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Murphy, Columbus, 1881-1962, Capuchin priest
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Correspondence concerning the appointment of trustees

Correspondence of Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, with Valentine Miley, solicitor, 12 South Frederick Street, Dublin, regarding the appointment of legal trustees for the Hall property. The file includes copy notices sent by Fr. Columbus to committee members regarding the amendment needed to the ‘General rule of the Father Mathew Hall OSFC and the “Sacred Thirst” Branch of St. Patrick’s Branch League of the Cross’. With solicitor costs for the completion of a deed assignment for the appointment of a new committee and trustees.

Murphy, Columbus, 1881-1962, Capuchin priest

Correspondence with Inspector of Taxes

Correspondence of Fr. Columbus Murphy OSFC, President, Father Mathew Hall, regarding demands for payments of income tax. The file includes demand notices and letters from the Inspector of Taxes. In April 1938 Fr. Columbus wrote ‘The Father Mathew Hall is the social centre attached to the Sacred Thirst Sodality. Since 1891 it has provided a club for the people of the district acting as a powerful factor in uplifting these people and encouraging temperance amongst them. In providing for these people decent and safe pastimes and entertainment we produce each year plays, concerts etc the artists in which are drawn from the members of our hall and are of course members of the Temperance Association Sodality. The Hall is heavily in debt and any profits are applied to reduce this debt’. Fr. Columbus later admitted that a good many of the shows staged in the Hall are run at a loss and that the ‘Feis is usually a financial failure – but it is doing good work so we continue’.

Murphy, Columbus, 1881-1962, Capuchin priest

The Papers of Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap.

A collection of personal papers of Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. relating to his involvement with republican combatants and other individuals during the 1916 Rising.

Murphy, Columbus, 1881-1962, Capuchin priest