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File of correspondence and memoranda regarding the boundaries of the American Capuchin Provinces arising from the desire of the Irish friars to establish a house in the Eastern United States. The correspondents include Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap, Definitor General, Fr. Thomas Petrie OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore.

A letter (21 January 1930) from Fr. Thomas Petrie OFM Cap. to Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap. reads:
‘The Pennsylvania Province is pained and surprised that your Province should make a second attempt to enter our territory, and this time at our very door, in the heart of our Province, where our Fathers have been labouring since 1873. You must realize that your attitude does not show us that consideration and fairness which we might expect’.

A photograph of Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap.

An image of Fr. Kevin Moynihan OSFC (1896-1959) and (seated) Fr. Chrysostom Sutton OSFC (1876-1918).

Group photograph of Capuchin friars at Holy Trinity Friary in Cork, marking the golden jubilee of Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. The group includes Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., guardian of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Fr. Reginald O’Hanlon OFM Cap., Fr. Eunan Buckley OFM Cap., Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Fr. Thaddeus Field OFM Cap., Fr. Clement Connolly OFM Cap., Fr. Malachy Hynes OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., Br. Bernard Perry OFM Cap., Br. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap., Fr. Anslem Griffin OFM Cap. One of the prints is mounted on card and has a newspaper clipping identifying the friars present in the photograph. Photographer/Studio: 'Cork Examiner'.

Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Definitor General, to Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. Father Sylvester notes that the Father Provincial of the Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) Province refused to reconsider his opposition to an Irish foundation in Baltimore. The Capuchin Father General has therefore advised that the Irish friars should withdraw from Baltimore as soon as ‘prudently’ possible. He emphasizes that the withdrawal should be handled with ‘charity’ to preserve good relations with their religious brethren, acting ‘as if nothing had happened’.

Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Definitor General, to Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to the unyielding position taken by the Capuchin superior in Pennsylvania. Fr. Sylvester states that he has written to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. suggesting that he ‘should be far better off in Delaware, even though the place be poor, for he could have a canonical foundation and a regular house …’. He also suggests that ‘it is easier to close the house in Baltimore now, than it will be some month’s hence’.

A photograph of a group of Capuchin friars on their ordination day in September 1902. The group includes Bernard Clark OFM Cap., Vicar Apostolic of Arabia, Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Fr. Finbarr O’Callaghan OFM Cap., and Fr. Adrian Sharkett OFM Cap.

A copy of Fr. Paschal Larkin OSFC, ‘Property in the eighteenth century / with special reference to England and Locke’ (Dublin and Cork, London, New York [etc.], Cork University Press, Longmans, Green, 1930). The fly-page has a manuscript dedication from Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap. to Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap. (8 October 1930).