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Photographic prints of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. The prints are extant on loose cards taken from a photographic album (CA AMI/2/10/1/2). Most of the prints have been annotated:
Capuchin friars at the Maramba mission station.
Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at the Livingstone Capuchin Friary.
Confirmations at the Maramba mission station.
Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap.
Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940.
‘Fathers, Sisters and girl boarders, Easter 1941’.
The mission car in 1941.
A trek to a mission station in 1937.
‘Hoisting a roof on a mission hut’.
A local cook with his wife at an Irish Capuchin mission station.
The building of the first Capuchin mission church in 1938.
The interior of a mission church in 1939.
Local game shot outside the mission grounds.
Preparations for an eight-week trek through the bush.
The Capuchin community in Sichili in 1937 (Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.).
A local teacher and altar servers.
The building of the father’s dwelling at a mission station.
Scenes on the way to Sesheke (including the local chief’s hut).
The Parish Church and Capuchin Friary in Livingstone.

Letters of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (1898-1953) relating to his experiences as a missionary in Barotseland. The correspondents include Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.; Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap.; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Reference is made to the work of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. who is in ‘some God-forsaken native village about 9 days from here building a school [and to] Fr. Phelim [O’Shea OFM Cap.] and Fr. Seraphin [Nesdale OFM Cap.] in Loanja’. (11 Dec. 1933). Later, Fr. Fintan refers to the establishment of further mission stations around Mongu and ‘other remote centres … where we won’t conflict with already established Protestant missions’. He also affirmed that ‘Barotseland is not “virgin soil”, it is chuck full of Protestant Missions, some of them 30 days by river from Livingstone’ (20 June 1934).

Press photographs (mainly of Capuchin friars and Observant Franciscan friars) compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Some of the photographs are annotated. The file includes the following images:

• The Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. at celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchins in Kilkenny in 1948.
• The celebration of Mass at St. Adam and St. Eve’s Church in Dublin.
• Gabriel Fallon (1898-1980) with rosary beads blessed by the Pope for presentation to the actress, Margaret O’Brien.
• The consecration of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 Sept. 1950.
• The arrival of President Seán T. O’Kelly and Archbishop John Charles McQuaid at St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, for a Mass commemorating the 1798 Rebellion.
• Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. preaching in St. Francis Church, Kilkenny, in 1948.
• Fr. Ephrem O’Sullivan OFM Cap. (1904-1958).
• The funeral of Chief Superintendent Sean Gantly at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Merchants' Quay, Dublin, in January 1948. With images of his funeral procession along O’Connell Street.
• Presentation by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. to Captain Robert Monteith.
• Rev. H. Canon Murray speaking at a Pioneer Total Abstinence Association meeting. Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. is also in attendance.
• Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap. (1896-1972) speaking at a sale of work in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions.

A bound volume titled ‘Book No. 2 / Blocks on Hand’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The block prints are listed by box number and other locations in the Capuchin Publications' office. The volume appears to have originally been used to list names, addresses and amounts subscribed (possibly for the Third Order of St. Francis Sodality, or the Association of Patrons of 'The Capuchin Annual'). The volume includes the following copy prints:
• Cardinal József Mindszenty (1892-1975), Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary.
• Drawings by Richard King.
• Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
• The Most Reverend Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi and Simla.
• Consecration of Monsignor Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone by the Most Rev. Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio, at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 September 1950.
• Francis P. Matthews, Ambassador of the United States to Ireland.
• Powerscourt House, South William Street, Dublin.
• St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare.
• Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (1904-1989), Irish Capuchin Mission Secretary.
• Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. (1893-1977), Master of Novices, with newly professed friars in Rochestown, County Cork.

A bound volume titled ‘Book No. 2 / Blocks on Hand’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The block prints are numbered Block 1-91. The volume appears to have originally been used to list names, addresses and amounts subscribed (possibly for the Third Order of St. Francis Sodality, or the Association of Patrons of 'The Capuchin Annual'). The volume includes the following copy prints:
• The Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia.
• Fr. Clement of Milwaukee OFM Cap., Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans.
• The Sacred Heart Sodality Choir, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
• Drawings by Peter F. Anson.
• Drawings by James Malton (1761-1803), an Irish engraver.
• Drawings by Richard King.
• St. Patrick’s Basilica, Lough Derg, County Donegal.
• The Capuchin Friary, Prague.
• Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., editor of 'The Capuchin Annual'.
• Archbishop Ettore Felici (1881-1951), Papal Nuncio to Ireland.
• Captain Robert Monteith.
• Aodh De Blacam (1890-1951).
• Lough Veagh, County Donegal.
• Alexandra Park, Belfast.
• Armagh City.
• City Hall, Beflast.
• Lismore Castle, County Waterford.
• Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. with Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
• The Custom House, Dublin.
• Carl Hardebeck (1869-1945).
• Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at the Grotto, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
• Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.