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Specifications for a local government land improvement scheme for the Ards estate. Includes sketch maps of the old friary residence and adjoining farmyard with a legend indicating the scrub-land to be removed and the existing drainage system. The specification and map were sent to the guardian of Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary.

Clipping of an article titled ‘Lady Stewart-Bam at Ards House’ published in 'The Gentlewoman' magazine. The article refers to the marriage of Captain Sir Pieter Canzius Van Bloommestein Bam and Ena Dingwall Tasca Stewart of Ards House, County Donegal, on 26 July 1910. The article also provides an account of the Stewart-Bam residence in Ards, County Donegal. With a photographic print of Lady Stewart-Bam and Ards House. The article reads:
'Lady Stewart-Bam, although the heiress to an Irish estate, was not born in Ireland: but here heart is often with her people there, and she loves nothing so much as to find herself surrounded by those who hail from the “distressful Isle”. She told the writer that when she settles down in her own home in London, she intends to have none but her “own people” about her as servants'.
The file includes a photostat copy of the article.

Archival reference book for the holdings in the Library of the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The title of the volume (Eason’s blank-index notebook) is annotated: ‘Archivium … fiosrú 1945 – an 14 Márta ‘45’. The final page of the volume contains a map showing the physical arrangement of the stacks in the archive made by Fr. Hubert Grealy OFM Cap. Includes references to ‘capitular enactments’, ‘appointments of guardians and vicars’ and ‘deeds, leases etc’.

The catechism in Silozi (Lusaka: Teresian Press, 1967). With the Imprimatur of the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Bishop of Livingstone.

Judgement searches in the Registry of Deeds for acts involving Fathers Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Michael Hennessy OSFC, James E. Tommins OSFC, Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, P.A. Goodwyn Lawless OSFC and Christopher Nangle OSFC affecting a plot of ground on the west side of Church Street, Parish of Saint Michan.

Judgement and negative searches in the Registry of Deeds for acts involving William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, John Vesey, 2nd Viscount de Vesci, Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci, and Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford in relation to Church Street properties.

Photographic prints by James Roland Bainbridge, 26 Shandon Park, Knock, Belfast. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The covering envelope is dated 20 Aug. 1957. The file includes the following images:

• Religious sisters perusing flowers on a cart during the October market in Belfast.
• Pinnacle Rocks, Garretstown, County Cork.
• A female weaver at work.
• Ardboe High Cross, County Tyrone.
• Bantry Harbour, County Cork.
• The Fairy Glen, Rostrevor, County Down.
• The River Barrow near New Ross, County Wexford.
• Athy, County Kildare.
• Whitepark Bay, County Antrim.
• Cottage in Dunseverick, County Antrim.
• Fishermen on the shores of Lough Neagh, County Antrim.
• Harvesting in County Fermanagh.
• Newcastle Bridge, Ballymahon, County Longford.
• Strangford Lough, County Down.
• Fishing on Castle Lake near Bailieborough, County Cavan.
• Mount Errigal, County Donegal.
• Killary Fjord, County Galway.
• Spelga Pass, Mourne Mountains, County Down.
• A village in County Tyrone.
• Pollan Bay, County Donegal.
• An elderly woman on a donkey and trap crossing the bridge at Kenmare, County Kerry.
• Knocklofty Bridge near Clonmel, County Tipperary.
• Cliffs on the North Antrim coast.
• Belfast street. The print is annotated: ‘Sunday in the city / a sunshine study’.
• Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh.
• Portstewart Strand, County Derry.
• Male and female bathers at Ballintoy, County Antrim

Copy prints compiled for an article by Tadhg Gavin titled ‘Joyce Kilmer’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 294-308. The file includes reproductions of studio photographs of Kilmer.

Josephin Society Medal
1821
Diameter: 5.3 cm
Silver Medal
Physical Description:
• Josephin (var. Josephian) Society Medal. The medal is inscribed ‘Josephin Society / Patron / Very Rev. T. Mathew / 1821’. The reverse shows a cleric assisting two young boys with the legend ‘Children come and hear me and I will teach you the fear of the Lord’. The medal is topped with a crucifix.

Temperance Medal
1833
Diameter: 4.5 cm
Pewter Medal
Physical Description:
• Face (front): Man and woman bearing banners with the words ‘Sobriety’ and ‘Domestic Comfort’. The both support a shield with five panels. Above the shield a lamb with a cross rests on a bar from which hangs a pendant with the word ‘Religion’ beneath. Underneath the ‘floor’ upon which the people stand there is a three-part ribbon suspended with the words ‘be thou / faithful / unto death’.
Under the ribbon along the edge are the words ‘Temperance Society’. On the upper edge of the medal are the words ‘Peace on earth and good will to Man’.
Obverse: Outer edge inscription: ‘Temperance Declaration Instituted A.D. 1833. Inner edge: Evergreen leaves and two hands clasped. Centre inscription reads ‘We agree / to abstain from all / intoxicating liquors / except for / medicinal purposes / and religious / ordinances’.

St. Paul’s Temperance Society Medal
1839
Diameter: 4.4 cm
Pewter Medal
Physical Description:
• Face (front): Centre: Man and woman on pedestal on which two children are seated. The adults carry a shield surmounted by a cross, with an angel above. The upper part of the shield has a lamb bearing a banner. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. Outer-edge inscription reads: ‘In hoc signo vinces’.
Obverse: Cruciform text of pledge. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘St. Paul’s Temperance Society Very Rev. Yore, President’. Inner rim inscription reads ‘Founded Nov. 3rd 1839’.
An annotation on the covering envelope reads ‘Presented to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. by Mrs Weldon, Post Office, Rush. She also gave Certificate of Ballbriggan Temperance Society belonging to her grandfather’. For more information on St. Paul’s Temperance Society see the 'Journal of the American Temperance Union', Vols. 1-4 (1837) at p. 78 at https://books.google.ie

Cork Total Abstinence Society Medals
1838
Diameter: 4.3 cm
Three Silver Medals
Physical Description:
• Face (front): Centre: Man and woman on pedestal on which two children are seated. The adults carry a shield surmounted by a cross, with an angel above. The upper part of the shield has a lamb bearing a banner. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. Outer-edge inscription reads: ‘In hoc signo vinces’.
Obverse: Cruciform text of pledge. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘Cork Total Abstinence Society, The Very Rev. T. Mathew, President’. Inner rim inscription reads ‘Founded 10 April 1838’.
One of the medals was found in an annotated envelope which reads ‘Rev. Fr. Stanislaus [Kavanagh] OFM Cap. / Silver medal of Fr. Mathew for sale’.

Total Abstinence Society Medals
c.1840-1850
Diameters: 4.4 cm; 3.2 cm
Five silver medals
Physical description:
• Face (front): Centre: Man and woman on pedestal on which two children are seated. The adults carry a shield surmounted by a cross, with an angel above. The upper part of the shield has a lamb bearing a banner. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. Outer-edge inscription reads: ‘In hoc signo vinces’.
Obverse: Cruciform text of pledge. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘Total Abstinence Society, The Very Rev. T. Mathew, President’. Inner rim inscription reads ‘Founded 10 April 1838’.

Photographic prints compiled for an article by Ethna Waldron, Keeper, Royal Hibernian Academy, titled ‘Joseph Malachy Kavanagh (1856-1918)’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1968), pp 314-327. The file comprises photographic prints of paintings and illustrations of Kavanagh’s work.