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A short history by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. of the Capuchin community in the late nineteenth century. Fr. Angelus refers to the Cork house being ‘staffed by Italian Friars. The Superior in 1873 was the Very Rev. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC who had been there since 1868’. Fr. Angelus notes that the Cork and Rochestown houses were restored to the Irish Capuchin Custody in 1875.

Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. mainly on individual friars comprising the Capuchin community in Cork. The manuscript includes notes on houses and places of residence, a chronology of important events, community lists in the nineteenth century, superiors of the Cork House from 1832-1934, and some general information on historical sources in the Irish Capuchin Archives. The title page reads: ‘This book contains various notes referring to our Cork Convent and taken from various sources. … The notes are entered of necessity in an unconnected way’.

Notes, memoranda, community lists and chronologies compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. relating to the history the Capuchins in Cork. The histories are titled: ‘Incomplete notes and references to Capuchins in Blackamoor Lane. Part I. First Church and Friary. 1637’; ‘The Capuchins in Cork. Some fugitive notes’; ‘The Capuchins in Cork. Some Historical References’; Blackamoor Lane: Parliamentary Report. 1744 and 1766’; ‘Disturbance in the Chapel of the Holy Trinity. 'Cork Examiner', 12 May 1852’; ‘Father O’Leary’s Chapel in Cork, 1771-1850’; ‘Important dates in the building of Holy Trinity (extract from the 'Cork Examiner')’; ‘Capuchin residences in Cork city, 1817-78’; ‘Cork Capuchins community lists and extracts from nineteenth-century directories; Two Cork Capuchins named Jones – John Jones (received 20 June 1633) and James Jones (b.c.1744); ‘the Cork community in 1873’.