A clipping of an image of a large crowd assembled on the Grand Parade in Cork city for a recruitment rally during the Great War. The image was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (8 October 1915). The frontage of Alexander Grant and Co., a landmark department and clothing store, can be seen in the background of the photograph. This four-storey building at 16-18 Grand Parade (constructed in the 1860s) was destroyed by fire in March 1942. The site was later repurposed as the Capitol Cinema which opened its doors in 1947. (Volume page 201).
A clipping of an image of the bands of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, the Irish Guards, and the Royal Irish Constabulary assembled outside the Mansion House on Dawson Street in Dublin at a recruitment meeting on 7 May 1915. The image was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (8 October 1915). The original caption for the photograph reads ‘The Travelling Recruiting Office, taken outside the Mansion House, May 7, 1915 – the day of the departure of the Guards’ Band from Ireland at the close of a successful recruiting tour. On the platform of the Recruiting Office are the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the High Sheriff, Mr. Henry McLaughlin, and Sir Maurice Dockrell, D.L. The group on the steps include Capt. the Hon. Alexander and Lieutenant Purcell of the Guards; Lieutenant Archer Redmond MP; Sir Neville Chamberlain, Colonel Edgeworth Johnson, and several members of the Central Recruiting Council’. (Volume page 200).
A clipping of an image of a crowd at a recruitment meeting in Macroom in County Cork. The image was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (8 October 1915). (Volume page 202).
Correspondence and other records relating to the staging of bingo competitions at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The file includes letters from P.J. Walsh & Company, solicitors, regarding applications for the renewal of licenses from the courts for the promotion of lotteries and other gaming activities. Correspondents include Br. Kevin Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap. and Br. Daniel O’Brien OFM Cap. With promotional fliers, advertisements and notices regarding bingo meetings in the Hall.
Letter from Ciaran Dunne, Dublin Corporation, to Fr. Seán Donohoe OFM Cap. re the proposed addition of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, to the Record of Protected Structures in Dublin. The letter encloses a short history of St. Mary of the Angels and a copy notice listing all of the proposed additions to the Record of Protected Structures in the Dublin City Development Plan (3 Jan. 2002). The particulars regarding St. Mary of the Angels read: ‘Today’s church was designed by J.J. McCarthy in what was called decorated gothic. … It was begun in 1868 but not completed until 1881’.
Record of the Cork City and County Irish Volunteers during Easter Week 1916. An attached declaration by Seán Murphy, Irish Volunteers 1916 Association (Cork), refers to a statement made by Breid Ní Foghludhe referring to her role as a dispatch carrier for Seán MacDermott during the Rising. The record itself refers to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in Cork in 1913 and to their abortive role in the Rising. The record is incomplete as pp 8-21 have been torn from the bound copy.
Notebook containing a record of the baptisms at the Loanja mission, Bartoseland, Northern Rhodesia. The record (which includes entries of adult baptisms and references to 'articulo mortis' or 'at the moment of death') was compiled by Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980). The entries are listed under local (birth) name, tribe, village, Christian name, date of baptism, minister officiating, date, and in some instances date of death and place of burial. The end pages of the volume also contain miscellaneous notes re baptisms at the mission. With manuscript annotations (in Irish) by Fr. Padraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap. re Fr. Seraphin.
Record Book of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association attached to Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary. The volume contains lists of life and temporary members of the Association and records members who were given temperance badges. The book appears to have been compiled by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap.
List of missions and retreats given by the Capuchin friars of Holy Trinity Church, Cork. Gilt title to front cover of the volume reads: ‘Record of Missions / Capuchin Friary / Cork’. The information is given under the headings of place, diocese, name of conducting priest and remarks. From 1927-48, a single entry referring to missions and retreats conducted by Fr. Joseph Fenlon OFM Cap. (1875-1963) and other friars in the United States and in Canada is made. Periodic reference is made to the success of a mission such as the enrollment of 1,710 individuals into the Father Mathew Temperance Association attached to the Church Street Friary, Dublin, in April 1909.
List of missions and retreats given by the Irish Capuchin friars. Gilt title to front cover of the volume reads: ‘Record of Missions / Capuchin Friary’. The information is given under the headings of place, diocese, name of conducting priest and remarks (usually the name of the group, sodality (Third Order of St. Francis), confraternity, or congregation to whom the mission or retreat was given). A clipping of an article titled ‘Hints to Preachers’ from 'The Tablet' (10 Dec. 1960) is inserted into the front of the volume. A colour print of a group of religious from the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society is also pasted into the front of the volume.
