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Letters of Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap. (1902-1957). The main correspondent is Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Other correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap. and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. Provincial Minister. The subjects include: the progress of the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa, particularly the ‘coloured localities of Athlone, Parrow and Claremont’; arrangements for the opening of the mission in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia; the language difficulties. Fr. Alban wrote ‘The big drawback of the Church in South Africa has been the dearth of English-speaking priests. Cape Town has them. Port Elizabeth has some. Johannesburg has a few. But almost everywhere else, French, German, Dutch have possession’. (21 Mar. 1931); requests for mass stipends (18 Sept. 1931); information concerning the forty square miles of the Capuchin mission in South Africa including ‘Athlone, Crawford, Jamestown, Belgravia Estate, the Welcome Estate and Langa’. (6 Nov. 1931); the construction of churches, mission schools and orphanages; the establishment of a canonical foundation by the Irish Capuchins in Athlone, Cape Town. (14 Jan. 1932); the deprivations faced by the ‘native population’ in Cape Town. (26 Feb. 1932); the education of the coloured population of Cape Province, South Africa. (18 Mar. 1932); Fr. Alban’s attempts to hire John McCormack, the renowned Irish tenor, to perform in aid of the poor of Athlone Parish, Cape Town. (5 Aug. 1932); on the necessity of holding property in the Athlone Vicariate. Fr. Alban affirms that ‘the Athlone Catholics are poor, miserable coloured native people on the verge of starvation’. (25 Nov. 1932); the building of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Athlone, Cape Town. (9 June 1933); Fr. Alban’s work as a missionary since his ordination in 1925. He wrote ‘I have devoted my time exclusively to the missionary life – almost four years with the Californian Indians, and almost five with the coloured and native people of Athlone’. (27 July 1934); the visitation of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. to South Africa. (6 Sept. 1935); his desire to return to Ireland. He reminds Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, that he is ‘the last of the first three [priests] who came here in 1929’. (6 June 1951). The file also includes a letter from Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, transmitting news from Fr. Alban re the number of communicants in Athlone parish. (19 Nov. 1931).

Author: Maire Ni Ćillin
Publisher: Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son Ltd.
Language: English
The Irish Capuchin Archives holds both the 1913 and 1915 editions. Manuscript annotation on the 1913 edition reads: ‘Memory summons another picture of the Friars in the garb of brown … Maire Ni Ćillin’. One of the copies also has a manuscript dedication from the author to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. on the fly-leaf.

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC, Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OSFC, and other Capuchin friars, regarding requests parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Cappawhite (Tipperary), Ashbourne (Meath), Cappoquin (Waterford), Belfast, Dunmore East (Waterford), Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire, Dublin), Thurles (Tipperary), Sligo, Greystones (Wicklow), Scarriff (Clare), and Ballybay (Monaghan).

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC, Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OSFC, Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC and other Capuchin friars, regarding requests for parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Quin (Clare), Tuam (Galway), Scariff (Clare), Belfast, Crossmaglen (Armagh), Scotstown (Monaghan), Schull (Cork), Frenchpark (Roscommon), Bunbeg (Donegal), Wicklow, and Castledermot (Carlow).

Letters to Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC, Provincial Minister, and Fr. Paul Neary OSFC regarding parish missions and retreats. The letters refer to retreats in County Galway, Glenmore (Waterford), Castlebellingham (Louth) and Ballygawley (Tyrone).

• Souvenir programme for the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations in Cork on Sunday, 24 June 1956. Printed, 25 pp.
• Souvenir programme for centenary celebrations for the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The events took place in City Hall in Cork on 9 Dec. 1956 and included an address by the Most Rev. David Mathew, Titular Bishop of Apamea. Printed, 3 pp. 2 copies.
• Newspaper clippings relating to the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s death. The file includes:
Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., ‘The mighty moral miracle wrought by Father Theobald Mathew’, 6 Dec. 1956.
‘Cork Centenary Celebrations’.
Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., ‘The secret of Father Theobald Mathew – Capuchin / What his Franciscianism meant to him’, 'Evening Echo', 7 Dec. 1956.
‘Fr. Mathew: One of the great men of history’, 'Cork Examiner', 10 Dec. 1956.
‘Ireland’s Great Tribute to the Apostle of Temperance’, 'Cork Examiner', 25 June 1956. A pictorial supplement.
’60,000 Pioneers pay tribute to Fr. Mathew’, Cork Examiner, 25 June 1956. Clippings, 12 pp.
• Letter from Rev. Patrick J. Hamell, Honorary Secretary of the Father Mathew Union, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., re preparations for the celebration of the Father Mathew Centenary. 15 Sept. 1956. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Offprint of an article by Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap., ‘Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / A Centenary Tribute’, published in the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (1956). Printed, 13 pp.

Deeds relating to the letting of 47 Walkin Street by members of the Slater family. The file includes: Letting agreement from Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC and Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC to John Slater of a dwelling currently vacant but lately held by Miss Moore on Walkin Street at the yearly rent of £16 (20 May 1896); Administration (9 May 1950) of the will of John Slater (d. 5 Aug. 1945); Assignment from Annie Slater to her grandson John Slater of her interest in 47 Walkin Street which she holds as a yearly tenant from the Capuchin Friars at the annual rent of £16 (18 Oct. 1950); Search in the Registry of Deeds for documents of title relating to John Slater affecting properties on Walkin Street (3 Feb. 1953); Assignment of John Slater to Fr. Aloysius (William) Travers OFM Cap. and others of 47 Walkin Street in consideration of £400 (7 Feb. 1953). With copies.

Letter from Fr. William OSFC, Franciscan Monastery, Crawley, Sussex, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing a copy of a blessing from Pope Pius X. It reads: ‘… the Friars Minor Capuchin of the Irish Province, charged by the Bishops of Ireland, to spread the apostolate of Temperance, have had the happy idea of aggregating to such a society even the children, and at the present moment there about two hundred thousand young members who promise to abstain throughout their lives from alcoholic beverages …’.

File of clippings relating to temperance demonstrations, parades and meetings in Dublin, Cork, Wexford, Drogheda, Galway and elsewhere (particularly involving workingmen’s’ associations and trade unions). Some of the articles also refer to the sermons preached by various Capuchin friars and to societal problems associated with intemperance. The file includes the following cuttings:
• Report on a meeting of the Sodality of the Sacred Thirst, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin ('Irish Catholic', 30 May 1899).
• Report on a large demonstration of trade associations in Cork in support of temperance ('Cork Examiner', 15 Oct. 1906).
• Report on a meeting of the Workmen’s Temperance Committee, Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin ('The Anglo-Celt', 3 November 1906).
• Opening of Aonach na Bealtaine in Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, in 1907.
• 'The Peasant and Irish Ireland' (14 Sept. 1907).
• Report of a lecture by Fr. Lawrence Dowling OSFC during a temperance mission in Father Mathew Hall, Queen Street, Cork. ('Cork Examiner', 21 Oct. 1912).
• ‘Public opinion and the housing problem’. A report of a talk on this subject by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. ('The Catholic Times', 24 Oct. 1913).
• 'The Alliance News and Temperance Reformer / the Organ of the United Kingdom Alliance' (30 Oct. 1913).
• Reports of meetings of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association.

Clippings from the 'Irish Catholic', the 'Anglo-Celt', the 'Freeman’s Journal', 'Evening Telegraph' mainly relating to the progress of the Capuchin temperance mission. The file includes reports on the work of the Father Mathew Union, notes on temperance meetings, and lectures and sermons by Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC and other friars in Father Mathew Hall, Dublin, and in Counties Cavan, Cork and Donegal, and in other locations.