Photographic prints of Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Fr. Nicholas O’Brien OFM Cap., Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap., Bishop Anthony McFeely and other clerics at a reception to celebrate the official opening of the new Ard Mhuire Friary.
Photographic prints of student friars in Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. The file includes images of the students at recreation and prints of the Friary Church. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Students, Ards’
Photographic prints of the exterior of Ard Mhuire Friary and members of the Capuchin community bathing in the waters of Sheephaven Bay. The prints are date-stamped on the reverse.
Clipping of a photograph (and article) from the 'Liverpool Daily Post & Mercury' referring to the wedding of Captain Sir Pieter Canzius Van Bloommestein Bam and Ena Dingwall Tasca Stewart of Ards House, County Donegal, at St. Andrew’s Church, Wells Street, London, on 26 July 1910.
Clipping of an article titled ‘Lady Stewart-Bam at Ards House’ published in 'The Gentlewoman' magazine. The article refers to the marriage of Captain Sir Pieter Canzius Van Bloommestein Bam and Ena Dingwall Tasca Stewart of Ards House, County Donegal, on 26 July 1910. The article also provides an account of the Stewart-Bam residence in Ards, County Donegal. With a photographic print of Lady Stewart-Bam and Ards House. The article reads: 'Lady Stewart-Bam, although the heiress to an Irish estate, was not born in Ireland: but here heart is often with her people there, and she loves nothing so much as to find herself surrounded by those who hail from the “distressful Isle”. She told the writer that when she settles down in her own home in London, she intends to have none but her “own people” about her as servants'. The file includes a photostat copy of the article.
Clippings from 'Country Life' advertising the sale of the ‘well-known and historical Mansion of Ards and its demesne … extending to 2,000 acres’. The file includes photostat copies (and information re) the article.
Clipping of an article from the 'Derry Journal' referring to the ordinations by the Most Rev. Bernard O’Kane, Bishop of Derry, of Capuchin friars in St. Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny. The clipping is super-imposed onto an article titled ‘Doe Castle / Historic Donegal Landmark / Lecture by Mr. E. Durning’. The text of the lecture is in Irish.
A complete copy of 'The Tatler and Bystander', 18 Feb. 1948, which includes an article (and photographic print) re the wedding in London of Pieter Stewart Bam (1914-2001) and Margaret Agnes Kitson. A manuscript annotation notes that ‘Pieter Stewart Bam is the son of the former owner of Ards House’.
