- IE CA HT/8/1
- File
- c.1880-1887
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Newspaper cuttings book. The front cover has a manuscript title: ‘Valuable paper cuttings referring chiefly to Cork Friary and Church in [the] early eighties of the 19th Century. Collected by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC when a student’. The volume contains a numbered index which includes references to the following items:
• The new Capuchin Convent, Cork. 'Daily Herald', 5 July 1884.
• The Church of the Holy Trinity. 'Cork Daily Herald', 2 Dec. 1883.
• The new Capuchin Convent. 'Cork Examiner', 4 June 1884.
• Retreat at Holy Trinity Church. Undated.
• Notice of the General Chapter of the Capuchin Order. 1884.
• Notices of the arrival of expelled French Capuchins in Cork. November 1880.
• Circular appealing for funds for the completion of the Cork Capuchin Church according to the modified design by Pugin & Ashlin. (See CA HT/5/1).
• Article on Father Mathew’s Church, Cork.
• Notice from the 'Freeman’s Journal' regarding the unfinished state of Holy Trinity Church. 1883.
• Several notices of temperance demonstrations in Cork. The index notes that there was ‘no contingent from Holy Trinity – Belgian superiors there at the time’.
• Report on the Bishop of Cork’s blessing of the bell at Holy Trinity Church. The index notes that ‘the bell is now over the choir and sacristy. When we returned from France [in] 1879 the bell on Holy Trinity was cracked’.
• Letter to the 'Tablet', London, regarding the condition of Father Mathew Church, Cork, probably written by Mr. Jerome Murphy, described as ‘a most devoted friend to our community’.
• Circular appealing for funds for the completion of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
• Report on a temperance demonstration in Cork. 1887.
The volume also contains numerous cuttings of advertisements and articles some of which were taken from French newspapers.
Guy, Benvenutus, 1860-1927, Capuchin priest