Correspondence, demand statements and certificates for payment of Income Tax and Municipal Rates in respect of properties at 151 Church Street and at 21/28 Bow Street held by the Capuchins. The correspondents include the Collector of Taxes, 22 Bachelor’s Walk, Horace Turpin, land agent for Lord Congleton’s Estate, Maryborough, Queen’s County, and Thomas J. Furlong, solicitor, 11 Eustace Street, Dublin.
Demands and receipts for ground rents due to the representatives of R.H. Cornwall Brady relating to 136-137 Church Street. The rent was paid to Hugh O’Donnell, solicitor and land agent, 29 Dublin Street, Carlow.
Demands and receipts for ground rents due to Mrs Christina Falls for premises at 142 Church Street. The rent was payable to Barrington & Son, 10 Ely Place, Dublin.
Correspondence and receipts regarding ground rent due to the estate of John Murphy, deceased, probably in respect of 142 Church Street. (See CA CS/2/2/2/7). The correspondence from Harry Lisney & Son, agents for the properties, mainly relates to demands for remittances from the Capuchin community.
Demands and receipts regarding ground due to the Carpendale estate for properties at 142 Church Street. The rent was paid Barrington & Son, 10 Ely Place, Dublin.
List of class hours undertaken by Mr. J.J. Doyle with young officers of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade. The total numbers of hours are noted as seventeen. With an addition: ‘Paid with thanks, J.J. Doyle’.
On the evening of 2 September 1913 two overcrowded tenement buildings at 66 and 67 Church Street collapsed. The two buildings were situated opposite the Capuchin Friary on the street. Of those trapped in the buildings, seven died (including three children) and many others were left seriously injured. Over 100 people were left homeless and destitute. The tragedy, occurring at a time of heightened political and labour unrest, highlighted the dreadful conditions of many of the buildings in Dublin, both in terms of the physical fabric of the dwellings and the endemic overcrowding in inner city tenements. A report on the disaster was presented to the British Parliament in February 1914, but with the outbreak of war in the summer of that year housing conditions in Irish capital ceased to be a political priority.
A clipping from the 'Daily Mirror' (5 Sept. 1913) reporting on the 'children killed in the tenement collapse' on Church Street. A manuscript annotation on the clipping reads 'left Fr. Jarlath [Hynes]. Right Fr. Paul [Neary]. Gentleman smoking cigarette is Mr. M. Moynihan C.E., Fr. Kevin's [Moynihan] brother'.
Draft agreement of John Maher with Jane Revell regarding his tenancy of houses, yards and plots of ground on the south side of North Brunswick Street for the term of 999 years at the yearly rent of £30. Maher refers to the ‘dilapidated state’ of the premises which are ‘likely to be condemned by the Corporation authorities … and also ‘the falling off of the value of property in this neighbourhood caused by the removal of Smithfield Market’. Two drafts.
