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Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on the history of Ards House and its acquisition by the Capuchin friars in 1930. Extensive reference is made to the previous occupiers of the estate:
'The Sampsons, the Wrays, the Stewarts, one of whom was married to Lady Isabella Toler, granddaughter of the notorious Lord Norbury are gone, and the Capuchin Fathers are in their ancient home. In the graveyard at Clondahorky, can be seen the grave of the second wife of the first Wray of Ards, and in the grounds of Ards, some trees recall the birthdays of members of the Stewart family. To the Capuchins however, a stronger appeal is made by a lonely tomb in the graveyard around Doe Castle, the last resting place of a Franciscan Friar, Rev. Father Dominick Curden “who departed this life August ye 17th. 1809, aged 85 yrs”'.
The file includes a newspaper cutting of a poem titled ‘On the return of the Brown-Robed Friars to Donegal’ by Bernard A. Furey.

An image of the Lord Mayor of Cork about to throw a ceremonial dart into Cork Harbour at its boundaries symbolizing the city’s control over the port.

A view of Victoria Quay, Dublin, in about 1930. The frontage of the quay is mainly occupied by the Guinness Brewery site.

A photographic print of the garden of the Capuchin Friary on Church Street. Two friars, Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and possibly Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., are shown in the image. The print shows nearly the full extent of the old friary garden, with the rear of Father Mathew Hall fronting onto Church Street beyond. The photographic studio is credited to C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.

An postcard print of the entrance to the Irish College of St. Anthony in Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. The partially obscured inscription over the archway reads ‘Do ċum glóire Dé agus onóra na hÉireann (‘For the glory of God and the honour of Ireland’) and is taken from the ‘Annals of the Four Masters’.

A series of postcard prints of the Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of Quarr on the Isle of Wight.

Photographic print of St. Anne’s Shrine in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The photographer/studio is credited as C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.

Postcard print of Rosses Point in County Sligo in c.1930.

Postcard print of Strandhill Beach, County Sligo, in c.1930.

A postcard print of Tobernalt Holy Well in County Sligo.