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Correspondence with the Performing Right Society Ltd., Chatham House, 13 George Street, Hanover Square, London. The correspondence relates to the granting of licences to perform and make use of music controlled by the members of the aforementioned Society at entertainments held in Father Mathew Hall. The correspondents include the Presidents of Father Mathew Hall, Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. Responding to the claims of infringement of copyright, Fr. Columbus referred to the amateur status of the performers in the musicals and the philanthropic nature of the Association which ran the Hall (21 Nov. 1927). The file includes printed literature from the Society and newspaper clippings reporting a judgement made in a court case taken by the Society against Bray Urban District Council for infringement of copyright ('Irish Independent', 16 Nov. 1927). The dispute was eventually settled when the Father Mathew Hall Committee agreed to pay £3 3s for performing rights’ fees at the Hall. A letter of 12 Oct. 1943 referred to the intention of the Hall Committee to apply to the Metropolitan District Court for a licence to stage dances in St. Brigid’s Hall

Letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mainly from authors re articles due to appear in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1965). The file includes letters from Fr. F.X. Martin OSA, James Lyons, T.E. Gorman, Dorothea Barclay, Máirin bean uí Mhurchadha, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., ‘Redmond O’Hanlon’, Sister Mary Gertrude Cain RSHM, President of Marymount College, New York, Basil Payne, J.J. Stuart, John P. Barton, Desmond Fennell, Michael McDonald, Alison King, Joseph Foyle, Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., J.F. Dempsey, Sean Ó Síocháin, Patrick J McLaughlin, Augustine Martin, Vivion de Valera and Frank Murphy.

Photocopies of Temperance Reports held in the State Paper Office (now the National Archives of Ireland). The reports are part of the Official Papers Collection (OP/1840/131/10). Police and magistrates in the southern counties of Ireland submitted detailed reports on the progress of the temperance crusade in their districts at the beginning of 1840 in reply to a circular (12 March 1840) from the Chief Inspector of the Constabulary in Dublin. These replies (the Temperance Reports) have survived in the original handwriting of the police officers and magistrates. The counties covered in the reports include Waterford, Limerick, Kerry, Tipperary, Wexford, Cork, Clare and Galway. The file also includes a copy of the ‘Rules of Saint Mary’s Temperance and Mortality Society established July 28th, 1839, in Limerick’. The photocopies were acquired by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. in March 1982. The file also includes notes (compiled by Fr. Nessan) taken from evidence found in the Temperance Reports particularly in respect of the locations visited by Fr. Mathew and the numbers pledged.

Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars at Ard Mhuire Friary, County Donegal. The group includes Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., Fr. Bruno McKnight OFM Cap., Fr. Pádraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap., Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., and Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap.