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A bound volume with a printed titled on the front cover which reads ‘newspaper cuttings’. The volume contains reviews of Alice Curtayne’s ‘St. Anthony of Padua’ published by The Father Mathew Record Office as ‘Capuchin Monographs No. 1’ in 1931. Several letters and ephemera referring to the publication are also pasted into the volume. Includes reviews published in the ‘Irish Independent’, ‘Cork Examiner’, ‘Irish Catholic’, ‘The Cross’, ‘The Kerry Champion’, ‘Sunday Independent’, ‘Irish Press’, and ‘Kilkenny People’.

‘Paget Prize Plates – Lantern Slow’ box containing fourteen glass plates. The annotation on the front of the box reads: ‘Slides of road to monastery from station. To be mounted as stereo’. Contains seven stereo negative plates (fourteen in total) of scenes around the Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork. Includes one scene of a small tugboat at Queenstown Harbour, the mill on the road to Rochestown, and one of the Capuchin Friary at Rochestown.

Copies (made by Michael Buggy, solicitor) of two fee farm grants by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde to Mary Pape of houses and premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, lately held by Alderman John Pape, deceased, in consideration of £24 13s 4d at the yearly rent of £6 3s 4d (9 Sept. 1705); and in consideration of £81 17s 0d at the yearly rent of £4 with ‘two fatt capons as accates or four shillings sterling per annum in lieu thereof’ (25 Sept. 1705). With a manuscript copy of the deed of 9 Sept. 1705.

Declarations (including copies) of Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson affirming that the premises on Walkin Street which are to be conveyed to Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC (coloured red on the trace map at CA KK/2/1/1/3/21) ‘are either the entire or portion of the hereditaments comprised and granted by one or other of the fee farm grants of 9 Sept. 1705 and 25 Sept. 1705 …’. The indemnifying premises are coloured in blue on the said trace map. One of the copy declarations is annotated by John R. Peart, barrister.

Application forms for certificate for discharge from death duties or estate duty on premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, title to which passed on the deaths of Richard Samuel Owen Robinson (d. 8 Jan. 1912) and Henrietta Robinson (d. 6 Apr. 1916) to Rev. Willoughby Richard Knox Robinson.

Letter from Thomas W. Franks, solicitor, agent for the Harty Estate, to John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, regarding the sale by John Slater of premises on Pennyfeather Lane to the Capuchin Friary. Franks refers to the Capuchins’ intention to ‘buy this property in order that they may have room for building at a future date … and to their intention to demolish the existing buildings on this holding which are more less derelict’. With a letter from John Lanigan & Nolan to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. confirming that the purchase of John Slater’s premises has been completed. The file also includes an acknowledgment from John Slater, a rent receipt and a certificate of rateable valuation for the said holding (30 Jan. 1939).

The file contains reports on the Solemn Triduum celebrations held in the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny marking the seventh centenary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi.

The file contains the following editions of this local newspaper:
29 June 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 26)
6 July 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 27)
Special commemorative editions of the 'Kilkenny People' published to mark the Congress of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland which was held in the city. The Congress had as its theme ‘Social Problems in Ireland’. The edition of 6 July 1935 contains a report of an address by Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.

Minute book of the committee and public meetings of the Total Abstinence Sodality. The reverse of the front cover is annotated: ‘Temperance Society of the Sacred Thirst of the Lord Jesus Christ attached to the Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Church Street, founded by the Very Rev. Albert Mitchell OSFC, President, Dublin, June 1880, to which was added The Father Mathew Temperance Hall, Halston Street, opened solemnly Monday, 14th February 1881’. The first page contains the rules of the society as laid down by Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC. The minute book reports the principal decisions and resolutions passed by the committee at their weekly meetings particularly in respect of financial and membership matters and later in relation to the funding for the construction of Father Mathew Memorial Hall on Church Street. The volume includes a copy of the printed 'First Annual Report' of the sodality (see CA HA/1/1/2) and a copy of a letter from Most Rev. Edward McCabe, Archbishop of Dublin, to Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC, 49 North King Street, commending the work of the Halston Street Temperance Society (22 Feb. 1882). On 14 Feb. 1883, a report noted that ‘we have at present on the roll upwards of 1,130 men and 1,000 women and although some have fallen away from our ranks still it is satisfactory to be in the position to state that a large number have remained faithful to their pledge’. Other newspaper clippings pasted into volume include a report of a large meeting of total abstinence societies at St. Finbarr’s Hall, Charlotte Quay, Cork. With a copy of the agreement with J. T. Russell, Sandford Terrace, Ranelagh, for the lease of 3 Halston Street at the yearly rent of £16 for 31 years in trust for the Temperance Society of the Sacred Thirst (31 Jan. 1881). The minutes were routinely signed by the President, Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC, and later by his successor, Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC.