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Trace map and plan of grounds of adjoining St. Mary of the Angels and the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The map divides the grounds into lots showing the endorsed names of landlords including More O’Ferrall, J. Cunningham and O’Brady. ‘Thunder’s Court’ and ‘Willis Court Yard’ are also marked on the plan. With a cover envelope addressed to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. endorsed: ‘What head rents do you pay and to whom? Name of solicitors?’

The file comprises the following issues of this weekly Anti-Treaty newspaper: 3 Jan. 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 1)-29 June 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 27). The series is complete with multiple copies of some issues. The issue of 15 Mar. 1922 (no. 12) is endorsed ‘Fr. Stanislaus [Kavanagh OFM Cap.] … Dun Laoghaire’.

Register of masses at St. Mary of the Angels. The entries are periodically by the Provincial Minister at visitations. The title page is annotated: ‘at the Provincial Chapter, 8th Aug. 1928, it was decided that the Conventual Mass each day was to be offered a) for the members of the Province living and dead; b) for our benefactors living and dead. This ordinance took effect beginning on 15th August 1928. Father Stanislaus Kavanagh’.

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’.

File of newspaper cuttings covering the centenary celebrations of the inauguration by Fr. Theobald Mathew of the temperance campaign in April 1838. The file includes cuttings from the 'Irish Independent', 'Tipperary Star', 'Saturday Herald', 'Nationalist', 'Irish Press', 'The Pilot', 'The Standard', 'The Cambridge Chronicle' (Massachusetts), 'The Universe', 'Seraphic Home Journal', 'The Derry Journal',' Cork Examiner', 'Kilkenny Journal', 'Catholic Times', and 'Evening Echo'.
• The articles refer to the re-naming of the Church Street (formerly Whitworth) Bridge as Father Mathew Bridge over the River Liffey, Dublin, in October 1938, to various ceremonies held to mark the anniversary (particularly in Dublin and Cork, and in Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary, Fr. Mathew’s birthplace), and to the Father Mathew Centenary stamp designed by Sean Keating RHA.
• The file also includes an article by Bridie Maguire, ‘Noted Irish Sculptress / Mary Redmond, who wrought the figure of Father Mathew in O’Connell Street’, 'Saturday Herald', 9 Apr. 1938.
• Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. delivering an address at the annual meeting of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association in the Theatre Royal, Dublin. 'Irish Independent', 16 Nov. 1938.

File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘The New Father Mathew Movement’, 'Irish Catholic', 4 Jan. 1902.
• ‘The Life and Work of Father Mathew’, 'The Bulletin of the Catholic Abstinence Union of America', Jan. 1908.
• ‘Father Mathew / Lecture by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. at the Annual Meeting of the Pioneer Association’, 'Irish Catholic', 1 Dec. 1938.
• James Maher, ‘Father Mathew and the Author of Knocknagow’, 'Kilkenny People', 1 July 1939.
• Alexander Flanigan, ‘Father Mathew / The Apostle of Temperance’, 'Irish Times', 21 Dec. 1956.
• ‘Father Mathew Anniversary / Celebrations in Queen Street Hall / Oration by Very Rev. Fr. Angelus [Healy] OSFC’, 'Cork Examiner', 15 Oct. 1915.
• ‘Over 60,000 Pioneers for Big Cork Rally / Celebrating Centenary of Fr. Mathew’s Death’, 'Cork Examiner', 6 June 1956.
• ‘Cork Bishop’s Tribute to Father Mathew / Centenary Lecture in Dublin’, 'Evening Echo', 10 Oct. 1956.
• ‘Public Enemy No. 1’, 'The Evening News', 18 July 1957.