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Photoengraving plates produced for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The printing plates are not captioned but include the following images:
• Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (1900-1977)
• Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (1910-1977)
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (1902-1979)
• Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968)
• Br. Aidan Byrne OFM Cap. (1887-1963)
• Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (1899-1986)
• Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap.
• Fr. Gerald Barron OFM Cap.
• Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Michael Duffy OFM Cap.
• Fr. Dan Joe O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap.
• Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Kenneth Reynolds OFM Cap.
• Fr. Ronald Grace OFM Cap.
• Br. Lawrence Speight OFM Cap.
• Fr. Flavian Welstead OFM Cap. (1939-2017)
• St. Kevin’s Church (otherwise St. Kevin’s Kitchen) by Peter F. Anson
• Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)

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.

• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on the founding in 1819 by Fr. Mathew of ‘an association which was the precursor of the St. Vincent de Paul Society’. The Josephian Society ‘was a body of young men who taught catechism and instructed poor children to read and write’. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Notebook containing entries relating to Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade extracted from 'Battersby’s Catholic Directory', 1840-7. The entries were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Manuscript, 10 pp.
• Letter from Sr. Mary Aquin, Convent of Mercy, Cobh, County Cork, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re ‘a tradition in the Convent that one Sister saw him [Fr. Mathew] frequently in his last illness and were edified by his holy dispositions’. 4 June 1930. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Letter from Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. confirming that the Christian Brothers ‘have a quite a lot of matter re Fr. Mathew in their records’. Fr. Bonaventure also refers to his efforts to locate unbound and missing editions of 'The Father Mathew Record'. 9 Feb. 1939. Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the numbers who took the Total Abstinence Pledge from 1839-52. The figure for 1839 is given as 63,387. The figure for 1852 is 6,486,851. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re references to Fr. Mathew, Apostle of Temperance in 'Bullarium Ordinis FF. Minorum Francisci Capucinorum', Vols X-XII (1841). Manuscript, 2 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on Bishop John England (1786-1842). ‘From the sermon of the Most Rev. Dr. [Francis] McCormack [1833-1909], Bishop of Galway, at the celebration of the centenary of Carlow College, Sunday, Sept. 23, 1888’. MS, 2 pp.

The file contains the following editions of this local newspaper:
29 June 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 26)
6 July 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 27)
Special commemorative editions of the 'Kilkenny People' published to mark the Congress of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland which was held in the city. The Congress had as its theme ‘Social Problems in Ireland’. The edition of 6 July 1935 contains a report of an address by Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.

A collection of the personal papers of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. relating to his involvement with participants in the national struggle primarily from 1916-22.