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Draft stories by Seán Crawford, The Square, Warrenpoint, County Down, titled ‘Father Hugh’, ‘Christmas before the War’, ‘The Storyteller’, ‘The Christmas Tree’, and ‘The Gaeltacht at my door’.

A collection of twenty short stories by Marcella Kerin, Bank House, Phibsborough, Dublin. The stories were bound and submitted for potential publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. A note on the first pages affirms that there are ‘36,000 words of wisdom’ contained in the volume.

Draft stories by Diarmuid Breathnach, 31 Victoria Road, Rathgar, Dublin, titled ‘Pretension’, ‘Clonmacnoise’, ‘When the robe was rent’, and ‘Nationalism’.

Photographic prints compiled for an article by Domhnall Ó Murchadha titled ‘Stone sculpture in Pre-Norman Ireland’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969). The file includes the following images:

• Cross of the Scriptures, Clonmacnois, County Offaly.
• Cathedral, churches and South Cross at Clonmacnois, County Offaly.
• ‘The Nun’s Church’, Clonmacnois, County Offaly.
• Cross of Muiredach, Monasterboice, County Louth.
• Cross of Dysert O’Dea, County Clare.
• Cross on the Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary.
• Ornamental doorway to Saint Brendan’s Cathedral, Clonfert, County Galway.
• Kilfenora Cathedral, County Clare.
• Market Cross, Kells, County Meath.
• Durrow High Cross, County Offaly.
• The South Cross, Castledermot, County Kildare.
• Drumcliffe High Cross, County Sligo.
• North Cross, Ahenny, County Tipperary.
• High Cross, Moone, County Kildare.
• Cross of St. Patrick and St. Columba, Kells, County Meath.
• Carndonagh High Cross and Guard Stone, County Donegal.
• Ullard High Cross, County Kilkenny.
• Knowth Passage Tomb, County Meath.
• Newgrange Passage Tomb, County Meath.
Most of the prints are credited to the National Monuments’ Branch, 10 Hume Street, Dublin. The file also includes four older prints of Irish High Crosses by T.F. Geoghegan, photographer, Dublin, and by Fr. Francis Browne SJ.

A large soft-bound copybook containing most likely shorthand (stenography) exercises.

Statistical information compiled by the Regular Superior in respect of the Irish Capuchin mission in Cape Town, South Africa. These were seemingly official returns compiled for archival retention. Includes information in respect of personnel, and revenue derived from subsidies from the Capuchin General Curia, the Irish Province, and other sources. Information is also given for expenditure.

Correspondence of Fr. Berchmans McCarthy OFM Cap., guardian, Ard Mhuire Friary, with Gill & Gunning, church furnishers, 50 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1, regarding the installation of a set wooden Stations of the Cross in the new church at Ard Mhuire Friary.

Statements of account of the Third Order of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The statements include receipts and expenditure accounts for 1923, 1933, 1934 and 1936.

Statements from the National Bank, 34-5 College Green, Dublin, for accounts held by the Capuchin community, Church Street. The statements cover the periods: 8 Jan. 1937-28 Nov. 1939; 16 May 1949; 1 May 1952-25 Nov. 1955; 30 Nov. 1955-26 May 1960; 27 May 1960-29 June 1963; 31 Jan. 1962-31 Dec. 1965. The accounts provide details of cheques paid to various recipients and to lodgements made in cash and by cheque. The latter sets of statements are bound within soft covers with gilt title to cover. (26 cm x 26 cm).

Statement of accounts of John Delaney, building yards and joinery works, Henry Street, Cork, to James Finbarre McMullen, architect, for contract work on Holy Trinity Church, on the adjoining Capuchin Friary, and on 24 South Mall. The costs relate to the addition of an extension to the Church, extensive interior decoration and structural alterations. Detailed summaries of the completed work (with costs) are provided in the statement. With cover letters from John Delaney to McMullen.