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’.
Photograph of the decorated altar of St. Anthony’s Shine, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of one of the prints reads ‘St. Anthony’s Shrine, Church St., now demolished’.
Pictorial booklet history of St. Mary of the Angels published by the Capuchin friars of Church Street. The booklet includes various views of the interior and exterior of the church along with associated shrines and altars: The Pieta St. Brigid’s Shrine The Calvary outside the Church The Grotto St. Patrick’s Shrine Our Lady of Good Counsel Shrine The Third Order Chapel Sacred Heart Altar St. Anthony’s Shrine Our Lady’s Altar Child of Prague Shrine St. Thérèse’s Shrine St. Anne’s Shrine St. Maria Goretti’s Shrine
Copy letter from Fr. Paul Neary OSFC to Timothy Harrington, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Fr. Paul refers to a dispute between the Committee of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade and the Capuchin friars of Church Street. Fr. Paul states that the lay Committee of the Brigade are organising an annual meeting without their sanction and wishes to lay these facts before the Mayor. Fr. Paul concludes by declaring that they ‘have no grievances with the Boys as such nor do we intend to oppose the meeting’.
‘Lists of applications for Church Street made by Dispossessed Tenants’. The lists provide the names of local tenants who are seemingly occupying tenements, their addresses, and occupations. Notes are made of which tenants responded to ‘cards sent out’ and those which did not. With a cover sent to Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC by ‘Labourers’ Dwellings and Lodging-Houses, Corporation of Dublin’.
A report titled ‘housing in Dublin’ by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to the corporation-sponsored Church Street and Beresford Street Improvement Schemes. Fr. Angelus refers to the history of Capuchin involvement in the campaign for housing improvement in the areas around Church Street. He wrote: ‘The Capuchins were directly responsible for the improvements that began in 1890, when Father Columbus [Maher] erected the Father Mathew Hall. Later on Father Nicholas [Murphy] obtained possession of the area extending from the Hall down to the Church. This was a very insanitary area, with a number of courts and alleys of ill-repute. It is now occupied by an extension of the Hall and by the garden attached to the Capuchin Friary. Reference is also made in the report into the Church Street Tenement Disaster of September 1913. This article was published in 'The Father Mathew Record', Vol. 27, No. 8 (Aug. 1934), pp 407-16.