Letter from Hugh A. Law (1872-1943), Marble Hill, County Donegal, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., guardian, Ard Mhuire Friary, seeking permission to place trout fry in a lake located on the friary estate.
Correspondence re plumbing and electrical work on Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary. The file includes a Bill of Quantities (and costs) for ‘sundry works in connection with proposed alterations to mechanical, electrical and sanitary plumbing services’ at Ard Mhuire. The correspondents include Fr. Simeon Breen OFM Cap., guardian, J.R. Boyd Barrett, 5 Camden Place, Cork, architect, Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Some of the letters refer to the deferment of plans for the painting of the Friary church and choir.
Letters from the Most Rev. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe (1888-1963), granting diocesan faculties to the Capuchin friars of Ard Mhuire. The letter of 4 May 1931 reads: 'I hereby grant to the Fathers at Ard Mhuire the faculties of the diocese as our priests usually enjoy them. Apart from general or provincial reservations, there is no peculiar limitations with us, except in regard to makers of poteen or sellers of spirits (even licit) outside licensed premises'.
Newsletter of the Tertiaries of St. Francis, Holy Trinity Church, Cork. The newsletter provides information from the directors and councils of the local Third Order of St. Francis.
Studio photographic print of Br. Pascal OSFC. Br. Pascal was probably a French Capuchin friar ministering in Ireland in the late nineteenth century. Photographer / Studio: Callaghan, 45 South Mall, Cork Annotation on reverse reads: ‘Brother Pascal, architect of the Altars in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Cork, RIP’.
Copy photograph of South Mall in Cork showing the uncompleted Holy Trinity Church in the background (behind Parliament Bridge). The image is possibly a copy of an original glass plate held in the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland.
Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary. The group includes first on the left, Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC (1975-1953), third from the left, Fr. Camillus Killian OSFC (1872-1941), fifth from the left, Fr. Albert Bibby OSFC (1877-1925), third from the right, Fr. Bernardine Harvey OSFC (1874-1953), and first on the right, Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OSFC (1876-1965). Photographer/Studio: Guy Studio, Cork. An annotation in faint pencil on the reverse reads: ‘Taken in Holy Trinity garden by a most cross and irritable German from Guy’s’.
Poem written by Helena Callanan to commemorate a solemn triduum at Holy Trinity Church, Cork, to honour Blessed Mary Magdalene de Martinengo (1687-1737), a Capuchin Poor Clare Nun, beatified by Pope Leo XIII.
Blank invitation card to the Pontifical Mass held in Holy Trinity Church to mark the centenary of the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The mass was celebrated by the Most Rev. Cornelius Lucey, Bishop of Cork, on 9 Dec. 1956.