File 1 - Views of Irish Life

Church Street, Dublin The Library, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny Lee Public Baths, Cork The Refectory, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny The Sanctuary, Church of St. Francis, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny The unveiling of the Four Masters monument in Donegal Town The Community Choir, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The Interior of the Church of St. Francis, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny Missionary Ambulance, Somaliland The ‘Forty Steps’ (otherwise known as Cromwell’s Quarters), Dublin
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IE CA CP/1/1/2/1

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Views of Irish Life

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  • c.1920-1960 (Creation)

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60 pp; 31 cm x 25.5 cm; Bound volume; black and white print

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A bound volume containing photographic prints complied for publication by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the spine reads ‘Views’. Most of the prints are not captioned. Many of the prints are of scenic locations in Ireland (particularly on the western coast), and of major Catholic churches and places of worship. The album includes the following prints (the index number refers to the pagination within the volume):

  1. Thatched cottages in The Claddagh, County Galway.
  2. The statue of St. Patrick on the Hill of Tara, County Meath.
  3. Café at Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland.
  4. Belfast Hills (Black Mountain) overlooking Belfast.
  5. The un-restored McCarthy's Tower and Cross of the Scriptures at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly.
  6. Exterior view of Queen’s University, Belfast.
  7. Chapter Room, Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
  8. Loreto Convent, Kilkenny.
  9. Large crowd hearing mass on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, at the Eucharistic Congress, Dublin, 1932.
  10. The weekly walk at the Carthusian Monastery of St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
  11. View from a bay window at Ards House (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary), County Donegal.
  12. The refectory, of St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
  13. Church Street, Dublin, looking towards North King Street.
  14. The Library, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
  15. The Open-Air Swimming Pool, Victoria Cross, Cork city.
  16. The refectory, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
  17. The garden of the Capuchin Friary, Church Street.
  18. The sanctuary, Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
  19. The statue of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on O’Connell Street.
  20. The unveiling of the Four Masters Monument in Donegal Town by the Most Rev. Dr. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe.
  21. City Hall, Cork.
  22. Front of the Church, St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, England.
  23. Four Courts’ and Capel Street Bridge, Dublin.
  24. The destroyed Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, Madrid, May 1931.
  25. Healy’s Pass, Glengarriff, County Cork.
  26. Laneway in Killarney, County Kerry.
  27. Kilkenny Caste.
  28. Owenreagh River Valley, Killarney, County Kerry.
  29. Community Choir, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
  30. Interior of Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
  31. Exterior of St. Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny, County Donegal.
  32. A missionary ambulance in British Somaliland. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘My “house on wheels”, head-quarter, Berbera, Fr. Adoldf, Berbera, British Somaliland’.
  33. The cloister garden, Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, North Wales.
  34. The cemetery, Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, North Wales.
  35. Catholic religious procession through Holloway, London in May 1931.
  36. Reception Lodge, Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
  37. Re-opening of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims, France. Note: The Cathedral was officially re-opened in 1938.
  38. Exterior of the Church at the Capuchin Friary at Frascati, Rome.
  39. Collegio Internazionale S. Lorenzo da Brindisi, Frascati, Rome.
  40. Aerial view of Drogheda, County Louth.
  41. The ‘Forty Steps’ (or Cromwell’s Quarters), Dublin.
  42. The beach at Rossbeigh, County Kerry.
  43. Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk.
  44. Lake Isle of Innisfree, County Sligo.
  45. The Customs House, Dublin
  46. Rosses Point, County Sligo.
  47. Strandhill Beach, County Sligo.
  48. The Cathedral Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nathy, Ballaghadereen, County Roscommon.
  49. Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church, Cork.
  50. The Tower Mount at the Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey, County Waterford.
  51. The Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
  52. The exterior of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic School, Burlingame, California.
  53. Tobernalt Holy Well, County Sligo.
  54. Father Mathew Statue, Patrick’s Street, Cork.
  55. The Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Ennis, County Clare.
  56. Aerial view of Waterford city showing Redmond Bridge.
  57. Altar at the Capuchin Church of Saint Felix of Cantalice at Centocelle, Rome, Italy.
  58. East Window, Interior of the ruins in Loughrea Abbey, County Galway.
  59. Interior of Our Lady Star of the Sea, Tilbury, London.
  60. Monument to Cardinal Massaia in Frascati, Rome.
  61. Exterior of the Church of the Sacred Heart, New Delhi, India.
  62. Exterior of the Cathedral Church of St. Mel, Longford Town.

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The prints are generally in good condition. The spine binding to the volume is partially detached from the text block. Careful manual handling is required.

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