Letters to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. relating to his research on the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Most of the letters refer to sources tracing Fr. Mathew’s ancestry. The correspondents include: • Fr. E. Dowling, Cathabawn, Johnstown, County Kilkenny. Re Theobald Mathew’s early education in the Kilkenny Academy from 1803-7. • Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Re a list of Fr. Mathew’s siblings. • David Mathew. Re the ancestry and genealogy of Fr. Mathew. • Rev. Wallace Clare. Re the genealogy of Fr. Mathew. • Fr. Gervase Mathew OP, Blackfriars, Oxford. Re Fr. Mathew’s genealogy and the disposition of the Mathew family papers in their possession. • Br. De Sales. Enclosing extracts relating to Fr. Mathew from the diary of W.J. O’Neill Daunt (1807-1894). • Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. Enclosing brief extracts from the General Capuchin Archives in Rome re Fr. Mathew. • Fr. T.J. Walsh, South Presbytery Cork. Enclosing a note from Jack J. O’Shea re the poems of John Paul Dalton (a Cork-born poet) titled ‘The Centenary of Father Mathew’ and ‘A Legend of Father Mathew’.
Letters to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. mostly seeking research assistance on the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The file includes letters from Edmond J. O’Neill, Anthony Lorraine, Fr. Ignatius McCormick OFM Cap., Dr. Kevin O’Brien, Colm Kerrigan, Robert Thompson, Donal O’Cahill, Fr. Benignus-Jan Sosnowski OFM Cap., Michael Foy, John Comerford, John F. Quinn, Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., and Fr. Gregorio Smutko OFM Cap.
Letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Cork, from Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, asking him to convey his thanks to the Father Mathew Players in Cork for putting on a pantomime in aid of the Capuchin missions in Africa. Fr. Killian writes: ‘You have helped supply us with the funds that put up stations, churches and schools and their furnishing. So your loyal assistance in the missions of Barotseland by solid buildings which will yet be the centres of a Catholic country’.
Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. (1893-1977), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, regarding liability for property tax and deductions of income tax from ground rents payable by the Capuchin friars to the Dominican Order (Charlotte Quay) and to a Mrs Gardiner. With a letter from Robert McClement, auditor, enclosing a schedule of the ground rents paid by the Capuchins.
Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from Timothy B. Walsh, St. Patrick’s, Waterford, regarding the distribution of devotional material for Our Lady of Fátima.
Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from J. Isaac & Sons, organ builders, Elm Park, Blackpool, Cork; Lawrence Isaac, 20 Forster Street, Galway; Evans & Barr Ltd., Coolbeg Street, Belfast, and others regarding quotations, specifications and costs for the installation of an organ at Holy Trinity Church. With invoices and receipts for payment of shipping costs and work on the new organ.
Letters to Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, regarding a quotation for the installation of speakers, microphones and loud speaker equipment at Holy Trinity Church, Cork. With a sketch plan of the Church indicating the positions of the said speaker equipment.
Letter to Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. (1898-1945), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, regarding a claim for a reduction of rent from Brabants Ltd. who hold property from the Capuchin friars on Queen Street, and to the rents due from the Electrification Radio Company.
Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from James Coleman FRSAI, 2 Rosehill Terrace, Queenstown, County Cork, concerning information on the predecessor to the Old Capuchin chapel on Blackamoor Lane, Cork. Coleman also expresses his satisfaction to find ‘a member of the Capuchin Order really interested in its history … [as] a large number of the Order now in Cork and Rochestown show nothing in the way of literary production any more than the secular priests who to my mind were never more illiterate than they are now’. With manuscript and typescript copies of the Coleman’s letters compiled by Fr. Angelus and a newspaper clipping of Coleman’s letter to the 'Cork Examiner' (19 Apr. 1924), referring to the chapel on Blackamoor Lane which was in use from 1771-1850.
Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., St. Bonaventure’s, Cork, seeking information on the Capuchins of Cork city (with sources) from circa 1654-1766. Fr. Stanislaus refers to Fr. T.J. Walsh’s article on the Cork Capuchins: ‘It reaches a high level, and will read well. You know he is preparing it for the Capuchin Annual, with illustrations’.
