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A large group outside Holy Cross Secondary School in Malengwa. The group includes front: Fr. Frederick McConvery OFM Cap., Fr. Alexander Halligan OFM Cap. Fr. Sylvius McCarthy OFM Cap. (1931-2011), Kenneth Kaunda, Betty Kaunda, Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. Second row: Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap., Fr. John Grace OFM Cap., Br. Maurice Buckley OFM Cap., Br. Eugene Mooney OFM Cap., Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap. Back row: Fr. Donatus McNamara and Fr. Terence Barry OFM Cap.

President Kenneth Kaunda greeting Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood at the opening of the mission hospital in Sesheke. The group includes Dr. Luke Connors FMDM. The hospital was built by Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap.

A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / the interior of the ballroom, Imperial Hotel, Dublin, after the siege’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.

A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Talbot Street, Dublin, held against a rebel charge. Picture taken under fire’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.

An article reporting on the return by Captain E.J. Hitzen of some mementoes and ephemera he captured following the 1916 Rising. The items included the white flag used by Éamon de Valera during the surrender of Boland’s Mill. The article also refers to Hitzen’s recollections of the Rising. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (5 April 1948).

A clipping of an appreciation of Margaret Kennedy (1892-1953) by R.M. Fox published in ‘The Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner’ (13 June 1953). Kennedy was a member of Cumann na mBan who served in Marrowbone Lane during the Rising. She was subsequently imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail. She later worked with the Irish National Aid Association and became a captain in Cumann na mBan (1920), and later a Commandant.

A clipping of a letter from Kathleen Clark published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ in which she gives her recollections of the planning of the 1916 Rising. She refers to P.S. O’Hegarty’s assertion that the rebellion was only planned for Dublin. The letter is dated 29 July 1949 at 40 Merlyn Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin.

A clipping of a report on the outbreak of the rebellion in Dublin taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (25 April 1916).

An account of the opening days of the Easter Rising in Dublin by Harry Webber published in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916).

A clipping of a pictorial map showing ‘the points attacked in the City of Dublin by the Sinn Féin rebels’. The illustration was printed in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916).