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Monthly cash expenditure book for the Capuchin community, Church Street. The book provides details and accounts of expenditure in respect of wages, utilities, travel accounts, stationary etc. Yearly summaries of cash payments from 1972-84 are extant from pp 134-8. The accounts are routinely signed by Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap., Provincial Bursar.

Cash and expenditure book for the sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. Expenditure accounts include monies for the making of habits, scapulars, cords, the purchase of rosary beads, and donations made to ‘deserving sisters’. Income was principally derived from reception money, membership dues and collections. Year-end statements of account are given in the volume. Entries are periodically signed by Provincial Ministers at visitations.

Cash account of John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, with the Capuchin friars, Kilkenny. The account relates to legal fees for the collection of rents and the payment of rates for the period 1940-9. With a cover letter to Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap.

The volume is titled ‘Cash account book of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Convent, Walkin Street, Kilkenny, under the presidency of the Father Guardian, the Very Rev. Albert Mitchell OFSC’. The volume contains monthly debit and credit cash entries. Most of the income is derived from subscriptions, donations, and collections.

A cash account book relating to James Pearse’s ecclesiastical sculpture business in Dublin. An annotation on the title page reads ‘Dublin, November 16th, 1877 / Cash book’. The book provides a record of routine expenditure (including travel and shipping expenses), and entries relating to cash lodged in bank accounts, ‘cash on hand’, and to payments received (particularly from various clerics and religious).

The documents relate to a dispute in relation to the will (23 May 1885) of the late William Bruton who bequeathed a legacy of £100 to defray the debt incurred in the construction of St. Mary of the Angels. The executors of the will submitted a case to Richard P. Carton, barrister, who advised that the legacy was void as it was made to a religious order. The file includes a case on behalf of Fr. Tommins and Fr. Maher, surviving grantees in the deed of assignment of 9 July 1875 (see CA CS/2/2/1/10). The case was submitted to J.B. Murphy, 6 Mountjoy Square, barrister, for opinion and reads: ‘It is submitted on behalf of querists that the bequest is not to the religious order, but to the Church which belongs, not to the religious order but to the grantees in the said deed who might, should they so desire convey the same, and as a matter of fact did exercise their right’. With copy correspondence between Terence O’Reilly & Sons, solicitors for the Capuchin friars, and Michael Coyle, 1 Capel Street, solicitor for the executors of William Butler. The file also includes a copy extract from the above-noted will made by Michael Coyle, solicitor. The will extract notes that Butler also bequeathed £200 towards defraying the debt due for the building of the Holy Family Church, Aughrim Street, Dublin.

Photographic prints of Torre Margherita in San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. Three of the prints are annotated on the reverse with details noting that ‘this is the part of the Castle where she lived’.

File of photographs relating to Cardinal William Conway (1913-1977), Archbishop of Armagh. The photographs relate primarily to his elevation to the Cardinalate in 1965. Some of the prints were published in ‘Ceremonies in Saint Peter’s Basilica when Ireland’s Primate became Ireland’s Seventh Cardinal’, 'The Capuchin Annual' (1966), pp 81-4. The file includes prints credited to Pontificia Fotografia Felici, Rome, and Lensman Press Photo Agency, Dublin. With a photographic supplement from the 'Irish Independent', 17 Mar. 1965, celebrating Conway’s elevation as Cardinal.

Photographic prints of Capuchin friars celebrating the silver jubilee of Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap. in Parow, Cape Town, South Africa. The group includes Fr. Marcartan Hyland OFM Cap. (1939-2000), Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., and Fr. Flannan Buckley OFM Cap.

Expense and cheque account book of the Capuchin Publications Office. The accounts provide details of expenditure in respect of monies paid for advertising, staff salaries, contributor articles and for printing.