A clipping of an article on the removal of the foundation stone for the Wolfe Tone and United Irishmen memorial in St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (2 April 1943).
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 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.
A view of a temperance demonstration on Sackville (O'Connell) Street in Dublin. A large crowd is assembled in front of a packed platform draped in a large banner reading ‘Ireland Sober Ireland Free’. Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC is seated in the front row on the platform.
A map of the Prefecture of Victoria Falls showing the locations of Irish Capuchin mission stations in 1950. The former place names are given in brackets such as Kaoma (formerly Mankoya).
A photographic print of Constance Markievicz, Éamon de Valera, Darrell Figgis, W.T. Cosgrave, Alice Ginnell, and other republicans in Kilkenny. A manuscript caption gives the names of all the individuals in the group.
A plate showing a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (as a younger man). The portrait shows Fr. Mathew in traditional nineteenth-century clerical attire with a temperance medal pinned to his breast.