Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. (1893-1977), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, regarding liability for property tax and deductions of income tax from ground rents payable by the Capuchin friars to the Dominican Order (Charlotte Quay) and to a Mrs Gardiner. With a letter from Robert McClement, auditor, enclosing a schedule of the ground rents paid by the Capuchins.
Faculties from the Bishop of Raphoe for members of the Capuchin community, Ard Mhuire Friary, Creeslough, County Donegal. The file includes faculties for Fr. Thomas Rocks OFM Cap., Fr. Paul Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Harrington OFM Cap., Fr. Peter Banks OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Twomey OFM Cap., and Fr. Desmond McNaboe OFM Cap.
Photographic prints assembled by Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap. relating to missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Some of the prints have been annotated: African religious sisters. The prints are titled ‘Malawian Mass’ and ‘Magnificat Dance’. Fr. Brian with religious sisters. Aerial view of Santa Maria Mission at Lukulu. Fr. Brian and Fr. Elzear Barry OFM Cap. in Mufulira, Zambia, in Jan. 1959. Storm damage caused to the roof of the friars’ residence in Senanga on 8 Dec. 1978. The grave of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at Lukulu. Group of friars assembled for the visitation by Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister in 1979.
Cuttings from the 'Irish Catholic' of reports by Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. on the work of the late Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap. at the Sioma Mission, founded in 1953, and at the Senanga Mission, located on the banks of the Zambezi River.
Photographic print of the female boarders at Coláiste Bríghde, Falcarragh, County Donegal. Coláiste Bríghde was one of four preparatory colleges founded between 1926 and 1929 to provide secondary education for aspiring primary school teachers. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Coláiste Bríghde, Falcarragh, c.1944 / Chaplain, Fr. Danny Molloy’.
An original letter of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., to Br. Colman Cregan OFM Cap. referring to his treatment in St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara, California. He also thanks the ‘good people of Santa Yenz parish’ for sending him their good wishes. (Volume page 90).
A postcard print image of a large crowd assembled on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin. The caption to the original postcard image (printed by Chancellor Photographic Studio) reads ‘Irish Language Procession, September 19, 1909’. In the background of the print, the statue of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864), a nationalist politician and Irish language activist, stands in its original position near the junction of O’Connell Bridge with Westmoreland Street and D’Olier Street. It was moved to its present location on O’Connell Street in 1929.
A printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (‘architects of resurrection’) on the subject of partition. Includes references to the ideology of the party’s founder Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (1910-1991).
Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., referring to arrangements for his departure to the United States. He writes ‘I probably shall remain on here until at least [the] end of this month, possibly longer. All will depend on [the] letter from Provincial’. He also refers to his feelings re his imminent departure. He adds ‘I have now got over 1st effects of announcement. They feel it very much at home. But in this part of [the] world there is a very intense feeling or attitude of "ecclesia" towards all of our friends. This feeling is even more marked here than in Dublin'. He also refers to Br. Bonaventure McCafferty OFM Cap. who, he suggests, is 'under a microscope' following a recent meeting in Cobh.
