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Photographic prints of various scenes on the island of St. Helena taken by Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. whilst he was parish priest from 1957-64. The photographs have extensive annotations on the reverse:
The Anglican Church in Jamestown.
Interior and exterior of the Catholic Chapel in Jamestown.
Sacred Heart Church, Jamestown, St. Helena.
The interior landscape of St. Helena.
View of St. Helena General Hospital.

Photographic prints of scenes at an out-station near the Sioma Mission in Zambia. The images show groups of children and parents receiving food and medical care.

A history of the Irish Capuchin mission in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia) compiled by Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. (1920-2008). The history traces the history of the mission in a chronological format from 1930 to 1981. Particular attention is given to the arrival of missionary friars, the work of clerical and lay mission personnel, relations with local communities, the construction of mission stations, schools and hospitals in Barotseland (later the Western Province of the Republic of Zambia) and to various mission appointments and transfers. Fr. Luke arrived in Northern Rhodesia in 1948 and the text includes many of his personal recollections of the mission. The file also includes a copybook containing text in Irish by Fr. Luke recounting his initial experiences as a missionary from 1948-50.

Reports on school inspections in the Northern Rhodesian mission compiled by Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. The reports are chronological and give information on the physical condition of the schools, the numbers of pupils and teachers, attendance, and the catechism and subjects taught in the schools. Reference is made to schools in Lusense, Schuckmannsburg (now Luhonono in the Caprivi Strip), Sichili, Kasika and Twambo.

Publication by Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The booklet was published by M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin.

Letters of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (1902-1979). The correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister., and Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., General Minister. The subjects include: the progress of the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland and Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia; the Silozi catechism; the Loanja station; requests for financial assistance and loans for the Northern Rhodesian mission; missionary activities in Cape Town, South Africa; the recognition of five parishes in the Cape as coming under Irish Capuchin jurisdiction (1946); the Katima Mulilo mission station in the Caprivi Strip (1949); Fr. Phelim’s appointment as Regular Superior of the Victoria Falls Mission; the completion of the church at Langa (1949); the deaths of Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. and Fr. Donatus Aherne OFM Cap. (1949); Educational matters in the missionary territories; the appointment of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Education Secretary General (1949); the need for more missionary sisters (Holy Faith Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, the Irish Sisters of Charity and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Africa); the opening of the church at the Holy Family Mission, Katima Mulilo. (Mar. 1954); the building of a new convent and girls’ boarding school at Maramba. (July 1953); his proposal to resign as Bishop of Livingstone ‘in line with the gradual Zambianization of the Hierarchy’. (10 Aug. 1969). Reference is also made to the activities of the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.; Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap.; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap. The file also includes a manuscript copy of an ‘Approved Prayer for the Conversion of Africa’ and a typescript copy of a ‘Spiritual portrait of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.’ by Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. (Livingstone, 1992). 19 pp.

Photographic prints submitted for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes prints of Irish cities and towns. Many of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:
• Port of Cork.
• St. Patrick’s Street, Cork.
• Grand Parade, Cork.
• South Mall, Cork.
• O’Connell Street, Dublin.
• Father Mathew Bridge, Dublin.
• River Barrow, Crom-a-Boo Bridge and White’s Castle, Athy, County Kildare.
• Cromwell’s Arch, Youghal, County Cork.
• Galway City Docks.
• Cork City docks.
• The Lord Mayor of Cork ‘throwing the dart’ to define the boundaries and jurisdiction of Cork Harbour.
• Royal Dublin Society, Ballsbridge, Dublin.
• St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh.
• Penrose Quay, Cork.
• View of Clonmel, County Tipperary, from Convent Bridge with St. Mary’s Church in the foreground.
• Four Courts, Dublin.
• Cavendish Row and Parnell Street, Dublin.
• Leinster Market, Dublin.
• Shandon Tower, Cork City.
• City Hall, Cork.
• St. Patrick’s Hill, Cork.
• Gurranabraher, Cork.
• Entrance to the Ford vehicle plant, Cork.
• The Loopline Bridge, Dublin.
• Main Street, Clifden, County Galway.
• Holycross Cottages, Holycross, County Tipperary.
• Merrion Square East, Dublin.
• The Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin.
• Riverfront, Wexford.
• Boyne Viaduct, Drogheda, County Louth.
• Kilkenny City.
• The ship Innisfallen at Penrose Quay, Cork.
• Falls Road, Belfast.
• Ballina, County Mayo.
• Athlone, County Westmeath.
• Derry City, County Londonderry.
• Sarsfield Bridge over the River Shannon, Limerick City.
• The Band Hollow, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• Cavendish Row, Dublin.
• Haulbowline, Cork Harbour.
• Shop front, MacCurtain Street, Cork.
• St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
• Dalkey Island viewed from Killiney Hill, County Dublin.
• Dun Laoghaire Harbour.
• Two religious sisters in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• School on Cove Street, Cork.
• Mill and malting buildings, Prospect Row, Cork.
• Cobh, County Cork.
• Dún Laoghaire harbour, County Dublin.
• The Custom House, Dublin.
• The Mills at Dublin Port.
• Victoria Quay, Dublin.
• Sunday's Well, Cork.
• National Monument, Grand Parade, Cork.
• Cork Marina and the River Lee as seen from Montenotte.
• Fishing on the banks of the River Liffey, near Chapelizod, Dublin.
• The Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin.
• Changing of army guards at Leinster House, Dublin

