Expenditure and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. An annotation on the front cover reads ‘Day book’. The entries are recorded under date, details and totals of expenses and receipts. Most of the expenditure relates to services and utilities such as rent, electricity, salaries and repairs. The receipts record monies mostly accruing from the showing of films, the sales of tickets and badges, and the use of the Hall for cards and billiards games.
Expenditure and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The first two pages of the volume contain a ‘History of Fr. Mathew Hall’ copied from an earlier ledger (see CA HA/1/3/8). An entry on page 6 refers to the order of the Hall Committee for the discontinuation of the showing of motion pictures (Oct. 1937). Expenditure is listed under the headings of details, cash and cheques. Receipts are listed under details, cash and lodgements. The entries for expenditure include figures for rents, rates and taxes, salaries, utilities and the purchase of various sundries. The receipts include monies accruing from the sales of tickets and the use of the billiards room.
Letter from Kevin J. Wilson, auctioneer, Dame Street, Dublin, to Fr. Livinus Keane OFM Cap., President, regarding the valuation of Father Mathew Hall and interior fittings. Wilson affirmed that the ‘entire property is held on a lease for 150 years at a rent of £100. The Hall is used as an amusement hall and has accommodation for 750 people and 3 exits. … Adjoining the said hall there are 6 cottages, which are let at 8s 9d per week’. The entire valuation of the Hall property is given as £47,000.
Expenditure and receipt account book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The volume includes entries relating to expenses incurred for advertising various feis and panto performances in the Hall. The volume also includes accounts with local suppliers including Thomas Lenehan & Co. and J. Treacy & Co. The receipts’ entries include ‘Billiard room returns’.
‘Capital Series Journal’ containing expenditure and receipt accounts. An annotation on the front cover reads: ‘Father Mathew Hall account, 1958 … continuation from Old Book’. The volume contains expenditure and receipt accounts from 1 July 1958 to 30 Aug. 1958. Typescript insert dated 12 Aug. 1958 notes lodgements to bank (debit: £2,943 3s 1d) and by cheque (credit: £2,790 9s 8d. Balance at 12 Aug. 1958: £175 10s 1d).
Letters to Fr. Gilbert Bermingham OFM Cap., President, and Fr. Virgilus Murtagh OFM Cap. from Milward, Jones, Mayne and Knapp, solicitors, 6 Dawson Street, Dublin, concerning negotiations with the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for the sale of Father Mathew Hall by the trustees to the Capuchin Order, for £7,000. Gerard O’Rourke wrote to Fr. Gilbert on 12 Nov. 1964 to explain that the ‘Commissioners would not agree to the purchase price of the Hall being used for the reconstruction of the Hall because the Hall would then belong to the Capuchin Order and would cease to be taken as a memorial to Fr. Mathew’. An order from the Courts directing that the assets of the trust be transferred to the Capuchin Order is referred to in a letter 2 July 1968.
Letters to Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap. from Gaffney Halligan & Co., solicitors, Artane Roundabout, Dublin 5, requesting information to enable the purchase of the freehold interest in 128 Church Street, and 1, 1A and 6 Nicholas Avenue, Dublin 7. The solicitors note that the Capuchin friars did not appear to ‘own the freehold of the above properties, as their title appears to be leasehold held under a lease from Samuel Worthington who in turn held his interest from the Merchant Tailors’ School’.
Letter from Br. Daniel O’Brien OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, to Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a report from Kerrigan, Sheanon and Newman, quantity surveyors, Earlsfort Court, 16 Lower Hatch Street, Dublin 2, regarding a schedule of necessary refurbishment and repairs required to the Hall.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch Blue print of an electrical installation at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The plan shows various electrical works to be done in the auditorium, orchestra, stage and other rooms in the Hall. Plan by N. Mathews, consulting engineer, 104 Grafton Street, Dublin.
Programmes for concert performances at Father Mathew Hall. The file includes fliers for concerts by the Father Mathew Choral Society, in aid of the Brian Boru Fete (1914), by the Colmcille Branch of the Gaelic League (1918), for the Annual Colmcille Concert (1920), 'The Colleen Bawn' by The Mathew Choral Union (Easter 1920), and for a pageant titled 'Scenes from the Life of St. Patrick' (1921).
