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Draft stories by Diarmuid Breathnach, 31 Victoria Road, Rathgar, Dublin, titled ‘Pretension’, ‘Clonmacnoise’, ‘When the robe was rent’, and ‘Nationalism’.

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The volume contains letters to: Seán Keating, J. Rooney, Dollard Printing House, Charles C. O’Connell, Dorothea Barclay, Basil Payne, Monsignor Patrick J. McLaughlin, Liam Brophy, Kevin Faller, Thomas MacGreevy, Michael Bowles, Professor J.J. Murphy, Desmond Fennell, James Lyons, Mannix Joyce, Margaret Holland, Lady Dunsany, Nora Niland, Nuala Moran, Grace Perry, Michael J. Lennon, John P. Barton, Augustine Martin, Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., Fr. Victor Power, Timothy O’Mahony, Senator Michael B. Yeats, and Padraig O’Kelly.
• A letter to Josephine Faul notes that ‘we try to present faithfully Irish culture in the "Annual" to our own people wherever they are’ (19 Jan. 1965).
• A letter to Timothy O’Mahony notes that ‘1916 sets me a very difficult problem of finding new writers and new information or I should say information presented in a new way. It is this approach that will give our coverage of it real value for our readers and for the period itself’ (2 Feb. 1965).
• A letter to J. Kotoun affirms that ‘a publication such as "The Capuchin Annual", though of high prestige value, is run by an Order and works on a shoe-string. We produce it as a Catholic and patriotic effort which has, I have no doubt, done much good for these objects for over thirty years’ (2 Feb. 1965).

Photographic prints submitted by P.F. Lyons, 146 Cork Road, Waterford. Most of the prints are captioned. The file includes the following images:

• A view of Waterford City from the opposite (Ferrybank) side of the River Suir.
• The Peoples’ Park, Waterford City.
• The Quay at Waterford City.
• Bunmahon, County Waterford.
• Clodiagh River, Portlaw, County Waterford.
• An Irish Cottage on the Road to Clifden, County Galway.

File of photographs relating to Cardinal William Conway (1913-1977), Archbishop of Armagh. The photographs relate primarily to his elevation to the Cardinalate in 1965. Some of the prints were published in ‘Ceremonies in Saint Peter’s Basilica when Ireland’s Primate became Ireland’s Seventh Cardinal’, 'The Capuchin Annual' (1966), pp 81-4. The file includes prints credited to Pontificia Fotografia Felici, Rome, and Lensman Press Photo Agency, Dublin. With a photographic supplement from the 'Irish Independent', 17 Mar. 1965, celebrating Conway’s elevation as Cardinal.

File containing photographs, letters, transcripts and newspaper clippings relating to a tribute article for Padraig Ó Caoimh (Paddy O’Keefe, 1898-1964), published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1965), pp 280-323. The article was titled ‘Symposium of tributes to the late Pádraig Uasal Ó Caoimh, General Secretary, Cumann Lúth Chleas Gael’. The file also includes black and white prints used to illustrate the text. One of the prints shows Ó Caoimh with Monsignor D. Murphy, Doney Cremin and Cornelius F. Neenan. Other prints show Ó Caoimh’s burial service in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, which was attended by Éamon de Valera. The file includes letters from Jack Lynch, James Fagan and Sean Ó Síocháin. A copy of the official programme for the All Ireland Hurling final (6 Sept. 1964) with match ticket-stub is also extant.

A copy of the speech by Ruairí Brugha (1917-2006) at a Roger Casement Commemoration at Murlough, County Antrim, on 1 Aug. 1965.

Draft poetry submitted by Beda Herbert for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record'. The poems are titled ‘Our Lady of Night’, ‘Queen of Silence’, ‘Oculos ad nos convertere’.

File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘Rev. Theobald Mathew OSFC / The Apostle of Temperance’, 'Temperance Catholic Advocate', Nov. 1918.
• ‘Another Father Mathew / American Clergyman’s Appeal’, Weekly 'Irish Independent', 6 Oct. 1934.
• ‘Historic Georgian Building on Cork Quay for Auction / South Parish Presbytery’, 'Evening Echo', 7 May 1965. The article refers to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the Capuchin Chapel on Blackamoor Lane near the South Gate Bridge in the city.
• ‘Fr. Mathew and the South Liberties / Historic Quarter of Cork Suburbs’, 'Cork Weekly Examiner', 14 June 1941.
• ‘Oratory requiem for Mr. Theobald Mathew’, 'The Universe', 30 June 1939. Theobald Mathew was a great-grand-nephew of the Apostle of Temperance.
• ‘Dublin memorial to Father Mathew’, 'Irish Independent', 10 Oct. 1939. Refers to the installation of a commemorative plaque on Father Mathew (formerly Whitworth) Bridge, in Dublin.
• ‘Night-long travel to honour Fr. Mathew’, 'Evening Echo', 23 June 1956.
• ‘Tipperary honours the noble name of Mathew’, 'The Tipperary Star', 1 July 1939. Refers to the unveiling of a memorial statue of Fr. Mathew in Thomastown, County Tipperary. The memorial was unveiled by Bishop David Mathew, a great-grand-nephew of Fr. Theobald. The ceremony was also attended by Éamon de Valera.
• ‘Work of Father Mathew / Kinsale Priest’s Lecture in Dunmanway’, 'Southern Star', 27 Apr. 1940.
• Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap., ‘Fr. Mathew and the Young Irelanders’.
• ‘Father Mathew Tower, Glanmire Hill, Cork’, 'Irish Independent', 12 Jan. 1935.
• ‘The Queen and Father Mathew’, 'Irish Press', 10 July 1950.

Photographic prints by Seán Gaynor, Terenure, Dublin. The prints include images of various scenic locations and townscapes. Most of the images have been captioned. The file includes the following images:

• Bunmahon Strand, County Waterford.
• Lough Corrib, County Galway.
• Slievenamon Mountain, County Tipperary.
• Boatstrand Harbour, County Waterford.
• Two girls fishing in a pond in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
• A small church in Piltown, County Kilkenny.
• Inishmore (Aran Islands) off the coast of County Galway.
• The Blue Pool, Glengarriff, County Cork.
• Torc Waterfall, Killarney, County Kerry.
• Healy Pass, County Kerry.
• Kilkenny Castle.
• Portarlington ESB Station, County Offaly.
• Armagh Cathedral.
• Church of St. Pius X, Terenure, Dublin.
• Rathgormack Parish Church, County Waterford.
• Long Hall, University College Cork.
• Spanish Arch, Galway City.
• Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary.
• Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin.