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File Papers of St. Mary of the Angels, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin
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The file includes:
• ‘Evening Mail Centenary Supplement’, 12 Oct. 1961. A photographic supplement commentary the centenary of the first edition of the newspaper. The edition contains references to the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville Street (later O’Connell Street).
• ‘Canal boom helped the Friars’ by D.F. Moore. The article comprises a brief history of the Church Street locality and refers to the historic residences of the Capuchin friars on the street ('Evening Press', 18 Jan. 1962). The article includes a copy of the photographic print of the old Capuchin Chapel on Church Street at CA CS/7/1.

Newspaper Clippings

The file includes
• Report of a Dublin Corporation housing enquiry into conditions in tenements in the Cook Street-Chapel Yard area ('Evening Herald', 2 Feb. 1933). Reference is made in the report to the ruins of 'a Capuchin convent, an old windmill and two Mass houses' in the Cook Street area.
• Article (with photographic prints) publicising the opening of a sale of work in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions held in the Catholic Commercial Club in Dublin. 'Irish Catholic', 1 Dec. 1938. The attendees included Alfie Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.

Newspaper Clippings

The file includes:
• ‘Down Dublin Streets / Capuchin Friary’. An article on the Church Street Capuchins and the 1916 Rising by Eamonn Mac Thomais. c.1980.
• An article (with photographic prints) reporting on the funeral of Roddy Connolly, a son of the 1916 Rising leader James Connolly. A number of Capuchin friars from Church Street were in attendance at the funeral in Glasnevin Cemetery. 'Irish Press', 19 Dec. 1980.
• Report on the ‘Progress through the family’ seminar held in Carysfort College, Blackrock, Dublin. 'Family Solidarity News', Summer 1988.
• Clipping of a photographic print of Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap. at the annual blessing of the animals on the Feast of St. Francis at The King’s Inn, Dublin. 'Irish Catholic', 8 Oct. 1992.
• Clipping of a photographic print of Fr. Mike Tobin OFM Cap., Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Kieran Garvey OFM Cap. in the garden of the Church Street Friary. 'Irish Catholic', 26 July 1990.

National Bank Account Books

Account books of the Capuchin community with the National Bank, Smithfield, Dublin. The books cover the following dates:
• 12 July 1920-8 Oct. 1926
• 14 Oct. 1926-9 June 1931
• 17 Aug. 1937-4 Aug. 1943
• 19 Aug. 1949-31 Dec. 1957
• 8 Oct. 1957-7 Feb. 1959
• 8 Dec. 1964-26 Mar. 1969
The entries mainly relate to lodgements made in cash and payments out of the accounts by cheque. Some of the books are annotated to indicate the number (nos. 1 or 2) of the account with the abovementioned Bank branch. The final account book notes that the account was closed in Mar. 1969. With a letter from the National Bank to Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap. sanctioning an overdraft of £10,000 subject to usual banking and repayment practice. 13 Sept. 1935.

National Bank Account Book

Account book of Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, Church Street, with the National Bank. The book is annotated on the front cover: ‘To be sent at least once a month to be written up from Bank’s ledger – Reverends Murphy and Maher’. The entries relate to deposits in cash and payments by cheque.

Municipal Tax Receipts

Dublin Corporation Municipal tax demands and rates’ receipts for the Capuchin community, Church Street. The file includes notices of demands and official receipts for the rates paid. The receipts were usually signed by the guardian of the community.

Mortgage of Patrick Regan to James Pim & Company

Mortgage of Patrick Regan, flour manufacturer, North King Street, to James Pim, Burgh Quay, merchant, of 46 and 50 North King Street, and a flour mill on the lands of Ballyclinch ‘worked by water now called and known by the name of Tinker’s Mill together with all and singular machinery therein …’ in consideration of the sum of £595 3s 6d. With a reconveyance of said premises from James Pim to Patrick Regan. 30 Apr. 1862. With copies.

Mortgage of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly and others to Sir John Lawson

Mortgage of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC (both of North King Street, Dublin), Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC of Kilkenny, and Fr. Christopher Augustine Nangle OSFC of Ancona, Italy, to Sir John Lawson of Brough Hall, Brough, County of York, of freehold land, church and hereditaments on Church Street to secure £4,500 and interest (14 Aug. 1882). The plot of ground is the aforementioned premises located on the ‘West Side of Church Street … containing in front next to the said street sixty-two feet, in the rear, sixty feet and in depth from front to rear one hundred and sixty-four feet … abutting in the rear on hereditaments in the possession of [the Capuchin friars] and on the north side by hereditaments known as no. 142 Church Street … together with the Roman Catholic Church erected on the said plot or parcel ground, the said Church being called or known by the name of “St. Mary of the Angels”’. The mortgage contains a plan of the mortgaged property delineated by a pink boundary. The plan measures 25.5 cm x 16.5 cm. The file includes a draft of the said mortgage. There are numerous annotations and additions to the draft. One annotation reads: ‘Registered 13 Sept. 1882 at 46 mins past 3 o’clock. Book 32, No. 273. The draft was compiled by Terence O’Reilly & Son, solicitors, 5 North Great Georges’ Street, Dublin. With statements of account relating to the said mortgage by the Capuchin friars prepared by Blount, Lynch and Petre, 4 King Street, Cheapside, London, solicitors, and Terence O’Reilly & Son, solicitors. The file also includes:
• Receipts for charges on the said mortgage of freehold church property held by the Capuchin friars.
• Schedule of deeds and documents relating to the said mortgage of freehold land. The schedule lists documents from the copy will Charles Dunbar (3 Oct. 1778) relating to the transfer of the aforementioned mortgage from Sir John Lawson to Robert Blunt and T. W. Petre (1 Nov. 1890).
• Copy transfer of said mortgage from Sir John Lawson to Robert Blunt and T.W. Petre. 1 Nov. 1890.
See also Abstract of title of William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford and Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci to premises on Church Street. 14 May 1869. (See CA CS/2/2/1/7).
• Power of attorney by Fr. Christopher Augustine Nangle OSFC, Ancona, Italy, appointing Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC to execute a deed relating to the above-mentioned mortgage to Sir John Lawson for £4,500 (14 Aug. 1882).

Minutes of Committee Meetings

Minutes of Committee Meetings regarding the new Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The minutes appear to have been compiled by Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC. The first meeting was held on 20 July 1861 ‘for the purpose of collecting funds for the erection of the church at which the Rt. Hon. Sir William Carroll [1819-1870] MD, Lord Mayor of Dublin, took the chair …’. The opening meeting referred to the ‘poverty of the location in which they [the Capuchins] have chosen with the spirit of their founder the Seraphic St. Francis … to erect a temple worthy of Catholicity …’. The minutes of the meetings mainly refer to efforts to secure funding for financing the construction of the new church. Statements of expenditure are included in some of the minutes.

O’Reilly, Daniel Patrick, 1831-1894, Capuchin priest

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