Abstract of title of Joseph Empson Esq. to the house and premises on Walkin Street commonly called ‘The Munster Arms’, parish of Saint Mary, Kilkenny City. The abstract commences with a recital of a lease (dated 8 Apr. 1769) by William Colles to George Chapman of the said house for three lives at the yearly rent of £14 10s (see CA KK/2/1/1/1/1). The abstract concludes with a reference to an assignment of lease (dated 5 May 1893) by Frederick Reynell Pack to Joseph Empson Esq. of the said house and premises for ever at the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d. Endorsed on title page: ‘Abstract prepared on the sale by Joseph Empson Esq. to Reverend F.M Neary and Reverend Thomas O’Connor completed by conveyance dated 1 Aug. 1895. Joseph Empson Esq., 1st part, Mrs M.H. Doxey, 2nd part, Rev. F.M Neary OSFC and another, 3rd part’.
Conveyance from Joseph Empson Esq., Glenageary, Kingstown, County Dublin (with the approval of Memmette H. Doxey, personal representative of the late Arthur Joshua Boyd) to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC and Fr. F.M. Neary OSFC, Roman Catholic clergymen, Walkin Street, Kilkenny of the house and concerns on Walkin Street formerly known by the name of ‘The Munster Arms’ in consideration of £300 and subject to the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d.
Letter from Rev. John Doody, President, St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC (d. 25 Mar. 1918) regarding the employment of a Mr. McNamara to give lessons to a Capuchin novice.
Specification by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of work to be done and materials to be used in the carrying out of the proposed new aisle, porches, and extension to the nave at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
Review of 'The Capuchin Annual' (1937) published in the 'Irish Times' (28 Dec. 1936). The review has a reproduction of a pencil portrait of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. by Seán O’Sullivan. The review remarks that ‘it is a fine volume, and the distinguished editor, Father Senan, has given us one of the brightest magazines of the season’.
Clipping from the 'Catholic Standard' (9 Feb. 1973) of an article titled ‘The missions are still necessary’. The article includes a photograph of Sr. Agnes Manifold, an Irish-born Medical Missionary of Mary.
Off-print copy of 'Padna / The Story of a Corn-Porter' by D.L. Kelleher (1924). It is noted that ‘Padna’ is a version of ‘Cork’s Own Town’, originally published in 1920.
Offprint of an article by Burke Wilkinson titled ‘Erskine Childers / The Boston Connection’. The article was originally published in the 'Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society', 86 (1974), pp 53-63.
