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Bound volume containing copy correspondence of the Most Rev. Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, with Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC, Capuchin Commissary General, relating to the proposed building of a new Capuchin church on North King Street and to a controversy with the clergy of St. Michan’s over the site of the proposed church.
• On 28 Dec. 1861, Fr. Lawrence wrote: ‘… finding it impossible to get other ground near the Chapel for the building of a convent unless on a lease of 30 years, all these reasons induced me to look for another place sufficiently large for a convent and chapel. This place I have succeeded in finding in North King Street (about 200 yards from our present Chapel) and is at present occupied by the houses numbered 47, 48, 49, 50. The persons in actual possession of these houses will give up their respective interest in them for the sum of £500’.
• In reply, Archbishop Cullen affirmed that he had no objection to the undertaking but feared that it would ‘very difficult to get money in these times of distress to carry out the vast enterprise in which you wish to engage …’. 3 Feb. 1862.
• A memorandum follows which notes that not long after the receipt of the aforementioned letter from Archbishop Cullen, the Capuchin friars ‘concluded a contract with Mr. [Patrick] Regan who held by lease the two houses of nos. 49 and 50 North King Street, agreeing to give him £350 for his interest in said lease … [and] the entire community came from 18 Queen Street, to dwell in the aforesaid houses …’. An agreement was also reached in respect of nos. 47 and 48 North King Street. c.July-Aug. 1862.
• On 25 Sept. 1862, Fr. Lawrence received a note from Archbishop Cullen enclosing a statement from the parish priest and curates of St. Michan’s protesting against the building of the projected North King Street Church. The statement averred that the diocesan clergy are ‘menaced with another loss in as much as the Capuchin Fathers are about to build a new Church in North King Street’ and asked ‘for protection of the Archbishop against this threatened injury’.
• In response, Fr. Lawrence informed the Archbishop that if the Capuchins were ‘compelled to discontinue the work we would not only sustain a loss of the above large sum, but we would also be obliged by our contract to pay the balance due which is about £1,200, while the premises under such circumstances would be comparatively valueless to use … in as much as a great portion of them has been already pulled down …’. 26 Sept. 1862.
• Fr. Lawrence later reminded the Archbishop that the Capuchins had been ‘canonically established in Dublin, in the locality of Church Street, and … continued there for the long period of 250 years’. He also referred to the ‘ruinous state’ of the old Capuchin Church on Church Street: ‘I, at the same time, caused professional men to inspect the Church and they told me that … if it were not rebuilt its tottering walls would cause the death of the faithful who attended it. Moreover, its site being for many years surrounded with every kind of filth … the air is very unhealthy more particularly in the summer … and, as everyone in Dublin is aware, it is the centre of every immorality, and is surrounded by the most barefaced prostitutes’. 7 Dec. 1862.
• Another short memorandum follows which notes that the Capuchins finished their new friary on North King Street and ‘every possible exertion was made to buy three yards extending to North Brunswick [Street] at the rear of the new Convent … with the intention of building the Church on the site of the said yards’. When this plan was frustrated by the opposition of a neighbouring landlord, Fr. Lawrence again petitioned Archbishop Cullen ‘about building the Church on the site originally proposed on North King Street’ and reminded him that ‘religious regularity cannot be carried out without the necessary accommodation’. He also stated the Capuchins ‘have no money to make a new purchase’ and asked the Archbishop to ‘advance us the sum which will come to us out of French funds at the death of Miss McNulty (who is at present upwards of 80 years of age)’. 16 Jan. 1864.
• Archbishop Cullen informed Fr. Lawrence that he would not oppose the building of a new church on ‘North Brunswick Street where the Carmichael School was’. He added: ‘I must say that I think the site is not one where a church was required, and that in the present distressed state of the country, and whilst some recent scandals are fresh in the minds of the people, there may be serious doubts, as to the raising of the funds’. 21 Feb. 1864.
The volume also contains a loose sheet titled ‘Notabilia … relating to the Capuchins of Dublin, written for the satisfaction of all’. c.July 1856. This two-page memorandum was probably written by Fr. Augustine Dunne OSFC (1833- 1860), secretary to the Commissary General of the Capuchins of Ireland. It refers to the Baron Hale bequest. The memorandum reads: ‘There is a bequest to the community of 100 pounds sterling left by the late Baron Hale, the 73 interest of which was always spent in the celebration of masses. … They have always been said up to the year 1855, but since that up to the present year 1856, they have been neglected’.
See the memorandum and notes compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. on the Baron Hale Bequest at CA CS/2/3/5.

Copy correspondence of Fr. Melchor a Benisa OFM Cap., Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., and Fr. Paschal Rywalski OFM Cap., General Ministers, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., and Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Provincial Ministers, re the status of the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa. Reference is made to the request made by Bishop John Colburn Garner, Vicar Apostolic of Pretoria, seeking more priests to work in South Africa (see CA AMI/1/6/7). Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. wrote: ‘We felt that this arrangement with Bishop Garner will lead to an expansion of our work in South Africa’ (21 Dec. 1948). The possibility of separating the mission in Cape Town from that in Rhodesia is also discussed (31 Oct. 1950). Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap. later referred to the establishment of Cape Town as a ‘separate mission’ and to the appointment of a Regular Superior (25 Nov. 1968). See also CA AMI/2/5/7.

