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- c.1951-1955 (Creation)
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72 pp; 29 cm x 25.5 cm; Bound volume; Black and white and colour prints
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Baptismal name: Michael Anthony Gough
Religious name: Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap.
Date of birth: 22 Mar. 1904
Place of birth: Rush, County Dublin
Name of father: Thomas Rush (Carpenter)
Name of mother: Alicia Rush (née O’Donohoe)
Date of reception into the Capuchin Order: 18 Sept. 1921
Date of first profession: 15 Oct. 1922
Date of final profession: 29 Dec. 1925
Date of ordination (as priest): 29 June 1929
Educational attainments: BA (1925)
Missionary activities: Travelled to the United States in 1929; Pastor at Our Lady of Angels Parish, Hermiston, Oregon, 1930-3; returned to Ireland in 1936; Travelled to the Prefecture of Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia) in 1936; returned to Ireland in 1957; Parish Priest on the island of St. Helena from 1957-64 while attached to the Cape Town mission in South Africa.
Date of death: 30 Nov. 1983
Place of death: Little Sisters of the Poor Nursing Home, Sybil Hill, Raheny, Dublin
Place of burial: Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
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The album contains partially captioned prints relating to Fr. Jarlath Gough’s time as a missionary in South Africa. The album includes some views of local worship including communion groups and retreats, and photographs of religious sisters. Some personal, family and travel prints are also extant in the album. The captioned photographs include:
• Athlone Catholic Hall, Cape Town, South Africa.
• A group of Irish Capuchin friars in South Africa, including Fr. Jarlath, Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
• Fr. Jarlath climbing Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Bishop Francis Hennemann SAC, Vicar Apostolic of Cape Town, lying in state. He died on 17 Jan. 1951.
• St Mary’s Cathedral Church, Cape Town, South Africa, 1951.
• Procession to mark the centenary of the building of St. Mary’s Church, Cape Town, South Africa.
• The visit of the 'Irish Plane' merchant ship to Cape Town Harbour in 1953.
• Cape Town Centenary Catholic Congress. Members of the Third Order of St. Francis, Athlone parish, assembling for procession in 1951.
• The visit of the Spanish training vessel, 'Juan Sebastian de Elcano', to Cape Town in Feb. 1954.
• Fr. Dan Monaghan in Cape Town, 1954.
• Holy Cross community, Athlone, 1953.
• Catholic Church, George, Western Cape. ‘The oldest Church in use in South Africa’.
• Our Lady Star of the Sea Shrine, Herald’s Bay Catholic Church, South Africa.
• Holy Cross Convent, George, Western Cape, South Africa.
• Third Order pilgrimages in 1950 and 1951.
• ‘Zulu Warriors’.
• Half-length portrait of Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap.
• Marian year pilgrimage to St. Mary’s Cathedral Church, Cape Town, from Athlone parish, the Welcome Estate and Langa, 1954.
• Holy Cross Sisters and postulants, 1954.
• The Capuchin stand at the vocations’ exhibition, Cape Town, Oct. 1954.
• Forty hours adoration in the parish church in Athlone, Cape Town, 1954.
• ‘Bees and flowers’ child performers, Athlone, 1954.
• The holiday excursion of Parow orphans to Kalk Bay in Jan. 1955. With Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap.
• The Most Rev. Owen McCann, Archbishop of Cape Town, at Langa, 1954.
• Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap. (1919-1990) and Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. (1920-2008) at Cape Point in 1953.
• The visit of the USS 'Midway' to Cape Town in Jan. 1955. The prints show Fr. Fay, chaplain, saying mass for the 700 Catholics serving on board.
• Round Tower at Philippi, Cape Province, South Africa.
• Sisters of Charity of St. Paul the Apostle in 1954.
• Interior of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town.
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- Quinn, Salvator, 1918-2000, Capuchin priest (Subject)
- Murphy, Hugh, 1919-1990, Capuchin priest (Subject)
- Browne, Luke, 1920-2008, Capuchin priest (Subject)
- Brennan, Crispin, 1917-2009, Capuchin priest (Subject)