Play scripts and poem texts submitted by participants in the Father Mathew Feis. The plays are 'Cats of Egypt' by T.B. Morris (‘under 17 groups’) and 'The Tangled Web' by Austin Walsh (Immaculate Conception Club, Clondalkin, County Dublin). The file also includes works by Barbara Bingley, Joseph Chiari, William Allingham, and Herbert Gedger.
Souvenir programme for the opening of an extension to Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The programme provides an itinerary and guide to the first Father Mathew Feis, the Irish Trade Mark Exhibition and the Father Mathew Museum. The literary adjudicators for the Feis were Eoin MacNeill, Brian O’Higgins, George O’Moonan and Sinéad Ní Fhlannagáin. The new extension included a stage, dressing rooms, storage rooms, a new gallery, a ‘lantern and cinematograph operating chamber’ and a refreshment room.
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.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Capuchin Periodicals Cup. Piano Senior Rosebowl. Do Bhronn an corn so ar Fheis Mhaitiú 1970’. On reverse of the bowl: List of winners from 1972-1997. With lid cover.
A trumpet, music sheet and laurel leaf motif is engraved on the bowl. The wooden base has a silver shield indicating that the cup was presented by the Loreto Nelson School of String Playing. With shields indicating the winners of the competition from 1990-97.
Inscribed on bowl: ‘Feis Maitiú. The Father Mathew Centennial Memorial Trophy (Perpetual Challenge Cup). To commemorate the Centenary of Fr. Mathew’s Death which occurred in 1856’. On reverse of the bowl: ‘Presented by John Cahill. Lay Vice President of Father Mathew Hall. Easter 1956’.