William Simasiku standing beside Kan’yenza stream at Loanja, the site of the first Irish Capuchin mission station in Northern Rhodesia. He was a teacher at the mission station in 1936.
This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.
Copy prints compiled for an article by Dermot Keogh titled ‘William Martin Murphy & the origins of the 1913 Lockout’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 130-58. The file includes copy prints of contemporary newspapers covering the Lockout dispute and images of William Martin Murphy, James Connolly and Jim Larkin.
An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Will of the people. If you had answered the will of the people in August, 1914, you would all have gone to Flanders. If you had acted on the will of the people in Easter Week you would have lynched Padraig Pearse'.
Will of Concubhar Ó Muíneacháin, St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny dated 4 Feb. 1931. He bequeaths £350 ‘for masses for my parents, brothers, sisters and self, to the guardian for the time being of the Friary, Kilkenny’ and appoints James Henry and the president of the Third Order attached to the Friary in Kilkenny as his executors. He leaves his books and manuscripts to the Capuchin Friary at Ard Mhuire, County Donegal. The file includes his stock and share certificates (for varying amounts) from the Dublin United Tramways Company, the Keystone Knitting Mills and the Irish-American Oil Company Limited.
Will and testament of William Lynch. He appoints his sons George and Gilbert to be his sole heirs to his estate including a dairy yard and three houses opposite Smithfield in the possession of Mr. Purfield and subject to an annual rent of ten guineas.
Will of Thomas Black, Eccles Street, Dublin. He assigns his personal estate, rents and hereditaments to his sons George and William Black and to his daughter Catherine Black. No reference is made in the testament to the location of any properties in Dublin. Thomas Black died on 4 Dec. 1872 and the probate was granted to the said Catherine Black on 18 Feb. 1873.
Will of Elizabeth Roche of Ormonde Road, Kilkenny. She bequeathed to the Most Rev. Abraham Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory ‘all monies in my name in government stock in trust … to pay the guardian of the Order of Franciscans in the City of Kilkenny ten pounds yearly for masses for the repose of my soul and those of the deceased members of my family to be celebrated in public in Ireland …’. The codicil is dated 26 Oct. 1904.
