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Programme card for the centenary celebrations of the inauguration of the temperance campaign by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC at Holy Trinity Church (presided over by the Most Rev. Daniel Colahan, Bishop of Cork) and at City Hall Cork (oration delivered by the Most Rev. Jeremiah Kinane, 1884-1959, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore).

Notes on the history of Holy Trinity Church, Cork, by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. from the laying of the foundation stone in October 1832 to circa 1856. Reference is made to the construction, financing and decoration of the Church. Some of the notes were copied from ‘an account book of the Cork community preserved in the Archives in Dublin’ (See CA HT/3/1/1). Also, a typescript copy of an article on the Church from 'Battersby’s Catholic Registry' (1851), p. 221.

Date: 1490
Author: John Duns Scotus (c.1266-1308); Gratianus Brixianus, ed. (d. 1506)
Publisher: Bernardinus Rizus Novariensis, Venice, 3 Mar. 1490
Full title: 'Secundus sententiarum doctoris subtilis Scoti'.
Language: Latin
Series: This title was issued by Rizo in five parts: 'Quaestiones In quatuor libros sententiarum' (Venice, 1490). The Irish Capuchin Archives has only vol. 2. Vol. I printed July 17; Vol. 2, Mar. 3; Vol. 3, Apr. 21; Vol. 4, Nov. 3; Vol. 5 (Tabula) undated. Vol. 1: 184 [i.e. 185], [1] leaves (the last blank); v. 2: 136 leaves; v. 3: 102 leaves; v. 4: 208 leaves; v. 5 (Tabula): [28] leaves.

Brochure advertising the sale of Ards House and Estate. The brochure has photographic prints of Sheephaven Bay, Ards House, and the associated workmen’s cottages. It is noted that the sale includes 2,000 acres. Ards House comprises a stone-built Georgian style residence with ‘six reception rooms, a billiard room, 19 principal bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a nursery suite, splendid servant’s quarters, ample garages and stabling, 20 cottages and beautiful pleasure grounds’. The brochure provides details on various facets of the property and notes that the owner (Lady Ena Stewart-Bam) ‘has been in negotiation with the Irish Land Commission, who are quite prepared to give every facility to an intending purchaser’. The agent is noted as Messrs Battersby & Co., 39 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. The brochure also notes:
• The sale of the historic ‘Doe Castle’ ruin with about 30 acres of demesne land.
• The potential sale of ‘furniture which includes some old and rare pieces and a valuable library’.
• That the ‘Ards Estate has been in the possession of the Stewart family for about 150 years. The first Stewart of Ards and the First Marquess of Londonderry were only brothers. The present head, Lady Stewart-Bam of Ards, is selling the property as her husband’s chief interests are in South Africa’.
• That the price for the freehold is £50,000 including sporting and fishing rights.

Photographic print of the Capuchin sale of work possibly in Father Mathew Hall on Church Street in Dublin. Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (1910-1977) and three women are present in the photograph. A manuscript annotation reads ‘Sacred Heart Stall, Capuchin Sale of Work’, 25th November 1944’

Photographic print of the High Altar and Sanctuary of St. Mary of the Angels during Mass. Ink-stamp on reverse reads: ‘Topical Photo News, 71 Dame Street, Dublin’.

Souvenir printed booklet with photographs of the exterior and interior of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The booklet includes photographs of:
‘The High Altar during forty hours’ adoration’.
‘The Interior showing gallery and organ’.
‘The Calvary adjoining Sacred Heart Chapel’.
‘The Interior of the Sacred Heart Chapel’.
The booklet includes a typescript insert which reads: ‘Stations of the Cross in Community Choir, Church Street, Dublin, were erected by V.R. Fr. Peter Bowe of Tullaroan, Guardian, December 17th 1900. Note to this effect on back of First Station’.

An original total abstinence pledge card of Thomas Kent dated 12 Apr. 1838. The card is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.

A pledge medal of the Dublin Total Abstinence Association dating to 1840. The front (face) shows the Good Shepherd. The outer-rim inscription reads ‘I have found the sheep that was lost Luke Chap. 15 v. 6’. The obverse has a cruciform text of the pledge and reads: ‘I have voluntarily promised in the presence of the Revd. Dr. Spratt to abstain from all spiritous liquors and intoxicating drinks except used medicinally and then by order of a medical man and the discountenance of all the vices and practices of intemperance and also to attend to my religious duties’. The outer-rim inscription reads ‘The Dublin Total Abstinence Pledge The Very Revd. Dr. Spratt Patron 1840’. The maker of the medal was J. Taylor.

Photographic print of a group of two men and three women. Two of the women may be the sisters Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse.