Programmes for the Father Mathew Feis, Church Street. The printed programmes include timetables and syllabuses of competitions, souvenir publications and official prize lists. The programmes list the dates and times of the competitions and the names of the various judges and adjudicators. The adjudicators at the 1913 Feis included Sinéad Ní Fhlannagáin (1878-1975) and Seán S. Ó Ceallaigh (otherwise known as ‘Sceilg’, 1872-1957). Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a literary judge at the 1910 Feis. The programmes for 1909 and 1911 are copy prints from 'The Father Mathew Record'. Programmes for the following years are not extant in the file: 1912; 1932-39.
Statement of purchase money paid (by Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC and others) in respect of properties on Bow Street and Brown Street referred to in the original leases of 20 April 1842 and 11 May 1843.
Conveyance of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC and other Capuchin friars, of premises on Church Street and Bow Street (including Father Mathew Hall).
Lease by Jonathan Lynch, Roscrea, County Tipperary, cutler, to James Finegan, Carter’s Lane, dairyman, of a piece of ground on the north side of Carter’s Lane for 91 years at the yearly rent of £11 7s 6d.
Will and testament of William Lynch. He appoints his sons George and Gilbert to be his sole heirs to his estate including a dairy yard and three houses opposite Smithfield in the possession of Mr. Purfield and subject to an annual rent of ten guineas.
Conveyance by George Lynch, Ulverton House, Dalkey, County Dublin, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Church Street, Dublin, of an old dwelling house and yard situated on the north side of Carter’s Lane in consideration of £144.
Lease by Arthur Coates, 63 Hanover Street, Manchester, to James O’Gorman, Westland Row, Dublin, of a plot of ground situated on the south side of the Grand Canal leading from Harold’s Cross Bridge to Portobello Barracks in the parish of St Peter, Dublin, for the residue of a lease (dated 9 Aug. 1825) of 99 years at the yearly rent of £11 7s 6d.
List of members of the Capuchin community, Church Street. Sixteen priests and four lay brothers are noted. The list includes Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC, Fr. Sebastian O’Brien OSFC, Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC, Vicar, and. Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC. The debt of the community is stated to be £746 1s 11d. It was noted that this figure represents a decrease on the figure of £1,314 6s 7d referred to in the Provincial Chapter of 1907. The property is listed as ‘church, monastery, garden (about 1 acre)’ with an annual rent of £166 9s 0d. Four lots are held freehold and nine lots under lease. Figures are also supplied in the respect of male and female members of the sodalities attached to St. Mary of the Angels including the Third Order of St. Francis, and the Sacred Thirst and the Scared Heart fraternities.
Scale: 20 feet to 1 inch Plan of premises at 21 Bow Street demised to the Capuchin friars drawn by C. Carmody, C.E., 29 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin. The plot is bounded to north by 22 Bow Street, a passage way and a school house, and to the east by the Chapel Yard and Curtins’ Yard. The frontage onto Bow Street measures 38 feet 4 inches. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘map of premises on Church Street upon part of which the Church Street Chapel is built’.
