Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’.
A clipping of an obituary article titled ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916). The opposite page has a print of Fr. Michael O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’.
'The Capuchin Annual’s' photographic archive comprises a vast assemblage of prints with an extremely varied subject-matter. The following series arranges the images thematically.
Two photographic prints showing Bedouin Arabs in Bethlehem, Palestine, in about 1930. The original captions for the prints are as follows: (top) ‘The Bedouin Arabs from all parts of Judea come into the market at Bethlehem to sell their flocks of goats and camels to local Christians. The market is held every Saturday but very few tourists find their way to this interesting spot in the ancient city’. (bottom) ‘Bethlehem – an unusual scene. The market place is a spot off the track for pilgrims and tourists’.
A view of Carrick-on-Suir, a town in County Tipperary in about 1955. The two bridges over the river in Carrick-on-Suir are visible in the photograph. In the foreground stands the Dillon Bridge, a road bridge crossing built between 1879 and 1880 and named after John Dillon (1851-1927), an Irish nationalist politician. The historic ‘Old Bridge’ (built 1447) stands slightly further up-river.
An image of cast members of a pantomime production of 'Cinderella' distributing fruit to the audience following a performance in Father Mathew Hall on Church Street in Dublin in about 1955.
A carte de visite of members of the Catholic Boys' Brigade founded on Church Street in Dublin in March 1894. The photographic print (on card) was produced by W.F. O’Connor, 1 Wellington Quay, corner of Parliament Street, Dublin.
