Lists of Capuchin friars in Zambia from 1931-99. The list was compiled for research purposes by Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap. (d. 21 Dec. 2012). The list gives the years in which each of the 101 named friars served in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia). The file also includes personnel lists for the friars attached to the Vice-Province of St. Francis, Zambia. The information is given under the headings of name, address and contact details.
Letter from Fr. Kevin OSF to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking support for the building of the first local Franciscan Sisters’ convent at the Nsambya Mission in Kampala, Uganda. The appeal reads: ‘There is a great field of work to be done there, and we need the help of these native Sisters at all the missions so badly’.
The exterior of St. Bonaventure's Capuchin Hostel, Victoria Cross, Cork. Construction work on the near-complete Cork County Hall on Carrigrohane Road is visible in the background. Completed in 1968 and designed by Cork county architect, Patrick McSweeney, the 16-storey building was some 64.3 metres high, and supplanted Dublin’s Liberty Hall as the country’s tallest building. It has since been superseded as the Republic’s tallest structure by the 17-storey (68 metre) high Elysian building also located in Cork.
A collection of photographic prints showing the North and South Sioma Falls region of the Zambezi River, Western Province, Zambia. The prints were produced by Geo Survey International Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya, for Br. Andew O’Shea OFM Cap. Some of the prints have been annotated: ‘Linanga’, ‘Sioma Plain’, ‘Spencer’s Village’, and ‘Ferry Crossing’.
Photographic prints of Mangango leprosarium, Western Province, Zambia. The prints show a group of local children, a feast in progress in the leprosarium and a visit by Sr. Joseph (and her sister from New York) to Mangango.
Photographic prints of scenes at an out-station near the Sioma Mission in Zambia. The images show groups of children and parents receiving food and medical care.
Group photograph showing the first scout group in the Caprivi Strip founded by Fr. Eugene Mooney OFM Cap. The image shows the scouts with Fr. John Grace OFM Cap. and Fr. Malachy Breslin OFM Cap.
Litaba za Sicaba sa Malozi by Adolphe Jalla (Morija, Basutoland: Oxford University Press, fifth edition, 1954). The was translated as a 'History of the Barotse Nation' (Lusaka, 1921).
