Inscribed on the bowl: Feis Maitiú. Three- and Four-Part Choir’. The base includes silver shields indicating winners from 1994-97: ‘Beaufort, Clongowes Wood College, St. Louis High School’.
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’.
Resolution of the Father Mathew Hall Committee admonishing a Mr. Nicolls who ‘has violated the custom of this committee by publishing what purports to be the details of our private deliberations’. The resolution also defends the rights of Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC as President of the Sacred Thirst Sodality and avers that Mr. Nicolls ‘was the only member who ever introduced politics here’.
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’.
No scale given Construction plan for the installation of an unidentified apparatus (possibly used in stage alterations in Father Mathew Hall). Plan by M.P. Hyne.
Inscribed on bowl: ‘Adult Choirs’ Cup’. The base of the bowl is engraved: ‘Presented by Thomas Lennon Esq.’. The bowl is also engraved with a list of winning choir groups from 1975-1997.
Glass lantern plate for 'Robinson Crusoe' pantomime performed by the Father Mathew Hall Players in the Church Street Hall. With manufacturer’s (Ilford Limited) box. The instructions for use are pasted on.
