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Correspondence, estimates, bills of costs and certificates of account concerning various building and improvement projects at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. Works included plastering the corridors in the Friary, improvements to the boilers and heating systems, new lavatories and basins, the installation of a new shrine, and alterations to candlesticks on the Church altar. Correspondents included John Hughes, builder and contractor, 26a Mt. Eden Road, Donnybrook, A.W. Lyons & Son Ltd., stained glass studios, 20 Westland Row, John L. Robinson, architect, 8 Merrion Square, Maguire & Gatchell Ltd., engineers, contractors and merchants, Dawson Street and C.W. Harrison & Sons, architectural and monumental sculptors, 178 Pearse Street. The file includes a letter from John L. Robinson (8 July 1943) referring to the difficulties in erecting the new shrine as ‘most of the garden is made up of ground with old cellars underneath … and in one corner of the building we came upon an old well over which it was necessary to place a substantial reinforced concrete slab’. Other correspondents include Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. and Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap., guardians of the Church Street community.

Register of masses at the Capuchin Church of St. Mary of the Angels. The title page is annotated by Fr. Virgilus Murtagh OFM Cap., Guardian: ‘A requiem mass is to be said each year on or about Nov. 9th for repose of the soul of Rev. Fr. Benvenutus Guy, RIP’. The book was closed by Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap. on 10 Jan. 1959.

Register of mass celebrants at St. Mary of the Angels. The title page is annotated: ‘Commenced, January 1st 1959, Fr. Virgilus Murtagh OFM Cap., Guardian … Convent of Our Lady of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin’. A typescript memorandum re ‘fixed intentions’ at masses said by the Church Street community is pasted onto the reverse of the title page.

Weekly receipt and expenditure book for the Capuchin community, Church Street, from 1930-1960. The pages are pre-paginated in the volume. Titled to the spine: ‘Day Book’. Details are given of the date of receipt of goods, names of persons or firms supplying goods in respect of expenses. Entries for receipts relate primarily to income derived from masses, retreats, alms, donations, and bequests. The title page is annotated: ‘Commenced January 1930 (Fr. Angelus, Guardian); Ended May 1960 (Fr. Virgilius, Guardian)’.

Receipt and expenditure ledger for the Capuchin community, Church Street. From June 1960-Dec. 1967 the volume contains a record of income and expenditure accounts. The income primarily relates to monies received from masses, street collections, sodality payments and subscriptions, chaplaincy work, and donations. From Sept. 1967-May 1972 the volume contains a record of cheque payments relating to expenditure on staff wages, household goods, laundries, transport and mass incomes sent to the Provincial Curia. The entries are periodically signed by the Provincial Bursar. An annotation on the title page reads ‘Commenced June 1960 (Fr. Viriglius, Guardian)’.