Letter to Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, guardian, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, enclosing a bill of costs for completing and registering a deed of conveyance of all the property at Father Mathew Quay and at Rochestown to Fathers Fiacre Brophy OSFC, Jarlath Hynes OSFC and Augustine Hayden OSFC as trustees. The total costs amounted to £28 6s 0d.
Policy of fire insurance from the Law Union & Crown Insurance Company, 126 Chancery Lane, London, with Fr. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC, Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, covering 24 South Mall, Cork, for £800.
Originally a printed book: 'In memoriam, Peter Fenelon' Collier (New York: privately printed, 1910), 113 pp. The book was subsequently used to house newspaper cuttings mainly relating to the history and friars of the Capuchin community, Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. The volume includes cuttings relating to triduums, ordinations, transfers, provincial chapters, missions and retreats, the Third Order of St. Francis, a note on the Father Mathew Chalice, and various Capuchin apostolates in Cork. The volume also contains obituaries of Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (d. 26 Dec. 1904); Fr. Cyril O'Sullivan OSFC (9 Dec. 1921); Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC (d. 5 Oct. 1926). Includes an original photographic print of Fr. Fiacre’s funeral; Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC (d. 25 Nov. 1926); Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. (d. 9 May 1945); Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. (d. 3 July 1949); Fr. Pacificus Ryan OFM Cap. (d. 1 July 1950); Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (d. 3 Oct. 1950); Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (d. 23 Oct. 1950); Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. (d. 7 Jan. 1951). Other cuttings refer to the International Cork Exhibition (July 1902) and the consecration of Monsignor Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as the first Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone in Northern Rhodesia.
Notices of meetings of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade Committee, Church Street. The file includes invitations requesting attendance at annual meetings which were held in the Brigade Hall, Church Street. The notices and resolutions are mainly signed by James J. Darragh, Honorary Secretary, and refer to routine administrative matters including the election of officers, expenditure and accounts, the arrangement of rooms and premises, the repair of the Hall, and various rules and constitutional matters. The file also includes the correspondence of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and James J. Darragh regarding a dispute within the committee regarding an amendment to rule 10 of the constitution which noted that the ‘Brigade shall be governed by the President assisted by a Capuchin Father as Vice President who shall be appointed by the President. … The President alone shall have authority in spiritual matters – the lay members being responsible for the financial affairs’.
Letter from M. Mahony, St. Helen’s, Blarney, County Cork, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC (1871-1926), referring to the recent death of Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (d. 26 Dec. 1904).
Letter from the Most Rev. Charles Joseph O’Reilly (1860-1923), Bishop of Baker City, Oregon, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and the Holy Trinity community, referring to his recent visit to Cork, and to the impending arrival of the Irish Capuchins in his diocese. O’Reilly wrote: ‘I have heralded your coming, and all are eagerly expecting you. I will give you the choice of several places which promise well, and you will have missions throughout the state to enable you to get the means to purchase property and build’.
Leinster Bank Ltd., and Martha Grattan, widow, to Fr. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy OSFC and Fr. Matthew (Thomas) O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Fr. Jarlath (Thomas Hynes) OSFC and Fr. Augustine (John) Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, Cork, of all the premises and concerns now known as no. 24 South Mall, Cork, demised in a lease dated 28 Feb. 1805. In consideration of £100. With similar assignments of portions of the said premises to Joseph Sullivan, King Street, Cork, hotel keeper, for £285, and to Thomas Joseph Ollivere Esq., Cook Street, Cork, dental surgeon, for £300. With related requisitions on title.
Agreement of Fr. Fiacre Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Father Mathew Quay, Cork, and Fr. Jarlath Thomas Hynes, OSFC and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Rochestown, Cork (the vendors), with Joseph Sullivan, King Street, Cork, merchant, for the residue of a term of 800 years granted in a lease from Joseph King to John Reynolds, dated 28 Feb. 1805, at the yearly rent of £34 2s 6d. The agreement is subject to certain legal stipulations and covenants including the requirement to keep the top garret and second floor windows which overlook the ‘recreation gardens of the vendors fitted with muffed and ribbed glass’. See also CA HT/2/1/1/27.
An image of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OFM Cap. (1871-1926) taken at Rochestown Capuchin Friary in County Cork.
A volume containing newspaper clippings mostly relating to Irish Capuchin friars. The clippings are pasted into a copy of the ‘Record of Waterpark College, Waterford’ (c.1913). The clippings include obituaries for various friars, articles taken from ‘The Father Mathew Record’, ordination entries, and reports on sermons and retreats given by various friars. Also includes some typescript and manuscript notes.
The volume includes the following clippings:
Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap. ‘The New Monks of the West’. c.1915. An article on the early history of the Irish Capuchin mission in the Western United States.
Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., ‘Saint Francis and his message’. ‘Irish Catholic’ (2 Apr. 1927).
A report on the annual Corpus Christi procession to Rochestown Friary in County Cork. (c.1920).
Irish priests bound for the United States on board the SS ‘Bremen’ off Cobh in County Cork. (Oct. 1926).
Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Fr. Aloysius Travers, and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. with Irish tertiary pilgrims in Assisi in Italy. ‘Weekly Examiner’ (16 Oct. 1926).
The funeral of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OFM Cap. at the cemetery in Rochestown Friary in County Cork. ‘Weekly Examiner’ (16 Oct. 1926).
The departure of Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. for the United States. (2 Feb. 1925).
Father Theobald Mathew Anniversary / Observance in Cork. (1926).
Obituary for Br. Felix Brennan OFM Cap. (1842-1925). ‘The Franciscan Annals’ (1925).
Memorial card for Fr. Cyril O’Sullivan OFM Cap. (d. 9 Dec. 1921).
Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Br. Bonaventure McCafferty OFM Cap. with Seán French, Lord Mayor of Cork, in Rochestown. (1924).
The death of Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., former Provincial Minister. ‘Cork Examiner’ (26 Nov. 1926).
A poem titled ‘Father Albert OSFC’ by Rev. Columba Downey OCC. ‘The Monitor’ (New Jersey). (Feb. 1925).
Lecture by Fr. Bernard Jennings OFM Cap. on the life and labours of Fr. Theobald Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance. ‘Cork Examiner’ (18 Oct. 1897).
Ordination of priests at Holy Trinity Church, Cork. (29 June 1925).
The death of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. ‘Cork Examiner’ (16 Feb. 1925).
Franciscan centenary celebrations at St. Saviour’s Church, Dominick Street, Dublin. (1926).
The Late Rev. Fr. Fiacre Brophy. (Oct. 1926).
Ordination souvenir card for Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (30 May 1910).