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Letter from Margaret Mary Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (6 April 1955), conveying her blessings at Easter and remembering her pilgrimage to Rome with the friar. The letter is attached to a typescript (with manuscript additions) of an article titled ‘The books we want written’.

A collection of printed pamphlets and information sheets relating to the Six Day War and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The file includes the following publications:
• Sister Marie Therese, 'War in Jerusalem / An eye-witness account of the Israeli invasion, 5th-8th June 1967'. Published by the Irish Arab Society.
• 'Edwin Montagu and the Balfour Declaration'. Published by the Arab League Office (London, [1967]).
• Walid Khalidi, 'Jerusalem / The Arab Case'. (1967).
• 'Palestine / An outline of the problem'. Published by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Committee. (c.1967).
• John Carter, 'An eyewitness in Jerusalem / Spring 1969'. Published by The Jerusalem Committee (London, 1969).
• Rabbi Elmer Berger, 'Israel’s threat to Judaism / In Palestine: Zionism v. Judaism, Christianity, Islam'. Published by the Irish Arab Society (1970).
• The file includes a blank membership form for the Irish-Arab Society, 38 Grafton Street, Dublin 2.

Testimonials for Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in relation to his claim of 'fama sanctitatis' (a cleric with a reputation for holiness). It appears that the testimonials were compiled in 1937-8. The file includes:
• Statement re a resolution of the Provincial Chapter of August 1927 which decided ‘to take definite steps regarding the introduction of the Cause of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, the Apostle of Temperance’.
• Testimony of John Francis Maguire, biographer of Father Mathew.
• Tribute of the Lord Mayor of Cork, John Francis Maguire, at the unveiling of the statue of Father Mathew in the chief street in Cork.
• Tribute of Mr. Thomas Crosbie, editor and proprietor of the chief newspaper in Cork.
• Tribute of Denny Lane, prominent Catholic public man and author.
• Interview with the late Bishop of Cork, the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan OP. The interview was conducted by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Irish Capuchin Minister Provincial, in 1913-4. It reads ‘On the occasion when the Bishop made the statement, he said that as I was interested in Father Mathew it was right he should mention a criticism which he heard about him. Some seemed to think that he [Fr. Mathew] was not sufficiently interested in his Order: on occasion his attention was drawn to some matter affecting the interests of his Province or community, and he was supposed to have made the remark that it was not his concern but Father [Louis] O’Connell’s’.
• Testimony of William Smyth O’Brien.
• Testimony of the Catholic Archdeacon of Cork.
• Extracts from the diary of James McKenna, secretary to Fr. Mathew.
• Extracts from the records of hospitals referring to cures attributed to Fr. Mathew.
• Interview with Denis Dennehy, caretaker of St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork, burial-place of Fr. Mathew.
• Sworn statement of Mr. Murphy, 3 Burke’s Avenue, Cork, referring to a cure for her daughter Kathleen, which she attributes to visits to the grave of Fr. Mathew.
• The file also includes a ‘General Statement’ in relation to Fr. Mathew’s reputation as a priest of ‘exceptional holiness and of wonderful zeal and charity’.

Photographic prints for an article by James Flynn titled ‘Teresa Brayton, 1868-1943’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1961). The file includes prints of the unveiling of a Celtic Cross over the grave of Teresa Brayton in the churchyard of Cluain Conaire, County Kildare, by President Éamon de Valera. Other prints show the Rev. Dr. Corkery speaking at the unveiling, and the countryside which inspired Brayton’s writings.

Fliers, invitations, correspondence, photographs relating to the celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchins in Kilkenny. Includes copies of the souvenir booklet for the solemn high mass of thanksgiving held in the Friary on 17 Oct. 1948. With a letter from the Corporation of Kilkenny to Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., guardian, offering their congratulations. Includes photographic prints ('Irish Press') of the aforementioned high mass celebrated by the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory (sermon preached by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap.). See also newspaper reports of the celebrations at CA KK/11/21-25.

Tender for the installation of an oil-firing boiler at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The file includes tenders from H.A. O’Neil Ltd., 162 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin and Maguire & Gatchell Ltd., Dawson Street, Dublin.