A file containing eleven glass stereo plates of views of landscapes, scenery, and people. The images include: 33 (a) Three individuals on the roadside just overlooking the village of Raffeen in County Cork. 33 (b) A group of five individuals (probably a family group) collecting berries along the roadside. 33 (c) A portrait of a sitting woman with a cottage in the background. 33 (d) Four individuals working on the train line at Mageney Railway Station, County Kildare. 33 (e) A family group of seven individuals (two women and five children). 33 (f) A kneeling religious wearing a broad-brimmed hat cradling a young dog. 33 (g) A view of the Strawberry Beds in Dublin in about 1910. 33 (h) A woman wearing a long dress and a flat cap standing at a garden gate. 33 (i) Five dray horses standing harnessed to carts hauling large kegs at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin. A view of some of the working horses used at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin, in about 1910. The photograph was probably taken from atop of the old Capuchin Friary which fronted onto Bow Street. 33 (j) Two women (one sitting and holding a jug) on a forested hillside. The plate is missing a portion of the right-hand bottom corner. 33 (k) A large group of schoolchildren outside presumably a school building.
‘Kodak film wallet / MacSweeny’s Photographic Supply Store, Cork’. The file contains eight plates showing groups of Capuchins, including some images of friars at a Provincial Chapter in the Church Street Friary, Dublin. Includes images of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (1874-1938). Fr. Edwin was Provincial Minister from 1926-9 and from 1931-7.
‘Kodak film wallet / MacSweeny’s Photographic Supply Store, Cork’. The file contains two plates showing a group of Capuchin friars probably at a Provincial Chapter in the Church Street Friary. The group includes Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (1874-1938). Fr. Edwin was Provincial Minister from 1926-9 and from 1931-7.
A collection of views and scenes around Rochestown in County Cork. The collection contains twenty-two plates and appears to form a distinct and related series of images. The file includes: 29 (a) Two plates showing a view of a walled road leading to Rochestown Capuchin Friary. A horse and cart (with a visible advertisement ‘Delicious’) is stopped on the road at the gates. With annotated cover. 29 (b) Two plates: the annotated cover reads: ‘The [Mayberry?] Wood, Rochestown’. The image shows two women walking in some woods. 29 (c) Two plates: Two women walking along a wooded road. With an annotated cover. 29 (d) Two plates: Two women sitting beside a wooded area. The annotated cover reads: ‘On top of the hill, Rochestown’. 29 (e) Two plates: a view of a field near Rochestown Capuchin Friary. With an annotated cover. 29 (f) Two plates: The annotated cover reads: ‘Group at Rochestown Station before completion of loop line’. 29 (g) Two plates: Two women walking in the forest. The annotated cover reads: ‘Top of hill. Rochestown’. 29 (h) Two women at the lake in front of Rochestown Capuchin Friary. With an annotated cover. 29 (i) Two plates: A family group on the wooded road in Rochestown. With an annotated cover. 29 (j) The annotated cover reads: ‘A view of the procession at Rochestown (from a window)’. A date of 1905 is provided on the cover. 29 (k) Two plates: A view of a woman standing on a horse-drawn cart. The annotated cover reads: ‘Mare & foal farm & foal’. 29 (l) Two plates: The annotated cover reads: ‘Departmental Henhouses’.
Two glass plates titled ‘On the roadside, Rochestown’. The cover annotation provides a date of 1906. The image is of two women (possibly a mother and daughter) greeting a group a children on a wooded path. The same women appear in the photograph at CA PH-1-29-D.
A collection of plates showing various scenes around Rochestown Capuchin Friary in County Cork. There are thirteen slides in the file. Duplicates of some of these plates are present in CA-PH-1-20. 26 (a): Two plates showing a view of the mill at Rochestown. With annotated cover. 26 (c): Interior of Rochestown Church. With annotated cover. 26 (d): Two women in the cemetery of Rochestown Friary. With annotated cover. 26 (e): Two plates showing the rear of Rochestown Friary with men tending a ploughed field. 26 (f): Two plates showing a front-view of Rochestown Friary and lake. The annotated cover provides a date of 1905. 26 (g): Two plates showing the fields and orchard behind Rochestown Friary. With annotated cover. 26 (h): Two plates showing two swans in the lake in front of Rochestown Friary. With annotated cover.
‘Barnet Red Seal Plate’ (Elliot & Sons, Ltd., Barnet, England) box. The box contains nineteen slides. None of the plates have annotations or captions and most of the descriptive content has been inferred. The box includes the following images: (a) A junior football team. The ball is annotated with a date of 1908. (b) Two images of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. at a hurling match at Croke Park, Dublin, and at the head of a temperance procession. (c) The hallway of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork. (d) A group of Capuchin friars with musical instruments in the Kilkenny Friary in c.1905. The group includes Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (e) A group of Capuchin friars in Kilkenny in about 1905. The title, ‘Conradh na Gaeilge’ (Gaelic League), has been superimposed on the original glass plate. (f) Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with a group of students possibly at a hurling match in Rochestown, County Cork.
‘Beta Komos Photographics Limited, Letchworth, England’ box. The box is annotated: ‘Negatives. Irish Friars. Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.’. The box includes twenty-two plates. The plates include: (a) A family portrait of six unidentified individuals. The plate is contained within an envelope with has manuscript annotation of dates and places from c.1915-27. (b) Br. Elzear Kelly OFM Cap. (1857-1937). With cover annotation. (c) Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926) sitting in front of ornamental rug. Two plates within an annotated envelope. (d) A view of two Capuchin friars in the garden of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. One of the friars is cutting the lawn grass. With cover annotation. (e) Interior view of Rochestown Friary Church. With cover annotation. (f) Portrait of ‘the late John Bowe, Kilkenny Friary’. With cover annotation. The plates marked g-u do not contain any annotations. They are views of unidentified Capuchin friars (either as individuals or in groups). Includes some views of friars in the interior of houses, playing hurling or outdoors such as on a horse and cart.
‘Paget Prize Plate Co., Ltd., Watford’ box. The box contains seven plates. The plates include a view of Ards House (later Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary) near Creeslough in County Donegal, and a group of five unidentified Capuchin friars walking in a garden (one of the friars has a hand over his face). The other five plates appear to be ‘holiday scenes’ including one of the Frederiksholms Kanal in Copenhagen, Denmark, and a promenade scene onboard a ship.
‘Paget Prize Plate Co., Ltd., Watford’ box. The box contains a manuscript note which reads: ‘With Fr. Russell’s compliments. Negatives of Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary. Front and back views. Maynooth, 27 Nov. 1913’. The box contains three glass plate negatives. A front and rear view of Thomastown Castle, the childhood home of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (1790-1856), and a photographic image of a letter from Fr. Mathew. Thomastown Castle, near Golden in County Tipperary, was a large country house built by the Mathew family. The earliest house on this site was built by George Mathew and dated to c.1670. The house was enlarged in the Gothic style by Francis Mathew, 2nd Earl of Llandaff, in 1812. The renowned Irish architect, Richard Morrison (1767-1849), redesigned the house incorporating several Gothic features including the ornate towers on the front elevation. Thomastown Castle was the childhood home of Fr. Theobold Mathew OSFC who abandoned a life of privilege to become a Capuchin friar. By the late nineteenth century the fortunes of the Mathew family had declined, and Thomastown Castle had fallen into ruins and the estate was completely abandoned. The ‘Fr. Russell’ referred to in the manuscript note in the file is probably Fr. Mathew Russell, editor of ‘The Irish Monthly’.
