An unsigned draft letter to Fr. Benignus Gannon, Provincial Minister of the Order of Friars Minor, enclosing copies of the preliminary rules and constitution of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade. The author requests ‘a statement as to how far your Order on Merchants’ Quay, Dublin, is identified with the said “Catholic Boys’ Brigade” …’. Reference is also made to the need for the three Capuchin friars identified as clerical trustees of the organisation to sign over their trusts.
Copy letter from Fr. Paul Neary OSFC to Timothy Harrington, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Fr. Paul refers to a dispute between the Committee of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade and the Capuchin friars of Church Street. Fr. Paul states that the lay Committee of the Brigade are organising an annual meeting without their sanction and wishes to lay these facts before the Mayor. Fr. Paul concludes by declaring that they ‘have no grievances with the Boys as such nor do we intend to oppose the meeting’.
‘Lists of applications for Church Street made by Dispossessed Tenants’. The lists provide the names of local tenants who are seemingly occupying tenements, their addresses, and occupations. Notes are made of which tenants responded to ‘cards sent out’ and those which did not. With a cover sent to Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC by ‘Labourers’ Dwellings and Lodging-Houses, Corporation of Dublin’.
A report titled ‘housing in Dublin’ by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to the corporation-sponsored Church Street and Beresford Street Improvement Schemes. Fr. Angelus refers to the history of Capuchin involvement in the campaign for housing improvement in the areas around Church Street. He wrote: ‘The Capuchins were directly responsible for the improvements that began in 1890, when Father Columbus [Maher] erected the Father Mathew Hall. Later on Father Nicholas [Murphy] obtained possession of the area extending from the Hall down to the Church. This was a very insanitary area, with a number of courts and alleys of ill-repute. It is now occupied by an extension of the Hall and by the garden attached to the Capuchin Friary. Reference is also made in the report into the Church Street Tenement Disaster of September 1913. This article was published in 'The Father Mathew Record', Vol. 27, No. 8 (Aug. 1934), pp 407-16.
Letter from W.V. Nagle, National Bank, 34 College Green, Dublin, to Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC, guardian, Church Street Friary, referring to the ‘American draft’ of £59 5s 6d and enclosing copies of two accounts of the Capuchins with the aforementioned Bank.
Statement of special account signed by Fr. Mark McDonnell OSFC, guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The statement refers to monies given by the Church Street community to the Provincial fund; to Rochestown; and towards repayment on the ‘American loan’; and to monies received from ‘street collections since Chapter to the end of March’. An annotation in Fr. Mark’s hand reads: ‘Debt in bank at the Visitation, Apr. 1922, £2,330 5s 3d’.
Photograph of the High Altar, sanctuary and interior of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. A single unidentified friar is sitting in the pews. The photographer/studio is credited as Thomas F. Geoghegan, 6 Sackville Street, Dublin
Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars playing croquet in the garden of the Church Street Friary. The game is taking place in front of a high wall which fronts out onto Bow Street. Fr. Paul Neary OSFC and Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC appear to be participating in the game.
Photographic print of the exterior of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, taken from the street opposite and slightly to the right. The photograph shows the large wall fronting onto Church Street and surrounding the friary garden. The photographer/studio is credited as C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.
