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Letters of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (1905-1972). Correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Most of the correspondence relates to developments in the Irish Capuchin mission in Northern Rhodesia and to a lesser extent in the Cape Province, South Africa. The subjects include: the arrival of Fr. Jerome MacQuillian OFM Cap. and Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia. (18 Aug. 1935); the establishment of the Lukulu Station in Barotseland. (1 Sept. 1935); Fr. Casimir Butler’s desire for chaplaincy work in Parow Parish, South Africa. (10 Dec. 1935); co-operation with the Holy Cross Sisters. (20 Dec. 1935); work on the Sancta Maria (Lukulu) training school and the need for each Rhodesian Mission Station to have spiritual books for ‘retreats and ordinary reading’; arrangements for the arrival of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. and Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. (5 May 1936); the establishment of a Prefecture for the Barotseland Mission (13 July 1936); enclosing a copy of the annual report on the Irish Capuchin Mission in Northern Rhodesia. (28 July 1936); the appointment of Fr. Killian as Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls. (11 Aug. 1936); Fr. Killian’s investiture as Prefect Apostolic (25 Nov. 1936); negotiations with the Paris Missionaries regarding the limits of the Sancta Maria Mission at Lukulu. (1 Jan. 1937); enclosing a copy of the 1937-8 report for the Victoria Falls Prefecture. (14 Sept. 1938); the boundaries of the Parow and Athlone parishes, Cape Town, South Africa. (6 Nov. 1939); the health of Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap. (9 Nov. 1939); an outbreak of the bubonic plague at Sancta Maria Mission and the dangers of transferring priests from Europe to South Africa due to the U-Boat threat (18 Mar. 1940); the proposed new status for the Irish Capuchin houses in the Cape Province, South Africa. (13 Oct. 1940); the position of interned ‘alien priests’ in Northern Rhodesia (25 Apr. 1941); the arrival of Polish refugees in Livingstone. (12 Aug. 1941); the ill-health of Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia (5 June 1942); the provision of doctors in Catholic Mission Centres. (23 June 1944); the Katima Muliho mission station. (11 Dec. 1944); copy report on the state of the Northern Rhodesia mission sent to the Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. (28 Jan. 1945); a proposal to circulate a local mission magazine. (19 May 1945); the jubilee letters of Fr. Phelim O’Shea and Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon (24 June 1945); extending an invitation to the Irish Sisters of Charity to establish a ‘foundation for coloured work in this Prefecture’ (31 Dec. 1948); the pressing need for more priests to be sent to the Northern Rhodesian Mission (28 Aug. 1949); the arrival of Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. and Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. (22 Nov. 1949); on the need for priests to take ‘sociological courses’ before departing for Africa. Fr. Killian wrote ‘I am becoming more and more convinced that not by Baptisms alone is Africa going to be converted and that priests must be thoroughly versed in sociological principles. How can anyone keep the Commandments in a modern African compound hut?’ (11 Feb. 1952).

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.

Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia.

35 mm colour Kodachrome slides of photographs taken by Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983). The majority are images of missionary friars and religious sisters in South Africa. The file includes images of:
• Fr. Jarlath departing for South Africa
• Local children performing in religious pageants
• Local Zulu warriors performing a ritual dance
• Table Mountain, Cape Town
• The townships around Cape Town
• The grave of Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. (1915-1949) in Cape Town
• Local weddings
• Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. on board a ship in Cape Town Harbour
• Convent of the Holy Cross Sisters in Cape Town
• Parish excursion with Capuchin friars
• A local football team in Cape Town
• Religious sisters at a local orphanage
• Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap. with local religious sisters
• Group photograph of Capuchin friars in Cape Town including Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap., and Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap.
• St. Theresa’s Church, Welcome Estate, Cape Town
The file also includes images taken by Fr. Jarlath of various scenic and tourist places around Ireland including Glasnevin Cemetery, Clonmacnoise, Blarney Castle, Glendalough, and a view of a Dublin versus Kerry Gaelic football match in Croke Park, Dublin.

File of loose newspaper clippings relating to the Capuchins in Cork and their ministries. The file includes:
• 'The Pioneer', Aug. 1956. The magazine contains an illustrated article on the Father Mathew Rally held in Mardyke in Cork on 24 June 1956. The rally was attended by many Capuchin friars from Holy Trinity Church and the keynote address was given by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Photographic print of the exterior of Holy Trinity Church, Father Mathew Quay, Cork. It is noted that the Church is listed for preservation in the Cork Draft Plan. 'Evening Echo', 27 Nov. 1968.
• Article (with photographic) print regarding the conferring of Papal award on Bernard Curtis for his loyal and longstanding service as organist in Holy Trinity Church, Cork. The group includes Fr. Alexius Healy OFM Cap. and Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. 'Cork Examiner', 24 Nov. 1972.
• Photographic print of the Holy Trinity community on the occasion of the Golden Jubilees of Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. The photograph was taken on 22 Sept. 1948 and was reproduced in the 'South Gate', 22 Sept. 1988.

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.

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers associated with 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume includes copy letters to: Judge W.J. Dignam, Professor J.J. Murphy, Very Rev. Patrick J. McLaughlin, Kathleen M. Murphy, Fr. J.J. Galvin CSSr, Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, the Most Rev. William Philbin, Marie Noelle Kelly, Francis MacManus, James Flynn, Pauline Maguire, Syndey Z. Ehler, Philip Looney, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Denis O’Shea, Fr. Denis Keogh OFM Cap., Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. and Charles C. O’Connell. A letter to Doctor McLaughlin (Imperial College, London) refers to the sale price (£45) of Richard J. King’s original painting of Saint Laserian (19 Jan. 1960).