Pamphlet titled 'Draft Constitution as approved by Dáil Eireann ... Stand by Ireland's Declaration of Independence and Social Justice / Vote "Yes" on July 1st'. The text contains the draft of the Fianna Fáil-drafted Irish constitution of 1937. Includes side-by-side Irish translation of the English text. The constitution was translated into Irish over a number of drafts by a group headed by Micheál Ó Gríobhta (assisted by Risteárd Ó Foghludha) from the Department of Education. Issued by the Director of Elections for and on behalf of Fianna Fáil candidates, 13 Upper Mount Street, Dublin.
Draft design for an emblem for the Catholic Boys’ Brigade founded on Church Street in Dublin in March 1894.
Draft cash expenditure and receipt accounts of the Capuchin community, Church Street. The expenditure accounts are listed under several headings including wages for lay staff, household expenses, medical costs and mass revenues sent to the Provincial Curia. The cash receipts include incomes derived from street collections, alms, legacies, and donations. With inserts including rough calculation sheets and other notes regarding the accounts.
Leinster Bank Ltd., and Martha Grattan, widow, to Fr. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC and Fr. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Fr. Jarlath (Thomas Hynes) OSFC and Fr. Augustine (John) Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, Cork, of all the premises and concerns now known as no. 24 South Mall, Cork, demised in a lease dated 28 Feb. 1805. In consideration of £100. With similar assignments of portions of the said premises to Joseph Sullivan, King Street, Cork, hotel keeper, for £285, and to Thomas Joseph Ollivere Esq., Cook Street, Cork, dental surgeon, for £300. With related requisitions on title.
File containing draft articles submitted by Liam Brophy, 39 Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, with a view to publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes:
• Grief in a storm. Enclosed with a letter to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. noting the death of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., former Provincial Minister.
• A dramatic poem (for four voices and chorus) on the Rising in Dublin, Easter 1916. 13 pp.
• The Pungent Father Prout / Splendid Effrontery of the Wit of Watergrasshill.
• Paul Claudel (1868-1955) / Poet of Seraph Joy’. 5 pp.
• City Crowds. 1 p.
Draft articles for submission for 'The Capuchin Annual'. The author of the texts is not given but it is possible they are by D.L. Kelleher (1883-1958). The titles include ‘Walking into Wigan Town in 1920’, ‘Traveller’s Joy / The Return of the Native’, ‘Paris / July 5th 1926’, ‘Saint Peter’s and Saint Paul’s, Cork’, ‘Pageant in High Street’, ‘I like Dublin’, ‘Shakespeare in the Cradle’, and ‘Lourdes / November 18th 1923’. It appears that many of the articles are incomplete.
A draft of an article by C.P. Curan titled ‘The Yeats Exhibition’, covering the National Loan Exhibition of the painter’s work held in June and July 1945. An annotation on the folder cover reads ‘The Capuchin Annual / 1945’.
A draft article and notes on traditional Irish music compiled by Fr. Richard Henebry. The manuscript is incomplete and is numbered pp 12-23.
A draft text by Fr. Richard Henebry on a vellum manuscript held in the Royal Irish Academy. The text appears to be an astronomical and medical text (catalogued as MS B ii 1) dating to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Henebry refers to the frontispiece of this text which contains an ‘astronomical rotula with a moveable index, containing [the] names of the Signs of the Zodiac and the planets in Latin; also the names of the months and the numeral figures’.