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A wooden crucifix used by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The underside of the base has a manuscript annotation: ‘Father Mathew’s Cross, used in his sick calls &c and in cholera cases, 1831-2’.

A pair of gold candlesticks gifted to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The base of the candlesticks are engraved: ‘Very Revd. T. Mathew President / Very Rev. J.J. Murphy Vice-President / Cork Total Abstinence Benefit Society / AD January 1842’.

A letter from Fr. C. O’Neill, St. Peter’s Presbytery, Milford Street, to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., a Capuchin friar, referring to the effects of bombing raids during the Belfast Blitz in April 1941. He writes ‘A great disaster has befallen this city and I have lost a few very saintly tertiaries. Many people have left, for the houses are not habitable; others have fled in fear. But no-one on the Falls Road area was injured. The Catholic Church in the city was damaged save for a few panes of glass. The disaster will affect our Triduum somewhat, but I think it is better to have it, all the same. It would never do to give up on prayer and the people are saying the Rosary in the streets every night in this parish. The horror of an air-raid is inconceivable until one has seen it’.

Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (1870-1957) and Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) with a large group of lay people on a pilgrimage to Lough Derg in County Donegal.

Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. with pupils at the Capuchin Seraphic School, Rochestown, County Cork. Identifiable individuals include:
Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. College Rector (seated, second row, third from the left). Fr. Augustine was Rector at Rochestown from 1896 to 1907.
Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (1873-1950) (standing adjacent to second row).
Fr. Damascene Kenny OFM Cap. (1873-1913) (standing adjacent to third row).
Patrick Joseph Collins (first row, first on the left). (later Fr. Ignatius Collins, 1885-1961).

A view of (second on the left) Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., with Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and a diocesan cleric (with a biretta). The image probably forms part of a series of photographs of a pilgrimage to Lough Derg which includes CA PH/1/1 and CA PH/1/16 and CA PH/1/60.

Date: 1766
Author: Thomas de Charmes (1703-1765)
Publisher: Nanceii, apud viduam & Claudium Leseure, Regia Typographum
Full title: 'Theologia universality ad usum s. theologiae candidatorum. Auctore RP Thomas, ex Charmes, Provinciæ Lotharingiæ Capucinorum Definitore, Custode Generali, necnon antique Sacræ Theologiæ Professore. Tomus V, 4th edition'.

Date: 1813
Author: John O’Phelan
Publisher: Dublin, printed by Graisberry and Campbell, no. 10, Back-Lane
Full title: 'Epitaphs on the tombs, in the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny, / collected by John O’Phelan; Interspersed with plates, and specimens of fac simile of the manuscript; Together, with a preface, and notes, historical and explanatory, from the Monasticon, Holingshed, Ware, Stanihurst, Arsdekin, Burke, and other scarce authors; also, observations on the pillar, or round tower, near the cathedral'.

Programmes for the Father Mathew Feis, Church Street. The printed programmes include timetables and syllabuses of competitions, souvenir publications and official prize lists. The programmes list the dates and times of the competitions and the names of the various judges and adjudicators. The adjudicators at the 1913 Feis included Sinéad Ní Fhlannagáin (1878-1975) and Seán S. Ó Ceallaigh (otherwise known as ‘Sceilg’, 1872-1957). Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a literary judge at the 1910 Feis. The programmes for 1909 and 1911 are copy prints from 'The Father Mathew Record'. Programmes for the following years are not extant in the file: 1912; 1932-39.

Blank Father Mathew Feis admittance ticket requesting competitor name, number and competition details.