Pioneer Total Abstinence Medal from the Diocese of Dromore issued to the mark the silver Jubilee of the local PTAA in 1940. A red and white ribbon (5.5 cm x 4.5 cm) is attached to the medal.
A view of a group of pilgrims at Gougane Barra in County Cork in 1910. The photograph shows (second on the left) Fr. Huxley, the parish priest who was responsible for building the present-day oratory at Gougane Barra.
Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (1870-1957) and Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) with a large group of lay people on a pilgrimage to Lough Derg in County Donegal.
A bound volume containing clippings, photographs, picture postcards, devotional material, and printed ephemera re Fr. Senan Moynihan’s visit to Rome in 1948 for a Capuchin Inter-Provincial Congress, and in 1950 as part of an Irish pilgrimage to the Italian capital. The volume contains numerous photographic postcards of various (mainly religious) sites in Europe acquired during the 1950 Holy Year pilgrimage. The pilgrimage participants included Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Margaret Mary Pearse (a sister of Patrick and William Pearse), and Cormac Breathnach, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Inserts in the volume include travel ephemera such as itineraries, tickets, receipts, menus, and tourist guidebooks. Gilt title to the volume spine reads ‘Minute Book’. The volume is a Balmoral series account book.
Photographic prints relating to the pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, France, marking the centenary of the Marian apparitions of St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. The file contains numerous prints used to illustrate a series of articles published on the Lourdes pilgrimage published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1958). The text of the article indicates that the prints signed ‘L. Von Matt’ were sourced from a publication titled St. Bernadette, a quarto volume of 91 pages, with text of the Saint’s life by Monsignor Francis Trochu, illustrated by 183 pictures in photogravure by Leonard Von Matt. The file also includes many postcard prints of the Rosary Basilica and other shrines associated with the site.
Images of a group of Irish pilgrims travelling to the island of Iona, off the Isle of Mull on the west coast of Scotland. The pilgrimage was organised by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. The monastic community on Iona was founded by Columba (521-597 AD), also known as Colmcille, an Irish abbot and missionary, in 563 AD.
Studio photographic print of Pieter Stewart Bam (1914-2001). The portrait print is autographed. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘Mr. Pieter Stewart Bam, son of the former owners of Ards House. Portrait presented by himself on occasion of his visit. Jan. 23rd 1949’.
Draft article by Benedict Kiely titled ‘Pictures in the Memory’. The article appears to be incomplete. The typescript is dated by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap.: 17 Aug. 1974.
Pictorial postcards of the Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, Kilkenny. With covers for the original series of six postcards. The file includes prints of the High Altar in the Church, the interior and exterior of the Church, the Community Choir, the Library, the Refectory, the Sanctuary in the Church, and St. Anthony’s Shrine. There are multiple copies of some of these postcards.