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A collection of prints including many of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (Bishop of Livingstone from 1959-74). Most of the prints are un-captioned. The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The captioned photographs include:
• Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia in c.1931. The images were probably taken during a trip to Victoria Falls.
• Group of Irish Capuchin friars in Northern Rhodesia. Front row (from left to right): Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. Back row: Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. The photograph was probably taken after the installation of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic on 25 Nov. 1936.
• Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. at a Parish Council meeting at the new church, Shimano, Mangango Mission. c.1970.
• Bishop O’Shea with Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. in 1967.
• Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.
• Bishop O’Shea at a retreat in Mongu in Aug. 1974. The group includes religious sisters and Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap.
• Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with the Little Sisters of St. Francis.
• Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with Sr. Colmcille and three new novices.
• Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with the President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda.

Letters of Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. (1902-1957). The main correspondent is Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Other correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. Provincial Minister. The subjects include: the progress of the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa, particularly the ‘coloured localities of Athlone, Parrow and Claremont’; arrangements for the opening of the mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia; the language difficulties. Fr. Alban wrote ‘The big drawback of the Church in South Africa has been the dearth of English-speaking priests. Cape Town has them. Port Elizabeth has some. Johannesburg has a few. But almost everywhere else, French, German, Dutch have possession’. (21 Mar. 1931); requests for mass stipends (18 Sept. 1931); information concerning the forty square miles of the Capuchin mission in South Africa including ‘Athlone, Crawford, Jamestown, Belgravia Estate, the Welcome Estate and Langa’. (6 Nov. 1931); the construction of churches, mission schools and orphanages; the establishment of a canonical foundation by the Irish Capuchins in Athlone, Cape Town. (14 Jan. 1932); the deprivations faced by the ‘native population’ in Cape Town. (26 Feb. 1932); the education of the coloured population of Cape Province, South Africa. (18 Mar. 1932); Fr. Alban’s attempts to hire John McCormack, the renowned Irish tenor, to perform in aid of the poor of Athlone Parish, Cape Town. (5 Aug. 1932); on the necessity of holding property in the Athlone Vicariate. Fr. Alban affirms that ‘the Athlone Catholics are poor, miserable coloured native people on the verge of starvation’. (25 Nov. 1932); the building of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Athlone, Cape Town. (9 June 1933); Fr. Alban’s work as a missionary since his ordination in 1925. He wrote ‘I have devoted my time exclusively to the missionary life – almost four years with the Californian Indians, and almost five with the coloured and native people of Athlone’. (27 July 1934); the visitation of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. to South Africa. (6 Sept. 1935); his desire to return to Ireland. He reminds Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, that he is ‘the last of the first three [priests] who came here in 1929’. (6 June 1951). The file also includes a letter from Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, transmitting news from Fr. Alban re the number of communicants in Athlone parish. (19 Nov. 1931).

Letter from Richard Smyth, 924 Summit Avenue, New York City, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, regarding a proposal for the reparation of the bodies of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., the latter from a ‘non-Catholic cemetery in Oregon, USA’. He affirms that ‘it was impossible to make any move before this time, as one or more of the political parties in Ireland would use the occasion to forward their own political interests’.

