A draft schema for the compilation of the Ard Mhuire Friary archives. The schema was devised by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and refers to some of the foundational documents which should be obtained and secured for safe keeping. Reference is made to documents from the Land Commission, correspondence with the Bishop of Raphoe and letters from the Capuchin General Minister re the establishment of a novitiate at Ard Mhuire.
Extracts by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from the Patent Rolls of James I (1611) and the Civil Survey (1654) re the occupiers of lands around Ards in County Donegal.
Extracts by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from John Windle’s (1801-1865) 'Historical and Descriptive Notes of the City of Cork and its Vicinity' relating to Cork parishes and Holy Trinity Church.
Biographical details compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Cork Capuchins. The document is titled ‘Vassy, 23rd April 1833’. Those named are: ‘James O’Leahy. Died in France, 22 January 1817; Thomas Chinnery. Received in Vassy, 3 November 1783. Information is also given in respect of Edward Nugent (from Dalytown, County Longford), Died in France, 1795; James Jones (from Dunshaughlin, County Meath) ‘Died in Dublin in 1805, whilst seeking priests to help in his missions’.
Transcript by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. of an appeal seeking support for a number of Capuchin friars ‘expelled under circumstances of peculiar hardship from the Nantes Convent’, as a result of the ‘policy of persecution adopted by the present French ministry’. The appeal may have been made in circa 1880. The appeal refers to the need to expand Holy Trinity Friary, and to ‘the heavy charge of forty religious actually dependent on a house, already full and heavily weighted with a large ground rent for Church and Convent and with building work on hand’. Subscriptions are to be directed to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC, Commissary General, Mr. Thomas Lyons, JP, Passage West, and others. The original printed appeal is extant in a volume at CA HT/7/20.
List compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. of the Capuchin community in the time of Fr. Theobald Mathew’s guardianship of the Cork house. Those named are: Fr. Francis O’Donovan OSFC; Fr. Augustine Burke OSFC; Fr. Patrick Mooney OSFC; Fr. Angelus Power OSFC; Fr. Louis O’Riordan OSFC; Fr. Vincent MacLeod OSFC; Fr. George Brennan OSFC; Fr. Aloysius O’Connell OSFC; Fr. Laurence O’Flynn OSFC; Fr. Joseph O’Reilly OSFC; Fr. Louis Connolly OSFC. Undated, but the list probably relates to 1840-50.
Notes by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on Fr. Lewis Reardon [var. Fr. Louis O’Riordan OSFC] and Fr. Vincent MacCleod OSFC, described as ‘the only Capuchins in Cork in 1854’, and on other members of Capuchin community in Cork in the nineteenth century.
A short history by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. of the Capuchin community in the late nineteenth century. Fr. Angelus refers to the Cork house being ‘staffed by Italian Friars. The Superior in 1873 was the Very Rev. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC who had been there since 1868’. Fr. Angelus notes that the Cork and Rochestown houses were restored to the Irish Capuchin Custody in 1875.
List of deeds and leases (compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC) relating to property held by the Capuchins in Cork. The list includes deeds dating from 2 Nov. 1832 (see CA HT/2/1/2/10) to 8 Mar. 1880 (see CA HT/2/1/2/23).
A report titled ‘housing in Dublin’ by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. referring to the corporation-sponsored Church Street and Beresford Street Improvement Schemes. Fr. Angelus refers to the history of Capuchin involvement in the campaign for housing improvement in the areas around Church Street. He wrote: ‘The Capuchins were directly responsible for the improvements that began in 1890, when Father Columbus [Maher] erected the Father Mathew Hall. Later on Father Nicholas [Murphy] obtained possession of the area extending from the Hall down to the Church. This was a very insanitary area, with a number of courts and alleys of ill-repute. It is now occupied by an extension of the Hall and by the garden attached to the Capuchin Friary. Reference is also made in the report into the Church Street Tenement Disaster of September 1913. This article was published in 'The Father Mathew Record', Vol. 27, No. 8 (Aug. 1934), pp 407-16.
