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Official group photograph of the Zambian Capuchin Chapter held in Monze.

Publication by Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. on the history of the Irish Capuchins in Zambia, 1931-1981 ([Zambia, 1982]). The chapter headings include: the pioneers; the land and its people in a changing world; a beginning is made; working through schools; the friars’ conditions; progress step by step and stone by stone.

Cheque sent from Yorkshire insurance company. In reference to damage to clothes. Addressed to the Prior.

An Anti-Treaty handbill (black type on buff coloured paper). Text on recto reads: (on left-hand side) ‘“Yesterday the RIC were Irishmen who took (includes image of a hand pointing to the following line in bold type in centre of handbill) "Guns and Orders from England". (On right-hand side) "To-day Free-State soldiers are Irishmen who take (includes another image of a hand pointing to the same line in bold type in centre of handbill) "Guns and Orders from England / in order to / Shoot down Republican Soldiers / Destroy Republican Printing Presses / Raid the homes of Irish Republicans / Fire on Irish Prisoners in the Jails / Fill the Jails with Irish Volunteers / Wage economic war on the Dependants / of the Irish Republicans. / You did not Join the Irish Volunteers for this. / (in larger font and bold type) Don't be any longer Blind. The Men against you are Fighting without / Pay for the Old Cause which/ will NEVER DIE”’.

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Workers preparing for the exhumation of Charles

A view of Wolf’s Arch, Kilkenny City. The caption on the plate reads 'Wolf’s Arch. Kilkenny. 982. W. L'. The image forms part of the Lawrence photograph collection.

A book written by W. J. Brennan-Whitmore referring to the experiences of Irish republicans imprisoned after the 1916 Rising. Published in Dublin by The Talbot Press.

William Simasiku standing beside Kan’yenza stream at Loanja, the site of the first Irish Capuchin mission station in Northern Rhodesia. He was a teacher at the mission station in 1936.

An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Will of the people. If you had answered the will of the people in August, 1914, you would all have gone to Flanders. If you had acted on the will of the people in Easter Week you would have lynched Padraig Pearse'.