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Account book for a fund for the restoration and redesign of Holy Trinity Church, Cork. Entries are listed under the headings of date, amount, source and total. The principal sources for the fund include mass collections, individual donations, subscriptions from Third Order members and interest on deposits. Payments from the fund (principally to architects, surveyors, engineers, consultants and contractors) are noted on pp 8-9. A statement from Bank of Ireland, 83 South Mall, Cork, is inserted into the volume and affirms that the fund's current account with the Bank was closed on 3 Oct. 1988.

Photographic stills from the Franco Zeffirelli film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, an examination of the life of St. Francis of Assisi. The images show St. Francis (played by Graham Faulkner) and St. Clare (played by Judi Bowker).

A glass stereo plate image of four women at the seaside cliffs known as Bridges of Ross, on the north side of the Loop Head peninsula in County Clare. A duplicate plate is extant at CA PH-1-36-A.

A collection of prints of Irish Capuchins in Zambia. Most of the prints have been annotated by Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap. (1931-2016). The file includes:
• Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. and Patrick Mayengo ‘with the Litunga, Ilute Yeta’ at the Ngonye Falls (or Sioma Falls) on the Zambezi River in Western Zambia. June 1981.
• Fr. Philip Baxter OFM Cap. near the bridge crossing to Zimbabwe.
• Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. with Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap.
• Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap. with Fr. George O’Connor OFM Cap. and the Most. Rev. Donal R. Lamont, O. Carm., Bishop of Umtali, Zimbabwe.
• Exterior view of Mangango Church (built by Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap.).
• Group photograph of Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap., Fr. Seán Cahill OFM Cap., Fr. Donat OFM Cap. (a Swiss friar), Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. and others at St. Bonaventure’s, Lusaka.
• Fr. Patrick Lynch OFM Cap. and Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Br. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap., Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap.
• Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. on the rope bridge built by the American Capuchins over the Zambezi River.
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. at Lukulu.
• Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap. (1931-2016) working as a welder with Sr. M. Matthew. It is noted that Sr. Matthew is from the Falls Road, Belfast.
• Br. Vianney Holmes OFM Cap. with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
• A Capuchin friar and a religious sister waiting alongside an aircraft in Zambia.
Note: The file includes a cover letter to Fr. Richard Hendrick OFM Cap. (26 Jan. 2010).

Clipping of an article from the 'Donegal Democrat' (30 Jan. 2002) referring to the golden jubilee of Br. Edward Dunne OFM Cap. (1930-2012). The article refers to his memories of the old Ard Mhuire Friary and to the fire in the house in December 1944. The file also includes a clipping from the 'Irish Catholic' (19 Feb. 2004) referring to the arrival of two European religious sisters of the Spiritual Family the Work (FSO) to assist the Capuchins at Ard Mhuire Retreat Centre in Donegal. With a photographic print of Sr. Christiane and Sr. Maria who are working in the diocese of Raphoe.

