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Letter from R.E. Meates & Son Ltd. to Fr. Leonard Coughlan OFM Cap., guaranteeing the recently installed parts in the Church organ for a period of ten years.

Account book for payments to a fund for the renovation of Holy Trinity Church, Cork, from Nov. 1970-Mar. 1972. Entries are listed under the headings of date, name of benefactor or payee and amount subscribed. Many of the benefactors are listed as anonymous. The first two folio pages of the volume may have been used as a cheque payments’ register (from 12 May 1970-5 Aug. 1970).

Appeal of Fr. Honorius O’Neill OFM Cap., guardian, for funds for the renovation of Holy Trinity Church. The appeal reads: ‘Our church is in a very bad state of repair. … The citizens of Cork built the Church of the Most Holy Trinity to perpetuate the memory of Fr. Mathew. It is now in need of extensive repairs – so extensive, that we cannot repair it without your help’. The estimated cost of the repairs was stated as £20,000.

The Catholic Boys’ Brigade was founded by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC (1860-1927), a Capuchin friar, in March 1894. Mainly composed of impoverished children from the Church Street area, the organisation was initially called St. Joseph’s Boys’ Brigade. The stated objects of the Brigade were ‘to crush vice and evil habits among boys, to instruct them thoroughly in the Christian doctrine … to give them habits of obedience, discipline, and self-respect and love for ecclesiastical authority and holy religion and to promote their moral, physical and temporal well-being’. The idea of forming a Brigade for the Catholic boys of Dublin sprung from the success achieved by the Protestant Boys’ Brigade. The first meeting hall of the Brigade was in a house in Smithfield which was rented at 5s per week. This meeting was held on 24 April 1894 with nine boys in attendance. The organisation grew rapidly. The Brigade Hall was soon relocated to a property (formerly a smelting foundry) at 156 Church Street which was purchased for the sum of £300. The organizing committee also succeeded in obtaining the use of an old vegetable market at the rear of the Hall which was used as a drill yard in 1895. The newly furnished hall and gallery could hold 1,500 attendees. A uniform was supplied to each enrolled boy consisting of a sash, a cap and a badge. An important aspect of the Brigade’s activities was physical exercise and participants routinely trained in ‘physical drilling, figure marching, squad and company drills’. A band was also established under the supervision of Fr. Sebastian O’Brien OSFC (1867-1931). A night-school for instructing illiterate young boys was founded in October 1899 and soon attracted thirty-five students. Religious instruction was supplied by the Capuchin friars. This was initially performed by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC and later by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC (1857-1939). In 1904 the Church Street Capuchins transferred trusteeship of the properties owned by the Catholic Boys’ Brigade to lay stewardship.

Photographic print of several friars (including Fr. Paul Neary OSFC) in the garden of the Church Street Friary. The image is also extant in the Glass Plate Negative and Lantern Slide collection (see CA PH/1/7).