A volume titled ‘Blocks / Father Mathew Record / The Capuchin Annual / subjects: Capuchins / Saints / Beati / Friars / Friaries / Houses / Colleges’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume includes the following copy prints: • Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. • The garden of the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. • Certificate of reception of Cardinal Joseph McRory, Archbishop of Armagh, into the Third Order of St. Francis. 11 Mar. 1928. • The Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork. • Irish Capuchin houses in France in the eighteenth century. • Engraving of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin. • Students in Rochestown College, County Cork. • Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. • General Chapter of the Capuchin Order in Rome, 1926. • Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia OSFC (1809-1889). • A group of Irish Capuchin students in Rome. • Cartoons by Tom Lalor. • The exterior of the old Capuchin Chapel on Church Street (c.1861). • The Most Rev. Thomas-Louis Connolly OSFC (1814-1876), Archbishop of Halifax. • Views of Dublin life, a collection of drawings by Seán MacManus. • Fr. Sebastian O’Brien OFM Cap. (1867-1931). • A view of Church Street looking northwards towards North King Street. • Mary Redmond (1863-1930), sculptor. • Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954). • Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935) in the United States. • Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965). • Depictions of St. Francis and various Capuchin Franciscan Saints. • Capuchin Franciscan bishops.
A bound volume containing printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual' and in 'The Father Mathew Record'. The volume is titled ‘Letter Book’ (gilt-title to spine) and contains carbon-paper pages. The volume includes a wide variety of copy images and illustrations: • Photographs by T.J. Molloy. • Buildings and scenes in Dublin. • Drawings by Seán MacManus (p. 57). • Ships and nautical imagery. • Aircraft. • Irish mythological characters and imagery. • Christmas and nativity scenes (pp 122, 141). • Illustrations from the Irish Revolution (pp 79, 112, 113). • Drawings by Richard King. • Children and cartoon characters. • The interior of Father Mathew Hall, Cork (p. 122). • Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). • Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal. • Author and contributor photographs. • Portraits of Irish Capuchin friars. • Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. • Illustrations of Franciscan life by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. • Bust of Fr. Theobald Mathew by John Hogan (p. 336).
A bound volume containing printed copies of block pulls for illustrations in 'The Capuchin Annual' and in 'The Father Mathew Record'. The images are numbered and (in some instances) dated. The volume includes many copies of the illustrations of Richard J. King (including St. Patrick and St. Brigid), and photographs of various Irish Capuchin friars including the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone. The volume also includes several obituary articles (with image content) for Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., and images of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., Richard J. King, Aodh de Blacam, and missionary friars and buildings in Africa and in the United States. The volume also contains the following clippings: • Signed cheque for £10 of George Bernard Shaw subscribing to 'The Capuchin Annual'. See image above. • An article titled ‘Irish Franciscan Humor’ published in 'The Christian Family and Our Missions' (March 1950) reflecting on Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. and his artwork for the 'Annual'. • Photograph of Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. presenting The Capuchin Periodicals’ Cup at the National Drama Festival of Ireland (June 1950).
File containing illustrations for 'The Capuchin Annual' by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. (1910-1958). These humorous black-ink drawings depict aspects of Capuchin Franciscan life and were regularly published in the 'Annual'. Fr. Gerald also served as assistant-editor of the publication. The themes include Christmas festivities, pranks and mischiefs involving Capuchins (some of the friars depicted, including Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., were known to Fr. Gerald), sports, music, everyday chores and religious rituals.
Sets of postcard prints of Irish Saints designed by Richard King (1907-1974) and commissioned for 'The Capuchin Annual'. The prints depict St. Brendan, St. Patrick, St. Ita, St. Fiacre, St. Senan, St. Colmcille, St. Brigid and St. Laurence O’Toole. Each one of the postcards shows the Saint (in colour) on one side, with a postcard layout on the reverse with the name of the Saint, the artist (Risteárd Ó Cionga) and the copyright statement.
Expenses account of James Joseph O’Kelly. An accompanying note is endorsed ‘account for arms / £206 / expenses to Dublin’. Both the note and the one-page expenses account are endorsed ‘EE 7205’. The expenses relate to O’Kelly’s travel from France to Dublin.
Letters from Douglas Hyde (‘An Craoibhín’), 1 Earlsfort Place, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. giving his recollections of Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’) and his commentary on the publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”’.
Letter from Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne), 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to ‘Brother Shannon’ (Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.), St. Bonaventure’s Capuchin Hostel, Cork, re the possibility of publishing of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin” in the ‘Sinn Féin’ newspaper. The file includes a copy of MacSwiney’s letter to Diarmuid Ó Murchadha about the matter in which she suggests that the journal would have a ‘wider and possibly more appreciative circle of readers’ in ‘Sinn Féin’. With Ó Murchadha’s reply to MacSwiney.
Letters from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain), An Cumann Gaelach, University College Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. re Irish language content in 'The Father Mathew Record' and corrections and emendations to the serial publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”' (by Tadhg Ó Murchadha) in the periodical.
Letter from Terence MacSwiney (Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne) to Diarmuid [Ó Murchadha]. The letter encloses a printed notice from John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, Chief Press Censor for Ireland, asking newspaper editors to refrain from publishing a statement issued by the members of a Cork club of Sinn Féin re an attack on the club by Royal Irish Constabulary (5 December 1917).
