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Value duty form from the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for the conveyance by Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson to Rev. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC and others of premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny. The completed form includes information in respect of the occupiers of the premises and the poor rate valuation for each separate hereditament. With draft copies.

Specification and contract of agreement with Alex Chestnutt & Company, organ builders, Manor Street, Waterford, for the installation of a ‘two-manual organ’ at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The agreement (dated 28 July 1914) with Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, guardian, notes that the consideration money for the installation of the organ was £580. The file includes letters from Alex Chestnutt to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC in which the former notes that ‘owing to this unfortunate war there is very little doing in the organ building trade … and having many bills to meet now at the end of the year I have no other course to take but to ask if you will kindly oblige me with another £100’. (30 Dec. 1914). With letters to Fr. Pius Duggan OSFC, guardian, regarding an estimate from the cleaning and overhaul of the organ (8 Feb. 1930).

Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and Fr. Bartholomew Brophy OSFC for services rendered in respect of the purchase of premises on Bow Street and Brown Street. Totals: £21 0s 3d; £26 1s 0d.

Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Peter (Edward) Bowe OSFC and others for preparing a deed of conveyance to vest Church property in nine members of the community as joint tenants and for a power of attorney from Fr. Anthony (John) Travers OSFC (resident in Tasmania) to Fr. Aloysius (William) Travers OSFC. Total cost: £33 5s 4d. 2 copies. With letters from Thomas J. Furlong to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC and Fr. Paul Neary OSFC referring to a deed executed by Miss Maher on 19 Aug. 1897 conveying the property bequeathed to her following the death of her brother (Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, died 10 Sept. 1894) to the Capuchin community on Church Street.

Ledger and account book for the Capuchin community at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The ledger provides a daily record of income received and expenses incurred by the community. Notes are made of income derived from mass stipends, street collections, sodalities, Third Order payments and temperance publications. Reference is also made to monies received from donations, alms, bequests, and cheques. Expenses include travel tickets, staff wages, groceries, building repairs and other sundries. The entries are periodically signed by the Friary Guardian and by the Provincial Minister at Visitations
The front cover is endorsed in typescript with a list of Friary Guardians:
Fr. Bernard Jennings 1883-1886
Fr. Nicholas Murphy 1886-1893
Fr. Francis Hayes 1893-1895
Fr. Anthony Travers 1895-1898
Fr. Peter Bowe 1898-1901
Fr. Fiacre Brophy 1901-1904
Fr. Thomas Dowling 1904-1907
Fr. Laurence Dowling 1907-1910
It is also noted that Fr. Laurence began a ‘new ledger in Sept. 1907’. See CA CS/3/1/6.

Photographic prints (black and white) of mourners at the funeral of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at the Old Mission, Santa Inez, California. Several of the prints are annotated on reverse. An annotation on one print reads: ‘Father Dillon, Father Dominic, Mrs Mellows, Mrs Campbell, Eamon Martin, who came out with Mrs Mellows’. The file includes a cover indicating that some of the prints were sent to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Minister Provincial, Church Street, Dublin.

File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. Some of the clippings refer to the unveiling of a Father Mathew statue in his native Thomastown, County Tipperary. The file includes:
• ‘Memoir of Father Mathew by William Howitt’, 'The People’s Journal', 15 Aug. 1846. The copy article refers to Fr. Mathew’s ancestry.
• Clipping of an article titled ‘The Life and Labours of Father Mathew’ from the 'Irish Penny Readings'. The article reports a speech by John Francis Maguire MP at a public meeting held in the Cork City Courthouse in January 1857 to inaugurate a ‘movement for the erection of a monument in Fr. Mathew’s memory’. 121-5 pp.
• ‘Apostle of Temperance in USA’, 'The Standard', 14 Jan 1955.
• ‘Fr. Mathew / One of the Great Men of History, 'Cork Examiner', 15 Nov. 1956.
• ‘Archbishop Mathew’s Tributes to his Illustrious Kinsman’, 'Cork Examiner', 15 Dec. 1956.
• ‘Myles na Gopaleen’ (Brian O’Nolan, 1911-1966), ‘Father Mathew’, 'Irish Times', 18 Dec. 1954 and 13 Jan. 1955. A negative pen-portrait of Fr. Mathew and his temperance campaign.
• Denis Gwynn, ‘Now and then / Father Mathew’s Grave / The Botanic Gardens’, 'Cork Examiner', 15 June 1956.
• ‘Apostle of Temperance Honoured / Kinsman Unveils Memorial at Birthplace / Tipperary Tribute’, 'Irish Independent', 26 June 1939.
• ‘Tipperary Honours the Noble Name of Mathew / Government urged to preserve Thomastown Castle as national monument’, 'The Tipperary Star', 1 July 1939.
• ‘Kilkenny honours Father Mathew / Great Temperance Rally’, 'Kilkenny Journal', 16 July 1938.
• ‘The Memory of Father Mathew / Speeches by Rev. Father Peter Bowe OSFC and the Most Rev. Dr. Kelly, Bishop of Ross’, 'Cork Examiner' [1902].
• ‘Where Fr. Mathew was threatened / Incident at Cootehill’.
• Newspaper cutting re the history of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church, Cork, and Fr. Mathew’s association with the building. 'West Cork Eagle and County Advertiser', Dec. 1883. The article gives considerable detail about the interior decoration of the building. It reads: ‘There are six confessionals built of pine to correspond with the choir and gallery, and handsomely carved. The Stations of the Cross are in alto relievo, cast in composite material from designs by one of the Italian Friars who were in charge of the Church some years ago They are genuine works of art. The organ, it may not be generally known, is the instrument which was built for the Cork Exhibition of 1852 by Mr. Murphy, and is at present in as good tone as when it peals lifted up the hearts of thousands more than thirty years ago’.
• Special supplement to the 'Cork Examiner' on the Centennial Celebrations, 11 Oct. 1890.

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, and other Capuchin friars, regarding requests for parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Letterkenny (County Donegal), Dungarvan (Waterford), Newry (Down), Kingwilliamstown (Ballydesmond, Cork), Ballymahon (Longford), Frenchpark (Roscommon), Fermoy (Cork), Drumshanbo (Leitrim), and Abbeylara (Longford).

Letters to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC, Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC and other Capuchin friars requesting parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Crossmaglen (Armagh), Carrick-on-Suir (Tipperary), Tullow (Carlow), Foxford (Mayo), Kilkenny, Cookstown (Tyrone), Castledermot (Carlow), Waterford, Belfast and Newport (Mayo).