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‘Kodak film wallet / MacSweeny’s Photographic Supply Store, Cork’. The file contains two plates showing a group of Capuchin friars probably at a Provincial Chapter in the Church Street Friary. The group includes Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (1874-1938). Fr. Edwin was Provincial Minister from 1926-9 and from 1931-7.

• Notes re the provenance of temperance medals held in the Irish Capuchin Archives. The text refers to a large gold medal (CA FM RES/9/3/6) with the following engraving on the rim: ‘P.P. Daly took the Total Abstinence Pledge, May 20th 1840’. It is affirmed that this medal was ‘bought from a jeweller, who was going to melt it, for £7’. Reference is also made to a large silver medal presented to the Capuchins by a Miss Gibson from Ballyglass in County Mayo. A cross, also gifted to the Capuchins by Miss Gibson, belonged to the Youghal Roman Catholic Total Abstinence and Religious Society founded on 19 May 1839. Another silver medal has a large green ribbon attached to it and was presented by a Miss Tobin, 13 Killarney Street, Dublin. A smaller silver medal is engraved on the rim: ‘Presented to L.S. Gore Jones by the Rev. T. Mathew’. It was given to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. by Fr. Laurence Kelly, Catholic Curate, St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street, Dublin. [c.1915]. Manuscript and typescript, 8 pp.
• Letters and notes re the provenance of temperance medals sent to the Capuchin friars. One of the letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. refers to a medal gifted by a Mrs Lyons of 29 Clarence Street North. The letter states that ‘it belonged to her father-in-law Maurice Lyons who is dead over 40 years’. The letter is dated 10 Apr. 1938. Another note states that a medal given to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. by a Dr O’Mahony on 30 Aug. 1930 and was found ‘in a secret drawer belonging to his uncle the late Dr Shanahan’. Manuscript, 7 pp.
• Newspaper cutting of an article by Michael Kenny titled ‘Discovering the National Museum’, 'Irish Times', 5 April 1981. The article refers to the National Museum’s collection of temperance medals and dies from which the medals were struck. The article reads ‘Given the great numbers enrolled it is hardly surprising that a huge number of medals were struck of widely varying design and legend. A few were struck in gold and silver, but the vast majority in bronze and white metal, particularly the latter. Many contemporary medallists were involved in their production … particularly Isaac Parkes of Dublin …’. With letters to the editor responding to Michael Kenny’s article. 5 Apr. 1981-19 Apr. 1981. Clipping, 5 pp.

Copies of the prospectus for St. Enda’s School in Rathfarnham, Dublin.

Draft prose and short stories submitted for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record' (later 'Eirigh'). The file includes compositions and stories by the following authors: Frank McDonald, Breda Owens, John Cahill, James Flynn, John MacKenna, and David Gunston.

Proposals and tender forms for Father Mathew Hall. The file includes proposals from the Solidarity Centre Project; Respond, a non-profit housing charity; the Bar Council of Ireland (a bid for the Bow Street Friary); the Centre of English Language Studies Ltd.; the Henry A. Crosbie Group; Stoker’s Dracula Organisation. With copy tender forms sent to Gaffney Halligan & Co., solicitors for the vendors.

Programme for St. Mary’s Boys Concert Party, ‘controlled by the Catholic Seaman’s’ Institute’, to be held in Father Mathew Hall, under the direction of Aloysius J. Johnson. With a list of invitations to the said concert.

Programme for an event at The Brompton Oratory, London, to mark the 150th anniversary of Fr. Mathew’s death. The programme provides an illustrated history of the life of Fr. Mathew and the subsequent commemorations of his temperance campaign. The programme includes photographic prints of:
The Father Mathew Tower, Cork.
The Father Mathew Statue by John Foley, erected on 10 Oct. 1864.
The Father Mathew statue, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, erected in 1876.
The Father Mathew Statue by Mary Redmond, O’Connell Street, Dublin, unveiled in 1893.
The chalice presented by Lady Elizabeth Mathew to her kinsman, Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, now held in Holy Trinity Church, Cork.
Charles Lysaght, barrister and collateral descendant of Fr. Mathew, in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Cork.

Professions at St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone Parish, Cape Town, South Africa. The file includes caption information for some of the photographs compiled by Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Includes images of Fr. Mattew Gormley OFM Cap., Br. Kees Thönissen OFM Cap. and two novices from Holy Trinity Parish, Katima Mulilo, Caprivi Strip.

Profession register book of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The information is listed under name, address, reference number, date of profession, name in religion and remarks/observations. The remarks include notes re whether a profession certificate was given and the monthly totals of receptions.