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Minutes of Committee Meetings regarding the new Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The minutes appear to have been compiled by Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC. The first meeting was held on 20 July 1861 ‘for the purpose of collecting funds for the erection of the church at which the Rt. Hon. Sir William Carroll [1819-1870] MD, Lord Mayor of Dublin, took the chair …’. The opening meeting referred to the ‘poverty of the location in which they [the Capuchins] have chosen with the spirit of their founder the Seraphic St. Francis … to erect a temple worthy of Catholicity …’. The minutes of the meetings mainly refer to efforts to secure funding for financing the construction of the new church. Statements of expenditure are included in some of the minutes.

Correspondence, tender forms and certificates for repairs and alterations to the altar and other furnishings (including plumbing and the installation of lavatories) at the Church and adjoining Friary of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Some of the correspondence relates to work on the altar and rails of the adjoining aisle church, the Sacred Heart Chapel, which was built in 1908-9. The file includes correspondence, proposals, statements and bills of costs, accounts and receipts from: Patrick Tomlin & Sons, ecclesiastical & architectural sculptors & modellers, Grantham Street; Todd, Burns and Co., wholesale and retail drapers, Mary Street, Dublin; Maguire and Gatchell Ltd., engineers, contractors & merchants, 7-15 Dawson Street, Dublin; Ashlin & Coleman, architects, 7 Dawson Street, Dublin; Malone & Co., ecclesiastical and architectural sculptors, 5-6 Lower Summerhill, Dublin; Early & Co., stained glass manufacturers, sculptors and church decorators, 1 Upper Camden Street; Pearse & Sons, ecclesiastical and architectural sculptors, 27 Great Brunswick Street and 160, 162 and 163 Townsend Street; Edmund Sharp, Sculptor, 42 Great Brunswick Street; Cummins & Son, electric light and power engineers, ventilating and heating contractors, 12 Abbey Street; Dan Miller & Co., Copper & Brass Works, 28-29 Church Street; The Dublin Asphalt & Flat-roofing Company, Ringsend; Edward Morgan, builder and contractor.

Photographic print of the exterior of St. Mary of the Angels, taken from the right on Church Street. The print is by Keogh Bros. Ltd., 75 Lower Dorset Street, 124 Stephen’s Green West, Dublin. The print is pasted onto card.

Photographic print of St. Anne’s Shrine in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The photographer/studio is credited as C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.

A set of three pictorial postcard prints of the Grotto at St. Mary of the Angels, the Calvary outside the church, and a Corpus Christi procession and ceremony at the Grotto. One of the cards has a manuscript annotation: ‘Grotto dismantled and transferred to Priorswood (County Dublin) in the 1990s’.

The file includes
• Report of a Dublin Corporation housing enquiry into conditions in tenements in the Cook Street-Chapel Yard area ('Evening Herald', 2 Feb. 1933). Reference is made in the report to the ruins of 'a Capuchin convent, an old windmill and two Mass houses' in the Cook Street area.
• Article (with photographic prints) publicising the opening of a sale of work in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions held in the Catholic Commercial Club in Dublin. 'Irish Catholic', 1 Dec. 1938. The attendees included Alfie Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.

Letters mainly from patrons forwarding subscriptions in favour of the Brigade. The file includes letters from Richard O’Shaughnessy, barrister, 3 Wilton Place, Dublin, to Fr. Mark McDonnell OSFC, Church Street, passing on his good wishes to the Boys’ Brigade. He claims that ‘the richer Catholics, and a large, a very large number of Protestants would be among its subscribers … if they only know the work it is effecting’.

Photographic prints of scenes at an out-station near the Sioma Mission in Zambia. The images show groups of children and parents receiving food and medical care.