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On a letter received from the Nuncio.

Report

A clipping of short article announcing the release of several female prisoners detained after the insurrection. The prisoners included Annie Higgins, Madeline Ffrench-Mullen, and Nellie Gifford. The clipping is taken from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (5 June 1916).

A photograph of a large group of former Irish republican prisoners. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads ‘Released Prisoner Group’. The group includes Éamon de Valera, Eoin MacNeill, and W.T. Cosgrave. The photograph was likely taken at the Mansion House in Dublin. The image is credited to Keogh Brothers Studio.

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An image of a large crowd assembled for a religious ceremony outside Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary in County Donegal.

A religious pageant for children, probably at a parish school in Cape Province, South Africa.

A photograph of a religious procession. Several Capuchin friars are present including possibly Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. There is no caption associated with this print in the volume.

Images of the procession of friendly societies in the Italian Quarter of Hatton Garden in London in July 1931. The procession of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – held on the Sunday after 16 July – was Little Italy’s most important cultural event. Except during wartime, it has taken place annually since at least 1896. The procession was one of the first public manifestations of Catholicism given legal sanction since the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Queen Victoria was said to have granted special permission to the local police in Holborn to allow the parade to take place.

Photographic print of a procession of Capuchin friars and other religious in Cork city.
An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘Reading from extreme right, front row, Fathers Conrad, Cormac, Matthew, Albert, Gerard; behind … Fathers Eugene, Finbarr, Felix, Columban’.
Photographer/Studio: G. & V. Healy, 85 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork.