Pantomime Performance, Father Mathew Hall, Dublin
- IE CA HA/1/9/7/4
- Part
- c.1955
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Pantomime Performance, Father Mathew Hall, Dublin
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping from the 'Daily Mirror' (5 Sept. 1913) with views of the destroyed tenements and children left homeless by the disaster on Church Street on 2 September 1913.
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A carte de visite of Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC (1860-1927). The card is annotated on the reverse: ‘First president of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade’.
Memorandum of agreement for Friary building
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Memorandum of agreement of Stephen Lalor [var. Lawlor], builder, Walkin Street, Kilkenny with Fr. Fidelis Neary OSFC, guardian, Capuchin Friary. The agreement (compiled by M.M. Murphy, solicitor) stipulates that Lalor will complete the building works on the Capuchin Friary and Chapel in Kilkenny according to the specifications set down by Samuel Francis Hynes, architect. The total cost of the works and labour is £3,430 13s 4d.
Letters of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
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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.
O’Shea, Timothy Phelim, 1902-1979, Capuchin priest
Capuchin Friars with Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood, Sesheke
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Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (centre) with Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. (left) and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. (right), and religious sisters (Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood) in Sesheke, Zambia.
Holy Cross Sisters' Convent, Kalabo, Zambia
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An image of the exterior of the Holy Cross Sisters' convent at Kalabo in Zambia. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘African Sisters' Covent at Kalabo'.
Irish Merchant Ship, Cape Town
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An image of the ‘Irish Larch’, an Irish Shipping Limited merchant vessel, docked at the Port of Cape Town in South Africa.
Snow-covered Countryside around Ard Mhuire Friary
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An image of Capuchin friars enjoying wintry conditions in the countryside around Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal.
Terence MacSwiney Memoriam Card
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A memoriam card for Terence MacSwiney. The card reads ‘In Loving Memory of Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne [Terence MacSwiney] TD, Commandant 1st Cork Brigade IRA. Lord Mayor of Cork. Who died for his Country in Brixton Prison, England, 26th October, 1920. (4th Year of the Irish Republic)’ with a portrait photograph and religious text. This particular card gives the date of his death as 26 October, but MacSwiney died on the morning of 25 October.