Scale: 32 feet to 1 inch Plan of the Church Street Chapel bordered to the west by ground ‘in the possession of the mortgagors’ and the chapel house and to the east by the chapel yard fronting onto Church Street. The Chapel measures 164 feet by 58 feet. The plan was prepared by Terence O’Reilly & son, solicitors, 5 North Great George’s Street. The map is annotated: ‘The premises proposed to be mortgaged are bounded green’. The plan is also annotated on the reverse with a statement that the plan refers to the ‘Capuchin Loan’ and was sent to Messrs Blount on 22 June 1882.
Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch Map of a plot of ground to be acquired for the Mary’s Lane Area Improvement Scheme by Dublin Corporation. The acquisition is to be enacted under the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland), Acts, 1890-1921. The plot to be purchased is demarcated by a red border and is bounded to the east by Greek Street, to the west by Church Street, to the north by Mary’s Lane, and to the south by a portion of the Bridewell. The plot includes the tenements and premises located at nos. 27-38 Church Street. The southern portion of the plot is occupied by a copper works. A large portion of the frontage onto Greek Street is described as ruins. The map is given ‘Index no. 583’.
Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot Ground floor plan of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, by William A. Maguire & Associates, 34 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. The project file number is noted as 251: drawing number 11. See section below titled Church and Friary Renovation 1970-1975.
Letter from R.E. Meates & Son Ltd. to Fr. Leonard Coughlan OFM Cap., guaranteeing the recently installed parts in the Church organ for a period of ten years.
Statement of ground rents payable by the Capuchin friars of Church Street. The entries are listed under the name of the estate; agents to which monies are payable; total annual rent; tax deductions; amount payable. The total amount payable was noted as £110 14s 8d.
A letter from the examiner of claims in relation to an application for an income tax exemption (charity) for the Catholic Boys’ Brigade, Church Street.
Letter from James J. Darragh, 154 North King Street, to Lieutenant McNamara thanking Boys’ Brigade members for their messages of condolence on the death of his mother. Darragh added ‘All I can say is that as long as I am connected with the Brigade (and which I intend to be for many years I hope, in spite of the many mean tricks that are being resorted to try to get me out of it), I will always look after the interests of the officers …’.
Memorial to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of Dublin from the Burgesses of Inns Quay and Arran Quay referring to the ‘great want of proper dwelling house accommodation’ suitable for the ‘upwards of 180 persons’ engaged in business at the new food market. The memorial requests that the Corporation widen Mary’s Lane and erect proper artisans’ houses. A list of subscribers (and their addresses) is appended to the memorial. The list includes John Jameson, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and many local vegetable and fruit sellers.
Photographic print of John Atkinson’s shop at 45 Church Street, Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the print reads ‘Church Street’. The print is also annotated indicating the numbers of houses on the street. Of particular interest are the advertisements for various newspapers on the hoardings outside the shop. They include (most prominently) the ‘Irish Worker’ founded by Jim Larkin in 1911 as a pro-labour alternative to the capitalist-owned press. It was eventually suppressed for its vigorous anti-war policy in 1915. Other prints advertised include ‘Irish Freedom’, which first appeared in 1910 and continued as a monthly publication until December 1914 when it too was suppressed by the British authorities. The ‘Catholic Bulletin’ was launched in January 1911 by Patrick Keohane. It originally acted as a review journal for Catholic literature but became increasingly strident in its advocacy of advanced nationalist politics.
