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Date: c.1858-1916
Publisher: Dublin: University Press. McGlashan and Gill, 50 Upper Sackville Street; Dublin: John Falconer, 53 Upper Sackville Street.
Full title: Originally published as the 'Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society' (1849-54) and later as:
'Journal of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society and South East of Ireland Archaeological Society' (1854-68);
'Journal of the Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland' (1868-9);
'Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland' (1869-90)
'Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland' (1890-)
Publication Frequency: Annual

Letters of Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. (1911-1968) referring to his early experiences as a missionary in Northern Rhodesia and later to developments in South Africa (particularly in the Capuchin Vicariate established in Cape Town in 1949). Correspondents include Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary.

Letters from Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. thanking him for sending on mass stipends and referring to his arrangements for travelling from Northern Rhodesia to Ireland. Reference is also made to the health of Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. who is suffering from sciatica (21 June 1953).

File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘The New Father Mathew Movement’, 'Irish Catholic', 4 Jan. 1902.
• ‘The Life and Work of Father Mathew’, 'The Bulletin of the Catholic Abstinence Union of America', Jan. 1908.
• ‘Father Mathew / Lecture by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. at the Annual Meeting of the Pioneer Association’, 'Irish Catholic', 1 Dec. 1938.
• James Maher, ‘Father Mathew and the Author of Knocknagow’, 'Kilkenny People', 1 July 1939.
• Alexander Flanigan, ‘Father Mathew / The Apostle of Temperance’, 'Irish Times', 21 Dec. 1956.
• ‘Father Mathew Anniversary / Celebrations in Queen Street Hall / Oration by Very Rev. Fr. Angelus [Healy] OSFC’, 'Cork Examiner', 15 Oct. 1915.
• ‘Over 60,000 Pioneers for Big Cork Rally / Celebrating Centenary of Fr. Mathew’s Death’, 'Cork Examiner', 6 June 1956.
• ‘Cork Bishop’s Tribute to Father Mathew / Centenary Lecture in Dublin’, 'Evening Echo', 10 Oct. 1956.
• ‘Public Enemy No. 1’, 'The Evening News', 18 July 1957.

A studio photograph of Br. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965) probably taken when he was a novice. With an annotated cover.

This series comprises a small collection of glass plate negative images of seventeenth century manuscripts and other original records pertaining to the lives, ministries, and writings of several early Irish Capuchins. These were acquired by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), another prominent Irish Capuchin historian, for research and publication purposes.