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 group of Capuchin priests and novices in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin. A manuscript annotation provides the names of the friars. The group includes Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Sebastian O’Brien, Stanislaus Walsh OFM Cap., Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Paschal Stapleton OFM Cap., and Luke Sheehan OFM Cap.
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).
Correspondence of William Connolly & Son, contractors, 37-39 Upper Dominick Street, Dublin, regarding the repair and decoration of the altar and other furnishings (including confessional boxes) at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Correspondents include William Connolly, Ashlin & Coleman, architects, 7 Dawson Street, and Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street. On 21 Jan. 1908 William Connolly proposed to Ashlin & Coleman that he would ‘execute the works in the manufacture and erection of screens at St. Mary of the Angels … in accordance with your designs … for the sum of £575. The work to be executed in the best, seasoned Austrian oak, wax polished, and in the highest class of workmanship’. Other work included the building of a new stone porch to the south side of the Church. With bill of costs for said works. See also CA CS/2/6/1/1.
The fliers claim the support of Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Church Street, calling them ‘distinguished representatives of the Order which in dark and evil days held aloft the lamp of learning in Ireland’. Father Lawrence wrote ‘I am glad Mr. John Farren is seeking election as a member of the Dublin Corporation. …’. The fliers were printed by Mitchell & Co., 29 Capel Street, Dublin, and published by the candidate.
A photograph of Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. (seated, second from the right), and his brother Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. (seated, second from the left) with presumably other siblings and relatives.
Studio photograph of Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. (1872-1939). With an annotated cover which reads ‘Lantern slide of self'.
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).