, Cecil Hurwitz (Old Blackrock Road, Cork), Diarmuid Brennan (88 Loveridge Road, West Hampsted, London), Seán P. O’Reilly (Instituto Mangold, Madrid, Spain), Robert Monteith, Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (Apostolic Delegate to the United States), Lieutenant Colonel John Joseph Winters, John MacCourt (Winnipeg, Mantioba, Canada), Tadhg Gahan, Victor Waddington, D.S. Magee (Secretary, Irish Publishers Association), Séamus Ó Braonáin, Rev. H. Stoneley (Ince Vicarage, Westwood Lane, Wigan), Professor Leonard Abrahamson, Helena Concannon, Séamus Ó Céilleachair, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Gearóid Mac Spealáin, Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Fr. Senan Crowe OP, Bishop William MacNeely, Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Peckham, London), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Kathleen Bowles, Cormac Breathnach, Nora Ni Chathain, Sister M. Pius (Bon Secours Hospital, Glasnevin, Dublin), Sir Shane Leslie, and Arthur de Tivoli.
The letter of Vincent O’Connor (231 South Taylor Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois) encloses an original letter from Charlotte Gavin (Easky, County Sligo) dated 15 November 1880. The letter seemingly refers to local informers. O’Connor’s letter to Fr. Senan provides information on the letter’s contents and how it come into his possession. (10 Oct. 1951).

Letters from the Most Rev. Owen McCann (1907-1994), Archbishop of Cape Town, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (1923-2004) , Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) reporting on the missionary efforts of the Irish Capuchins in Parow (Parish of the Immaculate Conception); Matroosfontein (Parish of the Holy Trinity); Athlone (St. Mary of the Angels); Welcome Estate (St. Theresa’s); Langa (St. Anthony’s). The Archbishop also requests that an Irish Capuchin priest (Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.) be sent to St. Helena and Ascension Island – part of the Cape Town Archdiocese. He writes: ‘There are 5,000 persons on [St. Helena] Island but only 3 to 4 Catholics at present … the prospect of conversions is uncertain. The Anglicans are well established. The schools are under the Government, as also the hospital’. Reference is also made to an application of Ronald Hinrichsen, a convert from the Dutch Reformed Church, to join the Capuchin Franciscan Order (24 Sept. 1952); to the death of Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. and the resulting vacancy in Parow parish (16 Aug. 1957); to a draft agreement with the Capuchins re Belgravia parish which has been separated from Parow (1 July 1961); to the need for new priests to meet the growing population in the Cape Flats district (20 June 1966); to Archbishop McCann’s desire to see Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. return to South Africa (4 Nov. 1968). Later, Archbishop McCann expresses his condolences on hearing of the death of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (22 Mar. 1984).

A volume (Browne’s Whole Page Diary for 1948) containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The volume contains letters to: John English Ltd., printers, Sr. Mary Anastasia MMM, Fr. Michael Glynn, Joy Walda, A.J. O’Reilly, Arthur M. Campbell, Robert Ostermann, Daphne Pochin Mould, Alison King, ‘Simon Pederek’, J.R. Bainbridge, Doran Hurley, Thomas F. McNamara, Fr. Sylvester O’Brien OFM, Kenneth MacGowan, Edward Daly, Donal O’Cahill, Fr. Francis X. Dent, Sean Neeson, Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Most Rev. James Moynagh, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Rockwell Newman, Fr. Aquinas Carroll OFM Cap., Most Rev. David Mathew, Rev. David Mathew, Rev. David O’Driscoll, Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap., Beatrice McCahill, Rev. Aubrey Gwynn SJ, Clare Thornton, Seamus MacManus, D.L. Kelleher, Michael J. Lennon, K.M. Murphy, Richard J. King, Diarmuid Breathnach, Jean Norton, Beda Herbert, James Rice, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., Desmond Cryan, Basil Clancy, Rev. Anthony J. Cleary, Most Rev. Charles H. Helming, Fr. Aidan McGrath, John Nagel, Vincent J. Walker, Dr. Joseph Szoverffy, Fr. Terence Connolly SJ, Rev. Patrick Rogers, Rev. T.J. Walsh, and Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap.