Irish Capuchin Friars and Scenes

Details

Level of description

File

Date

c.1900-c.1920

Reference

24

Extent and medium

Glass Plate Negative; 8 cm x 8 cm; 19 items

Scope and content

‘Barnet Red Seal Plate’ (Elliot & Sons, Ltd., Barnet, England) box. The box contains nineteen slides. None of the plates have annotations or captions and most of the descriptive content has been inferred. The box includes the following images: (a) A junior football team. The ball is annotated with a date of 1908. (b) Two images of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. at a hurling match at Croke Park, Dublin, and at the head of a temperance procession. (c) The hallway of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork. (d) A group of Capuchin friars with musical instruments in the Kilkenny Friary in c.1905. The group includes Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (e) A group of Capuchin friars in Kilkenny in about 1905. The title, ‘Conradh na Gaeilge’ (Gaelic League), has been superimposed on the original glass plate. (f) Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with a group of students possibly at a hurling match in Rochestown, County Cork.

Physical characteristics

Interleaving tissue has been placed between the plates held in the original container.

Repository

Irish Capuchin Archives

Context

Irish Capuchin Archives > Glass Plate Negative and Lantern Slide Collection > Annotated and Captioned Photographic Plates

Rights

Rights

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