Diary of mass celebrants (and confessors) at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. Includes bookings for masses at St. Luke’s Hospital and at other locations.
‘Kodak film wallet / MacSweeny’s Photographic Supply Store, Cork’. The file contains eight plates showing groups of Capuchins, including some images of friars at a Provincial Chapter in the Church Street Friary, Dublin. Includes images of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (1874-1938). Fr. Edwin was Provincial Minister from 1926-9 and from 1931-7.
Two plates showing portraits of Fr. Joseph Harkins OSFC (1853-1888). This Kilkenny-born friar traveled to India in about 1884 and took charge of a mission in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. He died in Meerut on 1 December 1888. The larger plate (10.5 cm x 8 cm) appears to a photographic print of a portrait painting. With an annotated cover.
Two plates showing images of the road from Rochestown to the local railway station. The image shows three Capuchin friars with a three-arch stone bridge, a mill and a chimney in the distant background. One of the friars is identifiable. The individual first on the right is Fr. Ignatius Collins OSFC. With an annotated cover.
A file containing three plates with images of the original acts of professions of two seventeenth century Irish Capuchin martyrs, Fr. Fiacre Tobin OSFC (c.1620-1656) and Fr. John Baptist Dowdall OSFC (c.1626-1710). The plates are labelled a-c. Fiacre Tobin’s profession is dated 2 July 1638. John Baptist Dowdall’s profession (at the Irish Capuchin friary in Charleville, France) is dated 5 October 1652.
Notebook compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC detailing the missions and retreats given by him and other Capuchin friars from c.1903-08. The opening page notes that he was ordained on 23 Feb. 1902. An index is extant at the start of the volume. Information is given in respect of the location of the retreat or mission, the date, and the number of confessions heard and sermons preached. Occasional reference is made the subject of sermons and lectures such as ‘charity’, ‘the mercy of God’, and the 'dangers of drink’. The file also includes a separate typescript listing of missions, retreats and special sermons given by Fr. Angelus from 1903-40.
Author: Katharine Tynan (1859-1931) Publisher: London: MacDonald and Evans Language: English Series: The St. Nicholas Series / edited by Rev. Dom Bede Camm OSB Includes a frontispiece (portrait of Fr. Mathew) and colour plates. The Irish Capuchin Archives holds both the 1908 and 1910 editions.
Correspondence of the Most Rev. Richard Alphonsus Sheehan (1845-1915), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, with Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minister, re the resolution of the Irish Catholic hierarchy that ‘the Capuchin Fathers be asked to set apart a certain number of their body for the preaching of a Temperance Crusade in the Country’. A manuscript addition on one copy of the letters reads: ‘Copy of above sent to Fr. Finbarr’s, Cork, at his request (Fr. Albert Bibby, 26 Feb. 1918)’. With copy replies to Bishop Sheehan and the Most Rev. Patrick Foley (1858-1926), Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, and several copies of 'Suggestions for temperance work submitted to the standing committee of Bishops' (January 1906).
Publisher: Dublin: Catholic Total Abstinence Federation of Ireland, 56 Middle Abbey Street Language: English Full title: 'Catholic Total Abstinence Federation / A call to Ireland / Report of the third triennial congress of the Catholic Total Abstinence Federation/ 1923'
Author: Rev. Thomas J. Conaty DD, President of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the United States Publisher: Liverpool: ‘The Catholic Times’ Printing Works Language: English Full title: 'An Address to the Father Mathew OSFC Total Abstinence League of the Sacred Thirst in connection with Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin … delivered in the Father Mathew OSFC, Total Abstinence Hall, Halston Street, Dublin'.
