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Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. It is noted that ‘much of the Fathers’ time is taken up with convert work, pre-nuptial courses and teaching Christian Doctrine to children attending the public schools’. Statistical information (population, racial composition, and number of priests) is given in respect of the friars’ work in Parow, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia and Langa. It is affirmed that the ‘bulk of the non-white people, i.e. the poorest of this diocese, is attended by the Capuchin Fathers’.

Date: 1796
Author: Andrew Fuller
Publisher: London: Printed for, and sold by T. Gardiner, No. 19, Princes-Street, Oxford-Street / Sold also by W. Button, No. 24, Pater-Noster-Row and J. Mathews, Strand.
Full title: 'The Calvinistic and Socinian systems examined and compared as to their moral tendency in a series of letters. Addressed to the friends of vital and practical religion. The third edition. By Andrew Fuller'.

A view of the 1798 Monument and the Bull Ring Market area in Wexford Town in about 1955.

A republican handbill. The text reads ‘The enemies of Sinn Féin contend that the British Government are anxious to help Sinn Féin. The flier provides an illustration of how the’ Sinn Fein manifesto for the General Election is mutilated by the Official British Press Censor in this country ...’.