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Letters expressing satisfaction with the excellent discipline and work of the Boys’ Brigade of Church Street. Many of the letters are from employers seeking boys to perform paid work. Correspondents include John. J. White, Cork Factory & Warehouse, Dublin, 'The Irish Rosary', St. Saviour’s Priory, Dominick Street, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Church Street, and P.D. Hartnett, grocer, 71 Great Strand Street, Dublin.

Correspondence regarding the sale of properties in Kilkenny city formerly held in trust by the late Fr. Thomas (Hilary) McDonagh OFM Cap. and subsequently held by the FMC Trust. The file specifically relates to the sale to Thomas J. Barrett of a three-storey building over a ground floor shop located at No. 19 Rose Inn Street, The Parade, Kilkenny, and to a house situated at No. 1 Castlecomer Road. The correspondents include Fr. Daniel (Nicholas) O’Brien OFM Cap., secretary of the FMC Trust, John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, Donal O’Buachalla, valuers and estate agents, and John Stanton & Sons, solicitors. With manuscript notes regarding title to the said properties which John Lanigan affirms is ‘rather “messy” as most of the deeds appear to have been lost’ (5 Jan. 1972).

Letter from Thomas W. Franks, solicitor, agent for the Harty Estate, to John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, regarding the sale by John Slater of premises on Pennyfeather Lane to the Capuchin Friary. Franks refers to the Capuchins’ intention to ‘buy this property in order that they may have room for building at a future date … and to their intention to demolish the existing buildings on this holding which are more less derelict’. With a letter from John Lanigan & Nolan to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. confirming that the purchase of John Slater’s premises has been completed. The file also includes an acknowledgment from John Slater, a rent receipt and a certificate of rateable valuation for the said holding (30 Jan. 1939).

Copy letters of Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to John J. Sharkey, Catholic Total Abstinence Union, Boston, referring to the cause of Fr. Mathew. Fr. Stanislaus wrote ‘No efforts either privately or publicly have been made by any member of our Order to direct further interest in the intercession of Fr. Mathew, and yet the devotion to him is as abiding in the hearts of the people – especially in Cork – as it was the in the years that followed his death’.

Letters from Dom Carthage Delaney OCist (1839-1909), Abbot of Mount Mellerary, Cappoquin, County Waterford, and Dom Camillus Beardwood OCist, Abbot of Mount St Joseph’s Abbey, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC, guardian, Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, regarding invitations to mark the re-opening of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Kilkenny.

Letters from James P. Sweeney & Co., Falcarragh, Letterkenny, County Donegal, solicitors, and Seán Ó hUadhaigh & Son, 20 Eden Quay, Dublin, solicitors, re negotiations for the sale of cottage and plots of lands at Ards, Creeslough, to Anne Green and Monica Cassidy. The correspondence refers to the need for consent forms from the Commissioner of Charitable Donations and Bequests, information re title from the Land Registry, and a memorandum and articles re the vesting of certain lands at Ards with named trustees of the FMC Trust (enclosed).

Letters from Sir Lionel Harty, Belrobin, Dundalk, County Louth, to [Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC and Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC], guardians, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, regarding the rent on three houses held by the Capuchins on Pennyfeather Lane, Kilkenny. Harty affirms that he has no intention of selling any of the properties. With a rent receipt. Other correspondents include Eugene F. Collins, solicitor, Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin.

Letters from James Sheehan, chartered quality surveyor, 20 South Mall, Cork, J. Varming & S. Mulcahy, consulting engineers, 4 Northbrook Road, Dublin 6, Gunning & Son Ltd., ecclesiastical art manufacturers and church furnishers, 18 Fleet Street, Dublin 2, Murphy-Devitt Studios, stained glass manufacturers, 63 Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin, and J & C McLoughlin, constructional engineers, Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8, re payments for the building, furnishing and decoration of the new Ard Mhuire Friary and Capuchin House of Studies. The recipients include Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. and Fr. Nicholas O’Brien OFM Cap.

Letters from R.G. Browne, Town Clerk, Urban District Council, Westport, and John Maher, Town Clerk, Cashel Urban District Council, offering their sympathies to the Capuchin Order on the death of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. The resolution from Cashel Urban District Council reads: ‘During the martyr struggle of Terence MacSwiney (Lord Mayor of Cork) in Brixton Prison, the late Father Dominic by his attention and fidelity to the noble sufferer and the cause for which he suffers, he has left to Ireland a name that links him with the bravest and most heroic we boast of’.

Letters of the Most Rev. William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, to the Provincial Ministers of the Irish Capuchins (Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC, Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC and Fr. Paul Neary OSFC) regarding the establishment and functioning of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade in Dublin. Walsh wrote to Fr. Matthew on 2 May 1895: ‘I should be glad if you could see your way to letting one of your fathers take it in hand. Of course, the rules should be approved in detail so that at any time we could withdraw our connection and our sanction if things were going wrong’. He later averred (27 May 1895) that the ‘organisation ought to be a useful one, if it is well looked after, and good provision for this seems to be made in the Rules’. He later referred (21 June 1895) to an article in the draft rules of Brigade: ‘In par. X, it seems to be left open to Protestants to have a voice in the management. This, of course, would not work in a Catholic organisation for Catholic Boys only’. On 27 Feb. 1900 Walsh wrote: ‘Our religious communities in Dublin are actively engaged in carrying on many good works, works which undoubtedly could not be carried on at all but for them. But I think it is generally understood that as I am exceedingly careful to avoid anything like interference, or bordering on interference, in the affairs of religious bodies, it is far better that I should not be in any connected with their good works’. He later referred to the Capuchin friars’ decision to discontinue work with the Brigade: ‘I observe there is a special point insisted on by the critics of the Boys’ Brigades – that such Brigades are really training schools for the army. On the whole, it may be just as well that your good fathers have got clear of the work’ (15 June 1902). In 1904, Walsh affirmed that he ‘had always remained aloof the organisation’ and claimed that it was not possible for him to interfere ‘in any way [with] the question as to the holding of the trust property’.