Documents relating to an application to the Charitable Commissioners by the FMC Trust. The documents relate to an application by the Trust for a sale of the trustee’s interest in 17 Friary Street located at the junction of Friary Street and Garden Row with the yard at the rear thereof held by the Capuchin Order under a fee farm grant dated 29 Oct. 1898. The file includes: • Draft and copy application forms. • Copy declarations by Fr. Leo Cullen OFM Cap. in which he states that the said property has been in the possession of the Capuchin Order since at least 1912. 26 July 1996; 2 Dec. 1997. • Copy public notices. • Copy of orders from the Charitable Commissioners. • Copy affidavit of Seamus Brennan, solicitor, Abbey Bridge, Dean Street, Kilkenny. 1 Dec. 1999. • Copy statutory acknowledgment and undertaking of the FMC Trust. • Copy memorandum and articles of association of the FMC Trust.
Application forms for certificate for discharge from death duties or estate duty on premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, title to which passed on the deaths of Richard Samuel Owen Robinson (d. 8 Jan. 1912) and Henrietta Robinson (d. 6 Apr. 1916) to Rev. Willoughby Richard Knox Robinson.
Application form for a grant of administration on the estate of the late James Pearse made to the High Court of Justice (Probate Division). The document notes that James Pearse died at 185 Great Russell Street in Birmingham on 5 December 1900. It also states that he left £1,459 12s 6d. in his will.
Appeal to Third Order members in Kilkenny to support the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of St. Joseph’s Convent, Busoga, British East Africa, who require a larger hospital building for the care of lepers.
Copy list of members of the APCA in 1969. The list is arranged alphabetically by surname and notes additional (new) members to be added to the list in the 1969 edition of 'The Capuchin Annual'.
Advertising flier for the Association of Patrons of 'The Capuchin Annual' seeking new members and subscriptions to support the work of the publication as an ‘ambassador of Irish life and values at home and abroad’. The reverse of the leaflet prints several positive reviews of the 'Annual' from publications and newspapers in Ireland and abroad.
Draft manuscript of an article by Aodh de Blacam titled ‘With the last pilgrims at the closing of the door’. The manuscript has a cover letter from de Blacam to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Both the letter and the manuscript are dated 10 January 1951. Fr. Senan later bound de Blacam’s draft into a volume with a spine title ‘A. de. B’s last MS. For The Capuchin Annual’.
A bound volume containing clippings, letters, offprints, and photographs relating to Aodh de Blacam. Includes clippings of biographies, obituaries, and tribute articles. Gilt title to the spine reads ‘Aodh de Blacam / Died 13th January 1951’. The volume includes: • Aodh de Blacam, ‘Emigration: the witness of geography’, ‘Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review’ Vol. 39, No. 155 (Sept., 1950), pp. 279-288. • Letter from Aodh de Blacam to Fr. Senan Moynihan (12 Jan. 1951). • Typescript on Clann na Poblachta and the state of various political parties in the years from 1948-50. Marked ‘Very confidential / received 14 December 1950 / Fr. Senan’. • Clippings of obituaries for Aodh de Blacam in the ‘Evening Herald’ and ‘Sunday Press’ (Jan. 1951). • Card from Mary de Blacam to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for his sympathy on her husband’s recent death. (Feb. 1951). • Obituary for Aodh de Blacam published in the ‘Irish Times’ (15 Jan. 1951). • Portrait print of Aodh de Blacam. • Clipping of report on de Blacam’s funeral. (‘Irish Press’, 16 Jan. 1951). • Letter from Fr. Henry Edward George Rope to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his sadness on hearing of de Blacam’s death and recalling his meetings with him in Rome. (6 Feb. 1951). • Photographic print of Fr. Senan and Aodh de Blacam (1950). Print by Adolf Morath (1905-c.1977). • ‘Rovings in Rome / 1. Where the Earls lie’ by Ruaíri Rodach (Aodh de Blacam). ‘The Father Mathew Record’ (Mar. 1951).
A photographic print of Aodh de Blacam. A manuscript note attached reads 'Please substitute enclosed snapshot in any future hue-and-cry for Aodh de Blacam as it is 25 years later and tactfully conceals absence of thatch'.
