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Register of masses at Holy Trinity Church. The volume contains several typescript inserts mainly relating to instructions for suffrages, jubilee masses, masses for benefactors, and masses for the Provincial Minister and Definitory (Council). The next volume in this sequence is at CA HT/1/1/1/10.

Notes from the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan (1839-1916), Bishop of Cork, to the Holy Trinity community. The file includes a note re the desired formula for a declaration to be signed at the reception of converts to the Catholic faith and a sanction for the creation of a young men’s’ sodality at Holy Trinity Church.

Photostat copy of a diary compiled by Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. covering his experiences as a missionary in Northern Rhodesia. Periodic references are made to the extreme distances travelled between the missions and villages (‘returned by canoe down river’), and to accounts of masses said in the bush. Locations are frequently given in longitude and latitude measurements. It is noted that Fr. Timothy left Africa for Ireland on 24 June 1938 (p. 57).

Letters of Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (1876-1958). The correspondents include: Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap.; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Vicar. Most of the correspondence relates to the establishment of missions in South Africa and later in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. The subjects include: Fr. Casimir’s first impressions of Cape Province (23 Oct. 1929); the journey to Barotseland (30 May 1930); requesting permission to retain Parow parish (26 Feb. 1931); discussions with Monsignor Bruno Wolnik SJ (1882-1960) to establish a local mission a few miles from Livingstone (16 June 1931); the necessity of wearing a white habit. Fr. Casimir wrote: ‘It is almost impossible to wear brown during the hot weather. The Conventual Fathers at Ndola wear white. The Jesuits wear any old things. I suggest a light cream-coloured habit’ (27 Nov. 1931); the need to speak the language in Barotseland ‘before we can hope to gain the hearts of the natives’. (30 Nov. 1931); on the study of the Lozi language (26 Jan. 1932); suggesting that a foundation be established in Barotseland ‘to which Catholics can look to with pride – a large church and school, sufficient for a fifty-mile area’. (3 May 1932); affirming that ‘mission work in Barotseland is going to be a slow business, the obstacles look insurmountable’. Fr. Casimir added: ‘it is a great consolation to know that it can never become a white man’s country’ (23 May 1932); confirming that the new church at Livingstone will cost £3,500 (6 Sept. 1932); referring to the work of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and his father (30 Oct. 1932); arrangements for the impending visitation by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. (3 Dec. 1934); the activities of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society. (18 Dec. 1934); Fr. Casimir’s arrangements to travel to Ireland via Marseilles on-board the Italian ship, SS 'Giulio Cesare' (5 May 1938). References are also made to the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.; Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. The file includes a letter from Fr. C. C. Martindale SJ to Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap. offering to collect £100 for Fr. Casimir’s missionary work in Barotseland (16 June 1931).

Statistical information compiled by the Regular Superior in respect of the Irish Capuchin mission in Cape Town, South Africa. These were seemingly official returns compiled for archival retention. Includes information in respect of personnel, and revenue derived from subsidies from the Capuchin General Curia, the Irish Province, and other sources. Information is also given for expenditure.

A small album containing photographic negative sheets compiled by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1912-1988) mostly relating to the work of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Africa. An annotation on the inside cover reads: ‘Fr. Alfred O’Mahony / Sancta Maria / Mongu / Northern Rhodesia’. The album has a manuscript index to the contents. The album includes images of baptisms, school groups, religious sisters in Lukulu, Sichili, Livingstone and Sawmils in Northern Rhodesia, and in Langa, Athlone and Parow in Cape Town, South Africa. Images of Victoria Falls (1942) and the Zambezi River are also extant in the file. There are also prints of groups of friars in Rochestown College, County Cork (1931-2), and in Knock, County Mayo (1940).

Letters to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. from Eva Gore Booth, 33 Fitzroy Square, mostly referring to her sister Constance Markievicz, the East Clare by-election and to the publication of an article in the 'Catholic Bulletin'. With covers.

