A small collection of prints relating to the South African mission assembled by Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap. (1938-2010) for historical research purposes. The file includes:
• The exterior of St. Theresa’s School in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, South Africa. The annotation reads: ‘This part was built in 1933. Two moveable partitions made it one large room for Mass (3 classrooms). The third room (back part) added to the original 2 classrooms’.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. on the occasion of his visitation to South Africa in 1957. The friars include Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Raphael Curran OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap.
• The exterior of Parow Church and Presbytery in Cape Town.
• Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) and Fr. Bernard Cronin OFM Cap. in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, in c.1980.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. and Br. Kees Thönissen OFM Cap. in the Welcome Estate, Cape Town, in c.1980.
The sub-title reads: ‘A look, in pictures and words, at the lives of everyday people in one of the world’s most complex lands’. Published by Avroy Shlain Cosmetics Ltd. Includes printed insert from Roger Ballard-Tremeer, South African Embassy, London.
This series includes records relating to Irish Capuchin missionary activity in South Africa which commenced with the arrival of the first friars in 1929. The series comprises material such as correspondence, financial reports, minutes, journals, newsletters, maps, publications and a collection of photographic albums and prints.
Creator: Patrick MacCarthy, P. J. O'Donovan, J. O'Farrell, Bank of Ireland, Cork Marts
Receipts for dividends, prize bonds, guidelines on prize bonds and correspondence relating to the renting of land at Upton.
A studio photographic print of Sophie Bryant, an Anglo-Irish mathematician, feminist, suffragist, and educationist. The print is by W. & D. Downey / 57 & 61 Ebury Street, London. Bryant's signature (in pencil) is extant on the card.
Includes; collection of Irish songs written in English.
An anthology edited by E.G.B, Published in honor of those who died and those who were incarcerated. The collection includes: We shall rise again, Easter 1916/James Connolly--The Wayfarer/P.H.Pearse – ‘the remaining contributions, many of which are not published elsewhere, are unsigned’.
Charles G. Mortimer, ‘Song prayers of the church / a brief anthology in Latin and English’ (Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, [1937]). CTSI Pamphlet no. 1482.
A propaganda handbill urging support for Joseph McGuinness. The poem reads:
‘And now, says I, where’s your right hand,
To strike a blow for the rebel band,
And drive John Redmond out of the land?
Now, who are you going to vote for?’
Draft of an article by Tom Barry titled ‘Some West Cork Engagements / 1920-1921’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1970).