Fr. Finbar Ryan OP, ‘Capital and labour / a plain statement’ (Dublin: Irish Rosary Office, Dominck Street, [c.1937]). A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Revd. Fr. Laurence [Dowling] OSFC, Church Street, Dublin’.
Two Irish Capuchin missionaries (Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the right, and possibly Fr. Serpahin Nesdale OFM Cap.) on the banks of the Zambezi River, Northern Rhodesia.
From left, Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. outside the mission church in Sichili in Northern Rhodesia.
A photograph of a sketch of James Ryan, a revolutionary and later a Fianna Fáil politician. The original sketch was drawn by Seán O’Sullivan (1906-1964) and is dated 1937.
A photograph of a group of Capuchin friars in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin. The group includes Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi Simla, and Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls.
A photograph of Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Minister General, with a group of Irish friars on board a ship at Dún Laoghaire in County Dublin. The group includes Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., and Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap.
A photograph of Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Minister General, with a group of Irish friars on board a ship at Dún Laoghaire in County Dublin. The group includes Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.
A clipping of an article reporting on the appointment of Maurice Moynihan as secretary to the cabinet. The article notes that he is a brother of Fr. Francis Moynihan (editor of ‘The Advocate’ in Melbourne, Australia), and Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’).
A clipping of a review by Michael Tierney of the second issue of ‘Bonaventura’. The review was published in ‘The Leader’ (18 September 1937).
A letter from Kathleen O’Connell to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘Bonaventura’ sent to Éamon de Valera. She also attaches a cheque for a copy of the painting of Matt Talbot which de Valera would like sent to his house.