Two plates showing a group of four Capuchin friars in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The cover indicates that the friars are (from left) Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (1873-1950), Fr. Bernadine Harvey OFM Cap. (1874-1953) and Fr. Joseph Fenlon OFM Cap. (1875-1963).
Two plates showing the small railway station at Rochestown in County Cork. Seven individuals are visible in the image including the station master and a woman nursing a young child. With an annotated cover.
The file contains seven plates showing unidentified Capuchin friars. The plates are labelled within covers as 68 A-G. The plate at 68 B may show Fr. Joseph Harkins OSFC (1853-1888). See CA PH-1-46.
Two plates with images of separate groups of Capuchin friars in Kilkenny. The file includes an annotated envelope which reads ‘two films on plates of group in Kilkenny’. The annotation (by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.) provides some names but they are illegible.
A file containing ‘Lastre a gelatine bromuro d’argento … di Cappelli, Milano’ box containing four large plate reproductions of an original manuscript. The box cover gives two dates of 1906 and 1911 (probably company awards). A faint manuscript annotation on the box reads: ‘Catalogo Campione’. The manuscript is titled on the first plate: ‘De haeresis Anglicanae in Iberniam intrusione et progressu, et de Bell Catholico ad annum 1641 caepto, exindeque per aliquot gesto, Commentarius’. The plates are images of the original copy of the ‘Commentarius Rinuccinanus’ held in the Archivio Storico Milano. The original text was destroyed in a bombing raid on Milan during the Second World War.
File containing records of pledges (taken for life and for one year) taken by individuals residing in Ennis, County Clare. The names of the individuals and their places of residence are given. Some of the lists are compiled in copybooks and are titled: ‘The Young Irish Crusaders, Christian Schools, Ennis’; ‘St Joseph’s School, Convent of Mercy, Ennis’, ‘Ennis Boys’ School’, ‘Boarding School, Pledges for Life’.
List compiled by Fr. P. MacNamara of members of the temperance society in the parish of Clonmacnoise, King’s County (416 adults and 188 under the age of 21). Includes a separate listing of individuals (with addresses) of those who have taken the pledge. With a cover letter (28 Nov. 1911) to Fr. Benedict Phelan OSFC
Report on the Capuchin Temperance Mission in Ireland compiled by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC (1874-1951) , Provincial Minister, in response to a request from the General Minister of the Order in Rome. The report refers to the progress of the temperance crusade in Ireland and includes information on the number of missions preached and total abstinence pledges taken. The report notes that the Capuchins have ‘administered the Sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion to 1,200 on each Mission. … We have given the pledge to an average of 800 in each Parish and have a record of having administered the Pledge since the beginning of this Crusade to 1,141,191’. (p. 10). It also includes favourable testimonials from the Irish Catholic hierarchy and other prominent figures. The principal headings in the report are as follows: The Origins and Progress of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association The Pledge Pastorals on Temperance from the Bishops of Ireland Testimony of His Eminence Cardinal Logue / Primate of All Ireland Bishops’ Opinions Testimony of the Clergy Leading articles from the 'Freeman’s Journal' / the principal paper in Ireland Press References Testimonies from Judges, Public Officials and Lord Mayors
Correspondence of Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, and Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, with the Catholic Bishops of Derry, Ferns, Waterford and Lismore, Down and Connor, Dromore, Clogher, Kilmore, the Archbishop of Tuam, the Archbishop of Dublin, and Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, re the publication of the Capuchin Franciscan 'Temperance Manual', the establishment of temperance sodalities in the various dioceses, and the general progress of the temperance crusade conducted by the friars. The draft letter from Fr. Paul Neary OSFC to Archbishop William Walsh (1841-1921) refers to the good work Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC is doing among the trades’ societies and artisan classes in Dublin (10 Apr. 1906).