Mount Argus: Confraternity: Men's Brfanch: Register of the Men's Branch of the Confraternity. It is dificult to date this item. It apparantly may have begun in 1952 and includes names of those who were members uo to the present day. The current regiater.
The subseries comprises a small collection of papers relating to Patrick Gallagher, better known by his sobriquet Patrick ‘the Cope’ Gallagher (‘cope’ being the popular Donegal version of ‘cooperative’). Gallagher was a cooperative organiser, businessman, and a campaigner for his native County Donegal. He is best remembered for founding the Templecrone Agricultural Co-operative Society in 1906, popularly known as ‘the Cope’, a co-operative association based in The Rosses area of West County Donegal. The file includes articles, clippings, and a letter from Gallagher to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (21 August 1947). Also includes a copy of ‘The Irish Homestead’ (11 Nov. 1916) which has content on Gallagher’s campaigning work in Donegal.
A clipping of an article by J.D. Callaghan titled ‘Paddy founded a Co-operative’ referring to Patrick Gallagher’s Templecrone Agricultural Co-operative Society. The article was published in the ‘Detroit Free Press’.
The series comprises photographic glass plates with descriptions derived principally from annotations and captions on their original containers, boxes and covers.
An image of a group of Capuchin friars in Kilkenny. An annotation on the cover indicates that (seated, second from the right) Fr. Camillus Killian OFM Cap. (1872-1941) was the house superior. Fr. Killian was superior in Kilkenny from 1907-10. Other friars in the group include:
(seated, first on the right): Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935)
(seated, second on the left): Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (1875-1950)
(standing, third from the left): Fr. Cyril O'Sullivan OFM Cap. (1887-1921)
(standing, fourth from the left): Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (1886-1971)
A view of the high altar of the Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny in c.1910.
A view of the interior and high altar of the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny, in c.1910.
A view of the interior (nave and high altar) of the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny, in c.1910. A solitary worshiper sits in the front row.
A view of the snow-covered garden attached to the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny in December 1917.
An image of Fr. Malachy Hynes OFM Cap. (1879-1955) and Fr. Kieran O’Callahgan OFM Cap. (1893-1967) on a horse and trap outside the Capuchin Friary on Walkin Street in Kilkenny in about 1920. The cover annotation provides the names of the two friars.