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Photographic prints of a ‘fingerpost’ road sign noting the direction and distance to Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary (2¾ miles). The signage is an old-style directional ‘fingerpost’ produced by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs.

A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on spine which reads ‘Art and Artists’. The volume contains newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence (particularly re loans of paintings), printed ephemera (exhibition catalogues), and photographs relating to prominent Irish artists, and exhibitions of their work. Many of these artists were associated with Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The volume includes:
• Clippings (obituaries) and photographs relating to the death of Albert Power (1881-1945). The photographs show Éamon de Valera, Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. in attendance at Power’s funeral. The clippings include an appreciation by C.P. Curran. (‘Sunday Independent’, 15 July 1945).
• Photographic copies of artwork by various old masters.
• Photographic prints of Mary Redmond (1863-1930). Includes images of her at work on the Father Mathew Statue (O’Connell Street, Dublin). One of these photographs is dated 30 June 1891. Another image shows her memorial bust for RIC District Inspector William Limbrick Martin.
• A clipping of an article by Kathleen O’Brennan, ‘Seán Keating Speaks Out’, ‘The Irish Digest’ (c.1945).
• A flier for the Tuam Art Exhibition, St. Jarlath’s College, County Galway (1-4 April 1945).
• A catalogue of the Evie Hone Exhibition, The Dawson Gallery, Dublin. (Oct.-Nov. 1945).
• A clipping of an article titled ‘Stained glass at An Tur Gloine’, ‘Irish Statesman’ (13 Mar. 1926).
• Typescript list of paintings and artworks loaned from ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office. Includes works by Jack B. Yeats, Seán O’Sullivan, Seán Keating, and Richard King. (1946). With similar lists of artworks (paintings and sketches) loaned to the Tuam Art Exhibition in 1948 and in 1950.
• Clippings with references to the Victor Waddington Galleries on South Anne Street, Dublin (1947) and exhibitions in the Royal Hibernian Academy.
• Includes a letter to Fr. Senan from Sir Shane Leslie re a painting titled ‘The Eviction’ by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson, 1846-1933). 10 May 1947.
• Catalogue for the exhibition of art by Sir Gerald Kelly RHA, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin. (11-13 Mar. 1948).
• Catalogue of art by Jacob Epstein, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin (Apr. 1948).
• Letters to Fr. Senan from Germaine Stockley and Somhairle Mac Cana (1948)
• Letters to Fr. Senan from Seamus Murphy, sculptor, enclosing a photographic print of his bust of Thomas Davis. (21 Oct. 1942-16 Mar. 1943)
• A letter to Fr. Senan from Máirín Allen (22 Oct. 1948) and a photographic card from Clare Sheridan (Dec. 1949).
• A flier advertising an exhibition by nine painters in the ‘Art in Ulster’ exhibition, Gallery, 55a Donegall Place, Belfast. (19-31 Jan. 1948)
• A catalogue of paintings by Anne Yeats (1948)
• Photographic prints of Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald at an exhibition of paintings by Max and Gladys MacCabe, Dawson Gallery, Dublin (Sept. 1950).
• A printed flier on John Hogan’s sculpture of the dead Christ in St. Teresa’s Church, Dublin. Text (poem) by ‘Benmore’. (Dec. 1924).

Other artists referred to in the volume (mainly in newspaper clippings and exhibition catalogues) include:
Dermod O’Brien
Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917)
Robert James Enraght-Moony (1879-1946)
Laurence Campbell (1911-2001) Includes images of the sculptural busts of Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
J. Humbert Craig RHA (1877-1944)
Jack Bilbo (1907-1967)
Thomas J. Cullen (1879-1947)
George Frederick Campbell (1917-1979)
Clare Sheridan
Dugald Sutherland MacColl (1859-1948)
Andrew O’Connor (1874-1941), sculptor
Seán Keating
May Power (1903-1993), sculptor
Oisín Kelly (1915-1981)
Fr. Jack Hanlon (1913-1968)
Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974)
Harry Kernoff (1900-1974)
Oliver Sheppard (1865-1941)
Charles Geoghegan (1820-1908), architect
Seán O’Connor (1909-1992)

Photographic prints by Arthur Campbell, 11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:

• Quayside bookstall, Dublin.
• Clonmacnoise Monastic Site, County Offaly.
• Clew Bay (with a view of Croagh Patrick), County Mayo.
• Dugort village and Slievemore Mountain, Achill Island.
• Harvesting at Dugort village on Achill Island.
• The grave of W.B. Yeats at Drumcilffe, County Sligo.
• Bantry Bay at Glengarriff, County Cork.
• Boating on the Middle Lake, Killarney, County Kerry.
• Finnis near Dromara, County Down.
• Healy Pass, County Cork.
• Muiredach’s High Cross, Monasterboice, County Louth.
• West Town Harbour, Tory Island off the coast of County Donegal.
• The Dublin Studio of the artist, George Campbell ARHA.
• Knocknarea Mountain, County Sligo.
• Daniel O’Connell’s private chapel, Derrynane, County Kerry.
• Cobh, County Cork.
• Church Bay, Rathlin Island off the coast of County Antrim.
• Quiet Corner, Kinsale, County Cork.
• Gleno village, County Antrim.
• Murlough Bay, County Antrim.
• Queen’s University, Belfast.
• ‘Pocket Zoo’, Gresham Street, Belfast.
• Peat harvesting at Horn Head, County Donegal.
• Peat harvesting at Dunfanaghy, County Donegal.
• Show Day at Ballymena, County Antrim.
• Carnlough Bay, County Antrim.
• Cliffs near Bushmills, County Antrim.
• Cottage on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal.
• Glenveagh Park, County Donegal.
• Moy village, County Tyrone.
• Sketrick Castle, Strangford Lough, County Down.
• Ballyliffin, Inishowen, County Donegal.
• Keel village, Achill Island.
• Fishermen in Arklow Harbour, County Wicklow.
• Fair Head from Ballycastle, County Antrim.
• St. Thomas’s Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin.
• Collage Place North, Belfast.