Letters from Archbishops Arthur Hinsley, Antonio Riberi, David Mathew and James Robert Knox, successive Apostolic Delegates in Mombasa, Kenya, to Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The letters refer to the work of the Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. Archbishop David Mathew also refers to his hope that the Irish Capuchins may be prevailed upon to take charge of the College of St. Louis in the Seychelles (23 Apr. 1947). Archbishop Knox expresses his hope that an assistant will be appointed for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. to assist in his work with the Conference of Northern Rhodesian Bishops (24 May 1957).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Minute Book’. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private / 1954’. However, the volume includes copy letters from 1944 to 1957. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., (4 Sept. 1957, refers to Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Alfred Chester Beatty and Éamon de Valera), Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland, United States), Doran Hurley, Fr. Peter Keane OMI, Seán Neeson, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Bishop Denis J. Moynihan, Fr. Donal O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister M. Dolorine, Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap., Kevin MacManus, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., John Joseph Hearne (Irish Ambassador to the United States), Thomas MacGreevy, R.F. Browne (Chairman, Electricity Supply Board), Joan Hammond, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford, County Kerry), John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), Pádraig De Brún, John English & Co. (printers), Willem Sassen (Pedro Lagrave, Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Michael A. Bowles, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Maud Gonne MacBride, C.P. Curran, ‘The Irish Weekly’, Peter F. Anson, Fr. Percy Jones (Saint John’s, Clifton, Melbourne, Australia), Fr. Emil Heiring (Norwood, California), John J. Sheehy (25 Castle Street, Tralee, County Kerry), Seán Moylan, Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Myles Farrell, A.J. Connolly (Principal Officer, Department of Industry and Commerce, Dublin), Fr. Louis A. Gales (Catechetical Guild, 128 East Tenth Street, St. Paul, Minnesota), Sister M. Leonard (Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin), Frank Saurin (Hospitals’ Trust Ltd., Merrion Road, Dublin), Barry Fitzgerald, James Mason, Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Brinsley McNamara, Maurice Walsh, Fr. Marius McAuliffe OFM (Franciscan Friary, Maryfield, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia, refers to the death of his brother, Fr. Frank Moynihan, p. 63), Michael O’Higgins, Clyde Twelvetrees, Máirín Ní Chatháin, Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), Joseph McGrath (Cabinteely House, County Dublin), Seán O’Duffy (50 Cashmir Road, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Germaine Stockley, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Seumas MacManus, Denis MacDonald (Irish Embassy to the Holy See, Rome), John Hennig, Máirín Allen, Denis Gywnn, John Ford, Frank Fahy, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Frieda Le Pla, Seán MacBride (Roebuck House, Clonskea, Dublin), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Jack Horgan (8 Ballymun Road, Glasnevin, Dublin), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap., Fr. Francis J. Tucker (Prince Rainer’s Palace, Monaco), Molllie Baxter (43 Seapoint Avenue, Monkestown, County Dublin), Robert Brennan, Fr. William Purcell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Sister Mary de Pazzi (Rosemount, Booterstown, County Dublin), Sister M. Agnes (The Convent, Larne, County Antrim), Bríd Breathnach (384 Clontarf Road, Dublin), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Bishop Daniel Mageean, D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Stephen J. Moloney O.Cist. (Mounty Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Vianney Cashell OFM Cap., Marie Kelly (67 Poodle Park, Kimmage, Dublin), Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Jack Dempsey (61 Tolka Park, Finglas, Dublin), Archdeacon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Michael F. Moynihan (2 Capel Street, Dublin), E. Nally (37 Terenure Road North, Dublin), Hector Legge, Fr. Anslem Moynihan OP (Dominican Priory, Cork), Teresa Cahillane (Duagh, Camp, County Kerry), Bernard Sheppard (Saint Conleth’s, Clyde Road, Dublin), Reginald Lawless (27 Arklow Street, NCR, Dublin), Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Ida Monahan, Mariano de Yturralde (Spanish Ambassador to Ireland), Liam MacGabhann (Beaumont Estate, Churchtown, Dublin), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara, Paddy Reynolds, Peter F. Anson, Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Bartholomew Murphy (57 Booterstown Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin), Francis McCullagh, Donal O’Cahill (27 High Street, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister M. Pius (Bon Secours Hospital, Glasnevin, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, ‘Independent’ Newspapers, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Ann Connor (384 Clontarf Road, Dublin), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., J.J. O’Leary (Gneeveguilla, Rathmore, County Kerry), C.J. Scarffe-Cody, Fr. J.J. O’Connor (Presbytery, Castlegregory, County Kerry), Seumas Rourke (Saint Aidan’s, Roebuck, Dundrum, County Dublin), Dr. George A. Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Kevin P. MacManus (art department, ‘Independent’ Newspapers, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Captain Eoin de Blacam, Michael J. Lennon, Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Tadhg Gahan, Margaret McDonnell (Dalguise, Monkstown, County Dublin), Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), and Josephine Moynihan (Meenascarthy, Camp, County Kerry). Includes the draft a speech made by Fr. Senan for the Na Fianna hurling and football club in Dublin (20 Apr. 1956, p. 114-6), and a draft article titled ‘Tertiary Activities’ (3 May 1956, pp 121-4).

File containing draft articles submitted by Liam Brophy, 39 Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, with a view to publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes:
• Grief in a storm. Enclosed with a letter to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. noting the death of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., former Provincial Minister.
• A dramatic poem (for four voices and chorus) on the Rising in Dublin, Easter 1916. 13 pp.
• The Pungent Father Prout / Splendid Effrontery of the Wit of Watergrasshill.
• Paul Claudel (1868-1955) / Poet of Seraph Joy’. 5 pp.
• City Crowds. 1 p.

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers associated with 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume contains letters to: Fr. J. Doyle, James Flynn, Lieutenant-General M.J. Costello, Dr Patrick J. McLaughlin, Cahill & Co., printers, Dollard Printing House, Professor J.J. Murphy, Pauline Maguire, Patrick Cunningham, secretary of the Tuam Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Kathleen M. Murphy, James Lyons, Fr. Denis Keogh OFM Cap. J. Fairbairn, the Rank Film Organisation, John Irvine, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., Sister Joseph Xaveria, Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, National Gallery, London, The British Museum, London, Tate Gallery, London, Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Stephen Rynne, Mannix Joyce, Sydney Z. Ehler, Charles C. O’Connell, Patrick J. Meagher, Arthur O’Callaghan, Fr. J.J. Galvin CSsR., Elizabeth Rivers, Capitola R. Guthrie, National College of Art, Dublin, David O’Mahony, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., and Doran Hurley.

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.