1 - First Photograph of Seraphic School Students in Kilkenny

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First Photograph of Seraphic School Students in Kilkenny

Black and white print; typescript

A sepia-toned outdoor group photograph of fifteen students and friars from the Seraphic School in Kilkenny in September 1885, mounted alongside a corresponding typewritten identification key. The key utilizes a numbered spatial layout matching the positions in the photograph, identifying two adult friars and thirteen students:

Staff/Administrators: Father Matthew, Guardian (standing, left back) and Father Peter, Rector (standing, far left).

Students (Brothers): Leonard Brophy (2), Benedict McDonald (3), Clement Brazil (4), Augustine Hayden [annotated by hand as "John"] (5), Patrick [surname omitted in text] (7), Canice Rice (8), John Callanan (9), Jarlath Hynes (10), Bonaventure Halvey (11), Luke Sheehan (12), Laurence Buckley (13), Mark Regan (14), and Finbar Sullivan (15).

An additional caption in the volume notes that ‘this photograph contains four of the five pupils who entered the day School opened’ on 8 December 1884.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition