A signed menu card for a reception marking the visit of Cardinal John Joseph Glennon to Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin. The card is signed by Cardinal Glennon. It is also signed by Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh (Seán T. O’Kelly), the President of Ireland, and by his wife Phyllis Bean Úi Cheallaigh (Phyllis O’Kelly). The other signatures are those of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, Seán Mac an tSaoi (Seán MacEntee), the Minister of Health, and Séamus Ó Riain (James Ryan), the Minister of Agriculture. Cardinal Glennon died five days later in Dublin (9 March 1946). His body lay in repose in All Hallows College (his old seminary) before being returned to the United States for burial in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.
A slip with an autograph of Ada Rehan dated 1894.
Date: 1826
Author: Sigmund von Storchenau (1731-1798)
Publisher: Neapoli, apud Lucam Marotta, Via S. Blasii, No. 119
Full title: 'Sigismundi Storchenau in academia vindobonensi … Institutiones logicae'
A letter from (Edward) Sigerson Clifford to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his delight on having his work published in 'The Capuchin Annual' and enclosing a short biography.
Draft article by Edward MacLysaght titled ‘S.R. Lysaght: The Author and the Man’. The file also contains a copy manuscript titled ‘Another Imaginary Conversation / 3 Dec. 1931’ compiled for an article titled: ‘Sidney Royce Lysaght: the author and the man’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975), pp 225-229. The piece was written by Edward MacLysaght. The manuscript refers to family reminiscences pertaining especially to his father, Sidney Royse Lysaght (1860-1941), an Irish writer, who worked in the iron industry. His son, Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), was a writer and authority on Irish family history. The file also includes two copies of ‘The amazing war experiences of Patrick Lysaght / An Irishman of the Royal Irish Rifles / the first unit to meet the Germans at Mons in 1914’. It is noted that this narrative was first recorded in December 1938.
Negative sheets (for black and white prints) of various scenes of Capuchin friars at Sichili Mission Station in Northern Rhodesia. With photographic wallet of L.F. Moore, Dispensing and Photographic Chemist, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. Some of the images appear to be extant in the photographic volume at CA AMI/2/10/1/2.
The exterior of the Capuchin Friary in Sichili, Zambia.
Cover addressed to 'The Father Mathew Record' and 'Capuchin Annual Office', Church Street, Dublin, from Leo Vala Photography, Knightsbridge Studios Brompton Road, London. The cover includes two black and white prints and a press release from Vala Photography regarding the proceeds from a sale of a profile print of Christ being donated to the Turin Shroud Investigation Fund.
A set of two photographic postcard prints of the Shrine of Saint Anne in Holy Trinity Church in Cork. One of the prints is dated 26 July 1927 (the feast day of Saint Anne). Published by Guy & Co., Ltd., Cork.
A post card print titled 'Shrine of Blessed Oliver Plunkett / St. Peter's Church, West Street, Drogheda'. Saint Peter’s Church houses the National Shrine to Oliver Plunkett, the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh who was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in London on 1 July 1681. Plunkett was the last Catholic martyr to die in England. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975.