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Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Corn an Athar Mhic Amhlaoib. Buchaillí Fé 12 Bl’ [Boys’ Under 12]. The base includes silver shields denoting winners from 1969-1997.

Correspondence of Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, with Valentine Miley, solicitor, 12 South Frederick Street, Dublin, regarding the appointment of legal trustees for the Hall property. The file includes copy notices sent by Fr. Columbus to committee members regarding the amendment needed to the ‘General rule of the Father Mathew Hall OSFC and the “Sacred Thirst” Branch of St. Patrick’s Branch League of the Cross’. With solicitor costs for the completion of a deed assignment for the appointment of a new committee and trustees.

Correspondence of Fr. Dan Joe O’Mahony OFM Cap., President, Br. Daniel O’Brien OFM Cap., Celia Hanley and Patricia Melligan, secretaries, Father Mathew Feis, mostly seeking subscriptions for corporate sponsorship and requests from teachers for poems and other Feis syllabi, and arrangements for competition adjudicators and students. The file includes a letter from Thelma Conlan, President, Speech and Drama Teachers Association, affirming that it ‘would be a great loss if a Feis of such stature was to become a thing of the past’. She suggests to Fr. Dan Joe that the ‘Association would be prepared to take over the running of this excellent Feis’; a letter from A. Ó hAonghusa, secretary to Michael D. Higgins, Minister for Arts, regretting that he cannot attend the launch of the Feis (9 Feb. 1993). With a newspaper clipping from the 'Evening Herald', 8 Feb. 1997, referring to the Feis Maitiú and the TV personalities who appeared in the Feis including Gay Byrne, Brenda Fricker, Frances Black and Hugh O’Connor.

Correspondence of Kathleen Murray, Honorary Secretary, Father Mathew Feis, mainly regarding requests from teachers and schools for Feis syllabuses, queries from adjudicators and letters of thanks to various sponsors. Includes a five-page typescript of a talk by Maurice Jacobson titled ‘The adjudicator and the music festival’. Other correspondents include the President of Father Mathew Hall.

Correspondence of Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC and other members of the Father Mathew Temperance Hall Committee, Church Street. Correspondents include Joseph Kelly & Son, 66-7 Thomas Street; Walter Glynn Doolin, regarding seating, lighting and other furnishings for the Hall, F. G. Sullivan, The Square, Bantry, County Cork, regarding fund raising efforts for the Hall; T. Coghlan, 4 Harcourt Street, Dublin, concerning furnishings for the billiards and bagatelle room in the Hall; John Edmundson, 33-6 Capel Street, regarding the supply of footlights for the Hall. The file also includes a letter from Mary McHardy, 2 Bellebue Terrace, Edinburgh, offering to perform a recital in the Hall (5 Sept. 1890).

Letters from solicitors regarding the potential purchase of 151 Church Street (part of the Father Mathew Hall property) by clients who hold the said premises under a lease made on 7 Sept. 1920 from Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. and others to Robert Kavanagh for the term of 150 years at the nominal rent of 5d per year.

Correspondence with Donal O’Buachalla & Co., valuers, rating and property consultants, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, regarding the valuation of Father Mathew Hall, Cork. O’Buachalla affirms that if ‘the Hall may cease to be used for commercial purposes (bingo) and reverts to being more or less a full-time theatre it might be worthwhile trying for a further reduction in the valuation when this occurs’. (6 Oct. 1972). O’Buachalla later refers to his intention to make a contribution towards the Feis Maitiú in Cork in honour of his parents who ‘had a long and harmonious relationship with the Capuchins at Rochestown and at the Feis Maitiú (where all their five children “performed” during their early adolescence)’. Correspondents include Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap.

Correspondence from insurance companies mainly regarding public liability policies for the hiring by third parties of Father Mathew Hall. The file includes letters from Legal & Commercial Ltd., 23 Clyde Road, Dublin 4; Church & General, Gael Scoil Colaiste-Mhuire, Parnell Square, Dublin 1; M.B. Fitzpatrick, Insurance Consultants, 94 Mount Prospect Avenue, Dublin 3. The issues referred to include claims for theft of cash and personal injury, and insurance cover for Feis trophies and cups.

Letter from Br. Daniel O’Brien OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, to Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a report from Kerrigan, Sheanon and Newman, quantity surveyors, Earlsfort Court, 16 Lower Hatch Street, Dublin 2, regarding a schedule of necessary refurbishment and repairs required to the Hall.