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Minutes of board meetings of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests regarding a deed appointing the FMC Trust to be a trustee of the property comprising of a dwelling house fronting onto Friary Street and situated at the junction with Garden Row. The property is to be vested in the FMC Trust to benefit the charitable functions of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny.

Minutes of community meeting convened by Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., guardian, concerning the proposed renovations to St. Mary of the Angels and the adjoining Capuchin Friary. The meeting agreed that the re-wiring of the Friary was a priority and should be undertaken immediately. The meeting also declared that ‘work on … providing an Altar facing the people should be undertaken as a matter of urgency’. It was also affirmed that the ‘two side altars be removed and relocated to where the present shrine altars are: Our Lady, first, and St. Francis, second’.

Minutes of two meetings of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade Committee, Church Street, referring to the payments of subscription fees and the tenders for the installation of railing outside the Brigade Hall.

Minutes of a meeting of Irish Capuchin Missionary friars appointed to conduct the temperance crusade. The minutes refer to the correct ceremonials, forms of sermons and procedures in relation to the taking of the total abstinence pledge, and the formation of total abstinence sodalities at missions conducted by the friars.

Report on the Conference of Ordinaries of Northern Rhodesia held in Lusaka in April 1945. The attendees included Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls, and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. For the most part, the conference dealt with issues related to the provision of Catholic education in the country.

Minute book of the council meetings of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Kilkenny. Information is given in respect of the number of professed sisters, treasurer’s reports and pilgrimages and other religious ceremonies and events organised by the local fraternity.

Minutes of the first General Mission Conference held at the Sichili Mission Station, Northern Rhodesia. The meeting was convened by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic. The minutes include decrees in relation to the Horarium, rules and observance, the catechumenate, catechists, preaching, and mass attendance. Reference is also made to building plans, steps to improve proficiency in languages, transport considerations and the running of local schools.

A file containing miscellaneous notes (mainly on legal, historical, and literary topics) compiled by William Woodlock. Some of the manuscript notes are extant on the reverse of previous correspondence or on printed material including a flier from Samuel Haughton, Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society, Phoenix Park, Dublin (February 1874), and a testimonial in favour of Philip Callan MP (1837-1902) dated 22 January 1884. Other re-used papers refer to ‘St. Vincent’s Lunatic Asylum’ (24 July 1877) and ‘M.E. Matthews, Court Dress Maker, Milliner & Florist, 49 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin’. (October 1874).

Photographic prints (stills) taken from 'Mise Éire' (1959), a documentary film on the Irish Revolution (1912-1923), directed by George Morrison. The prints were compiled by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. with a view to publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:

• A decorated tram in an army recruitment parade in Dublin during World War I.
• Dublin Fusiliers seeking recruits in 1915.
• James Connolly at O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral on 1 August 1915.
• Pádraig Pearse at O’Donovan Rossa’s Funeral on 1 August 1915.
• Irish Citizen Army on parade outside Croydon House, Fairview Park, Dublin.
• Henry Street in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising.
• Crowds outside the destroyed GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin, following the Easter Rising.
• Destroyed Liberty Hall, Dublin, following the Easter Rising.
• Éamon de Valera’s election in the Clare by-election in 1917.
• John Redmond and other attendees at the Irish Convention in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1917.
• Signing the anti-conscription pledge in 1918.
• Michael Collins in Newcastle West, County Limerick. August 1922.
• Scenes during British raids in Dublin during the War of Independence in 1920.
• The shooting of Seán Tracey on Talbot Street, Dublin, on 14 October 1920.
• British troops installing a barricade outside City Hall, Dublin, in 1920.
• General Tom Barry.
• Tomás Mac Curtain.
• Michael Collins in Armagh in 1921.
• Orange men sitting around a bonfire in Northern Ireland.
• Éamon de Valera addressing people on O’Connell Street, Dublin, 1922.
• Michael Collins making a speech in College Green, Dublin, on 5 March 1922.
• Gunmen firing shots interrupt a rally held by Michael Collins in Cork on 12 Mar. 1922.
• Liam Mellows, Liam Lynch, Seán Mac Eoin, Gearóid O’Sullivan and Eoin O’Duffy in c.1922.
• Bombardment of the Four Courts by Irish Free State artillery in June 1922.
• The Four Courts in flames following the Free State bombardment in June 1922.
• Scenes of destruction on O’Connell Street following battles at the start of the Civil War in July 1922.
• IRA irregulars in Limerick in 1922.