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Postcard of new extension to Mt. Argus Church

Photographic print of a postcard from Kenneth Kaunda (later President of Zambia) to Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea. The postcard was written during Kaunda’s visit to Rome and asks for ‘divine guidance … [during] our present crisis’.

Postcard of banner unveiled during Beatification in St. Peter's

A postcard from Sister Mary Stella Phelan (1925-2001), Medical Missionaries of Mary, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The postcard shows the Cunard White Star liner ‘Mauretania’ which took Sister Mary Stella and Mother Mary Martin to the United States.

A postcard from Montgomery Carmichael, Livorno, Italy, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for a copy of the 1934 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and briefly referring to his article therein.

A postcard from Margaret Mary Pearse (M.M. Nic Phiarais) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The postcard shows a view of the coast at Greenore in County Louth. The postcard reads '‘It is like living on a fine boat’. “The Mournes” are before me. X the “Carlingfords” behind’. Pearse has annotated the image to aid her description of her surroundings.

A postcard from John O’Gorman (1908-1994) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. O'Gorman painted a view of Dingle Harbour on the image side of the postcard. O’Gorman remarks that he was enjoying the scenery in County Kerry (Moynihan's home county).

A postcard from Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for sending a copy of the first edition of ‘Bonaventura’. The image side of the card shows the Capuchin Franciscan Friary in Rochestown, County Cork.

Postcard to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Church Street, from ‘E. Ní F’ (Eibhlín Ní Fhoghludha) declaring that a ‘very small room for your friend’ is ready in August. The author also affirms that ‘we have had a very quiet time in Rinn but you know we are very much behind the times’. The photographic print of the postcard shows refurbishment work on Liberty Hall after its destruction in the 1916 Rising. The banner across the façade of the hall reads: ‘James Connolly murdered May 12th 1916’.