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Expenditure and receipt account book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The volume includes entries relating to expenses incurred for advertising various feis and panto performances in the Hall. The volume also includes accounts with local suppliers including Thomas Lenehan & Co. and J. Treacy & Co. The receipts’ entries include ‘Billiard room returns’.

‘Capital Series Journal’ containing expenditure and receipt accounts. An annotation on the front cover reads: ‘Father Mathew Hall account, 1958 … continuation from Old Book’. The volume contains expenditure and receipt accounts from 1 July 1958 to 30 Aug. 1958. Typescript insert dated 12 Aug. 1958 notes lodgements to bank (debit: £2,943 3s 1d) and by cheque (credit: £2,790 9s 8d. Balance at 12 Aug. 1958: £175 10s 1d).

Letters to Fr. Gilbert Bermingham OFM Cap., President, and Fr. Virgilus Murtagh OFM Cap. from Milward, Jones, Mayne and Knapp, solicitors, 6 Dawson Street, Dublin, concerning negotiations with the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for the sale of Father Mathew Hall by the trustees to the Capuchin Order, for £7,000. Gerard O’Rourke wrote to Fr. Gilbert on 12 Nov. 1964 to explain that the ‘Commissioners would not agree to the purchase price of the Hall being used for the reconstruction of the Hall because the Hall would then belong to the Capuchin Order and would cease to be taken as a memorial to Fr. Mathew’. An order from the Courts directing that the assets of the trust be transferred to the Capuchin Order is referred to in a letter 2 July 1968.

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Construction plan for the installation of an unidentified apparatus (possibly used in stage alterations in Father Mathew Hall). Plan by M.P. Hyne.

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Blue print of an electrical installation at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The plan shows various electrical works to be done in the auditorium, orchestra, stage and other rooms in the Hall. Plan by N. Mathews, consulting engineer, 104 Grafton Street, Dublin.

Correspondence of the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, with the Western Electric Company, Ltd., Bush House, Aldwych, London, regarding an agreement for the installation of projection equipment for motion pictures in the Hall. The file includes a memorandum on engineering requirements and an agreement and lease for the installation and operation of the said equipment.

Programme for St. Mary’s Boys Concert Party, ‘controlled by the Catholic Seaman’s’ Institute’, to be held in Father Mathew Hall, under the direction of Aloysius J. Johnson. With a list of invitations to the said concert.

Schedule of public entertainment at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The reverse of the front cover contains a list of entertainments under the headings of date of entertainment, full name and addresses of person(s) holding entertainment; title of work presented or delivered; name of author of work or owner of copyright if any; full name and address of the person by whom the work was performed, exhibited or delivered. 2 May 1937-3 June 1937. The entertainment included the film 'Man of Aran' (1934) and Sean O’Casey’s play 'The Shadow of a Gunman' (1923). The remainder of the volume is comprised of expenditure and accounts for various theatrical productions, May 1937-October 1957. Includes accounts for publicity, costumes, salaries, orchestra and other expenses associated with various pantomime performances of 'Cinderella' (1939-40); 'The Gondoliers' (Sept.-Oct. 1940); 'Jack and the Beanstalk' (1943); 'Robinson Crusoe' (1944); 'The Height of Fashion' (Oct. 1957). Inserts include a typescript programme for a lecture and a concert at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. 19 Nov. 1939. The lecture is titled ‘Six years in Africa’ by Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.

Glass lantern plate for 'Robinson Crusoe' pantomime performed by the Father Mathew Hall Players in the Church Street Hall. With manufacturer’s (Ilford Limited) box. The instructions for use are pasted on.