Notebook belonging to Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. detailing the monies received from rebels who occupied the Four Courts during the Rising. An annotation on the inside cover reads: ‘The following is a list of the money I got from the boys at the Four Courts. Also the receipts the different people who came afterwards to claim them. Fr. Columbus Murphy’. Most of the (penciled) entries refer to personal belongings given to Fr. Columbus for safekeeping by various rebels and to monies and effects later distributed to relations by the Capuchin priest. Entry on page 4 reads: ‘Received three cheques from Fr. Columbus with thanks. June 29th, [19]16, Mrs Mellows. Gave two cheques and one lodgement order. Fr. Columbus’.
Notes compiled by John O’Connell (1843-1905), a grandson of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’. The book contains accounts of various Provincial Chapters of the Capuchin Order in Ireland, records of personnel changes in various Capuchin communities, and notes on meetings and other activities of the Third Order of St. Francis in Kilkenny. Records include membership and ordination lists. Newspaper cuttings are pasted into the volume. A photographic print of the Capuchin Friary at Rochestown in also extant in the volume. A partial index is also given: • List of Third Order Brothers in 1895 • List of Third Order Novices in 1897 • List of Third Order Novices in 1898 • Members of Council in 1895 • Collectors on Feast days • Canopy and Banner bearers • Monthly collectors • Portinuncula arrangements • Capuchin Chapter, 1898 • Third Order election, 1898 • Immaculate Conception and Christmas Arrangements, 1898 • List of Third Order Brothers for 1899 • Ordinations • Appointment of a Commissary Visitor to Third Order branches in England • Vergers and collectors, Holy Thursday • Sunday and Holiday collectors • List of Third Order brothers in 1902 A list is given on page 21 of ‘students who left the convent in Kilkenny … for Church Street, Dublin, about the ninth of April 1900, received the tonsure and minor orders on Saturday, 22nd September 1900’. The list includes the names of Brothers Sylvester Mulligan, Angelus Healy, Stanislaus Kavanagh and Albert Bibby’.
Notebooks and copybooks compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on the history of the Capuchins in Kilkenny. The books contain fragmentary notes on significant events and friars associated with the Capuchins in Kilkenny including chronologies, transcripts from old texts, foundation documents and local newspapers and biographical details on friars. The copybooks also include notes relating to: • The building of the new Capuchin Friary on Walkin Street (1848) by Fr. Peter Joseph Mulligan OSFC. • Transcripts of epitaphs on the tombs of Capuchin friars in Kilkenny • Biographical notes on Fr. Fidelis (Peter) O’Rourke OSFC and Fr. J.P. O’Reilly OSFC (including notes re his missionary work in New Zealand) • Notes on the construction of ‘the new organ built by Messrs White & Sons, Dublin, erected in the Church of St. Francis by Rev. P.J. Mulligan OSFC on Sunday, October 28th 1849’.
Notecards compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on various aspects of Fr. Mathew’s life and his temperance campaign. Some of the note cards are given subject-headings including ‘Education’, Franciscanism’, ‘Poverty’, ‘Intemperance’, ‘appearance of Fr. Mathew’, and ‘Fr. Mathew’s ideas on capital punishment’.
Notes and suggestions on temperance legislation compiled by J.P. Dunne, a member of the Catholic Total Abstinence Federation and a former secretary of the Irish Industrial League and executive member of the Dublin Trades’ Council (DTC). The report was submitted to the commission for enquiry into the liquor traffic in Saorstát Éireann
Notes by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. on various aspects of Fr. Mathew’s life and ministry. The notes were prepared for Fr. Nessan’s thesis on Father Mathew and were arranged under the following headings: • Genealogy • Family of Fr. Theobald Mathew • Intemperance before 1838 / Chapter IV • Ireland / Nineteenth Century / Political / Chapter II • Nineteenth-century Repeal movement • Fr. Mathew’s pecuniary embarrassments • Effects of his temperance campaign • ‘Father Mathew / the Man’ • Work aside from temperance • Total Abstinence Campaign / Chapter VI • Temperance / Progress / Difficulties / Testimonies
Notes seemingly compiled by William Woodlock on matters pertaining to the reform of the Dublin Police and the Court Magistracy service. Some of the notes refer to more general legal matters and to extracts from historical state papers regarding procedures for the appointments of Irish judges and magistrates. Some of the notes take the form of letters. An extract from one of the letters reads ‘The Dublin Police District, besides the city of Dublin proper, comprises the large and daily increasing suburbs of Rathmines, Rathgar, Kingstown, Dalkey, Killiney, and the Pembroke Township. Rathmines and Rathgar in reality form a city of themselves: Kingstown, I need scarcely say is a seaport of some importance, and one of the most frequented gathering places, if not the most frequented watering place in Ireland’. The letters contain recitations and extracts from various Acts of Parliament relating to the administration of the magistracy and courts system in Dublin.
Notes compiled by William Woodlock referring to the life and work of the Irish writer, poet, and lyricist Thomas Moore (1779-1852). A letter from James Merriman, stock and share broker, 32 College Green, Dublin, to William Woodlock (26 February 1886) is extant on the reverse of one of the pages. An incomplete filer seeking funding for the Mater Misericordia Hospital in Dublin is extant on one of the other pages.
Notes from the Cork House Account Book compiled by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC. The volume is titled ‘Notes regarding the Irish Capuchin Province and especially things transacted at Cork from 1825’. The period covered is 22 July 1825 to 14 June 1874. The file includes brief biographical notices re: • Br. Innocent Mahoney OSFC • Fr. Anthony Foot OSFC • Br. Patrick Feeny OSFC • Fr. Jeremiah Joseph O’Reilly OSFC • Fr. Francis Murphy OSFC • Fr. John Mary Brennan OSFC • Fr. Louis Riordan OSFC • Fr. Louis O’Connell OSFC • Fr. Francis McSweeney OSFC The original Cork House Account Book is at CA HT/3/1/1.
Notes from Frank Cullen, prisoner no. 135, to his brother Tom and to his mother, mostly referring to prison conditions. He informs his brother that a photograph of ‘poor John J. Heuston which his sister Theresa sent me about a fortnight ago’ was confiscated. ‘I was told that the photograph was of one of the men executed in Dublin and they could not give it to me … you see we are not allowed to have the photograph of an Irishman in our cells who gave his life for his country’. He asks both his brother and mother to remember him to his various friends at home.