Photographic prints by Arthur O’Callaghan. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:

• Shop Street, Galway.
• Silver Strand, County Wicklow.
• Chapelizod, Dublin.
• Dublin Mountains.
• Lough Corrib, County Galway.
• Slane Castle, County Meath.
• Romanesque Doorway, Castledermot, County Kilkdare.
• Drogheda, County Louth.
• Balbriggan Harbour, County Dublin.
• The Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow.
• Hollywood Glen, County Wicklow.
• Countryside near Castlecomber, County Kilkenny.
• Prospect Point, Swords, County Dublin.
• Lough Ramor, County Cavan.
• Clonmacnoise, County Offaly.
• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ballymote, County Sligo.
• Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar, County Westmeah.
• St. Patrick’s Well, Oran, County Roscommon.
• River Moy, County Sligo.
• Boyle Abbey, County Roscommon.
• Canal Bridge, Lesson Street, Dublin.
• River Liffey from Knockmaroon Hill, Dublin.
• St. Mel’s Cathedral, Longford.
• Donaghmore Church and Round Tower, County Meath.
• Courthouse, Dundalk, County Louth.
• The Bull Ring, Wexford.
• The Yellow Steeple (St. Mary’s Abbey), Trim, County Meath.
• Thatched cottage near Lusk, County Dublin.
• Bridge across the River Shannon at Drumsna, County Leitrim.
• Trim Castle, County Meath.
• Countryside around Letterfrack, County Galway.
• Ballinasloe, County Galway.
• Dun Laoighaire Harbour, County Dublin.
• Lough Ennell, County Westmeath.
• Taaffe’s Castle, Carlingford, County Louth.
• Market day, Longford.
• Lough Derg, County Tipperary.
• Clogher Head, County Louth.
• Saint Laurence’s Gate, Drogheda, County Louth.
• Lough Derravaragh, County Westmeath.
• Kilcullen, County Kildare.
• Ballyhaunis, County Mayo.
• Baldongan Castle [Baldungan Church], County Dublin.
• Skerries Harbour, County Dublin.
• The Hill of Mael, County Westmeath.
• Charlestown, County Mayo.
• Brittas, County Wicklow.
• Thatched cottage in Rathowen, County Westmeath.
• Maynooth, County Kildare.
• O’Connell Bridge, Dublin.
• Belclare, County Galway.
• Fore Abbey, County Westmeath.

Two bound volumes containing tables of contents for issues of 'The Father Mathew Record' from October 1928 to July 1948 (Vol. 42, No. 7) and from August 1948 (Vol. 42, No. 8) to December 1967 (Vol. 59, No. 12). The second volume also contains an index for 'Eirigh' from January (Vol. 60, No. 1) to May 1969 (Vol. 61, No. 4). The indexes were possibly compiled by Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap.

Draft articles submitted for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record' (later 'Eirigh'). The file includes articles written by the following authors: Christine Crowley, E.M. Stacey, Dr. Ivor Browne, Aloys Fleischmann (interview transcript), Frank Aiken TD, Deirdre McGarry, Fr. Simon O’Byrne OFM (1928-2011), Anne Elizabeth O’Neill, Edith M. Geoghegan, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Richard Kehoe, Gerald Malone, Cecily Lambert, Desmond Cryan, F.N. O’Neill, John Cahill, Breda Owens, Fr. Francis MacNamara OP, John Turpin, and Joseph O’Connor.

File of photographs of historic works of art (paintings and sculptures) probably compiled by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes reproductions of mainly religious pieces by Michelangelo, Rembrandt and other old masters. Reproduction rights and copyright stamps are extant on the reverse of many of the prints.

Assignment and Release of Margaret Murphy to Matthew Murphy of a lease of a ‘parcel of ground with the buildings thereon erected situate on the west side of Bow Street … lately in the possession of Patrick Warren … [which] are now called and known as numbers 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 Bow Street’ in Dublin. In consideration of £134 18s 6d and for the residue of the term of two hundred years specified in the original lease from Lucas Waring to Thomas Fallon dated 20 April 1842. With an insurance policy (and renewal receipt) from the National Assurance Company of Ireland relating to the said properties on Bow Street.

Assignment by Catherine Murphy, widow, John Murphy, labourer, Ellen Murphy and Mary Murphy to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Joseph Bernard Jennings OSFC and Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, Church Street, of the residue of the lease of premises formerly known as ‘the Swan Inn’, later no. 142 Church Street, measuring twenty 25 feet 11 inches at front, 25 feet 7 inches at rear, and in depth from front to rear 170 feet 11 inches. In consideration of £100. The original lease, dated 26 Feb. 1835, was from Patrick Joseph Nolan to William Hynes for the term of 61 years at the yearly rent of £32. With two draft copies of costs by Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great Georges’ Street, and a note by Catherine Murphy agreeing to dispose of her interest in the aforementioned premises for the sum of £100 payable to her daughter Ellen. With a badly torn draft of said assignment.