Report of the executive committee of the Catholic Total Abstinence Federation of Ireland, 1923-26. The agenda for the fourth triennial Congress of the Federation, (held on 24-25 June 1926) is also attached.
Report of the Canonical Visitation in South Africa by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, St. Bonaventure’s Friary, Cork. With a copy cover letter addressed to Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., Minister General. The report on missionary activity in South Africa is arranged under the following headings:
Introduction and History of the Mission
Athlone: Parish of St. Mary of the Angels
a. Spiritual Matters and Horarium
b. Material Matters – Friary, Church and Schools
c. Financial Matters
Langa: Saint Louis Mission Station and Church of St. Anthony of Padua
a. Spiritual Matters
b. Material Matters – Church and Schools
c. Financial Matters
Welcome Estate: St. Therese Catholic Mission
a. Spiritual Matters
b. Material Matters
Parow: Church of the Immaculate Conception
a. Spiritual Matters
b. Material Matters – Church and Schools
c. Financial Matters
Matroosfontein
a. Spiritual Matters
b. Material Matters
c. Financial Matters
Conclusion
The report includes statistical forms re the personnel of the Cape Town mission. There is a synopsis of Fr. O’Mahony’s interview with Bishop John Colburn Garner (1907-1993), Vicar Apostolic of Pretoria, re the prospects of developing the Capuchin Mission in the Cape Province.
Annual report of St. Joseph’s Leprosarium, a subsidiary unit of Mangango Mission Hospital situated in the Kaoma district, Zambia. Information is given in respect of treatment, information and advocacy work, finances, and other statistics. Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. is noted as one of the benefactors.
A copy of a report on the speeches made at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis held in Dublin on 23 May 1922. The debate centres primarily on the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The speakers include Éamon de Valera and Michael Collins.
Ten-page report letter of the second Visitation of All Hallows since Vincentian Administration, from Thomas Morrissey CM, St Joseph's Blackrock, to 'my dear Lord Archbishop'. Morrissey gives the number of students, how many are studying which subject, and gives the rest of his report under the headings of 'discipline', 'health', 'studies', 'finance' and 'property'.
There is also a typewritten transcription of the letter.
Publisher: Dublin: Catholic Total Abstinence Federation of Ireland
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘Report of mission to Ireland of the Women’s International League / October 1920’ (London, printed by C.F. Hodgson & Son, 1920).
Report of a meeting of the Regular Superior (Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.) and Discreets at the Maramba Mission in Northern Rhodesia. The report includes a list of friars in the various Irish Capuchin missions in Barotseland.
O’Shea, Timothy Phelim, 1902-1979, Capuchin priest