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Irish Capuchin Archives File
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Republican Bulletin

The file contains the following editions:
16 Oct. 1923
19 Oct. 1923 (2 copies)
25 Oct. 1923. No. 275
1 Nov. 1923. No. 280 (2 copies)
5 Nov. 1923. No. 281 (2 copies)
8 Nov. 1923. No. 283 (2 copies)
9 Nov. 1923. No. 284 (2 copies)
12 Nov. 1923 No. 285 (2 copies)
13 Nov. 1923. No. 286
14 Nov. 1923. No. 287
15 Nov. 1923. No. 289 (2 copies)
19 Nov. 1923. No. 290
20 Nov. 1923. No. 291
21 Nov. 1923. No. 292
29 Nov. 1923. No. 295
4 Nov. 1923. No. 296 (2 copies)
This Anti-Treaty newsletter contains many articles referring to the conditions of imprisonment of republican prisoners in Mountjoy Jail and to their decision to call a nationwide hunger strike. The file also includes various Anti-Treaty newsletters and bulletins (mostly issued by Padraig Ó Ruitleis, acting president) referring to the conditions of the ‘424 Republican Prisoners’ on hunger strike in Mountjoy Jail. These cyclostyled bulletins were issued mainly to newspapers and journalists

Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na h-Eireann)

The file comprises the following issues of this weekly Anti-Treaty newspaper: 3 Jan. 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 1)-29 June 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 27). The series is complete with multiple copies of some issues. The issue of 15 Mar. 1922 (no. 12) is endorsed ‘Fr. Stanislaus [Kavanagh OFM Cap.] … Dun Laoghaire’.

Representations re Father Mathew Hall

Letters referring to the campaign to preserve Father Mathew Hall as a community or heritage resource. The file includes letters from Senator Dermot Fitzpatrick and An Taisce which expressed concern that the Hall ‘should be restricted to use as a public amenity for the north side of Dublin and for the city generally’.

Reports on the Temperance Mission and Meetings

Clippings from the 'Irish Catholic', the 'Anglo-Celt', the 'Freeman’s Journal', 'Evening Telegraph' mainly relating to the progress of the Capuchin temperance mission. The file includes reports on the work of the Father Mathew Union, notes on temperance meetings, and lectures and sermons by Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC and other friars in Father Mathew Hall, Dublin, and in Counties Cavan, Cork and Donegal, and in other locations.

Reports on the Catholic Boys’ Brigade

Annual reports of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade, Dublin. The reports mainly refer to the history and work of the organisation, the numbers of enrolments and to the on-going need for subscriptions from benefactors. The annual report for the year ending 1899 noted that ‘with regret we have had to refuse situations to well-deserving members, who through poverty or neglect, never enjoyed the advantage of being taught their letters. This terrible drawback … set us thinking as to how we might devise a plan, which would enable us to do something for these poor illiterate lads, and afford them an opportunity of at least a sound rudimentary education. It was with great therefore, that we saw our long-cherished wishes realised on the 10th October when we were able to open a much-needed "Night School" in connection with the Catholic Boys’ Brigade’.

Reports on Temperance Missions and Meetings

File of clippings relating to temperance demonstrations, parades and meetings in Dublin, Cork, Wexford, Drogheda, Galway and elsewhere (particularly involving workingmen’s’ associations and trade unions). Some of the articles also refer to the sermons preached by various Capuchin friars and to societal problems associated with intemperance. The file includes the following cuttings:
• Report on a meeting of the Sodality of the Sacred Thirst, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin ('Irish Catholic', 30 May 1899).
• Report on a large demonstration of trade associations in Cork in support of temperance ('Cork Examiner', 15 Oct. 1906).
• Report on a meeting of the Workmen’s Temperance Committee, Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin ('The Anglo-Celt', 3 November 1906).
• Opening of Aonach na Bealtaine in Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, in 1907.
• 'The Peasant and Irish Ireland' (14 Sept. 1907).
• Report of a lecture by Fr. Lawrence Dowling OSFC during a temperance mission in Father Mathew Hall, Queen Street, Cork. ('Cork Examiner', 21 Oct. 1912).
• ‘Public opinion and the housing problem’. A report of a talk on this subject by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. ('The Catholic Times', 24 Oct. 1913).
• 'The Alliance News and Temperance Reformer / the Organ of the United Kingdom Alliance' (30 Oct. 1913).
• Reports of meetings of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association.

Reports on Retreats and Missions

Notebook containing a list of retreats and missions with references to occasional lectures given by the Capuchin friars. The location of the retreats and missions are listed alphabetically at the beginning of the volume (with dates listed). Occasional reference is made to the type of retreat or to whom the mission is given (the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Total Abstinence Associations, the Children of Mary, and the Third Order of St. Francis). A list of lecture locations (with dates) follows. There follows a more detailed list of retreats arranged by date from 1916-1935. Notes are given on location, to whom the retreat was given, and the lectures and sermons preached.

Reports of the Improvements Committee

Reports commissioned by Dublin Corporation regarding the proposed scheme for the clearance of ‘insanitary dwellings’ bounded by Church Street, Stirrup Lane, Beresford Street and Mary’s Lane. The scheme called for the erection thereon of workmen’s dwellings. The scheme was established under the provisions of the Housing of Working Classes Act, 1890, and a similar amended Act of 1908. The reports were submitted by Councillor John Scully and Alderman William Doyle, Chairmen. The reports are numbered No. 5 and No. 99. The former has an appended printed map depicting the committee’s plan for the construction of 246 three-roomed houses (two storeys high) on Beresford Street and on Church Street. Printed by Sealy, Bryers & Walker, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin. See also CA CS/5/3/3.

Reports of the Chapter of the Cape Province Mission

Reports of the chapter of the Irish Capuchin mission in the Cape Province held in the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone parish. One of the volumes is a summary report on the chapter. The other report contains the following sections:
Report of the regular superior (Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap.)
Reports on the following parishes and topics:
Parow Parish (Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap.)
Tyger Valley (Fr. Aquinas O’Carroll OFM Cap.)
Elsies River (Br. Martin O’Sullivan OFM Cap.)
Athlone Parish (Fr. Athanasius Winston OFM Cap.)
Welcome Estate (Fr. Wilfrid Aherne OFM Cap.)
Manenberg (Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap.)
Postulancy report (Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap.)
Langa (Fr. Matthew Gormley OFM Cap.)
Belgravia (Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap.)
Bridgetown (Fr. Ronald Grace OFM Cap.)

Report on the Visitation of the Cape Town Mission

Report (statistical, financial, personnel) on the canonical visitation of the Cape Province Mission, South Africa, by Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (1923-2004), Provincial Minister, in May 1968. The report originally included an account of the Livingstone mission, but that section is missing. The report on missionary work in the Archdiocese of Cape Town is divided into the following sections:

  1. Parish of Belgravia (Coloured)
  2. Parish of Athlone (Coloured)
  3. Parish of Langa (African parish)
  4. Bridgetown Parish (Coloured)
  5. Parow (Mixed: European and Coloured)
    The file includes memorandums titled ‘observations’ and ‘points for discussion’. 2 copies.

Creed, Berard, 1923-2004, Capuchin priest

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