Deeds, correspondence and related legal documents concerning negotiations for the purchase of premises on Walkin Street (later Friary Street) by the Capuchin Order. The principal vendor and fee farm grant holder was the Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson (Church of Ireland Rector of Ballymoney, County Cork). Some of Robinson’s relations also had interests in the properties. The file relates primarily to the protracted negotiations for the purchase, and to efforts to trace title to the properties (Robinson had inherited the fee farm grant of rents accruing from the premises through his mother, Margaret Anne, a daughter of Captain James Montgomery Blair). Reference is also made to various mortgages on the properties and to the original fee farm grant of 1705 made by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde. The Capuchins eventually secured the property in 1919 for £650 (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/13). The final conveyance contained a covenant by the vendor to indemnify the property transferred against all rents accruing out of any other premises which he continued to hold on Walkin Street.
The exterior of the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’ public house near Athlone in County Westmeath in about 1930. Built in 1830, this bar was named after the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’, a public house that provided the setting for Oliver Goldsmith’s well-known play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’, written in 1773.
A view of the town of Ennis in County Clare in about 1940. The photograph was taken from the bell tower of the old Franciscan Friary located on Abbey Street in the town.
An image of St. Anthony’s Church, Paharganj, in Delhi (now New Delhi) in India. The caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘The new church of St. Anthony, Paharganj, Delhi, which was built by the late Archbishop of Simla [Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap.] – his last instructions before leaving for Europe in 1946’.
An image of Holy Family Hospital in Delhi (now New Delhi) in India. A caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Holy Family Hospital under the care of the Medical Missionaries’.
A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. She refers to a letter of introduction she wrote for a 'Rumanian' who is seeking work in Ireland teaching French.
A scene on Inishmaan (Inis Meáin), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Inishmaan'.
