Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. (left) and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. with parishioners (probably at St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa).
Postcard print of the community of Holy Cross Sisters in Parow, Cape Town, South Africa. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘The Parow Community / x marks an Irish Sister – Ita O’Hanlon’.
Bound volume containing photographic prints of student friars at the Ard Mhuire House of Studies. Some of the prints are captioned. The album includes images of student friars at work (potato harvesting, bailing hay and routine household work) and at recreation (theatrical plays, weekend retreats, sleighing on snow-covered hills, and visits to the beach). Locations visited by the friars include Burtonport, Errigal Mountain, Aranmore, Doe Castle, Fanad and Kindrum. The album contains several views of Ard Mhuire Friary (formerly Ards House) and surrounding gardens. A small number of prints show friars examining what appears to be un-exploded ordnance on the shoreline. Other prints show ordinations at Ard Mhuire in 1955. Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap. and Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. are present in some of the prints.
Photographic print of two Capuchin friars with the Most Rev. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe (1888-1963). The print is from the 'Derry Journal', Shipquay Street, Derry.
A vocations’ flier for the House of Theological Studies at Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary. It is noted that ‘since 1932 Ard Mhuire has produced well over a hundred priests. They are now labouring on the Irish Capuchin foreign mission in Africa, in the United States of America, and at home in Ireland’. The flier also has a photographic print of the exterior of the old Ard Mhuire Friary (formerly Ards House).
A large bound volume containing documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to the 1916 Rising. The volume holds an original copy of the 'Irish War News' (25 April 1916) along with original postcard prints, memoriam cards for the Rising’s leaders and other ephemera. Some of the newspaper clippings are of articles reporting on subsequent commemorations of the insurrection. The volume also holds photographs, clippings, and printed ephemera relating to prominent Irish artists and exhibitions of their work.
A bound volume containing photographic prints complied for publication by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the spine reads ‘Views’. Most of the prints are not captioned. Many of the prints are of scenic locations in Ireland (such as ecclesiastical sites, landscapes on the western seaboard, and on the Aran Islands), rural life and cityscapes. The album includes the following prints (the index number refers to the pagination within the volume):
A view of the Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary.
Connemara turf men at Kilronan pier, Inis Mór, Aran Islands.
Kilsheelan Village, County Tipperary.
Wicklow Harbour.
Windy Gap, County Kerry.
‘Bringing home the turf at Kilronan, Aran Islands’.
Ballyduane Bay, County Waterford.
Shandon Street, Cork. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘Small talk on Shandon Street’.
Exterior of the Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork.
Exterior of the Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar, County Westmeath.
Exterior of St. Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan Town.
Exterior of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Sligo Town.
Exterior of the Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin.
The Clock House, Mallow, County Cork.
Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin.
Aerial view of Tuam Beet Factory, County Mayo.
View of the lake and Chapel, Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork.
The Open-Air Swimming Pool, Victoria Cross, Cork city.
Signpost for the ‘Franciscan Capuchin Friary’, probably Ard Mhuire, County Donegal.