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A small collection of prints relating to the South African mission assembled by Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap. (1938-2010) for historical research purposes. The file includes:
• The exterior of St. Theresa’s School in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, South Africa. The annotation reads: ‘This part was built in 1933. Two moveable partitions made it one large room for Mass (3 classrooms). The third room (back part) added to the original 2 classrooms’.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. on the occasion of his visitation to South Africa in 1957. The friars include Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Raphael Curran OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap.
• The exterior of Parow Church and Presbytery in Cape Town.
• Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) and Fr. Bernard Cronin OFM Cap. in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, in c.1980.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. and Br. Kees Thönissen OFM Cap. in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, in c.1980.

Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars with Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. probably taken during his visitation in Africa in 1963. The photograph is annotated on the reverse giving the names of those present:
‘front row, left to right, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Alexander Halligan OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (Regular Superior), Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. Back, from left to right: Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap.; Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap., Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap.’.

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.

Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) in Northern Rhodesia.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D1’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), D.L. Kelleher, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Sister Stella Phelan MMM, Frank Gallagher, John Englis & Co. (printers), Aodh de Blacam, Sister M. Bernard (Fribourg, Switzerland), Fr. J.G. McGarry (‘The Furrow’, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny), Francis MacManus, Pádraig De Brún, Fr. P.J. Dunning CM (All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., Michael O’Higgins, Br. Colman Butler OFM Cap., Michael Walsh (Lower Patrick Street, Kilkenny), Fr. Patrick Boland TOR (Catholic Mission, Bhagalpur, India), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association of the United States), Fr. Patrick O’Carroll CSSp., Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Fr. D.B. Kennedy, Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Adolf Morath (photographer), Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia), Fr. Stephen J. Moloney O.Cist. (Mounty Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Helena Concannon, C.J. Woollen, Clement O. Bradley (Manager, ‘The Tablet’), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Bishop Daniel Cohalan (John’s Hill, Waterford), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Gerald Pyne (Harehills, Leeds), Seamus Murphy (Wellington Road, Cork), Séamus Ó Braonáin, Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Capuchin Friary, Cork), Gunning & Son (Ecclesiastical Art Manufacturers, Fleet Street, Dublin), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Johanna Coakley (508 Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee), Rita McGoldrick, Sister M. Emmanuel (Mater Misericordiae Nursing Home, Eccles Street, Dublin), Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Cathal O’Byrne, Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), and Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth).

Enclosures include a typescript article titled ‘an open letter to Risteárd Ó Maolchatha [Richard Mulcahy] Éamon de Valera, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (An Seabhac)’ by Joseph O’Connor, and a typescript titled ‘Dublin, The Octopus / Draft Commentary by the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor [Cormac Breathnach] on Mr. Peterson’s script’ (1950).