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Photographic prints (stills) from the 1936 film 'The Dawn'. This was the first full-length Irish feature film with sound. 'The Dawn' was made by Hibernia Films and was produced and directed by Tom Cooper. Scenes from the film were shot in and around Killarney, County Kerry. The film tells a tale of romance and tragedy set against the backdrop of the War of Independence. The cast included 250 amateur actors drawn from the locality. Some of the cast were IRA veterans of the War of Independence. Several of the prints show reconstructions of an ambush on British forces.

Photographic prints of the noted Irish opera singer Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889-1958). The file includes the following images:

• The birth-place of Margaret Burke Sheridan in Castlebar, County Mayo.
• Burke Sheridan with Hilde Gueden (1917-1988), soprano, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
• Burke Sheridan with Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971) and her family.
• Burke Sheridan with Gladys Swarthout (1900-1969), opera singer, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1955.
• Burke Sheridan with Burton G. Tremaine, a noted art collector, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1952.
• Burke Sheridan with Vincent O’Brien.
The file also includes newspaper clippings ('Irish Press', 'Sunday Review') of tributes paid to Burke Sheridan following her death.

Letter from Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (1899-1986) to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. enclosing photographs for use in an article on Capuchin missionaries in India. The letter is dated 22 Nov. 1954. The file includes the following images:

• The new Church of St. Anthony in Delhi.
• The Most Rev. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi-Simla, on a visit to a school in Karnal, India.
• Fr. Xavier with catechists in 1946.
• Schools among the Bhil people in West India.
• Bhilala people in Central India.
• Archbishop Mulligan on visitation in a village outside Delhi.
• Fr. Theodore Murphy OFM Cap. (1912-1993) in a local village.
• Holy Family Hospital in Delhi founded by the Medical Missionaries of Mary.
• Archbishop Mulligan performing a baptism in Khera Khurd outside Delhi (negative).

Photographic prints for an article by Fr. Thomas Halton titled ‘Sheelin: The Fairy Pool’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1959). The file comprises prints of various views of Lough Sheelin in County Cavan. The prints are credited to Bord Fáilte Eireann.

Photographic prints relating to the Patrician Year celebrations in Ireland in 1961. Patrician Year was marked by twelve months of religious celebration in recognition of 1,500 years of devotion to St. Patrick. The prints were compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1962). The prints show many images of the visit by the Papal Legate Cardinal Gregorio Pietro Agagianian (1895-1971), greeting President Éamon de Valera and his wife, Seán Lemass and many members of the Irish Catholic hierarchy. The images are mainly press photographs.

Photographic prints relating to the visit to Ireland of President John F. Kennedy in June 1963. The photographs are primarily press prints credited to the 'Irish Times', the 'Irish Press', the 'Irish Independent' and Lensman Photographic Agency, Dublin. Other prints are credited to Liam Kennedy & Sons, photographers, 42 MacCurtain Street, Cork, and Ambrose O’Mullane, 15 Wellington Road, Cork. Many of the prints appeared in a special photographic section of 'The Capuchin Annual' (1964), pp 260-88, titled ‘President Kennedy in Ireland, 1963’. The file includes prints showing President Kennedy attending official functions in Dublin (including a state banquet in Iveagh House, and receptions in Dublin Castle and at Áras an Uachtaráin), at Arbour Hill Cemetery, in Wexford Town and in New Ross, and in motorcade processions on O’Connell Street, Dublin, and on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork. Other individuals appearing in the prints include Sean T. O’Kelly, Éamon de Valera, Frank Aiken, Seán Lemass, and Eunice Mary Kennedy.