Photographs from the Archive.

 

The Manuscript Journals

 

A Manuscript Journal is created each year by the students of the college. The earliest journal dates from 1916. In it they document student life in Rome through photographs of visitors, college trips, sporting events, the college play, study and ordinations. They also contain essays on religion, history, culture, literature, how to make a home-made radio, car maintenance etc...... in other words topics of interest to the students.

 

They are a valuable source, providing a parallel and alternative record of the college. They also provide a wonderful pictorial record, documenting momentous events like the Liberation of Rome in 1944 or day-to-day life as the following photographs, taken from the Manuscript Journal of 1967, demonstrate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographic Collection

Quite apart from the Manuscript Journals the Archive possesses a photographic collection. The earliest photographs in the archive are late 1800s cabinet-cards. We have for example a photo-album containing 26 portraits of members of the Australian hierarchy and an album containing 100 photographs of New South Wales presented by Archbishop Moran of Sydney during his visit in 1893.

 

Work is underway to catalogue the photographs in our care. Researchers interested in our photographs should consult the Photographs pre-1939 (Preliminary Archival Guide) and moreover contact the archivist at archives@irishcollege.org for updates and assistance.

 

Group of scholars travelling through mountain gap in Mayo.

(Eric MacFhinn, an Irish College student, writes in glowing

tones of the time spent in Toormakeady, Mayo- summer 1918).

Taken from Irisleabhar na Gaeilge 1918-1919

 

Joseph (Columba) Marmion - future abbot of Maredsous (undated)

 

John Hagan

 

Students at supper in Tivoli (no date)

 

Unnamed student 'basking' (early 1920s)

 

Family visiting the College for Eucharistic Congress 1922

 

Visitors are shown the Colosseum by Mon. Curran, 23 March 1926

 

Pope John Paul II's visit in 1980

(Welcomed by Vice-Rector John J.Hanly; to his left former rector Bishop Dominic Conway of Elphin and Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich, to his right Rector Éamonn Marron and former Rector, Bishop Donal Herlihy of Ferns)