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Lists of Irish Capuchin friars at various mission stations in Northern Rhodesia. The list is arranged under the following locations:
St. Mary’s, Livingstone (Rt. Rev. Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap., Vicar Apostolic)
St. Theresa’s Pro-Cathedral, Livingstone
Christ the King Mission, Maramba
St. Fidelis Mission, Sichili
Holy Family Mission, Katima Mulilo
St. Joseph’s Mission, Mankoya
St. Francis Mission, Mongu
St. Patrick’s Mission, Kalabo
Sancta Maria Mission

35 mm colour slides of photographs taken by Br. Joseph Murphy OFM Cap. (1929-2009). The majority are images of missionary work in Zambia. Br. Joseph ministered in Zambia from 1958-79. Many of the slides relate to the visitation of the mission undertaken by Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (1923-2004), Provincial Minister, in 1968. The file includes:
• Local leprosy patients
• Fr. Berard inspecting construction work on mission buildings
• Capuchin friars with Irish religious sisters working in Zambia
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. and Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. greeting Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
• Mission churches and residences in Zambia
• Friars performing baptisms and celebrating other religious ceremonies with the local populace
• Victoria Falls.
• Patients undergoing procedures in mission hospitals.
• Fr. John Grace OFM Cap.
• Sioma Falls
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Capuchin friars at Dublin Airport awaiting his return journey to Zambia. Several general views of the airport are also extant.
The file also includes several non-mission photographs including images of a Pontifical Mass celebrated by Pope Paul VI in St. Peter’s in Rome in September 1970, St. Bonaventure's Hostel in Cork, and several images of family and other relations of Br. Joseph.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘II’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Edward Joseph Little (Cliftonville, Bray, County Wicklow), Germaine Stockley, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. P.J. Brophy, F. O’Reilly (Secretary, Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Susan Hughes Goetz, Redmond Corbett, Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, Holywell, North Wales), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Albert Dryer (11 Kenyon Street, Fairfield, Sydney), Seumas MacManus, John English & Co. (printers), Charles Travers (Secretary, Owen Roe O’Neill Memorial Committee), Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Patrick John Little, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Margaret Devlin, Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia), Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Mary Hardebeck, Gerald Pyne (Harehills, Leeds), Adolf Morath (photographer), Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, Matthew Feehan (editor of the ‘Sunday Press’), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Zoltan Lewinter-Frankl, Patrick J. Doyle (Columbia Avenue, Hammond, Indiana), Denis MacDaid, Benedict Kiely, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, George Francis Troup Horne (Birbeck College, London), Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Séamus Campbell, and Max Gluckman.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D 5’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Nicolò Falchi, Jocelyn Harcourt, John MacCourt, Adolf Morath (photographer), Patrick John Little, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., John English & Co. (printers), Bishop John Dignan, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Rita McGoldrick, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Victor Waddington, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., the Catholic Stage Guild, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Kathleen Bowles, Aodh de Blacam, and Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959). Enclosures include agenda of meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (Feb. 1951) and a print of St. Augustine’s Abbey Church, Fox Hill, Nassau, Bahamas.

The grave of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in Lukulu.

Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars with Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. probably taken during his visitation in Africa in 1963. The photograph is annotated on the reverse giving the names of those present:
‘front row, left to right, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Alexander Halligan OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (Regular Superior), Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. Back, from left to right: Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap.; Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap., Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap.’.