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Agreement of Fr. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Fr. Jarlath Thomas Hynes, OSFC and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, Cork (the vendors), with Joseph Sullivan, King Street, Cork, merchant, for the residue of a term of 800 years granted in a lease from Joseph King to John Reynolds, dated 28 Feb. 1805, at the yearly rent of £34 2s 6d. The agreement is subject to certain legal stipulations and covenants including the requirement to keep the top garret and second floor windows which overlook the ‘recreation gardens of the vendors fitted with muffed and ribbed glass’. See also CA HT/2/1/1/27.

Agreement by Crosse and Blackwell Ltd., with Rev. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC, Rev. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Rev. Jarlath (Thomas) Hynes OSFC and Rev. Augustine (John) Hayden OSFC to take down a wall and construct windows at the rear of a premises occupied by Father Mathew Hall, Queen Street, Cork.

Author: Seán Ua Ceallaigh (1872-1957)
Publisher: Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: MacGuill
Language: Irish
Full title: 'Beatha an Athar Tiobóid Maitiú /ó láimh Sheáin Uí Cheallaigh / maille le réamhrádh ó láimh An Athar Aguistín'
Ink stamp reads: ‘Father Mathew Memorial Hall, Church Street, Dublin’.
The text has an Introduction in English by Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954).

The fonds consists of the correspondence and papers of Capuchin friars detailing their involvement with participants in the national struggle. The majority of the material dates from 1916-1925 and includes many records highlighting the roles played by Irish Capuchins in ministering to republican leaders and their relations. Of particular interest is a large collection of prison letters including the correspondence of some of the leading figures of the Irish Revolution. The fonds also contains a large collection of republican publicity material, newspapers and miscellaneous items of ephemera and artefacts mostly relating to the military and political campaign organised by nationalists for Irish independence. A smaller collection relating to the repatriation of the bodies of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. from the United States to Ireland in 1958 is also extant.

Copy conveyance from Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Walkin Street, Kilkenny, and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, to Fr. Martin John Hyland OSFC, Fr. Patrick Kelleher OSFC and Fr. Michael O’Shea OSFC, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, of the residue of the several leases referred to in CA HT/2/1/2/30 of lands and properties in Cork city and at Rochestown, County Cork. With a photocopy of original manuscript deed and a typescript schedule of the leases referred to in the foregoing conveyance.

A notebook containing extracts from letters received from parish priests and other individuals (mostly religious) referring to retreats and temperance missions given by Capuchin friars from 1913-19. The volume was compiled by Fr. Albert Bibby OSFC, Provincial Secretary. Most of the letters refer to requests for friars to conduct missions and (in some cases) to the need for the priests to converse in Irish. The volume includes:
• A letter from Fr. Innocent Ryan, Parish Priest, Fethard, County Tipperary, affirms that the local men ‘have safely ridden the storm of temptation that blew over the place on the occasion of the “old fair” on Friday last. Bucket fulls of coffey [sic] were consumed; and even Bovril (Friday and all!) was, under false ideas of permission, brought into requisition’. Nov. 1913.
• A letter from Rev. Phelan, Parish Priest, Glenmore, County Waterford, to Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC, notes that the ‘harvest was threshed without drink and the farmers and labourers were perfectly happy. Only in two cases out of possibly 200 threshings was an attempt made to break through the pledge’. (17 Jan. 1914).
• A letter from Rev. J. Flavin, Parish Priest, Arklow, County Wicklow, to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, refers to his desire to have Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC for a mission. He added ‘I did not mind who came with him provided he was not a Sinn Feiner’. (28 Dec. 1917).