Documento 12 - Building of the New Ard Mhuire Friary

Clippings of articles referring to the building (and funding) of the new House of Studies and Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, Creeslough, County Donegal. The file includes:
• ‘New Capuchin Friary for Ard Mhuire / to replace former landlord mansion’. 'The Derry People', 9 May 1964. The article has an extensive photograph of the building site with the old Ard Mhuire Friary in the background.
• ‘New Capuchin Friary’. 'The People’s Press', 9 May 1964. Includes photographs of the old Ard Mhuire Friary and of an architectural model of the new building.
• ‘The visitor to Ards is mystified’ by John Moore, referring to the history of the Capuchins in Donegal and to the new Ard Mhuire Friary.
• ‘First Silver Circle Draw for Ard Mhuire’. 'The Derry People', 12 Feb. 1966. Includes a photograph of Fr. Godfrey Mannion OFM Cap., Fr. Nicholas O’Brien OFM Cap. and others at the aforementioned draw in aid of the Friary building fund.
See also CA DL/2/3/7.