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Scrapbook of Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. containing notes relating to his work as a missionary primarily in Northern Rhodesia. Fr. Alfred describes journeying to a village in Barotseland: ‘Enter a village – children run out of it to wave to us, the younger and more timid kids who have never seen a white [man] scuttle and bawl like stuck pigs – probably they have been told if they are naughty they will be handed over to “the big bad white man”’. The memoir contains notes re local customs, death and marriage rituals, village life, pastimes, sanitation, race, witchcraft and superstitions. Other headings include ‘meetings and oratory’, ‘progress towards civilisation’, dancing and ‘African Albinos – saw 2 only up to today, 10 June 1947’. Other sections include notes on the Union of South Africa, the Lozi language and the Bantu people of Northern Rhodesia. With a newspaper clipping of a photograph showing Sir John Waddington, Governor of Northern Rhodesia, and Imwiko, Paramount Chief of Barotse, on the occasion of the Governor’s farewell visit to Barotseland in 1947. Printed stamp on front cover reads: ‘Sancta Maria Catholic Mission. Fr. Alfred O’Mahony. 7th June 1947’.

Photographic prints by Seán Gaynor, Terenure, Dublin. The prints include images of various scenic locations and townscapes. Most of the images have been captioned. The file includes the following images:

• Bunmahon Strand, County Waterford.
• Lough Corrib, County Galway.
• Slievenamon Mountain, County Tipperary.
• Boatstrand Harbour, County Waterford.
• Two girls fishing in a pond in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
• A small church in Piltown, County Kilkenny.
• Inishmore (Aran Islands) off the coast of County Galway.
• The Blue Pool, Glengarriff, County Cork.
• Torc Waterfall, Killarney, County Kerry.
• Healy Pass, County Kerry.
• Kilkenny Castle.
• Portarlington ESB Station, County Offaly.
• Armagh Cathedral.
• Church of St. Pius X, Terenure, Dublin.
• Rathgormack Parish Church, County Waterford.
• Long Hall, University College Cork.
• Spanish Arch, Galway City.
• Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary.
• Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin.

Common search in the Registry of Deeds for acts involving Patrick Mullen, Elizabeth Mullen and others affecting properties on 133-134 Church Street and 27 Bow Street between 30 Dec. 1857 and 26 July 1880. The clerk provides a copy summary of an assignment in trust from Elizabeth Mullen to William Lewis and others of the aforementioned properties dated 24 Jan. 1876. The copy was prepared for Thomas J. White, solicitor, 4 Usher’s Quay, Dublin.

Papers connected with legal searches carried out in the registry of deeds covering deeds of title affecting two houses on Walkin Street held by Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson and others which are to be conveyed to the Capuchin friars. The various searches (common, negative and index of names) prepared by the Registry of Deeds lists the names of the persons searched against, the premises affected and the dates covered. Includes searches against Michael Buggy, solicitor, Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson and others.

Negative search in the Registry of Deeds for acts affecting a house and yard on Carter’s Lane, Dublin. The schedule specifies that the search was for all acts by certain named persons (George and Gilbert Lynch) from 1 Jan. 1827 to 1 Feb. 1904.

Negative searches in the Registry of Deeds for acts, deeds and wills affecting premises on Charlotte Quay formerly occupied by William Clarke, William Regan and Daniel Murphy. The schedule specifies that the search was for all acts by certain named persons (William Clarke, Sir William Saint Lawrence Clarke, Lady Elizabeth Barbara Clarke Travers, Francis MacNamara and Nicholas Daniel Murphy) from circa 1781-1877.

Negative searches in the Registry of Deeds and in the Office for Registration of Judgements for deeds, decrees, rules and orders of Frances MacDonnell (from 6 Sept. 1824-26 Sept. 1862), Patrick Regan (1836-1862) and James Pim (1859-1862) in relation to houses, premises and plots on North King Street, Dublin. Abstracts of the deeds found by clerks in the Registry are appended to the searches. The searches were carried out at the behest of John Thunder, attorney, 43 Rutland Square.

The volume is titled: ‘Secretary’s book for the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Convent, Walkin Street, Kilkenny, the Reverend Father Albert Mitchell OFSC, Director, [Feast of the] Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1873’. The volume contains brief minutes of the meetings of the Third Order of St. Francis in Kilkenny. Information is supplied in respect of the election of councillors, resolutions passed and other membership and organisational matters. The final page of the volume contains a ‘list of Franciscan Manuals loaned out to members of the 3rd Order of St. Francis on Sunday, 5th November 1876 at 2d each’.

Secretary’s book of the Sacred Heart Sodality attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The volume provides a record of total numbers of male and female members of the sodality from 1927-1959. Information is also give in relation to attendance at meetings and at Sunday Masses. The end of the volume contains a list of prefects of the sodality in 1943 and in 1956-7. The title page gives the name of a Miss M. Kendrick as secretary in Sept. 1927.