The series contains a large collection of historical research notes, correspondence and transcripts relating to the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The series has been divided into seven sub-series and includes compilations of research notes created by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953), and Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (1915-1997), Capuchin friars who undertook extensive research into Fr. Mathew’s life and ministry. Note that (in most instances) the date element refers to the original date of creation of the document or the time-period to which the research pertains.
• Photocopy of Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap., 'The Eager Heart / A short life of Father Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / The Apostle of Temperance' (Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1961), 24 pp. • Photocopy of an article by Professor W.F.P. Stockley, ‘Theobald Mathew’s Work (1838-1938)’, 'Bonaventura' (Winter 1938), pp 33-49. • Photocopy of an article by Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., ‘Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856)’, 'Bonaventura' (Winter 1940-41), pp 121-9. • An article on Fr. Theobald Mathew transcribed from 'The Father Mathew Record'. Typescript, 4 pp.
Copy will of the Reverend John Burrows of Prospect in the County of Dublin. Certain lands are mentioned: Fernsboro also known as Renahan Bawn, Derivorue, Abbeyland, Toneymore, Aghaboy, Aughakine, Aughabrack and Granard in the County of Longford. There is a lot of detail about who is to inherit what.
Date: 1791-1797 Author: Francis Grose (c.1731-1791) Publisher: London, Vol. 1: Printed for S. Hooper, MDCCXCI; Vol. II, Printed for M. Hooper & Wigstead, MDCCXCVII Full title: 'The antiquities of Ireland'
This section includes deeds, leases and other legal documents relating to the title of properties on Carter’s Lane which was located off Bow Street. The documents mostly relate to properties and a dairy yard situated on Carter’s Lane between Bow Street and Smithfield Market. The section also includes the correspondence of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC with the Corporation of Dublin regarding a scheme for the improvement of the area around Carter’s Lane.
Lease by Jonathan Lynch, Roscrea, County Tipperary, cutler, to James Finegan, Carter’s Lane, dairyman, of a piece of ground on the north side of Carter’s Lane for 91 years at the yearly rent of £11 7s 6d.
Copy lease by Atwell Hayes, Cork, to Christopher Allen, Burgess, Cork, of ‘one field or meadow with a garden thereon situate and being in Friars Walk in the South Liberty of the said City of Cork containing 3 acres 2 roods 6 perches … and also 3 fields part of the lands of Curraconway containing 5 acres and twenty seven perches statue measure’, for 850 years at the yearly rent of £26 2s 4d. An annotation in the margin indicates that the aforementioned lot on Friars Walk was assigned to the Capuchin friars ‘and indemnified by the other lot against a greater rent of £70 10s 0d’.
This section includes deeds, leases and other legal documents relating to the acquisition of properties and plots of ground at 47-50 North King Street. In 1861, Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC was appointed Capuchin Commissary General in Ireland. He immediately set about the task of building a new Capuchin Friary and Church in Dublin. When he could not procure any ground near the existing chapel on Church Street (except on a short lease of thirty years), he begun to look for another site, and found one at 47-50 North King Street. With the permission of the Most Rev. Paul Cullen (1803-1878), Archbishop of Dublin, he set about acquiring these sites. First, he got possession of nos. 49 and 50 and the two houses were fitted up as a temporary friary pending the erection of new buildings. On 23 July 1862, the Capuchin community left their residence at 18 Queen Street and took up residence in North King Street. Later that year, Fr. Gallerani obtained possession of two more houses (nos. 47-8), and on the advice of the Archbishop, began to build a friary before commencing work on a new church. Partly as a result of the opposition of the parish clergy of St. Michan’s, the Capuchins went no further on North King Street than building the friary which they inhabited for several years. The North King Street properties were sold by the Capuchins in 1883, when the present-day Friary was built on Church Street.
Lease of Ann Boyd, widow, Jane Hamilton, Ann Boyd, spinsters, and Henry Lawes Luttrell (1737-1821), 2nd Earl of Carhampton to Mathew Butler of a house with its appurtenances situated on the north side of King Street, Oxmanstown, Dublin, for 999 years at the yearly rent of £44. With a later copy.
