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Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia. The original caption reads ‘Fr. Capistran Singleton opened a trade school in Sichili, worked in carpentry and brick-laying in Zambia from 1943-78. He was thirty-five years in Sichili. He built Sesheke Church and Friary and the Mongu Teacher Training College (TCC) in Malengwa’.

Draft article by Alan Denson titled ‘John Hughes RHA (1865-1941) / A Neglected Irish Sculptor’.

Draft article by Edward MacLysaght titled ‘S.R. Lysaght: The Author and the Man’. The file also contains a copy manuscript titled ‘Another Imaginary Conversation / 3 Dec. 1931’ compiled for an article titled: ‘Sidney Royce Lysaght: the author and the man’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975), pp 225-229. The piece was written by Edward MacLysaght. The manuscript refers to family reminiscences pertaining especially to his father, Sidney Royse Lysaght (1860-1941), an Irish writer, who worked in the iron industry. His son, Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), was a writer and authority on Irish family history. The file also includes two copies of ‘The amazing war experiences of Patrick Lysaght / An Irishman of the Royal Irish Rifles / the first unit to meet the Germans at Mons in 1914’. It is noted that this narrative was first recorded in December 1938.

Draft article by Margit Wagner titled ‘Life on Inishere, Aran Islands’.