Photographic print of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. presenting a prize to Seóirse Bodley, winner of ‘the sight-reading and senior piano cup’ at the Father Mathew Feis. The image is credited to the 'Irish Independent'. A manuscript note by Fr. Anglin is attached to the reverse of the print.
A view of the exterior of the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Nicholas located on the corner of Middle Street and Lower Abbeygate Street in Galway. The building was a Catholic place of worship from 1816 until the new Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and Saint Nicholas was opened in 1965. The former Saint Nicholas Cathedral was deconsecrated and the building now houses a variety of retail outlets.
The collection includes records created by the Property Defence Association (PDA) which was formed in Dublin in December 1880 to assist landlords targeted by the Land League or by rural agitation in general.
A view of an Irish language demonstration passing the Maltings Complex on Prospect Row in Cork city. A typed annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The Irish language protest coming along Prospect Row on their way to the city on Saturday'.
Br. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. turning the pages of the psalter in the community choir (formerly the dining room of Ards House) in Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal.
A postcard print of a cartoon image of a boat at sea named ‘Irish Nationality’, being navigated by a priest (presumably representing the Catholic Church). The boat is being rowed by leading Irish politicians such as Éamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith. Each of their respective political parties are represented in writing on their oars – Sinn Féin, Labour, and the Nationalist Party. Printed by the Gaelic Press. The artist’s initials are given as ‘H.O’N’.
Deeds, correspondence and related legal documents concerning negotiations for the purchase of premises on Walkin Street (later Friary Street) by the Capuchin Order. The principal vendor and fee farm grant holder was the Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson (Church of Ireland Rector of Ballymoney, County Cork). Some of Robinson’s relations also had interests in the properties. The file relates primarily to the protracted negotiations for the purchase, and to efforts to trace title to the properties (Robinson had inherited the fee farm grant of rents accruing from the premises through his mother, Margaret Anne, a daughter of Captain James Montgomery Blair). Reference is also made to various mortgages on the properties and to the original fee farm grant of 1705 made by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde. The Capuchins eventually secured the property in 1919 for £650 (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/13). The final conveyance contained a covenant by the vendor to indemnify the property transferred against all rents accruing out of any other premises which he continued to hold on Walkin Street.