Correspondence of Fr. Maurice Dowd OFM Cap., Capuchin Friary, Church Street, mainly concerning the removal of the bridge at Broadstore which would permit the transit of double-decker buses on Upper Church Street and ‘which would open up a great thoroughfare to North County Dublin, as well as to West Cabra, Glasnevin and Finglas’. Other projects referred to in the correspondence include the erection of a statue to Our Lady of Lourdes on the Church grounds and a proposal to use a small park opposite the Church to commemorate Holy Year. Correspondents include Brendan Corish TD, Minister for Local Government, Jack Belton, Lord Mayor of Dublin and J.A. Harbison, Chief Medical Officer, Dublin Corporation. The file includes a clipping from the 'Irish Independent', 7 July 1953, of a public notice re the proposed acquisition of land for the widening and improvement of Church Street.
The file includes • Report of a Dublin Corporation housing enquiry into conditions in tenements in the Cook Street-Chapel Yard area ('Evening Herald', 2 Feb. 1933). Reference is made in the report to the ruins of 'a Capuchin convent, an old windmill and two Mass houses' in the Cook Street area. • Article (with photographic prints) publicising the opening of a sale of work in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions held in the Catholic Commercial Club in Dublin. 'Irish Catholic', 1 Dec. 1938. The attendees included Alfie Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.
The file includes: • ‘Down Dublin Streets / Capuchin Friary’. An article on the Church Street Capuchins and the 1916 Rising by Eamonn Mac Thomais. c.1980. • An article (with photographic prints) reporting on the funeral of Roddy Connolly, a son of the 1916 Rising leader James Connolly. A number of Capuchin friars from Church Street were in attendance at the funeral in Glasnevin Cemetery. 'Irish Press', 19 Dec. 1980. • Report on the ‘Progress through the family’ seminar held in Carysfort College, Blackrock, Dublin. 'Family Solidarity News', Summer 1988. • Clipping of a photographic print of Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap. at the annual blessing of the animals on the Feast of St. Francis at The King’s Inn, Dublin. 'Irish Catholic', 8 Oct. 1992. • Clipping of a photographic print of Fr. Mike Tobin OFM Cap., Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Kieran Garvey OFM Cap. in the garden of the Church Street Friary. 'Irish Catholic', 26 July 1990.
Photograph of the High Altar, sanctuary and interior of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. A single unidentified friar is sitting in the pews. The photographer/studio is credited as Thomas F. Geoghegan, 6 Sackville Street, Dublin
Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars playing croquet in the garden of the Church Street Friary. The game is taking place in front of a high wall which fronts out onto Bow Street. Fr. Paul Neary OSFC and Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC appear to be participating in the game.
Photographic print of the exterior of St. Mary of the Angels, taken from the right on Church Street. The print is by Keogh Bros. Ltd., 75 Lower Dorset Street, 124 Stephen’s Green West, Dublin. The print is pasted onto card.
Photographic print of the exterior of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, taken from the street opposite and slightly to the right. The photograph shows the large wall fronting onto Church Street and surrounding the friary garden. The photographer/studio is credited as C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.
Photographic print of St. Anne’s Shrine in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The photographer/studio is credited as C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.
A set of three pictorial postcard prints of the Grotto at St. Mary of the Angels, the Calvary outside the church, and a Corpus Christi procession and ceremony at the Grotto. One of the cards has a manuscript annotation: ‘Grotto dismantled and transferred to Priorswood (County Dublin) in the 1990s’.
