This file includes a document relating to St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery in Cork. In the late 1820s, Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC expressed his discontent that all the graveyards in the city remained under Protestant supervision. Permission had to be obtained by priests to officiate at Catholic burials. This permission was frequently only grudgingly given and having personally witnessed an attempt by the Protestant Dean of Cork to prevent the Catholic Dean from officiating in St. Finbarr’s Churchyard, Fr. Mathew moved to acquire a burial ground for Catholics. As a result of a well-supported subscription, parts of the Botanic gardens were leased and opened in February 1830 and were designated as St. Joseph’s Cemetery.
Draft lease by the Corporation of Cork to the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan (1839-1916), Bishop of Cork, and the Rev. Canon Augustine Maguire, Parish Priest of St. Finn Barr’s Catholic Church, Cork, of premises on Blackamoor Lane ‘which were formerly used as a Roman Catholic Chapel with Sacristy attached thereto and was commonly called and known as “Father Mathew’s Chapel”’, for 75 years at the nominal yearly rent of £1. Also, in consideration that should the lessees sell the said premises they will ‘erect a suitable Hall as a Memorial for the Reverend Theobald Mathew deceased (who was styled the Apostle of Temperance)’. The lessees will also expend £300 on the erection of the said Memorial Hall. An annotation on the cover reads: ‘Recommended that the lease be approved’.
Notes from the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan (1839-1916), Bishop of Cork, to the Holy Trinity community. The file includes a note re the desired formula for a declaration to be signed at the reception of converts to the Catholic faith and a sanction for the creation of a young men’s’ sodality at Holy Trinity Church.
Letter from M. Mahony, St. Helen’s, Blarney, County Cork, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC (1871-1926), referring to the recent death of Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (d. 26 Dec. 1904).
Photographic print of the Eucharistic Exposition at Corpus Christi Mass outside Holy Trinity Church in Cork. A printed titled reads ‘Corpus Christi, 1941’
An image of the High Altar, Holy Trinity Church, in Cork. The altar appears to be decorated for the Forty Hours’ Devotion (Quarant’ Ore). Photographer/Studio: G & V Healey, photographers, 85 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork.
Photographic print of Our Lady’s Shrine in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. An annotation on the reverse of one of the prints reads ‘Our Lady’s Shrine, end of garden, Holy Trinity, Cork’.
Photographic print of Fr. John Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. and a large number of other friars in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. The occasion was probably the golden jubilee of Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. Photographer/Studio: 'Cork Examiner'.
Colourised postcard print of South Mall, the National Monument and Holy Trinity Church in Cork. Printed description on the reverse reads ‘Father Mathew Memorial Church’.
