Item 9 - Irish Capuchins’ Return

1 p.; clipping

A clipping of an article documenting the arrival of several Irish friars back in Ireland after a successful missionary tour of the United States. The group disembarked from the White Star liner ‘Arabic’ at Cove (Cobh, County Cork). Three ‘distinguished Cork Capuchin Fathers’ are highlighted for their work conducting missions in New York and California; Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap., Fr. Clement Connolly OFM Cap., and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. They were accompanied by Mr. J. J. Hanley, famously known as the ‘Baron of Broadway’. The article describes Hanley as a self-made Irish success story from County Limerick who became one of America's wealthiest and best-known men through ‘sheer grit’ and ‘keen intellect’. The clipping is taken from the ‘Cork Weekly Examiner’ (18 July 1925).