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Lists of retreats and missions given by the Capuchin friars. The lists provide information in respect of the names of the friars giving the mission or retreat, the location (with occasional reference to the parish priest), and the date. Several lists are extant in the file. The file includes general mission lists from 1945-7.

Lists of retreats and missions given by the Capuchin friars. The lists provide information in respect of the names of the friars giving the mission or retreat, the location (with occasional reference to the parish priest), and the date. Several lists are extant in the file. The file includes general mission lists from 1948-58.

Excerpts (probably compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap.) referring to missions given by various Capuchin friars to tertiaries and sodality groups in the parish of Mount Bellew in County Galway. The extracts appear to have been taken from contemporary editions of the 'Franciscan Annals'.

Notebook containing a list of retreats and missions with references to occasional lectures given by the Capuchin friars. The location of the retreats and missions are listed alphabetically at the beginning of the volume (with dates listed). Occasional reference is made to the type of retreat or to whom the mission is given (the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Total Abstinence Associations, the Children of Mary, and the Third Order of St. Francis). A list of lecture locations (with dates) follows. There follows a more detailed list of retreats arranged by date from 1916-1935. Notes are given on location, to whom the retreat was given, and the lectures and sermons preached.

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).

• Copy letters from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Cornelius Maxwell, Chairman of the United Total Abstinence Societies of Kilkenny, re his attendance at a temperance banquet in Kilkenny. 2 Dec. 1842-10 Dec. 1842. Typescript and manuscript, 7 pp.
• Copy letter of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to the editor of the 'Dublin Monitor' regarding his attitude to William Smith O’Brien. 27 Aug. 1844. Typescript, 1 p.
• Note re a charity sermon preached by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Tipperary town on 23 Feb. 1845. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Copy letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC dated at Cork, 7 Aug. 1846. Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. notes that the letter was published in the 'Irish Independent' under the title of ‘The Black Famine of 1847 / A Father Mathew Letter’. It reads ‘… I passed from Cork to Dublin, and with an occasional exception, this doomed plant appeared most luxuriant. Returning on 3rd inst. I beheld with sorrow one vast scene of rottenness. In many places the wretched people were seated in the fences of their decaying gardens, wailing bitterly the destruction that has left them foodless’. Manuscript, 2 pp.

Contemporary copy confirmation of the election of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC as Provincial Minister for three years at a chapter held in the Church Street Chapel. The confirmation reads:
‘Rev. James L. O’Riordan was elected first definitor having 12 votes
Rev. Mr. McCarthy of the Convent of Kilkenny 10 votes
Rev. G.J.M. Brennan 10 votes
Rev. Mr. MacLeod 7 votes
… the election of Provincial was then proceeded with … [and] that the ex-Provincial was re-elected there being for him all the votes except two which were given one for Rev. Mr. McLeod [and] the other for Rev. G. Brennan’.

• Flier titled 'Father Mathew’s Advice! / Keep away from the Public House'. Includes various exhortations to ‘Keep away from the Public House’ and ‘Judge Hale on Whiskey Drinking’. The flier concludes with a warning from Fr. Mathew to ‘his beloved Teetotallers not to be duped by persons who sell poisons falsely called “Temperance Cordials” – Whiskey is the principal ingredients in all these Cordials’. [c.1840]. Printed, 1 p.
• 'Rules of the Committee Rooms of the Total Abstinence Society, Cork'. The rules are dated at Cork, 24 Aug. 1839. Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC is named as the President of the Association. Printed, 1 p.
• Copy appeal on behalf of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The appeal was made at a meeting of the ‘friends of temperance’ held in the Lord Mayor’s Office, Paradise Place, Cork, on 18 July 1848. It reads ‘it is essential that he [Fr. Mathew] should be relieved from the pressure of the pecuniary difficulties necessarily incurred in the operations of his great mission, and that therefore exertion should be made to realise the subscriptions hitherto promised …’. The appeal is signed by William Lyons, Lord Mayor of Cork, and Francis A. Walsh, barrister. Printed, 1 p.