Copy deed of conveyance from the FMC Trust, c/o Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, to Edward and Corann Loughlin, 31 Thorndale Drive, Malahide Road, Artane, Dublin 5, of all premises and property situated at the junction of Friary Street and Garden Row with the yard at the rear thereof held in fee simple and subject to the terms and conditions as set down in the fee farm grant (29 Oct. 1898) from Penelope H. Colles and others to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC and Fr. Fidelis Neary OSFC at an annual rent of £13 7s 8d. Consideration: £101,000. With draft copies, draft memorandum of agreement, draft conditions of sale and a blank memorial for registering the said deed in the Registry of Deeds.

Copy deeds, leases and solicitors’ correspondence relating to legal issues connected with the Father Mathew Hall property including of the purchase of the ground rent from Lord Congleton. The file includes copy correspondence from Sean Ó hUadaigh, solicitor, referring to the ‘plot of ground on which 11-15 May Lane formerly stood’ (20 Mar. 1969). Other correspondents include Montgomery and Chaytor, solicitors, 16-17 Clanwilliam Terrace, Grand Canal Quay, Dublin (relating to the title of the Merchant Tailors’ Charity to the Hall property); Frank Ward & Co., solicitors, Equity House, Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, regarding the purchase of the freehold interest by Stephen Ducie of 1 & 1A Nicholas Avenue from the Capuchin Order (11 Apr. 1994). These copy documents were probably prepared by solicitors to clarify title in respect of the Father Mathew Hall property and adjoining cottages.

Photostat copy of a diary compiled by Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. covering his experiences as a missionary in Northern Rhodesia. Periodic references are made to the extreme distances travelled between the missions and villages (‘returned by canoe down river’), and to accounts of masses said in the bush. Locations are frequently given in longitude and latitude measurements. It is noted that Fr. Timothy left Africa for Ireland on 24 June 1938 (p. 57).

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.

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Minute Book’. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the letters relate to contemporary political events while others refer to financial difficulties with the continued operation of the office (1953). Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Áine Ceannt, John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), James M.B. Wright, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Maurice D. Blunden (Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, County Wicklow), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair, includes references to conversations with Éamon de Valera), Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. John Quinlan (Killorglin, County Kerry), John English & Co. (printers), Cormac Breathnach, Margaret Mary Pearse, Hugh O’Hagan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Eric Boden, Robert Monteith, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Seámus Ó Mathúna (Youghal, County Cork), Helena Concannon, Br. Charles A. Lynam (Saint Patrick’s, Montgomery Place, New Rochelle, New York), Adolf Morath (photographer), Paul Hutton (Rochestown, County Cork), Joseph J. Carroll (Whitestone School, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia), Frank Fahy, Doran Hurley, Michael P. Albert (73rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Mildred McTiernan (1741 Newhall Street, San Francisco), John Desmond Sheridan, Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), Sister. M. Dolorine (Webster College, Missouri, United States), Michael A. Bowles, Seán MacBride (Roebuck House, Clonskea, Dublin), Sister M. Teresa Dymphna (Prioress, Mount Carmel Convent, Nairobi, Kenya), Johanna Coakley, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister Joseph Patrick (Sisters of Charity, St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, County Dublin), Sister M. Vincenzo (Dominican Convent, Muckross Park, Donnybrook, Dublin), Aileen O’Reilly, Patrick Duffy (Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Cathal O’Byrne, Fr. Robert Mageean CSSr, Diarmuid Breathnach, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Robert Brennan, Seamus Murphy, Tom Evans (Evans’ Towers Hotel, Glenbeigh, County Kerry), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Kevin MacGrath (Mespil Road, Dublin), D.L. Kelleher, Leonard J. Schweitzer, Denis Gywnn, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Pádraig De Brún, Michael O’Higgins, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seumas MacManus, Liam Brophy, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Vincent O’Connor (231 South Taylor Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois), Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Mannix Joyce, C.J. Woollen, James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), and J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the title page reads ‘Private Letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / 11 March 1949’. Includes references to the Captain Robert Monteith fund and contemporary politics. Other letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required lengthy periods of hospitalization in 1949 and in 1953) and to the serious debts accumulated by the Publications Office. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair,), Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, John J. O’Kelly (‘Sceilg’), Aodh de Blacam, Charles E. Kelly, Br. Colmcille Ó Conbhuidhe (Mellifont Abbey, Collon, County Louth), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., John Desmond Sheridan, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, H. Martin Hamilton, Bishop John Dignan, Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Doran Hurley, Adolf Morath (photographer), Thomas Francis O’Sullivan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Lennox Robinson, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Christopher T. Rooney, Frank E. Benner (Fruithill Park, Andersonstown, Belfast), Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Frank Gallagher (Glór Na Mara, Sutton, County Dublin), Ernest Newman, Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Bernard T. Hart (Brooklyn, New York), Monsignor Denis McDaid (Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Pádraig De Brún, Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), John MacCourt (Manitoba, Canada), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), John English & Co. (printers), Sister Augustine Murray (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Monsignor Hugh Finnegan (Saint Joseph’s, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan), Robert Monteith, Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Judge John J. Kelly (West Washington Street, Chicago), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap. (Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans), Eileen Crean, Frieda Le Pla, Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Winefride Nolan, Fr. John Ryan SJ (35 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Fr. Patrick Gannon SJ (Miltown Park, Dublin), Lily McCormack, Tomás S. Cuffe, Philip F. Roden (11a Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), D.L. Kelleher, Archbishop John D’Alton, Archbishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Benedict Kiely, J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin), Peter F. Anson, Thomas MacGreevy, Joan Hammond (referring to her reception into the Catholic Church) and Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap.

