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Notes by Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (1899-1986) on matters relating to the history of Holy Trinity Church or to individuals connected with ministry in Cork. The file includes biographical notes on Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC (1859-1930) and Fr. Louis O’Riordan OSFC (d. 1857); a report on the opening of the Fr. Brendan Jennings memorial sanctuary (19 Apr. 1908); a report on the completion of Father Mathew Memorial Church, 'Cork Examiner', 29 Aug. 1891; a note affirming that ‘Fr. J.P. O’Connell was the last Provincial Minister after Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC between 1855 and the reconstitution of the Province in 1855’; copy ordnance map extract showing Holy Trinity Church on Father Mathew Quay and the surrounding area including the location of the Assembly Rooms on South Mall.

Draft recollections of deceased Irish Capuchin friars compiled by an unknown author (but certainly by another friar). The texts are titled ‘Some who have gone before’ and ‘Predecessors / A Capuchin Reverie’. The text includes personal recollections of:
Fr. Leonard Brophy OFM Cap. (1869-1930)
Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (1877-1925)
Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap. (d. 27 Apr. 1930)
Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (d. 11 Jan. 1935)
Fr. Fidelis Neary OFM Cap. (d. 22 June 1932)
Fr. Sebastian O’Brien OFM Cap. (1867-1931)
Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap. (d. 20 June 1939)
The text also refers to several friars who have been given pseudonyms such as ‘Philemon’, ‘Junius’, and ‘Marcion’. The text includes references to Fr. Albert’s role in the 1916 Rising and in the later revolutionary period. It reads: ‘He felt, as few did, the piercing griefs of the young widows of Easter Week. Often would he visit them of an evening. … He made friends with the wistful little son and daughter who were orphaned by the bullets that took [Thomas] MacDonagh’s life away, and who were made motherless by the cruel waves that closed over the drowning body of the patriot’s bride [Muriel MacDonagh drowned in the sea off Skerries, County Dublin, on 9 July 1917]. For them he had a special corner in his affections. All his heart went out to that wee pair, so tragic, so utterly lonely’. The file also includes an attached clipping referring to the re-interment of the bodies of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. in Rochestown Capuchin Cemetery on 14 June 1958

Reconveyance from Sebastian Henry Petre, Fitzalan House, Arundel Street, London, and Constance Mary Lee, Mill Hill, Middlesex, to Fr. Bernard Joseph Jennings OSFC, Fr. Peter Edward Bowe, Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC and other Capuchin friars, Church Street, Dublin, of a plot of ground on the west side of Church Street known as number 142 ‘together with the Roman Catholic Church erected on the said plot or parcel of ground called or known by the name of “Saint Mary of the Angels”’. In consideration of the principal money and interest secured on the mortgage of the said parcel of ground on Church Street.

Publisher: [Publisher not identified]
Language: English
Full title: 'Report of the Ladies’ Visiting Temperance Society / attached to the Church of the Holy Trinity, Cork / President: Rev. Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC'.

Report of the Ladies’ Visiting Temperance Society attached to the Capuchin Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cork. The President of the Association was Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC.

Requisitions on title on behalf of the trustees of the Cork Assembly Rooms relating to rents payable under the lease of certain premises on Queen Street dated 1 Jan. 1846 (see CA HT/2/1/1/9). The requisitions also ask for negative searches in the Registry of Deeds against Fr. Thomas Matthew O’Connor OSFC, Fr. Michael Leonard Brophy OSFC and Fr. Michael Fidelis Neary OSFC. Prepared by Gregg, Jermyn & Sons, solicitors, Cork.

The file contains the following edition of this local newspaper: 3 May 1930 (Vol. 324, No. 30). The edition includes a lengthy obituary for Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., former Provincial Minister (16 July 1859-27 Apr. 1930).