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A mall pouch annotated on spine with ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / X’. The pouch contains letters to Father Rope from Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, editor of ‘The Month’ from 1912 to 1939. ‘The Month’ was a Catholic review magazine published by the English Province of the Society of Jesus. The letters refer to literary matters and contributions by Father Rope to the periodical.

A bound volume containing colour postcard images of scenic locations around Ireland, mostly in County Kerry. Includes various scenes around Killarney. The volume also includes postcards of Croagh Patrick in Mayo and an image of the control tower at Shannon Airport in County Clare. All the postcards have manuscript notes on the reverse by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The notes appear to be draft letters written by Fr. Senan to his secretary Mollie Baxter in circa 1953. There are duplicate postcards, and some are loose within the volume.

Bound volume containing newspaper clippings providing accounts of the tenement collapse and the subsequent funeral and burial of the seven victims. The clippings also give lists of subscribers to the relief fund established after the disaster. The volume also contains a manuscript list of twenty-seven Capuchin friars at St. Marys of the Angels, Church Street, at Rochestown College, and at Father Mathew’s (Holy Trinity) Church in Cork. The list is headed by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, ‘the Lord Mayor’s Chaplain’. The list also includes Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, ‘superior of Fr. Mathew’s Church, Cork’, and Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, President, Rochestown College, Cork. The volume also contains a manuscript list of people with private addresses in the environs of Church Street and North King Street. The list also notes ‘Father Mathew Hall’ for all the signatories. This may be a list of members of a religious sodality or, alternatively, a list of subscribers to the Tenement Disaster fund.

Quest books of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. and Br. Ignatius Murphy OFM Cap., questors, Capuchin Friary, Church Street. Entries in the books are made under the headings of street (mainly Dublin City), persons, family or business occupying the dwelling and the annual amount donated. Occasional reference is made to the dates of the quest and to the presence of a ‘non-Catholic’ family on a particular street. In one particular book, Fr. Henry drew a sketch map of the area which he was assigned (Dublin Southeastern Area) and included an index of streets, quays and businesses thereon. Another book has an insert of an appeal made by the Capuchin friars on behalf of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Dec. 1964.

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A bound volume titled ‘Book No. 2 / Blocks on Hand’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The block prints are listed by box number and other locations in the Capuchin Publications' office. The volume appears to have originally been used to list names, addresses and amounts subscribed (possibly for the Third Order of St. Francis Sodality, or the Association of Patrons of 'The Capuchin Annual'). The volume includes the following copy prints:
• Cardinal József Mindszenty (1892-1975), Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary.
• Drawings by Richard King.
• Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
• The Most Reverend Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi and Simla.
• Consecration of Monsignor Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone by the Most Rev. Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio, at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 September 1950.
• Francis P. Matthews, Ambassador of the United States to Ireland.
• Powerscourt House, South William Street, Dublin.
• St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare.
• Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (1904-1989), Irish Capuchin Mission Secretary.
• Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. (1893-1977), Master of Novices, with newly professed friars in Rochestown, County Cork.

A bound volume containing five printed copies of block pulls for illustrations by Richard King for 'The Capuchin Annual' (1942). Includes images of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Patroness of the Third Order of St. Francis, and a block pull for Our Lady of Dublin printed at p. 85 in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1942).

A bound volume containing printed copies of block pulls for illustrations in 'The Capuchin Annual' and in 'The Father Mathew Record'. The volume is a re-used Hely’s Scribbling Diary for 1939. The images are numbered and (in some instances) dated. The volume includes many images of the artwork of Richard J. King, Christmas scenes, and photographs of various Irish Capuchin friars including Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap.