Letter from Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, to Fr. Camillus Killian OSFC, guardian, regarding arrangements for the impending Provincial Chapter and the canonical visitation by Fr. Anselm, definitor general. Fr. Bowe also reminds Fr. Camillus that the recently established houses in America are ‘attached … to the Irish Province so that the religious sent to them shall have the same rights and privileges as in the houses of the Irish Province’.
Letter from Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, to Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, regarding the conditions of a lease of property adjoining the Friary offered at an annual rent of £20.
Letter from Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, affirming that it would be advisable to defer the plans for the extension of Friary Church in Kilkenny for the present ‘in view of the recent extension and improvements and the present disturbed conditions of the country’.
Letter from Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, referring to a request from Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. for some items which he requires for the missions.
A letter from Fr. C. O’Neill, St. Peter’s Presbytery, Milford Street, to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., a Capuchin friar, referring to the effects of bombing raids during the Belfast Blitz in April 1941. He writes ‘A great disaster has befallen this city and I have lost a few very saintly tertiaries. Many people have left, for the houses are not habitable; others have fled in fear. But no-one on the Falls Road area was injured. The Catholic Church in the city was damaged save for a few panes of glass. The disaster will affect our Triduum somewhat, but I think it is better to have it, all the same. It would never do to give up on prayer and the people are saying the Rosary in the streets every night in this parish. The horror of an air-raid is inconceivable until one has seen it’.
Letter from Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. to the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, regarding the granting of faculties to act as extraordinary confessor to the Sisters of St. John of God.
Date: c.1858-1916 Publisher: Dublin: University Press. McGlashan and Gill, 50 Upper Sackville Street; Dublin: John Falconer, 53 Upper Sackville Street. Full title: Originally published as the 'Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society' (1849-54) and later as: 'Journal of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society and South East of Ireland Archaeological Society' (1854-68); 'Journal of the Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland' (1868-9); 'Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland' (1869-90) 'Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland' (1890-) Publication Frequency: Annual
Inventory of the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The inventory lists the furniture, fittings and decorative features of the church, the choir, the Third Order Chapel, the sacristy, the parlours, and porter’s room.
Date: 1834 Author: Rev. John Gother Publisher: B. Smith, 46 Mary Street, Dublin Full title: 'Instructions on the epistles and gospels of all the Sundays and festivals throughout the year, and of every day during the Holy season of Lent. … Two volumes complete in one'.
Instructions from M.M. Murphy, solicitor, for counsel (Thomas F. Molony) seeking advice on the title of Joseph Empson to premises on Walkin Street. The counsel endorses the instructions with a list of documents to be acquired before the purchase is to be completed.