Photographic prints for an article by Fr. Thomas Halton titled ‘Sheelin: The Fairy Pool’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1959). The file comprises prints of various views of Lough Sheelin in County Cavan. The prints are credited to Bord Fáilte Eireann.

The file includes press-agency (Keystone View Company, Fleet Street, London) photographs of the proclamation of the Spanish Republic in 1931. The prints are annotated on the reverse and include:

• Scenes in San Sebastian at the proclamation of the Republic. 17 Apr. 1931.
• ‘A street at San Sebastian, Spain, crowded with enthusiastic Republicans, after the Republic had been proclaimed there’.
• Soldiers armed with machine guns photographed outside a Church in Madrid, waiting for rioters. 13 May 1931.
• ‘A charge is to be brought against King Alfonso on the grounds that he assisted in the promotion of disturbances in Spain with the object of overthrowing or discrediting the Republican government. As a result of the serious fighting between the Republicans and Monarchists grave results have been registered. The Jesuit convent of Iglesais, and other religious institutes have been attacked and burned down by Republican communists’.
• Sailors joining in the joyous celebrations after the proclamation of the Catalonian Republic in Barcelona. 17 Apr. 1931.
• Anti-Monarchist rioting in Madrid. 12 May 1931.
• ‘Civil Guards dispersing the huge crowd of rioters in the streets of Madrid. Popular hostility to the manner in which the monarchist propaganda is being organised in Madrid culminated in serious anti-monarchist riots, when the Civil Guard fired on the great crowds, during which many casualties were reported. As a result of the tense situation, martial law has been proclaimed in the city’.
• The arrival of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres, President of the Republic, in Barcelona. c.Dec. 1931.
• Scenes in Madrid after proclamation of Republic. 16 Apr. 1931.
• ‘A woman hoisting the Republican flag surrounded by huge crowds after the proclamation of the Republic in Madrid’.
• The King of Spain’s bodyguard entering the Royal Palace in Madrid. 14 Apr. 1931.
• ‘It is officially stated that King Alfonso of Spain has abdicated his throne and it is reported that he is leaving tonight for Portugal with his family, en-route to England’.
• ‘The Place de Gracia in Barcelona, thronged with demonstrators during the election campaign last Saturday’. 29 June 1931.
• Spanish exile returns to Madrid. 17 Apr. 1931.
• ‘Major Franco, the airman revolt leader seen under the Republican flags held by followers when he left the train at a wayside station, during his journey from France to Madrid, to where he is returning from exile under the new regime’.
• Republican flag being hoisted on the top of a motor car after the proclamation of the Republic in Madrid. 16 Apr. 1931.
• The statute of the late Primo de Rivera, the former Dictator of Spain, being hauled through the streets with a rope round the neck, by Republican demonstrators. The statue was destroyed, and the site replaced by the statue of a Republican leader. 18 Apr. 1931.
• A Republican leader carrying the Republican flag being carried shoulder high by enthusiasts to the Town Hall after the proclamation of the Catalonian Republic in Barcelona. 17 Apr. 1931.
• Socialist demonstration in memory of Pablo Iglesias in Madrid. 21 Apr. 1931.
• A group of young republicans wearing Phrygian bonnets and carrying Republican flags in Barcelona. 29 June 1931.
• Crowds welcome the arrival of Republican leaders at Madrid’s train station. 17 Apr. 1931.
• Members of the new Spanish Republican government. 17 Apr. 1931.
• The release of prisoners at San Sebastian following the proclamation of the Spanish Republic. 17 Apr. 1931.
• Armoured cars guard banks against rioting in Madrid. 15 May 1931.
• King Alfonso XIII of Spain receives the new Italian Ambassador just before the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic and his flight into exile.

Photographic prints relating to the Patrician Year celebrations in Ireland in 1961. Patrician Year was marked by twelve months of religious celebration in recognition of 1,500 years of devotion to St. Patrick. The prints were compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1962). The prints show many images of the visit by the Papal Legate Cardinal Gregorio Pietro Agagianian (1895-1971), greeting President Éamon de Valera and his wife, Seán Lemass and many members of the Irish Catholic hierarchy. The images are mainly press photographs.