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Bill of costs of M.J. Kelly, 56 Smithfield, contractor, to Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street. The costs mostly relate to routine building work including the installation of wash basins, the whitewashing of walls and repairs to the heating system.

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).

Letter from the Hibernian Fire and General Insurance Company, 49 Dame Street, to Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street, regarding fire insurance of £18,625 to cover the buildings and contents of the Friary and Church. Reference is also made to the lack of insurance for the Sacred Heart Chapel.

Letter of William Kavanagh, brass plate engraver, 28 Wellington Quay, to Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street, referring to the designs and illustrations of brass memorial tablets for St. Mary of the Angels. With printed enclosure of various brass memorial templates which could be used.

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC, Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OSFC, Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC and other Capuchin friars, regarding requests for parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Quin (Clare), Tuam (Galway), Scariff (Clare), Belfast, Crossmaglen (Armagh), Scotstown (Monaghan), Schull (Cork), Frenchpark (Roscommon), Bunbeg (Donegal), Wicklow, and Castledermot (Carlow).

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OSFC, Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and other Capuchin friars regarding parish missions and retreats. Many of the requests from religious congregations and institutions. The letters refer to retreats in the South Parish (Cork), Eyrecourt (Galway), the Convent of the Poor Clares, Lynton (Devon), Our Lady of Sorrows Capuchin Friary, Peckham (London), Kilrooskey (Roscommon), Crosshaven (Cork), Athy (Kildare), Kinsale (Cork), the Sisters of Mercy Convent, Thurles (Tipperary), the Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph (Wales), Saint Alban’s Convent, Pontypool (Wales), Curragh Army Camp (Kildare), Dunfanaghy (Donegal), Dunmore East (Waterford), Bundoran (Donegal), Mooncoin (Kilkenny), Ballyshannon (Donegal), Sisters of Charity Convent (Dublin), Carmelite Convent, Tallaght (Dublin), Catholic Truth Society (Kerry), Loreto Convent, Navan (Meath), St. Joseph’s Daughters of the Cross Convent, Donaghmore (Tyrone), and the Little Sisters of the Poor Convent (Waterford).

File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘The Church’s Peril / Crusade against the drink evil / Glasgow’s Great Welcome to Father Hays’. [c.1905].
• ‘Temperance Legislation for Ireland / The Very Rev. Father Aloysius Travers OSFC’. [c.1912].
• ‘Father Mathew: Leader and Priest / Oration by Very Rev. Father Aloysius Travers OSFC’, 'Irish Catholic', 18 Oct. 1913.
• ‘Intemperance / Powerful Sermon by Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC’. [c.1912].
• ‘Temperance Cause in Enniscorthy / A Capuchin Father on local topics’. [c.1912]. Refers to a sermon given by Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap.
• ‘Twelve “Half-Ones” / Drunk by a youth of 17’.
• ‘Our Pioneer Column / Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart / Annual Meeting’, 'Irish Catholic', 14 Dec. 1912.
• ‘The Temperance Cause / Great Mission by Capuchin Fathers / Demonstration at Graigue, County Kilkenny’.
• ‘Father Mathew’s Day’ / Reminiscences of his visit to the United States’.
• ‘Total Abstinence in Scotland / The League of the Cross in Glasgow’, 'Glasgow Observer', 12 Sept. 1891.
• ‘Father Hays and the Apostolate of Temperance / Father Mathew’s work revived’. 26 Jan. 1901.
• ‘For Total Abstinence / The Rev. Thomas F. Burke CSP preaches in St. Joseph’s Cathedral’, 'The Hartford Daily Times', 7 Aug. 1901.
• ‘The Great Catholic Veteran / Right Rev. Monsignor Nugent’s Long Career’, 'The Monitor and New Era', 27 May 1904.
• ‘The Cause of Temperance / Demonstration in Ardmore’. Refers to a total abstinence mission given by Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC.