- IE CA HA/2/1
- Subseries
- 1907-c.1985
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
The section consists mostly of programmes, administrative material and organisational records relating to Father Mathew Hall, Cork.
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Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
The section consists mostly of programmes, administrative material and organisational records relating to Father Mathew Hall, Cork.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
This section mainly includes organisational records, correspondence, clippings, financial records, scripts, and printed material related to Feis events.
Flier seeking subscriptions for a new Temperance Hall
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Flier from the Halston Street Total Abstinence Society seeking subscriptions to fund the building of a new Hall on a site ‘secured at the junction of Church Street and Bedford Street’. The flier notes that ‘until now the work [of the Sodality] has been done in a wretchedly small hall which is no longer available for the perpetuation and increase of this great social reform’. The flier also provides a list of subscriptions for the fund.
Flier for Father Mathew Centenary Memorial Hall
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Flier seeking funds (£800) to complete the building of the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The opening paragraph affirms that ‘this Total Abstinence Hall, for one of the poorest and most crowded districts of Dublin, will cost £3,000. It will seat 1,200 people, and the building will also contain a gymnasium, reading rooms, a room for bagatelle and other games, a library, a coffee bar and a caretaker’s apartment’.
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Flier for Brian Boru Fete and prize draw ‘to reduce a heavy debt of £3,800’ on Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The first prize is a pony trap and harness, ‘a gift of a friend (the harness, a gift of J. Donnelly, North King Street)’.
First Annual Report of the Total Abstinence Sodality and Hall
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Report of the Halston Street Total Abstinence Sodality founded by Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC in 1881. The report refers to the efforts to improve and renovate the Hall since the sodality took possession of the building. The report reads ‘When we took possession of this place it was in a very sad and forlorn condition, so dilapidated by time, and the many uses it was put to (I believe its last use was that of a blacksmith’s forge)’. The report also provides figures for income and expenditure. The figures read: debt: £35 7s 11½d; expenditure: £255 12 2½d. It also notes that the pledge has been given to over 1,000 men in the Hall and to over 900 in St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street. With a typescript copy of said report.
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Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet
Floor plan drawn up for alterations to Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, for fire safety purposes. The plan comprises basement, ground, first and second floor plans. Plan ref. number: F48 – 388. Drawn by J.A. Kealy for Michael N. Slattery, Fire Safety Officer, Julianstown, County Meath.
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The sub-series contains books of account and financial statements generated by the day-to-day management of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin.
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Draft timetables for the Father Mathew Feis, Church Street. The file includes draft timetables for music (instrumental and singing) and various speech and drama contests.
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Syllabus for the 1997 Feis Maitiú, Cork. The syllabus includes an appreciation for Br. Paul O’Donovan OFM Cap. who was stepping down as President of the Feis, a position he had held since 1970. The appreciation was written by Claire O’Halloran and includes a photographic print of Br. Paul