File 1 - Block Pull Copies

150 pp; Bound volume; Printed; 22 cm x 18 cm

A volume titled ‘Blocks / Father Mathew Record / The Capuchin Annual / subjects: Capuchins / Saints / Beati / Friars / Friaries / Houses / Colleges’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume includes the following copy prints:
• Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
• The garden of the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin.
• Certificate of reception of Cardinal Joseph McRory, Archbishop of Armagh, into the Third Order of St. Francis. 11 Mar. 1928.
• The Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork.
• Irish Capuchin houses in France in the eighteenth century.
• Engraving of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin.
• Students in Rochestown College, County Cork.
• Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
• General Chapter of the Capuchin Order in Rome, 1926.
• Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia OSFC (1809-1889).
• A group of Irish Capuchin students in Rome.
• Cartoons by Tom Lalor.
• The exterior of the old Capuchin Chapel on Church Street (c.1861).
• The Most Rev. Thomas-Louis Connolly OSFC (1814-1876), Archbishop of Halifax.
• Views of Dublin life, a collection of drawings by Seán MacManus.
• Fr. Sebastian O’Brien OFM Cap. (1867-1931).
• A view of Church Street looking northwards towards North King Street.
• Mary Redmond (1863-1930), sculptor.
• Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954).
• Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935) in the United States.
• Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965).
• Depictions of St. Francis and various Capuchin Franciscan Saints.
• Capuchin Franciscan bishops.

The illustration shows a collection of ink drawings depicting various scenes around Dublin in the 1930s. The illustrations are by the Dublin-born book illustrator and engraver Seán MacManus who was responsible for many of the drawings in the early editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Some of these illustrations are extant in this file.