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Bound volume containing a register of members of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The listing is divided into male and female. The list includes entries relating to dues for subscription payments and membership fees. Later entries also supply addresses of registered members.

Register of members of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. The information is listed alphabetically under surname, address, section number and occasionally date of reception. The volume appears to be incomplete although a listing of about seventy members is extant on the first two pages.

Bound volume containing an alphabetical list of names and addresses of the theatrical group the ‘Father Mathew Players’. The register seems to have been compiled by Daniel McCarthy, honorary secretary.

Exercise copy book containing a list of brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. Entries are listed under name, street and ‘page number in the main register’. Occasional reference is made to the brother’s occupation.

Membership sheet and flier for participants in the choir at the Church of St. Francis, Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The columns for the names of choir members are left blank. Printed by Coyle Brothers, Kilkenny.

Autobiographical memoir of Canon James Casey (1824-1909). At pp 21-6 reference is made to Casey having taken the pledge from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 22 Sept. 1840. He writes ‘I remember well the crowds and the crushing. … The people were got to kneel down in rows while enthusiastic priests rode among the vast multitude to keep order. The great and special graces showered down that day will never be known till the day of judgement’.

An unpublished ‘Memoir of Father Theobald Mathew OSFC / The Apostle of Temperance’ compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. The title page gives a date of 17 March 1929 at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. A list of mainly published sources is given for the text. The memoir is comprised of two parts. Part I: Testimonies and Part II: Father Mathew before 1838.

Booklet containing the recollections of Fr. Michael Murphy OFM Cap. particularly in relation to his role in establishing Namushakende Parish Church in the Diocese of Mongu, Zambia. Reference is also made to his missionary work in Kashembe, Namboata, Nanjuca and Litoya. The photographic print shows a celebration outside St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church in Namushakende on 25 Mar. 2004.

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Memoranda re books held in the Kilkenny Friary Library. The notes were probably compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Particular reference is made to annotations, marginalia and inscriptions found on the frontispieces of the volumes. Some of the memoranda are very fragmentary and incomplete. Many of the books referred to in the memoranda are now extant in the Provincial Archives. See CA KK/10 for a listing of some these texts from the Kilkenny Friary Library.

Memoranda regarding the history and work of the Conference of St. Francis (founded in 1905 by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.) in the environs of Greek Street and the Church Street Friary. The note refers to the building of Assisi House adjacent to the Greek Street flat complex opposite St. Michan’s Church of Ireland in which a boys’ club was founded in 1940. The note affirms: ‘In 1963 the premises known as Assisi House had to be demolished to make way for the widening of Church Street and since then we have not been able to find suitable accommodation to carry on our work’.