2 - Second Photograph of the Seraphic School

2

Second Photograph of the Seraphic School

Black and white print; typescript

A sepia-toned copy photograph of students and staff members taken in Kilkenny in November 1886 with a corresponding numbered spatial identification key. A caption page in the volume establishes the provenance, identifying the image as ‘The second Photograph of The Seraphic School taken in Kilkenny November 1886, when the School was being transferred to Rochestown’. The accompanying text key (the second photo) details a sequential spatial matrix mapping out eighteen distinct individuals, including two staff friars and sixteen student brothers:

Staff/Administrators: Father Charles Lonergan (No. 11, seated centrally in the front row) and Father Peter Bowe, Rector (No. 15, seated toward the right).

Students (Brothers): Jarlath Hynes (1), Colman Grace (2), Brendan Hardiman (3), John Callanan (4), Stephen Hegarty (5), Bartholomew Herley (6), Finbar Sullivan (7), Thomas Cotter (8), Laurence Dowling (9), Bonaventure Halvey (10), Martin Gorman (12), Fiacre Brophy (13), Sebastian O’Brien (14), Ambrose [Augustine] Hayden (16), Michael Butler (17), and Luke Sheehan (18).

ISAD(G) 2nd edition