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Letters from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. reporting on his research on the early Irish Capuchins in continental archives including repositories in Troyes and Charleville, ‘home of the Irish Friars of former days’. Fr. Dominic affirms that ‘further communications would be safer if addressed to c/o Mr. Seán T. O Ceallaigh, Grand Hotel, Place de l’Opera, Paris’ (3 Dec. 1919).

A photograph of Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. (seated, left) with his half-brother Fr. Fidelis Neary OFM Cap. in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. An unidentified friar stands behind them.

An image of a group of Capuchin Friars in the garden of St. Mary of the Angels, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. One of the friars is identifiable. The friar (second on the left) is Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. (1857-1939). An annotation on the cover gives the location of the photograph.

Photograph of Capuchin friars at the Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.

A clipping from the 'Daily Mirror' (5 Sept. 1913) reporting on the 'children killed in the tenement collapse' on Church Street. A manuscript annotation on the clipping reads 'left Fr. Jarlath [Hynes]. Right Fr. Paul [Neary]. Gentleman smoking cigarette is Mr. M. Moynihan C.E., Fr. Kevin's [Moynihan] brother'.

Lease of Henry William Parnell, 3rd Baron Congleton, and Colonel Henry Parnell, to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC of a plot of ground extending from Bow Street to Church Street for 300 years at the yearly rent of £30. The deed has a coloured map showing the property referred to in the lease.

Ledger entry documenting the long-term legal history, conveyance, and boundary consolidation of the lands of Rochestown, Parish of Carrigaline, County Cork. The text traces a chronological lineage of leases from landowner Miss Ellen M. H. Purcell to tenant Joseph Mintern, its subsequent sub-leasing to Capuchin Franciscan friars Cherubini Mazzini, Nicholas (Maurice) Murphy, and Bernard (Joseph) Jennings, and a £600 absolute interest buyout by trustees Fr. Matthew O’Connor, Father Paul Neary, and Anthony (John) Travers. It records a final 21 May 1895 Indenture of Conveyance, where Miss Purcell sells her absolute fee simple estate—consisting of 55 acres of land and a dwelling house, alongside a 3½-acre plot known as Bare Wood—to the priests for £1,450. The record concludes with a mutual land exchange agreement accompanied by a hand-coloured surveyor’s map scaled at twelve inches to a mile; the map utilizes pink watercolour washes to delineate the primary 55 acres (Plots No. 1 and No. 2) acquired by the friars, and blue wash to identify a 1½-acre field (Plot No. 3) transferred back to Miss Purcell to settle estate boundaries against neighbouring lands.

Newspaper cuttings covering the collapse of two tenement buildings at No. 66 and No. 67 Church Street on 2 Sept. 1913. The reports provide descriptions of the disaster and the subsequent funeral of the seven victims at St Michan’s Church, Halston Street. Some of the photographic prints show the attendance of Capuchin friars at the funerals including Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Fr. John Butler OSFC and Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC. The file includes cuttings from the 'Evening Telegraph', 'Irish Independent', 'Daily Sketch', and 'Freeman’s Journal'.

A photograph of a group of Capuchin friars at a Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street Friary, Dublin. The group includes Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap., Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap., Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Fr. Malachy Hynes OFM Cap., Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.

A file of correspondence between the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society (operating out of 67 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin) and the Father Paul Neary OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The letters primarily detail the complex multi-stage financial negotiation of a capital redemption policy and substantial building loan (ranging from £1,000 to £2,000 at 4% interest) intended to secure funding for the Capuchins' new school building project in Rochestown, County Cork. Hand-annotated addenda and accompanying notes trace administrative requests for regional Ordinance Maps, structural valuations, and the cross-referencing of historical manuscripts sought by researchers, alongside a handwritten cover memo explicitly referencing the tracking of the ‘Rochestown Survey’.