A studio photograph of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.
A portrait photograph of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (1898-1953), an Irish Capuchin missionary in Northern Rhodesia.
Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. (left) meeting Mukwai Makwibi (a tribal leader) at Senanga.
Fr. Fintan Roche at the Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.
Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the banks of the Zambezi River in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
A print of Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. The verso is endorsed: ‘Group of schoolchildren at Saw mills school. … This is not [a] full crowd about half [are] missing in this group. After a while one gets accustomed to their strange faces. The little fellow second from right, front row, must have been playing rugby’.
Fr. Flavian Welstead OFM Cap. before his departure for the Zambian Mission . A typescript description on the reverse reads: ‘Present at a farewell party for Rev. Fr. Flavian OFM Cap., who is leaving this week for the Missions in Zambia, which was held in St. Columba’s Hall, Douglas, were …’. Photographer / Studio: Donal J. Crowley, 19 South View, Ballinlough Road, Cork.
Photographic prints by Fr. Francis Browne SJ (1880-1960). Some of the prints in the file are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:
• Hay harvesting near the Brownshill Dolmen, County Carlow.
• Boat leaving the Aran Islands at sunset. The print is titled ‘Farewell to the Aran Islands’.
• Dunboy Castle, County Cork.
• Upper Lake, Killarney, County Kerry.
• The River Liffey, near Lucan, County Dublin.
• Lough Conn, County Mayo.
• River Deel at Crossmolina, County Mayo.
• ‘The Flyer’ steam locomotive.
• Dhu Caher, Inis Mór (Inishmore), Aran Islands.
• Templeport Lake, County Cavan.
• Castletownbere, County Cork.
• Entrance to Dún Aonghasa, Inishmore, Aran Islands.
Two plates showing a Capuchin friar standing along a forested lane-way probably near Rochestown in County Cork. The cover annotation suggests that the friar is Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap. (1866-1946).
A plate showing an image of a seventeenth-century print of Fr. Francis Nugent OSFC (1569-1635), the founder of the Irish Capuchin Franciscan Province. The plate is by Mayne, Lord Edward Street, Dublin.