Letters regarding a dispute over the editorship of the temperance publication, 'The Father Mathew Record', also known as 'The Irish Home Journal'. The file includes a letter from Brian O’Higgins to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, Provincial Minister, complaining about his dismissal as associate editor of the 'Record' by Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC who ‘desired to keep politics out of the Journal’. O’Higgins, a member of Sinn Féin, admits that he is ‘on what is known as “the run”’. With notes by Fr. Edwin regarding the proprietorship of the Journal, and the need to reserve the appointment of editor to the council of the Capuchin Franciscan Order in Ireland. Later, Fr. Joseph wrote to Fr. Edwin confirming his resignation from the Presidency of Father Mathew Hall and the temperance sodality. The file also includes a signed notice of a special meeting of the Hall Committee affirming that the ‘"Record" was started by Fr. Aloysius [Travers], President of the Hall … [and] that the Office of the Record was transferred to the Hall premises’. The committee members contended that the 'Record' magazine was the property of the committee ‘and that the Provincial Superiors acted without consideration of the circumstances when … they decided to take it over and have it conducted independently of the committee and its President’. (10 June 1920).
Statement of monies received by members of the Father Mathew Temperance Hall Committee. The statement includes entries for monies received per Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC from street collections, the sale of various cards and other sources.
Flier for Brian Boru Fete and prize draw ‘to reduce a heavy debt of £3,800’ on Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The first prize is a pony trap and harness, ‘a gift of a friend (the harness, a gift of J. Donnelly, North King Street)’.
Expenditure and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The inside cover is annotated with a ‘History of Fr. Mathew Hall – copied from the other ledger (1881-1926)’. The history reads: ‘1891: Hall in Church St. formally opened up by Archbishop Walsh. Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC (President)’. The history chronicles extensions, leases and other financial matters concerning the Hall property. The remainder of the volume is made up of expenditure and receipt accounts from Sept. 1934-Sept. 1937. Expenditure is listed under the headings of details, cash and cheques. Receipts are listed under details, cash, total and lodgements. The entries include figures for rents (to the Merchant Tailors), rates (to Dublin Corporation) and the sales of tickets for pantomimes and for various badges, medals, certificates and other paraphernalia.
Correspondence of Fr. Columbus Murphy OSFC, President, Father Mathew Hall, regarding demands for payments of income tax. The file includes demand notices and letters from the Inspector of Taxes. In April 1938 Fr. Columbus wrote ‘The Father Mathew Hall is the social centre attached to the Sacred Thirst Sodality. Since 1891 it has provided a club for the people of the district acting as a powerful factor in uplifting these people and encouraging temperance amongst them. In providing for these people decent and safe pastimes and entertainment we produce each year plays, concerts etc the artists in which are drawn from the members of our hall and are of course members of the Temperance Association Sodality. The Hall is heavily in debt and any profits are applied to reduce this debt’. Fr. Columbus later admitted that a good many of the shows staged in the Hall are run at a loss and that the ‘Feis is usually a financial failure – but it is doing good work so we continue’.
Expenses and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The entries are recorded under date, details and totals of expenses and receipts. Most of the expenditure relates to services and utilities such as rent, electricity, salaries and repairs. An annotation on the first page reads ‘Continuation from old ledger’ (see CA HA/1/3/12).
Date: 1743 Author: François Babin (1651-1734). Publisher: Sur l’Imprimé à Angers, A Bruxelles, Par la Société. M.DCC.XLIII Full Title: 'Conferences ecclesiastiques du Diocése d'Angers, sur les Sacrements en general, fur le Bapteme & la Confirmation … Redigées par M. Babin ...Nouvelle édition. Par l’ordre de Monseigneur l’illustrissime & reverendissime Jean de Vaugirauld, évêque d'Angers. Sur l’Imprimé à Angers, A Bruxelles, Par la Société. M.DCC.XLIII, 1744'.
Theologia Universa ad usum S. Theologiæ Date: 1759 Author: Thomas de Charmes (1703-1765) Publisher: Nanceii, Henrici & Petri Thomas, Patris & Filii, typographorum. Petri Antoine, Regiae fuae Majestais & Urbis, tyographi Ordinarii. MDCCLIX Full title: 'Theologia universality ad usum s. theologiae candidatorum. Auctore RP Thomas, ex Charmes, Provinciæ Lotharingiæ Capucinorum Definitore, Custode Generali, necnon antique Sacræ Theologiæ Professore. Tomus V. De Virtutibus'.
Date: 1763 Author: Thomas de Charmes (1703-1765) Publisher: Nanceii: [s.n.], MDCCLXIII [1763]. Full title: 'Theologia universality ad usum s. theologiae candidatorum. Auctore RP Thomas, ex Charmes, Provinciæ Lotharingiæ Capucinorum Definitore, Custode Generali, necnon antique Sacræ Theologiæ Professore. Tomus III'.
Date: 1766 Author: Thomas de Charmes (1703-1765) Publisher: Nanceii, apud viduam & Claudium Leseure, Regia Typographum Full title: 'Theologia universality ad usum s. theologiae candidatorum. Auctore RP Thomas, ex Charmes, Provinciæ Lotharingiæ Capucinorum Definitore, Custode Generali, necnon antique Sacræ Theologiæ Professore. Tomus VII, 4th edition'.
