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Two statements of accounts. The first, dated 9 March 1912, is for the year ending 31 August 2911. The second is from 31 August 1911 to 29 February 1912.

File of draft letters regarding the question of transferring the administration of All Hallows College from the Vincentians to the Maynooth Mission for China, which was run by the Columbans, The suggestion came about due to the declining number of students, as well as the need of the Maynooth Mission for China for a major seminary for their own students. The letters show that the Vincentians do not want this transfer to take place. Some drafts are written by Father Thomas O'Donnell CM, Rector of All Hallows College, and there are contributions by Henry O'Connor CM, Provincial.

Two full-length portrait photographic prints of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., at the door to Rochestown College, Cork, prior to his departure for the United States in 1924. With a photographic print of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. with a friar and another unidentified lay individual at Rochestown.

The file includes a clipping reporting the ordination of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. in St. Mary’s of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin (Feb. 1902). With clippings re his involvement in ministering to the 1916 rebel leaders (including Seán Heuston), obituaries and tributes, and later the campaign to have his and Father Dominic’s O’Connor’s body repatriated to Ireland. The file includes clippings from the 'Kilkenny Journal', 'Kilkenny People', 'Cork Examiner' and 'Irish Press'.

A record by Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. of events between 30 April and 4 May 1916. Most of the memoir refers to his interaction with British military officers and his efforts to minister to the rebel leaders prior to their executions in Kilmainham Jail. The memoir begins: ‘I have been asked repeatedly to write out a detailed and connected account of my personal experiences, what I actually saw and did during the Rising. At length I have decided to comply with the request. I do so however not with the intention of ever publishing this report. … As I sit then at my desk here in the silence and solitude of my monastic cell in Dublin, fourteen weeks have elapsed since those eventful days. I take up my pen. …’.

Letter from Patrick J. MacNally, Commandant, Collins’ Barracks, Cork, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing a typescript copy of his unfinished account of the Easter Week Rising. Comdt. MacNally also encloses a rough sketch of the Church Street area upon which he asks Fr. Aloysius to ‘mark roughly the positions of any barricades you saw … [and] houses that were occupied’. He also attaches ‘a sketch of the Bride Street area … to enable you to fix the corner where you stood at the surrender of Eamonn Ceannt’.

Photographic prints of prize winners and staff of the Father Mathew Feis, Church Street. The photographs are undated and un-captioned but includes a prize-giving ceremony involving Br. Kevin Crowley OFM Cap.