Correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mainly regarding orders for various editions of 'The Capuchin Annual' (particularly from the United States) and for permission to reproduce content from the publication (including the artwork of Richard King). The file also includes letters from contributors with some references to financial problems in the Capuchin Periodicals Office, and to Fr. Senan’s ill-health, and later to his resignation from the editorship of the 'Annual'. The file includes letters from the following correspondents: Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Ruth Axe, Jack Lane, Seumas MacManus, Frank Duff, Robert Monteith, Denis O’Shea, travelling sales representative for 'The Capuchin Annual', Fr. John Cardiff, Holy Cross Rectory, Chicago, Fr. John J. Carroll, Saint Clement Parish House, Sheboyan, Wisconsin, Br. Francis Propser OFM Cap., Garrison, New York, Martin J. Fenelon, Katherine Edelman, Doran Hurley, Monsignor Martin C. Murphy, Columbia, South Carolina, Robert Ostermann, Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi, Martin Cullen, St. John’s Seminary, Minnesota, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Devin A. Garrity, Paul Martin-Dillon, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., the Most Rev. James M. Liston, Bishop of Auckland, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., and Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap.
Letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mainly from authors re articles due to appear in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1965). The file includes letters from Fr. F.X. Martin OSA, James Lyons, T.E. Gorman, Dorothea Barclay, Máirin bean uí Mhurchadha, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., ‘Redmond O’Hanlon’, Sister Mary Gertrude Cain RSHM, President of Marymount College, New York, Basil Payne, J.J. Stuart, John P. Barton, Desmond Fennell, Michael McDonald, Alison King, Joseph Foyle, Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., J.F. Dempsey, Sean Ó Síocháin, Patrick J McLaughlin, Augustine Martin, Vivion de Valera and Frank Murphy.
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.
Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia.
Group photograph of Capuchin friars at St. Mary of the Angels Church, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa. The group includes Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap., and Fr. Carthage Ruth 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).
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 contains letters to: Fr. J. Doyle, James Flynn, Lieutenant-General M.J. Costello, Dr Patrick J. McLaughlin, Cahill & Co., printers, Dollard Printing House, Professor J.J. Murphy, Pauline Maguire, Patrick Cunningham, secretary of the Tuam Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Kathleen M. Murphy, James Lyons, Fr. Denis Keogh OFM Cap. J. Fairbairn, the Rank Film Organisation, John Irvine, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., Sister Joseph Xaveria, Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, National Gallery, London, The British Museum, London, Tate Gallery, London, Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Stephen Rynne, Mannix Joyce, Sydney Z. Ehler, Charles C. O’Connell, Patrick J. Meagher, Arthur O’Callaghan, Fr. J.J. Galvin CSsR., Elizabeth Rivers, Capitola R. Guthrie, National College of Art, Dublin, David O’Mahony, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., and Doran Hurley.
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.
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.
Photographic print of Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. and Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. in the garden of Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary.