Register of mass celebrants at St. Mary of the Angels. The title page is annotated: ‘Commenced, January 1st 1959, Fr. Virgilus Murtagh OFM Cap., Guardian … Convent of Our Lady of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin’. A typescript memorandum re ‘fixed intentions’ at masses said by the Church Street community is pasted onto the reverse of the title page.
Register of masses at St. Mary of the Angels. Totals of masses celebrated for the Minister General, for Brothers, for benefactors and for suffrages are given at the end of each month.
Mass register recording the number of masses said by various community members at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Monthly totals are also provided in respect of the number of masses said for benefactors, brothers, the General Curia and jubilarians. The entries are periodically signed and endorsed by the Provincial Bursar.
Letters and related records relating to the lease of Father Mathew Hall, Cork, by the Everyman Group Theatre Company. The agreement with the Company specified a lease for five seasons (October-April) commencing in November 1972 with a ‘view to increasing the occupancy of the Hall’. The Everyman Playhouse Ltd. agreed to have exclusive use and management of the Hall except during the period when the Feis Maitiú would be held. The file includes letters from Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap., Edmund Hayes, solicitor, draft and copy agreements re the lease and reports of the meetings of the representatives appointed by the Capuchin Provincial Definitory to negotiate with the Everyman Company. With a newspaper cutting from the 'Evening Echo' (6 Oct. 1972) titled ‘The Realisation of a Theatre “Dream”’ referring to the co-operative spirit of the Capuchin friars who agreed to a lease of the Hall ‘that covers the auditorium, offices and dressing rooms, but not the recreational rooms on the top floor’. The file also includes a copy page from 'The Father Mathew Record', 49, no. 12 (Dec. 1956), p. 7, giving a history of the Hall in Cork.
Letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Cork, from Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, asking him to convey his thanks to the Father Mathew Players in Cork for putting on a pantomime in aid of the Capuchin missions in Africa. Fr. Killian writes: ‘You have helped supply us with the funds that put up stations, churches and schools and their furnishing. So your loyal assistance in the missions of Barotseland by solid buildings which will yet be the centres of a Catholic country’.
