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Irish Lightship ‘Comet’, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin

Irish Lightship ‘Comet’, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin

A view of the Irish Lightship ‘Comet’ at Dún Laoghaire in about 1960. The ship was built in 1904 by J. Reid in Glasgow and measured ninety-six feet in length and twenty-three feet in breadth. The light vessel was decommissioned in 1965 and sold (for £7,000) to the shipbroking firm of Turner and Hickman in Glasgow. The ship later had a colourful history as an off-shore pirate radio station used by Radio Scotland.

Kilmalkedar Church, County Kerry

Kilmalkedar Church, County Kerry

A view of a boy in the window of the ruined medieval church at Kilmalkedar near Dingle in County Kerry in about 1940. The site of Kilmalkedar consists of a large ecclesiastical complex with archaeological remains dating from the early to late medieval period. It is dedicated to a little-known local saint called Maolcethair. At the centre of this site is the twelfth century Hiberno-Romanesque Church. According to tradition, those suffering from rheumatism, ‘falling sickness’ (epilepsy), or other ills might be restored to health by passing three times through the window.

Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na h-Eireann)

The file comprises the following issues of this weekly Anti-Treaty newspaper: 3 Jan. 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 1)-29 June 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 27). The series is complete with multiple copies of some issues. The issue of 15 Mar. 1922 (no. 12) is endorsed ‘Fr. Stanislaus [Kavanagh OFM Cap.] … Dun Laoghaire’.

Éamon de Valera

Photographic prints of Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes the following images:

• De Valera at All Hallows College, Dublin, with Dr. Arthur W. Conway (1875-1950), President of University College Dublin, Cardinal Norman Thomas Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, and President Seán T. O’Kelly.
• De Valera at Kilmainham Jail with Frank Aiken.
• De Valera at Dun Laoghaire Harbour, with J.A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia.
• De Valera arriving at 10 Downing Street, with Seán McEntee and John Dulanty (1883-1955), Irish High Commissioner in London. 17 Jan. 1938.
• De Valera’s visit to the Vatican in March 1962. He was accompanied by Sinéad Bean de Valera, and Frank Aiken, Minister for External Affairs. Includes photographs of his audience with Pope John XXIII and other representatives of the Holy See. 29 prints.
• De Valera’s visit to the United States and Canada in 1964. He was accompanied by Sinéad Bean de Valera, and Frank Aiken, Minister for External Affairs. Includes photographs of de Valera with the Most Rev. Francis Spellman, Archbishop of New York, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, Archbishop Sebastian Baggio, Apostolic Delegate to Canada, Georges Vanier, Governor-General of Canada, Robert F. Wagner, Mayor of New York. 30 prints.
• De Valera at the official opening of John F. Kennedy Memorial Park, Slieve Coillte, New Ross, County Wexford (28 May 1968). 2 prints.
• De Valera’s state funeral (2 Sept. 1975). Includes photographs of the funeral procession along O’Connell Street, the service at the Pro-Cathedral, and the internment at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. 19 prints.

Capuchin Central Library, Rome

Capuchin Central Library, Rome

An image of the Capuchin Central Library (Biblioteca Centrale Cappuccini) in Rome in about 1930. Founded in the second half of the nineteenth century, the library was at this time located on the Via Boncompagni in the centre of Rome. In 1968, the library was relocated to the International College of St Lawrence of Brindisi situated on the outskirts of the city. The library has a stock of books and documents totaling 120,000 catalogued items including works by Capuchin authors, material on the early history and ministries of the Order, Franciscan publications, and many rare medieval and early modern books and items of ecclesiastical interest.

House Account Book

Expenditure and receipt ledger for the Capuchin friars in Cork. The volume is titled at p. 5: ‘The Book of the Community’. The book mainly consists of accounts of Sunday and feast-day collections at the chapel, accounts of household and building expenses, and entries relating to the governance of the Order in Ireland. The listing below follows the sequence of entries as found in the volume:
• An account of Sunday and feast day collections at the South Friary, Cork. 1821-25, pp 6-54.
• An entry concerning the appointment by the Minister General of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC as Provincial Minister, and Fr. Louis (James) O’Riordan OSFC (1800-1857) and Fr. Vincent (Denis) MacLeod OSFC (1808-1861) as his assistants. 29 Apr. 1836, p. 56
• ‘Wine Account’. 1 May 1836-18 Dec. 1836, p. 57.
• ‘Organ Account’. 29 Apr. 1836-10 July 1836, p. 58.
• An account of ‘collections of the South Friary commencing from the first day of May 1836’, pp 65-69.
• An entry concerning the chapter meeting at the Friary in Dublin on 5 June 139 at which Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC was elected Provincial Minister. Also, entries relating to the election of definitors and the composition of the community in Cork, p. 69.
• An account of Sunday and feast day collections at the chapel doors in Cork. 1839-43, pp 69-88.
• An entry relating to the inaugural meeting of an association of regular and secular clergy called the ‘Clerical Society’. 10 July 1843, p. 89.
• An account of Sunday and feast day collections at the chapel door, Cork. 1844-45, pp 90-108.
• An entry recording the names of priests who died in the diocese of Cork in 1845, p. 110.
• The remainder of the volume (pp 111-259) is mostly comprised of accounts of collections, mainly ‘chapel rent’, door collections and other incomes such as mass stipends. The accounts are interspersed with entries relating to the general governance of the Order such as:
• A meeting of the community in Holy Trinity Church regarding the appointment by the Minster General of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC as Provincial Minister for another three years, and to the appointment of four definitors. 17 Aug. 1848, p 148.
• A visitation at Kilkenny Friary (3 Feb. 1852); and at the Dublin Friary (4 Feb. 1852), p. 176.
• ‘Donations received for furnishing the interior of the church and [the] purchasing of an organ’, pp 214-17.
• The visit of Fr. Victor of Chamonix OSFC ‘to enquire into the state of the Capuchin Order in Ireland and to make arrangements for the appointment of a “Commissary General” deputed by the superiors in Rome to remedy whatever abuses may be found to exist’. 10 June 1856, pp 236-37.
• The appointment of Fr. Alphonsus Muldoon OSFC (1822-1895) as Commissary General. 6 June 1859, p. 238.
• The recording of the death at Queenstown of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 8 Dec. 1856, p. 242.
Note: See also transcripts taken from this account book at CA HT/2/2/3 and CA HT/7/3.

Design for the completion of Holy Trinity Church

Design for the completion of Holy Trinity Church

Proposed design for the completion of Holy Trinity Church, Cork by Edward Welby Pugin (1834-1875) and George Coppinger Ashlin (1837-1921). Print by J. Lewis, 29 Dame Street, Dublin. With a typescript note possibly by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to the provenance of the proposed design. The note affirms that in June 1877 Ashlin had ‘been employed by Fr. Thomas, Superior of Cork, to examine the foundations of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cork, with a view to completing the front of the Church, and erecting a Tower. … The proposed design shows portions of the Friary at both sides of the Church’. This proposal did not materialize, and the completion of the Church façade, and the erection of the spire was not done until the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in 1890.

An Appeal for support of exiled French Capuchins in Cork

An Appeal for support of exiled French Capuchins in Cork

An appeal in support of exiled French Capuchins in Cork. The appeal notes that the friars have been exiled as part of 'the policy of persecution adopted by the present French ministry, and which has resulted in breaking up the whole religious system of that country'. This original printed appeal is pasted into the volume at p. 4.

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