Publisher: Dublin: Catholic Choralist Office, 23 Essex Street Language: English Full title: 'The Catholic choralist / for the use of the choir, drawing room, cloister, and cottage ... harmonized and arranged for the voice, band, piano-forte, and organ …'. Manuscript annotations on fly-leaf read: ‘The gift of the good and generous Father Mathew – Apostle of Temperance. June 24th 1843’; ‘To Master L.B. Patten from his friends. Aug. 31, 1885’; ‘Given to Fr. Peter by L.B. Patten’.
Cutting from the 'Cork Examiner', 20 Oct. 1938, reporting on the opening of a bazaar in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, to aid the work of the Capuchin African missions.
A history of ‘The Capuchins in Kilkenny 1643-1937 – a compilation of scattered notes’ by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. Parts I and II. Includes the early history of the Capuchins in the city, notes regarding the Alms house on Walkin Street, and the later construction of the present-day Friary building. With a bound copy (25.5 cm x 20 cm) dated at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, 1938.
A short article by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. on the history of the Capuchin friars in County Donegal. The article refers to the importance of the missionary work performed by the friars who were ordained in Ard Mhuire. Reference is also made to the financing of the building of the new friary and church in the 1960s. The article reads: 'In the year 1930 the Irish Capuchin Franciscans took over the old Stewart mansion in County Donegal and fitted it out as a theological seminary. Between 1931 and 1972 over two hundred priests were ordained at Ard Mhuire. They are now working in almost every continent'.
Draft article (with galley print) of an article by Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap. titled ‘The Capuchins in Cork’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1976).
Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. It is noted that ‘much of the Fathers’ time is taken up with convert work, pre-nuptial courses and teaching Christian Doctrine to children attending the public schools’. Statistical information (population, racial composition, and number of priests) is given in respect of the friars’ work in Parow, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia and Langa. It is affirmed that the ‘bulk of the non-white people, i.e. the poorest of this diocese, is attended by the Capuchin Fathers’.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Capuchin Periodicals Cup. Piano Senior Rosebowl. Do Bhronn an corn so ar Fheis Mhaitiú 1970’. On reverse of the bowl: List of winners from 1972-1997. With lid cover.
Lists of prize-winners for 'The Capuchin Annual' prize draw for 1962-3. With official licences from the Dublin Metropolitan Court for the promotion of a lottery. The file is kept within the covers of an 'Irish Industrial Year Book' (1931) from which the pages have been torn