Includes: A long draft letter to Joseph O’Connor provides a description of Fr. Senan’s interview with Páraig ‘Paudeen’ Ó Caoimh, deputy military governor of Mountjoy prison in Dublin during the Civil War (1949); A letter to O’Connor affirms that Seán O’Casey ‘abominates everything a Catholic Irishman holds sacred’ (22 Nov. 1952); A letter to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, refers to the crippling amount of debt accumulated by the Capuchin Publications Office over the past twenty-five years. Fr. Senan wrote ‘for a good few years the yearly income amounts to £22,000 but unfortunately the outgoings in any given year amount to £24,000 or so’. He also confirms that the profits from the ‘Angelic Shepherd’ publication has failed to clear the office’s debt and asks for a new letter of authorization for the bank. He asks for Fr. Colman’s forgiveness and refers to his hope that assistance from ‘two wealthy American friends’ will help clear the debt (22 Apr. 1953); A letter to Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. refers the death of Maud Gonne MacBride. Fr. Senan wrote ‘She was terrific character. God rest her. I used to love to get her to tell the story of how she went to Spain, was it in 1907, to assassinate King Edward VII’ (28 Apr. 1953).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Letters – private and confidential / 1953’. Many of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required a lengthy period of hospitalization in 1953) and to the need to acquire additional members of the Association of Patrons of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Liam Brophy (Roebuck Road, Dundrum, County Dublin), Kevin MacManus, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Br. Colman O’Neill OP (Saint Mary’s, Tallaght, County Dublin), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork, refers to the souvenirs of Canon Patrick Sheehan which he obtained from the Presentation Convent in Doneraile which he promises to return, 22 June 1953), Ethel Mannin, John Henning (Sutton, County Dublin), Sister Mary Joseph SL (Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, Webster Groves, Missouri), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Ellen Murnane (41 East Main Street, Portland, Connecticut), Diarmuid Breathnach, Doran Hurley, Denis Gywnn, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap., Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Patrick Kennedy (St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada), Sister Gabriel (Maryknoll Sisters, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Fr. William F. Labadie OSA, Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Joan Hammond, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Fr. Henry McHenry (45 Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Kathleen O’Toole (Kiltegan, County Wicklow), Fr. William J. Fletcher (Sacred Heart Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin, refers to the ‘new statues’ on the façade of St. Mary of the Angels, 5 Sept. 1953, p. 126. Fr. Senan writes ‘Leo Broe has exaggerated some aspects of the figures but that is necessary, I’m afraid, when you consider how high up they will be sited’), Thomas MacGreevy, Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Richard King (refers to permissions sought to reproduce the Irish Saints’ postcard series published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’, 10 Sept. 1953, pp 131-2; another letter to King refers to his resignation as chief illustrator for the ‘Annual’, 14 Sept. 1953) and Fr. John Challis (Saint Joachim’s Presbytery, 122. Shepperton Road, Victoria Park, Western Australia).
The volume includes the text of a talk titled ‘Seventh Centenary of the death of Saint Clare’ (Aug. 1953, pp 53-5); a letter to the editor questioning the appointment of Milan Horvat as chief conductor of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra in 1953 (pp 68-70).

A notebook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters. The notebook was compiled while Fr. Senan was visiting England and receiving medical treatment in a clinic on Wimpole Street in London. Dr. Colm A. McDonnell accompanied him for a portion of his trip. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Private letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / June 1954 – September 1954’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Church Street Friary, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, Independent House, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, Rev. John O. Buchmann, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (refers to his sorrow on hearing that O’Hara will be leaving Ireland to take up a new diplomatic appointment in England. Fr. Senan also wrote ‘twenty-six years in an editor’s chair should be a stretch long enough for anyone’, 14/15 June 1954, pp 13-15), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Leo Smith (Dawson Gallery, Dublin), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Thomas MacGreevy, Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Bernard Sheppard, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. The volume includes pasted-in newspaper clippings and postcard prints mainly acquired while Fr. Senan was in England. The postcards include images of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Royal Family, and some views of Stoke-on-Trent.