A soft-bound volume containing the the following pamphlets referring to the Irish Question:
• Report of the Labour commission to Ireland. A pamphlet publishing the findings of British Labour Party-sponsored commission on the Irish troubles. The chairman of the commission was Arthur Henderson, MP (1863-1935). Physical description: iv, 119, [1] pp : illus. (incl. plan, facsims.) ; 25 cm.
• The American Commission on conditions in Ireland: interim report. A pamphlet reporting the findings of an American Commission investigating the Irish troubles. The commission held public hearings in Washington, D.C., on 19-20 November, 9-23 December 1920 and on 13,14,19 and 21 January 1921. The chairman was noted as L. Hollingsworth. Published in London by Harding and Moore in 1921. Physical description: 72 pp.
• Who burnt Cork City? a tale of arson, loot, and murder; the evidence of over seventy witnesses. 1921. A pamphlet published by the Irish Labour Party and Trades Union Congress in January 1921. The work drew upon eye-witness evidence assembled by Seamus Fitzgerald which argued that the fires which had devastated Cork city on the night of 11 December 1920 had been deliberately set by British forces. Members of the fire service testified that their attempts to contain the blaze were hampered by soldiers who fired on them and cut their hoses with bayonets. Physical description: 68 p. illus.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume is annotated in gilt on the spine ‘Letters to Dr. Henebry / Vol. II’. The volume contains many letters from Heinrich Bewerunge, a German-born musicologist, and a Professor at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare. The letters from Bewerunge (1903-11) refer primarily to scholarship on church music. Many of the remaining letters relate to Henebry’s interactions with individuals connected with Conradh na Gaeilge and other organisations promoting the Gaelic Revival. The file includes letters from C. MacCarthy (Rob Roy Hotel, Queenstown, County Cork), Fr. Patrick Lynch (St. Wilfrid’s Church, Hulme, Manchester), P. Lonergan (County Waterford), Fr. Paul Kehoe (Mulrankin, Bridgetown, County Wexford), M. Crotty (9 Parnell Street, Waterford), J. Lennon (Dumore East, County Waterford), Fr. Thomas F. Furlong (Administrator, Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford), Seámus O Féihille (Riverquarter, County Kilkenny), Fr. James K. Fielding (Mooncoin, County Kilkenny), Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO, Canon John O’Mahony (Glenville, Crookstown, County Cork), John O’Meara (Barrack Hill, Clonakilty, County Cork), Fr. R. Little (Pairc-An-Tobair, Quin, County Clare), Tomás de Róiste (Conradh na Gaeilge, County Tipperary), Lillian Smiddy (Hampshire House, Adelaide Road, Kingstown), Michael Beary (Bridge Cottage, Mount Melleray, Cappoquin, County Waterford), M. J. Byrne (11 Princes’ Street, Tralee, County Kerry), E. Riordan (Isca Villa, Rushbrooke, County Cork), P.W. Kenny (Kingsmeadow House, Waterford), Dáithí Ó Dubháin, R.J. Brennan (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, County Kilkenny), James Walsh (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Eleanor Hull (Irish Texts Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Sister Benignus McGrath (Monastère du Bon Pasteur, Angers, France), Pádraig Ó Dálaigh (Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin), Margaret O’Reilly (The Irish Book Company, 4 D’Olier Street, Dublin), Vicar A. Suppiger (Lucerne, Switzerland), Patrick Delaney (Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Fr. M.F. Callanan (St. Columba’s Church, Durango, Colorado), Charlotte Milligan Fox (Irish Literary Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Patrick Healy, and Fr. John Doody (President, St. Kiernan’s College, Kilkenny). The file includes a letter (26 Apr. 1907) from Fr. Richard Henebry to his brother John Henebry, and letters to the latter conveying sympathies on the former’s death. A letter (in Irish) from Séamus Breathnach (Lismore, County Waterford) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the friar’s research on Henebry’s work is also extant in the volume (12 Sept. 1924).

A bound volume containing letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The spine is titled with the names of the correspondents in the volume. These are Sir Bertram Windle, Fr. Michael Sheehan, and Kuno Meyer (41 Huskission Street, Liverpool). Most of the letters in the volume are from Fr. Michael Sheehan and relate to Gaelic scholarship and Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. One of the letters from Kuno Meyer refers to Henebry’s tribute to the late Heinrich Zimmer (1851-1910), the German-born Irish language scholar (20 Feb. 1911). The volume also contains a copy of Henebry’s lengthy reply to Meyer. Henebry wrote ‘Now I will stand for no man to say which is untrue in order to vilify my religion and the religion of my people. Why import theological discussions into Keltics? The Grammatica Celtica was written by a Catholic. Read it through and you will fail to find a single reference to ‘Der relige Dr Martin Luther in it’ (28 Feb. 1911). The letters from Windle refer to matters relating to Henebry’s Professorship of Irish in University College Cork and to the latter’s declining health.