Newspaper clipping of a letter by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. published in the nationalist newspaper the 'Cork Free Press' (8 Nov. 1911). The letter is titled ‘The Brown Friars: their education in “the dark days”’ and refers to the long history of the education of Irish Capuchins in continental colleges. The article was sent to the editor of the 'Cork Free Press' and was signed 'Segan Eireannac'. With cover and annotation by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap.

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 (particularly on the western coast), and of major Catholic churches and places of worship. The album includes the following prints (the index number refers to the pagination within the volume):

4. Thatched cottages in The Claddagh, County Galway.
5. The statue of St. Patrick on the Hill of Tara, County Meath.
6. Café at Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland.
7. Belfast Hills (Black Mountain) overlooking Belfast.
8. The un-restored McCarthy's Tower and Cross of the Scriptures at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly.
9. Exterior view of Queen’s University, Belfast.
10. Chapter Room, Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
11. Loreto Convent, Kilkenny.
12. Large crowd hearing mass on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, at the Eucharistic Congress, Dublin, 1932.
13. The weekly walk at the Carthusian Monastery of St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
14. View from a bay window at Ards House (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary), County Donegal.
15. The refectory, of St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
16. Church Street, Dublin, looking towards North King Street.
17. The Library, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
18. The Open-Air Swimming Pool, Victoria Cross, Cork city.
19. The refectory, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
20. The garden of the Capuchin Friary, Church Street.
21. The sanctuary, Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
22. The statue of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on O’Connell Street.
23. The unveiling of the Four Masters Monument in Donegal Town by the Most Rev. Dr. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe.
24. City Hall, Cork.
25. Front of the Church, St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
26. Four Courts’ and Capel Street Bridge, Dublin.
27. The destroyed Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, Madrid, May 1931.
28. Healy’s Pass, Glengarriff, County Cork.
29. Laneway in Killarney, County Kerry.
30. Kilkenny Caste.
31. Owenreagh River Valley, Killarney, County Kerry.
32. Community Choir, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
33. Interior of Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
34. Exterior of St. Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny, County Donegal.
35. A missionary ambulance in British Somaliland. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘My “house on wheels”, head-quarter, Berbera, Fr. Adoldf, Berbera, British Somaliland’.
36. The cloister garden, Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, North Wales.
37. The cemetery, Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, North Wales.
38. Catholic religious procession through Holloway, London in May 1931.
39. Reception Lodge, Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
40. Re-opening of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims, France. Note: The Cathedral was officially re-opened in 1938.
41. Exterior of the Church at the Capuchin Friary at Frascati, Rome.
42. Collegio Internazionale S. Lorenzo da Brindisi, Frascati, Rome.
43. Aerial view of Drogheda, County Louth.
44. The ‘Forty Steps’ (or Cromwell’s Quarters), Dublin.
45. The beach at Rossbeigh, County Kerry.
46. Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk.
47. Lake Isle of Innisfree, County Sligo.
48. The Customs House, Dublin
49. Rosses Point, County Sligo.
50. Strandhill Beach, County Sligo.
51. The Cathedral Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nathy, Ballaghadereen, County Roscommon.
52. Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church, Cork.
53. The Tower Mount at the Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
54. The Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
55. The exterior of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic School, Burlingame, California.
56. Tobernalt Holy Well, County Sligo.
57. Father Mathew Statue, Patrick’s Street, Cork.
58. The Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Ennis, County Clare.
59. Aerial view of Waterford city showing Redmond Bridge.
60. Altar at the Capuchin Church of Saint Felix of Cantalice at Centocelle, Rome, Italy.
61. East Window, Interior of the ruins in Loughrea Abbey, County Galway.
62. Interior of Our Lady Star of the Sea, Tilbury, London.
63. Monument to Cardinal Massaia in Frascati, Rome.
64. Exterior of the Church of the Sacred Heart, New Delhi, India.
65. Exterior of the Cathedral Church of St. Mel, Longford Town.