Draft biography of the architect, James Joseph McCarthy (1817-1882) with a list of his principal works (including the Capuchin Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin). References are made to his Royal Hibernian Academy exhibitions, to his appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Catholic University of Ireland, and to controversies over the restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin and the commission to build St. Colman’s Cathedral in Queenstown (Cobh). The file includes a newspaper clipping referring to the history of the Capuchins on Church Street. The clipping includes a photographic print of the old Capuchin Chapel on the street which was built in 1796 and was replaced by St. Mary of the Angels in 1864.
Drafts of an article by Kathleen MacKenna Napoli (1897-1988) titled ‘Among the Nations of the Earth / Revolutionary Recollections’. The drafts represent a personal memoir of the revolutionary period. The chapter headings include sections describing the ‘Irish Bulletin story’, the ‘Treaty negotiations’ and the ‘Irish Civil War’.
Article re Saint Francesco Maria da Camporosso OSFC (1804-1866), an Italian Capuchin friar who was canonized on 9 December 1962. The article includes a copy letter from Cardinal Giuseppe Siri (1906-1989), Archbishop of Genoa.
Draft of an article on Augustine Birrell (1850-1933), Chief Secretary for Ireland, and his role in the 1916 Rising. The author of the text is not given.
Draft of an article by Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap. titled ‘Reason and tradition / a tribute to St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975).
