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Script for 'The Bugle in the Blood – A tragedy in three acts' by Bryan MacMahon, 38 Ashe Street, Listowel, County Kerry. The script provides a list of actors playing the main characters in the play. 'The Bugle in the Blood' was MacMahon’s first stage play. It had its first performance in the Abbey Theatre in 1949.

Copy bill of quantities for additions and alterations to Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, submitted to Messrs Anthony Scott & Son, architects, 49 Upper Sackville Street, by James Mackey, 58 Dame Street, Dublin. The bill entries have been left blank. The alterations referred to include the removal and excavation of drains, concrete and brickwork, carpentry work, plastering and painting.

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Plan of proposed central heating system to be installed in Father Mathew Hall and in St. Brigid’s Hall, Church Street. The plan shows the arrangement for heating installations on the ground floor (including the auditorium, orchestra, stage and badminton room) and in the basement. Plan by Hadens, engineering company Ltd., 189 Pearse Street, Dublin.

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.

Calendar for 1921 issued by the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Sodality, Church Street. The calendar provides information on subscribing to Father Mathew Hall (a temperance sodality for men) and to St. Brigid’s Hall (a temperance sodality for women).

Letter from John W. Moran, photographer, 14 Lower Gloucester Street, Dublin, to C. Hepworth, Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, asking for the ‘balance due for photo groups on or before the 5th Feb. as I am much pressed for cash at the present time’.

Constitution of the Father Mathew Musical and Dramatic Society as drafted in Committee by Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap. The constitution specifies that the annual general meeting ‘will take place on the Sunday morning of the Sodality Meeting in January’.

Script of 'An Mód in Albain' by Máirín Ni Séaghdha.