Photographic prints of aerial views of Irish towns and notable landmarks. Most of the prints were created by the Irish Air Corps. Some of the images are from the 'Irish Press'. The prints were seemingly acquired with a view to publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes the following images:
• Shelbourne Park, Dublin.
• Ballsbridge, Dublin.
• Castle Golf Course, Rathfarnham, Dublin.
• Clongowes Wood College, Clane, County Kildare.
• Carlow Town.
• Kilkenny City.
• Marino, Dublin. The print shows large tents pitched on the grounds of the Casino in Marino. The tents may have had some connection with the International Eucharistic Congress (1932).
• O’Connell Street, Dublin.
• Windy Arbour, Dublin.
• Port of Dublin.
• Bective Abbey, County Meath.
• Gaeltacht Park, Whitehall, Dublin.
• St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare.
• Kilworth Army Camp, County Cork.
• Curragh Army Camp, County Kildare.
• Drogheda, County Louth.
• Croke Park, Dublin.
• The Hill of Tara, County Meath.
• Wicklow Town.
• Wexford Town.
• Foynes, County Limerick.
• Three Air Corps’ Avro Ansons flying over the Irish countryside.
Photographic prints compiled for an article by Daphne Pochin Mould (1920-2014) titled ‘Aerial Views of Treasured Shrines Destroyed by Invaders’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975). With a covering letter from Daphne Pochin Mould to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (3 June 1974). The file includes aerial views of the following (mostly ruined) medieval sites in Ireland:
• Muckross Abbey, Killarney, County Kerry.
• Cistercian Abbey, Corcomroe, County Clare.
• Franciscan Friary, Askeaton, County Limerick.
• Holycross Cistercian Abbey, County Tipperary.
• Augustinian Abbey, Athassel, County Tipperary.
• Sherkin Island Franciscan Friary, County Cork.
• Franciscan Friary, Quin, County Clare.
• Bective Abbey, County Meath.
• The Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary.
• Kells Augustinian Priory, County Kilkenny.
• Killmallock Dominican Friary, County Limerick
An image of an Aer-Lingus DC-3 aircraft at Shannon Airport in County Clare.
A copy of ‘Aesop a tháinig go h-Éirinn / Aesop’s fables in Irish / with English translation / by the Rev. Peter O'Leary’. The publication forms part of the 'The Léighean Éirean series; v. III, no. 9'.
A clipping of a letter from William Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, regarding the splendid response to the diocesan collection to assist Belgian refugees following the country’s invasion by Germany. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Catholic’ (28 November 1914).
File of documents (mainly from the County Donegal Committee of Agriculture) re a scheme to encourage landholders to plant trees on their lands in the county. The file includes information sheets and blank application forms relating to the proposal to plant conifers for a ‘shelter belt scheme in arable fields which cannot be cultivated in the usual way, on steep banks or hillsides, rocky or broken ground practically bare of vegetation, … and in swamps and bogs which cannot be reclaimed for agricultural purposes’. The file also includes a letter from A.M.S. Hanan re an article for the Royal Forestry Society on ‘southern hemisphere conifers in Ireland’ (12 Feb. 1970).
A clipping of an article titled ‘Africa comes to Cork’ in the Cork Examiner referring to an exhibition of hand-carved wooden objects, ritual dance masks and other artefacts from Zambia in Cork City Hall. The exhibition was organised by Fr. Conleth McConville OFM Cap. to raise money to support the work of the eighty Capuchin missionaries in Zambia.
Publication by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. on the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia. Published by 'The Father Mathew Record' Office, Dublin. The book summarizes Fr. O’Mahony’s experiences during a visitation to the Cape Province (South Africa) and to Northern Rhodesia in 1935. The chapter headings are: A new venture; the missionary idea; mysterious Africa; gateway of the Cape; from the Cape to Livingstone; the Barotse people; exploring; to Mongu; the religious of the Barotse.
O’Mahony, James, 1897-1962, Capuchin priestPhotographic prints of Tanzania compiled for an article by Bernadette Quinn titled ‘African Aperitif’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1976), pp 120-8.
This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.