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Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC, and other Capuchin friar, regarding requests for parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Letterkenny (Donegal), Avoca (Wicklow), Bere Island (Cork), Dunleer (Louth), Bray (Wicklow), Ashbourne (Meath), Virginia (Cavan), Westport (Mayo), Ennis (Clare), Kilmaine (Mayo), Ahascragh (Galway), Tuam (Galway), Kilrooskey (Roscommon), Loughrea (Galway), Sligo, Rathmines (Dublin), Spiddal (Galway), Carrick-on-Shannon (Leitrim), Frenchpark (Roscommon), Ballinasloe (Galway), Birr (King’s County), Clonmel (Tipperary), Gweedore (Donegal), and Omagh (Tyrone).

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).

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OSFC, Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and other Capuchin friars regarding parish missions and retreats. Many of the requests from religious congregations and institutions. The letters refer to retreats in the South Parish (Cork), Eyrecourt (Galway), the Convent of the Poor Clares, Lynton (Devon), Our Lady of Sorrows Capuchin Friary, Peckham (London), Kilrooskey (Roscommon), Crosshaven (Cork), Athy (Kildare), Kinsale (Cork), the Sisters of Mercy Convent, Thurles (Tipperary), the Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph (Wales), Saint Alban’s Convent, Pontypool (Wales), Curragh Army Camp (Kildare), Dunfanaghy (Donegal), Dunmore East (Waterford), Bundoran (Donegal), Mooncoin (Kilkenny), Ballyshannon (Donegal), Sisters of Charity Convent (Dublin), Carmelite Convent, Tallaght (Dublin), Catholic Truth Society (Kerry), Loreto Convent, Navan (Meath), St. Joseph’s Daughters of the Cross Convent, Donaghmore (Tyrone), and the Little Sisters of the Poor Convent (Waterford).

Letters to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minster, requesting parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Ballygar (Galway), Gurteen (Sligo), Westport (Mayo), Claremorris (Mayo), and Ballymote (Sligo). The file also includes some copy replies from Fr. Paul. The Rev. Jeremiah O’Toole, Parish Priest, Kilmeena, Westport, remarked: ‘I have eighteen islands inhabited islands close to the mainland, and I would be pleased if you offered [the temperance] Crusade on a Sunday’. (21 Sept. 1906).

Letters to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. regarding missions and retreats in the Franciscan Friary in Ennis, County Clare, and at the Franciscan Brothers’ Friary at Mountbellew, County Galway.

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, regarding requests for parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Sandymount (Dublin), Wicklow, Quin (Clare), Drumshanbo (Leitrim), Armagh, Drogheda (Louth), Letterkenny (Donegal), Coalisland (Tyrone), Charleville (Cork), Cappoquin (Waterford), Ardee (Louth), Cloghan (King’s County), Ballyshannon (Donegal) and Limerick. The file also includes a copy of an address titled ‘A little farewell to the Capuchin Fathers on ending their retreat in St. Michael’s Church, Kingstown [Dún Laoghaire], 14th March 1909’.

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC, and other Capuchin friars, regarding requests for parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Loughrea (Galway), Dundalk (Louth), Tralee (Kerry), Kells (Meath), Eyrecourt (Galway), Broadford (Clare), Blackrock (Dublin), and Ballaghaderreen (Roscommon).

Letters to Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, Provincial Minister, regarding requests for parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Kilrush (Clare), Clogher (Tyrone), Bannow (Wexford), Cloghan (King’s County), Aughrim (Wicklow), St. Joseph’s Poor Clares Convent (Cavan), Castlerea (Roscommon), Enniscorthy (Wexford), Kilkee (Clare), and Multyfarnham (Westmeath).

Two letters with initialled signatures. They are possibly related to the Fenian John O’Mahony. One of the notes reads ‘There is strong objection to your “official” proceedings. Perhaps these objections may be overcome but if you want to succeed you must rely mainly on your own “individual efforts” …’. Two numbered notes are also extant in the file: ‘7210 / John (Ryan?) London, 27 Jan. 71 / have seen O’D / settled to meet the people at my place on Tuesday night 31st’ and ‘7196 / list of towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland’.

Letters re attendance and cessation of membership of the Third Order of St. Francis in Kilkenny. The letters refer to cessation of active membership as a brother and registration as an isolated tertiary.