Notes by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on Robert Wilkinson, a liberal-Protestant Alderman of Kilkenny who accompanied Fr. Peter Joseph Mulligan OSFC as he passed ‘through Walkin Street on his penny-a-week collection'. Reference is also made to Rev. Peter Roe, Minister of St. Mary’s, who sharply criticised Wilkinson for his ‘espousal of Popery’, and to the history of the Walkin Street Friary in the early to mid-nineteenth century.
A draft schema for the compilation of the Ard Mhuire Friary archives. The schema was devised by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and refers to some of the foundational documents which should be obtained and secured for safe keeping. Reference is made to documents from the Land Commission, correspondence with the Bishop of Raphoe and letters from the Capuchin General Minister re the establishment of a novitiate at Ard Mhuire.
A short history by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. of the Capuchin community in the late nineteenth century. Fr. Angelus refers to the Cork house being ‘staffed by Italian Friars. The Superior in 1873 was the Very Rev. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC who had been there since 1868’. Fr. Angelus notes that the Cork and Rochestown houses were restored to the Irish Capuchin Custody in 1875.
Extracts by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from John Windle’s (1801-1865) 'Historical and Descriptive Notes of the City of Cork and its Vicinity' relating to Cork parishes and Holy Trinity Church.
List of deeds and leases (compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC) relating to property held by the Capuchins in Cork. The list includes deeds dating from 2 Nov. 1832 (see CA HT/2/1/2/10) to 8 Mar. 1880 (see CA HT/2/1/2/23).
Photographic print of the graves of Fr. Martin St. John (d. 6 Oct. 1780) and Fr. Bryan McDonell (d. 3 July 1782) who were buried alongside Fr. Philip Forestall OFM (d. Dec. 1829) in St. John’s Old Churchyard, Dublin Road, Kilkenny. The print is annotated on the reverse in the hand of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.: ‘Graves of two OFM Caps and one OFM in graveyard, St. John’s, Maudlin Street, Kilkenny’. With a plan and notes re said plot by Fr. Angelus. See newspaper cutting re the modern refurbishment of these gravestones ('Kilkenny People', 13 June 2003) at CA KK/11/26.
A history of the Capuchins in Kilkenny by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC. The text covers the period from the arrival of the Order in the city in 1643 to about 1825. The text includes transcripts and extracts from contemporary sources including: • The petition of the Capuchins in Kilkenny to the General Assembly of the Irish Catholic Confederation [c.1645/6]. In Latin. • Reply of the General Assembly of the Irish Catholic Confederation ‘fully admitting the Capuchins to establish themselves as members of the regular clergy in Ireland …’. [c.1645/6]. In Latin. • Letters and petitions from the Franciscans and Dominicans to the Most Rev. David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory stating their opposition to the establishment by the Capuchins of a foundation in Kilkenny. [c.1647]. In Latin. • Letter from Fr. Inocencio de Caltagirone OSFC, Minister General of the Capuchin Order, to Fr. Barnabas Barnewall OSFC, Commissary General, Kilkenny, reporting on the favourable conduct of the Capuchins in Ireland. 22 Apr. 1650. In Latin. • Extracts from The Laffan Papers re the Capuchins in Kilkenny (1689). • Declaration of the state of the Irish Capuchin mission signed by Fr. Cyprian of Armagh. 1 Dec. 1689. • Report on the state of the Diocese of Ossory sent to Propaganda Fide, Rome. 1769.
A report titled ‘housing in Dublin’ by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to the corporation-sponsored Church Street and Beresford Street Improvement Schemes. Fr. Angelus refers to the history of Capuchin involvement in the campaign for housing improvement in the areas around Church Street. He wrote: ‘The Capuchins were directly responsible for the improvements that began in 1890, when Father Columbus [Maher] erected the Father Mathew Hall. Later on Father Nicholas [Murphy] obtained possession of the area extending from the Hall down to the Church. This was a very insanitary area, with a number of courts and alleys of ill-repute. It is now occupied by an extension of the Hall and by the garden attached to the Capuchin Friary. Reference is also made in the report into the Church Street Tenement Disaster of September 1913. This article was published in 'The Father Mathew Record', Vol. 27, No. 8 (Aug. 1934), pp 407-16.
Draft resolution forwarded by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC, Vice-President, Father Mathew Hall. Fr. Angelus suggest that the resolution ‘asks two things … first to endorse the work of the Irish Temperance Association and secondly to appeal for further financial support to enable the Hall Committee to extend their temperance propaganda’. The resolution refers to efforts to curtail the sale of alcohol on Sundays. The report notes that ‘we have Sunday drinking not in the interest of the public but in the interest of the publican’.
Notes by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on Fr. Lewis Reardon [var. Fr. Louis O’Riordan OSFC] and Fr. Vincent MacCleod OSFC, described as ‘the only Capuchins in Cork in 1854’, and on other members of Capuchin community in Cork in the nineteenth century.
