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Listing compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC of the dates of temperance missions and the numbers taking the pledge in various parishes including Ballinrobe, Westport, Louisburgh, Clare Island, Clonmel and Kells. Remarks are also included in relation to the existence of a temperance hall and the names of the Capuchin friars involved in the mission.

Lists of pledge-takers in the parish of Schull in County Cork. The lists include those who took the pledge under the parish priest, Fr. John O’Connor. The second list identifies those who took the pledge for life or for one year, and the names of the Young Irish Crusaders.

Draft report (28 Feb. 1907) by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC (1857-1939), Provincial Minister, on the work of the first year of the National Temperance Crusade led by the Capuchin friars. The report was compiled for Fr. Bernard Christen of Andermatt OSFC, Minister General of the Capuchin Order in Rome. With a cover letter (21 May 1907) from Fr. Paul and a manuscript copy of Fr. Bernard’s reply. The report reads:
‘The Irish Bishops confided this National Crusade to us in October 1905 … but the preaching of the Crusade did not practically begin before January 1906. … The preaching of this Temperance Crusade was specially carried out by twelve of our Fathers, who have been almost constantly engaged during the time. Their labours in the parishes partook much of the character of short missions or spiritual exercises, sometimes for three days, other times a week, and not infrequently a fortnight’.
The report also includes testimonials from various Irish bishops and other prominent figures commending the work of the Capuchin friars in leading the temperance crusade.

Draft untitled poem by Thomasina Mackey. The first line reads ‘A decade since we / I was afraid to find / friendship devoured by time …’.

Poem by Henri Percikow, 509 West 155th Street, New York, titled ‘My Hands’. The attached cover suggests that this poem was ‘not used’.

A draft text by Fr. Richard Henebry on a vellum manuscript held in the Royal Irish Academy. The text appears to be an astronomical and medical text (catalogued as MS B ii 1) dating to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Henebry refers to the frontispiece of this text which contains an ‘astronomical rotula with a moveable index, containing [the] names of the Signs of the Zodiac and the planets in Latin; also the names of the months and the numeral figures’.

‘The nationalisation of Irish education / by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey / Professor of Irish, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth / Vice-President of the Gaelic League’. Published in Dublin (Gaelic League Pamphlets – No. 27).