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Photographic print of Mrs Belton, wife of Jack Belton, Lord Mayor of Dublin, opening the Capuchin Foreign Missions’ sale of work in Father Mathew Hall. The group includes Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. and Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap.

President Kenneth Kaunda greeting Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood at the opening of the mission hospital in Sesheke. The group includes Dr. Luke Connors FMDM. The hospital was built by Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap.

President Kenneth Kaunda at the opening of the new mission hospital in Sesheke. The group includes Dr. Luke Connors FMDM and Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.

President Kenneth Kaunda at the opening of the new mission hospital in Sesheke in Zambia.

A view of the open-air swimming pool (the Lee Public Baths) at Victoria Cross in Cork city in about 1945.

An anti-conscription and anti-English handbill issued with the aim of persuading members of the Royal Irish Constabulary not to support the British war effort. It reads ‘Private Hodgins would have his work cut out for him here but for you. You are the eyes and the ears for him. Do you think that your own people are likely to forget the fact? What do you think Private Hodgins would do if the German stranger was in England and gave him a gun?’.

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Letter of encouragement from Msgr Onton Riberi.

TRANSCRIPTION

Jesus
Via Calandrelli 9.
Rome Italy
March 22. 1
53
Most Rev. John C. McQuaid
Archbishop's House
Dublin
Your Grace, my dear Archbishop,
It was only on the eve of the
Feast of dear St. Joseph that I
returned to Rome after the Vis
itation of our houses in India
and Pakistan After my ar
rival Rev. Mother
General who
leaves for the Scandinavian
Provinces to. morrow expressed
the wish that I return to
Ireland again to see if we
from Dublin who want to enter
and while there I should like to
interview the parents
Since I hope to go to Ireland
around the middle of April
may I ask your Grace to
kindly write me regarding
the aforesaid permission
Assuming you my dear Arch -
bishop that no day has passed
since my visit in August
1951 that you have not had
a rememberance in my poor
prayers, I remain
Very respectfully inJ
Sister Mary de Pazzi
P.S.
After March 26th I shall
th
at
Rue d'Italia
Chambery,
Savoie
France

Clippings of articles from the 'Irish Catholic' and 'Ireland’s' Own titled ‘Only Capuchin Friary in the West / Ard Mhuire sees many changes’ and ‘In Praise of Ard Mhuire, Donegal’. The articles refer to the history of Ard Mhuire Friary and in particular to its transformation into a retreat and conference centre in the diocese of Raphoe.