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Letters from P. Torphy, Power’s Court, Upper Mount Street, Dublin; P. Hennessy & Sons, plumbing engineers and contractors, 61 Grand Parade, Cork; M. Barry Ltd., 4 Marlboro Street, Cork, Thomas H.M. Wain, consulting engineer, 15 Cook Street, Cork; Charles McCarthy & Sons, heating and sanitary engineers, Emmet Place, Cork; the Electricity Supply Board, concerning the tenders and specifications for the installation of a new heating system at Holy Trinity Church. James Finbarre McMullen (c.1909-1957) was the consulting architect for the installation. See also CA HT/2/4/2.

Letters from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, concerning a dispute with a Mrs Cussen, a tenant of 16 Queen Street (later Father Mathew Street), over repairs to the roof of the said property which she believes the Capuchins, as landlords, are responsible for.

Letters from T.W. Magahy & Son, organ builders, 10-11 Merchant Street, Cork, regarding the costs of overhauling the organ at Holy Trinity Church.

Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. from Ronan Daly Hayes & Co., solicitors, 12 South Mall, Cork, and from Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap. to Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. re possession of 16 Father Mathew Street.

Letters from the Most Rev. Daniel Colahan, Bishop of Cork, to the guardians of Holy Trinity Friary, Father Mathew Quay, Cork. The recipients include Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and Fr. Flannan Downing OSFC. Some of the letters were written by the Bishop’s secretary, James Hurley. Many of the letters relate to requests from the Bishop to the Capuchin community for confessors (particularly for convents of religious women) and to other aspects of ecclesiastical administration in the diocese. Reference is made to masses for benefactors including the Christopher Dunn bequest. On 9 Feb. 1940, Bishop Colahan wrote a circular letter to the clergy warning of the need to the keep the Church ‘detached and Independent of party politics’. The file also includes several printed pastoral letters: 5 Apr. 1942, referring to the ‘sacrament of matrimony’; 16 Mar. 1947, warning of the threat of ‘Communist’ activities in Cork.

Letters from the Most Rev. Cornelius Lucey (1902-1982), Bishop of Cork, to the guardians of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The letters concern the appointment of ordinary and extraordinary confessors for convents of religious women and at hospitals in County Cork.

Letters to the guardians of Holy Trinity Church, Cork, from the Electricity Supply Board regarding alterations and maintenance of the electricity supply to the Church and Friary. Reference is made in the letter of 4 Mar. 1948 to ‘continuing emergency conditions’.

Letters to Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from Robert McClement, auditor, 27 Marlboro Street, Cork, concerning income tax deductions from rents paid by the Capuchin friars and fees connected with his work for the Order in filing charitable exemption claims.

Letters from Brian Wain & Associates, architects, Maryborough Lodge, Douglas, Cork, to Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., guardian, regarding liability for fire insurance cover. Fr. Eustace is asked to notify the insurance broker to the effect that the Capuchins have ‘placed a contract with Messrs Joseph Lane & Sons, building contractors, for the amount of £359,355.98’.

Letters regarding negotiations for the purchase by the Capuchin friars of the Seward estate, comprising premises at the rear of the Assembly Rooms extending out to Charlotte Quay and other properties on Queen Street. Correspondents include J.B. Lacy & Sons, agent for Alicia Louisa Seward, 15 South Mall, Cork, and Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. A letter dated 30 June 1930 noted that Ms Seward was prepared to accept an offer of £1,150 for the properties. The sale was eventually realised in 1951. See CA HT/2/1/2/34.