Photographic prints by Charles Doherty, Letterkenny, County Donegal. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:
• Sheephaven Bay, County Donegal. • Barnesmore Gap, County Donegal. • Cashel Village, Glencolmcille, County Donegal. • The countryside around Kilmacrennan village, County Donegal. • A Capuchin friar giving a blessing following his ordination probably in Letterkenny, County Donegal. • St. Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny, County Donegal.
A Charles Stewart Parnell Christmas greeting card (with oval portrait print). Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. seemingly also obtained Parnell’s autograph slip which he afterwards laid into the volume underneath the card.
Prints of Charlotte House at the corner of Queen Street and Charlotte Quay (now known as Father Mathew Street and Father Mathew Quay) in Cork. The building is five storeys in height. The gable end is topped with a cross. The building was located on a site on the south-east corner of Queen Street. Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC converted this house into a residence for the friars and Charlotte House, as it was known, remained in use until 1884 when the Capuchins took up residence in the present-day Holy Trinity Friary built by Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (1836-1910). The print may have been taken from a volume.
This section contains leases and deeds relating to the acquisition by the Capuchin friars of premises on Father Mathew Quay. The Quay is situated on a reclaimed marsh which was located outside the old city walls. Historically, the area was known by several names, some of which are used in the deeds described below including Island Nagay, Red Abbey Island and Marsh, and Morrison’s Island after a family which was prominent in the civic affairs of Cork in the eighteenth century. From about 1800 it was commonly known as Charlotte Quay before being renamed Father Mathew Quay in honour of the Capuchin friar and ‘Apostle of Temperance’. After the reclamation of the marsh in the eighteenth century, the area became an important merchant, commercial and industrial centre. John Henry Gamble, a notable businessman engaged in the provisioning trade, held leasehold interests in several of the premises on Charlotte Quay which were subsequently acquired by the Capuchins (see CA HT/2/1/1/5, CA HT/2/1/1/7, and CA HT/2/1/1/9). J.H. Gamble & Company was later acquired by the famous food provisioning company, Crosse and Blackwell Limited. Another prominent trader engaged in business on the Quay was Robert Warner, a master cooper and vintner. In 1875 Warner leased a substantial plot of ground on Charlotte Quay to Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC for 750 years. This ground was subsequently used as the site for the present-day Holy Trinity Friary (See CA HT/2/1/2/13). The section also includes many legal documents covering negotiations between the Capuchins and Alicia Louisa Seward, a granddaughter of Robert Warner, for the outright purchase of the freehold of the property. This purchase was realized in 1951. The section also includes the lease made to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in 1832 of a plot of ground on Morrison’s Island upon which Holy Trinity Church was subsequently built (see CA HT/2/1/2/10).
Draft of an article by Beda Herbert titled ‘Chateaubriand 1768-1848 / Stormy Career of a Master Apologist’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1968), pp 151-57.
Cheque books stubs from the National Bank, Smithfield, Dublin. The cheque books cover the periods: 13 Oct. 1960-28 Oct. 1960; 15 Feb. 1961-24 June 1961; 9 Oct. 1962-19 May 1964; 1 June 1964-23 Dec. 1965; 19 Jan. 1966-27 July 1967.
Cheque and bank lodgement receipt book of the Capuchin community, Church Street. The book provides details of cheque payments made in respect of the friars’ expenses, electricity and other utilities, medical costs, church repairs, tax, salaries (organist), books and other outlays. The volume also includes entries noting lodgements of cash in the bank and withdrawals via cheques. The entries are periodically signed by the Provincial Minister (on visitation).
Cheque payment book of for the Capuchin friars, Holy Trinity Friary. The book provides details and accounts of expenditure in respect of wages, utilities, travel, accounts, newspapers, stationary etc. The individual expenses are numbered sequentially for each month.
