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Hall-marked silver and bronze Father Mathew Feis medals of uniform Celtic Cross design. Some of the medals have an orange ribbon fastener. The medals are engraved on the reverse with:
• ‘1st prize Drawing & Designing (Class B). 1924’.
• ‘Club Swinging Seniors. 1929’.
• ‘Physical Culture – 1928-29-30. Maggie Hamilton’ (digital image above).
• ‘Swedish Drill. Maggie Hamilton. 1930’.
• ‘2nd Prize / Domestic Science / Crochet / 1925’.
• ‘2nd Prize / Domestic Science/ Overall / 1925’.
• ‘2nd Prize / Sewing / Class D / 1926’.
• ‘Senior Club Swinging / 1930’.
• ‘Senior Club Swinging / 1931’.
• ‘Physical Culture / 1931’.
• ‘Senior English Elocution / 1931 / Second’.
Three of the Celtic Cross Feis Maitiú medals have no engraving on the reverse. The file also includes the metal die used to strike the Feis medal.

• Photographic print (on card) of a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The print is by William Lawrence, portrait painter and photographer, Dublin. 16.5 cm x 10.5 cm. 2 copies.
• Photographic print (on card) of the Father Mathew statue in the workshop of Mary Redmond (1863-1930) before its installation on Sackville (O’Connell) Street, Dublin, in 1893. 16.5 cm x 12 cm. (See image above).
• Copy engraving of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 25 cm x 17 cm. Printed.
• Photographic print of the plaque on Cove Street, Cork, commemorating Fr. Mathew’s residence in a house (No. 8) on that street. The plaque was erected by Cork Corporation in 1980. 15 cm x 10 cm. Colour print.
• Cutting of a cartoon titled ‘The cause of the high death-rate / The Working-man’s Sunday’ showing ‘as it was spent before the Sunday Closing Act’ and ‘as it is spent now in unwholesome quarters of the city – as the working-man must get his beer’. [c.1890]. 1 p.
• Photographic print of the Father Mathew statue on O’Connell Street, Dublin, in c.1955. Ink stamp on reverse reads ‘Irish Tourist Board Photo’. 25.5 cm x 17.8 cm.
• Copy print (on card) of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. 25.5 cm x 20 cm.

Photographic prints of exterior views of Ard Mhuire Friary and the Retreat Centre, Sheephaven Bay, County Donegal. Some of the images show the surrounding gardens and grounds (including a few images of snow-covered buildings). Some of the images are in the form of printed prayer cards.

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.

Two images of the exterior of Holy Trinity Church on Father Mathew Quay viewed from the opposite bank of the South Channel of the River Lee in Cork.

Expenses account of James Joseph O’Kelly. An accompanying note is endorsed ‘account for arms / £206 / expenses to Dublin’. Both the note and the one-page expenses account are endorsed ‘EE 7205’. The expenses relate to O’Kelly’s travel from France to Dublin.

Expense journal of William Woodlock, 13 Hardwicke Place, Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the title page gives the date 13 August 1863. A note on the first page by William Woodlock reads ‘1863 / Kate [his sister] left Dublin, August 11, (Tuesday) for Bruges. Joseph [his brother] left Dublin, Thursday, August 13 for Cork, on his way to Australia … Am now left alone, and open a new account. W[illiam] W[oodlock]’. An additional note at the bottom of the opening page reads ‘Joseph sailed from Queenstown for Brisbane, Queensland, in the “Fiery Star”, Wednesday, August 19, 1863’. The remainder of the volume contains entries for routine expenditures including washing, cigars, stamps, and stationary.

Expenditure and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The inside cover is annotated with a ‘History of Fr. Mathew Hall – copied from the other ledger (1881-1926)’. The history reads: ‘1891: Hall in Church St. formally opened up by Archbishop Walsh. Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC (President)’. The history chronicles extensions, leases and other financial matters concerning the Hall property. The remainder of the volume is made up of expenditure and receipt accounts from Sept. 1934-Sept. 1937. Expenditure is listed under the headings of details, cash and cheques. Receipts are listed under details, cash, total and lodgements. The entries include figures for rents (to the Merchant Tailors), rates (to Dublin Corporation) and the sales of tickets for pantomimes and for various badges, medals, certificates and other paraphernalia.

Expenditure accounts in connection with the building of a new Friary on Walkin Street. The accounts provide details of expenditure including Stephen Lalor, builder (£1,337 12s 7d); Samuel Hynes, architect (£100); alms house purchase (£315 2s 0d). A noted is appended to the accounts: ‘The above items were paid by cheque from bank. Some other items in connection with demolition of old house, repairing of new Alms House &c come under the ordinary expenses of the house’. Includes statement of ‘total amount of contract for addition &c to church and convent, Kilkenny, £3,430 13s 3d’. Endorsed on verso ‘statement of accounts given by Fr. Fidelis on the state of his house’.