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Expenses and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The entries are recorded under date, details and totals of expenses and receipts. Most of the expenditure relates to services and utilities such as rent, electricity, salaries and repairs. An annotation on the first page reads ‘Continuation from old ledger’ (see CA HA/1/3/12).

Expenditure and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. An annotation on the front cover reads ‘Day book’. The entries are recorded under date, details and totals of expenses and receipts. Most of the expenditure relates to services and utilities such as rent, electricity, salaries and repairs. The receipts record monies mostly accruing from the showing of films, the sales of tickets and badges, and the use of the Hall for cards and billiards games.

Expenditure and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The first two pages of the volume contain a ‘History of Fr. Mathew Hall’ copied from an earlier ledger (see CA HA/1/3/8). An entry on page 6 refers to the order of the Hall Committee for the discontinuation of the showing of motion pictures (Oct. 1937). Expenditure is listed under the headings of details, cash and cheques. Receipts are listed under details, cash and lodgements. The entries for expenditure include figures for rents, rates and taxes, salaries, utilities and the purchase of various sundries. The receipts include monies accruing from the sales of tickets and the use of the billiards room.

‘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).

Expenditure and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. An annotation on the front cover reads ‘Day book’. The entries are recorded under date, details and totals of expenses and receipts. Most of the expenditure relates to services and utilities such as rent, electricity, salaries and repairs. An annotation on the final page reads ‘See New Book’. (CA HA/1/3/15).

Account book of the Sacred Heart Sodality attached to Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. Details are provided in relation to routine expenses such as postage, stationary and repair work on the Hall. The journal appears to have used later as a register book for members, and as a sales book for a film screening in the Hall.

The sub-series contains records relating to various forms of entertainment performed at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin. These included exhibitions, concerts, comedic sketches, dramatic plays and until the late 1960s an annual Christmas pantomime. The records also refer to the dancing, choral and orchestra classes which were routinely held in the Hall.

Rules of the Dublin Drama Festival held under auspices of the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The competition is confined to amateur drama groups, and players must be bona fide members of the group they are playing with. The winners qualified for the All-Ireland Drama Festival.

Draft resolution forwarded by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC, Vice-President, Father Mathew Hall. Fr. Angelus suggest that the resolution ‘asks two things … first to endorse the work of the Irish Temperance Association and secondly to appeal for further financial support to enable the Hall Committee to extend their temperance propaganda’. The resolution refers to efforts to curtail the sale of alcohol on Sundays. The report notes that ‘we have Sunday drinking not in the interest of the public but in the interest of the publican’.

Draft letter to Walter Glynn Doolin, engineer, drawing attention to the ‘many defects’ in Father Mathew Hall which must be rectified without delay. The defects mainly relate to poor drainage facilities.