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An original total abstinence pledge card of [Con] Boyle dated 23 May 1841. The certificate is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.

A framed photograph of John McCormack (1884-1945), the Irish tenor, dedicated to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. It is signed by his wife, Lily McCormack, and dated 1946.

An Italian newspaper containing an article by Donal McHales, General Consular and Agent of the Irish Republic, concerning the ‘atrocities’ committed by Belfast Protestants upon Irish Catholics and nationalists. (p. 2).

Flier for Brian Boru Fete and prize draw ‘to reduce a heavy debt of £3,800’ on Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The first prize is a pony trap and harness, ‘a gift of a friend (the harness, a gift of J. Donnelly, North King Street)’.

'Hymn to St. Columcille', performed in Father Mathew Hall for the ‘celebration of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin’. The manuscript annotation appears to be in the hand of Fr. Albert Bibby OSFC.

Photographic print of Mrs Belton, wife of Jack Belton, Lord Mayor of Dublin, opening the Capuchin Foreign Missions’ sale of work in Father Mathew Hall. The group includes Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. and Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap.

Manuscript annotation on reverse reads: ‘Gen. Richard Mulcahy T.D., Minister for Education, speaking on the occasion of the opening of Feis Maitiú, Easter Sunday, 1955’. Pasted onto annotated card: ‘Independent Newspapers Ltd.’

Lease of Henry William Parnell, 3rd Baron Congleton, and Colonel Henry Parnell, to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC of a plot of ground extending from Bow Street to Church Street for 300 years at the yearly rent of £30. The deed has a coloured map showing the property referred to in the lease.

A blank notice of affiliation certifying that a branch of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade, known as ‘St. Peter’s Battalion’, has been established in the Parish of St. Peter’s, Belfast. The certificate notes that the battalion has been affiliated to the central organisation at Church Street, Dublin.

Report of the Housing Committee presented to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin. The report relates to awards of compensation to tenement dwellers in the Beresford Street and Church Street areas. The report also submits a ‘revised scheme for workmen’s dwellings’ at these locations. The report was submitted by C.J. Murray, Chairman of the Committee, City Hall, Dublin. The pamphlet is paginated pp 59-66. A coloured plan for the area is appended to the publication. The explanatory note extant on the plan reads: ‘This plan provides for No. 24, Four Roomed Houses; No. 98 Three Roomed Houses; No. 34, Two Roomed Cottages. Total, 156’. Scale: 60 feet to 1 inch.