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List of plays which will ‘receive preference in 1963’. The list includes 'Rising of the Moon', 'The White-headed Boy' and 'Is the Priest at home?'

Programmes for Christmas Pantomime programmes at Father Mathew Hall. The file comprises programmes for 'Dick Whittington and his Cat' (1964-65); 'Babes in the Wood' (1966-67); 'Robinson Crusoe' (1968-69).

Schedule for the Father Mather Feis, Church Street. The timetable outlines the various competitions and the list of plays and groups participating in the National Drama Festival of Ireland. The premier award was the Capuchin Periodicals Cup, presented by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (‘won in 1953 by The Walkinstown Players’). The F.J. McCormack Cup and Gold Medal, designed by Richard King, was awarded for best character acting.

Membership form for the Associate Members’ Guild of the Father Mathew Feis. Invitations are to be sent to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall.

Programme for the Father Mathew Feis, Church Street, 1983. The programme lists the various bursaries offered for certain competitions at the Feis and provides a list of committee members and adjudicators. The rules of the Feis are set out. The competitions include: singing; piano; string competitions; accordion; speech and drama; 'Aithriseóireacht'.

A collection of records mostly relating to the Temperance Sodality of the Sacred Thirst attached to St. Mary of the Angels, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin.

Report of the Halston Street Total Abstinence Sodality founded by Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC in 1881. The report refers to the efforts to improve and renovate the Hall since the sodality took possession of the building. The report reads ‘When we took possession of this place it was in a very sad and forlorn condition, so dilapidated by time, and the many uses it was put to (I believe its last use was that of a blacksmith’s forge)’. The report also provides figures for income and expenditure. The figures read: debt: £35 7s 11½d; expenditure: £255 12 2½d. It also notes that the pledge has been given to over 1,000 men in the Hall and to over 900 in St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street. With a typescript copy of said report.

Twelfth annual report of the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, in 1891. The report notes that ‘in a few days prior to our last annual meeting, this whole building was formally opened by His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin for the advancement of the Total Abstinence cause, and of our Holy Religion in this district of the city’. The report refers to the various fundraising efforts undertaken in support of the local temperance movement. The file also includes a supplemental report (1892). The supplemental report states that an annual meeting ‘should have been held on the third Sunday in January but … His Eminence Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, had gone to reap in a better world the reward of a saintly life in this’. The reports include references to attendances at weekly temperance meetings and to the staging of various lectures, exhibitions and performances in the Hall.

Letters regarding a dispute over the editorship of the temperance publication, 'The Father Mathew Record', also known as 'The Irish Home Journal'. The file includes a letter from Brian O’Higgins to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, Provincial Minister, complaining about his dismissal as associate editor of the 'Record' by Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC who ‘desired to keep politics out of the Journal’. O’Higgins, a member of Sinn Féin, admits that he is ‘on what is known as “the run”’. With notes by Fr. Edwin regarding the proprietorship of the Journal, and the need to reserve the appointment of editor to the council of the Capuchin Franciscan Order in Ireland. Later, Fr. Joseph wrote to Fr. Edwin confirming his resignation from the Presidency of Father Mathew Hall and the temperance sodality. The file also includes a signed notice of a special meeting of the Hall Committee affirming that the ‘"Record" was started by Fr. Aloysius [Travers], President of the Hall … [and] that the Office of the Record was transferred to the Hall premises’. The committee members contended that the 'Record' magazine was the property of the committee ‘and that the Provincial Superiors acted without consideration of the circumstances when … they decided to take it over and have it conducted independently of the committee and its President’. (10 June 1920).