Articles on Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary published in 'The Father Mathew Record', an Irish Capuchin periodical magazine. The file includes:
• The opening of the new Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary. 'The Father Mathew Record', Jan. 1967, pp 12-29. With numerous photographic prints of the official ceremony which was held on 13 Nov. 1966.
• An article on the history of Ards House by Edward MacIntrye. 'The Father Mathew Record', Feb. 1967, pp 18-24.
See also CA DL/6/15.
Author: Rev. J. Halpin PP
Publisher: Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 50 Upper O’Connell Street
Language: English
Genre: Juvenile Literature
Includes a portrait illustration of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.
A copy of ‘The Father Mathew Man’, No. 4 (August 1923). This was a periodical published by a temperance organisation in the United States.
Author: Sir John Pope Hennessy (1834-1891)
Publisher: Cork: Guy & Co. Ltd., 70 Patrick Street
Language: English
Full title: 'Temperance and Nationality / The Father Mathew Centennial Oration / Delivered in Cork, 10th October, 1890'.
Inscribed on bowl: ‘Feis Maitiú. The Father Mathew Centennial Memorial Trophy (Perpetual Challenge Cup). To commemorate the Centenary of Fr. Mathew’s Death which occurred in 1856’. On reverse of the bowl: ‘Presented by John Cahill. Lay Vice President of Father Mathew Hall. Easter 1956’.
A view of the Falls Road, Belfast, looking towards the Diamond Cinema, in about 1950.
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The escape from Mountjoy / and other prison experiences of an Irish volunteer, Padraic Fleming (convict E-445) / written by the Rector of an Irish college / with a foreword by Piaras Beaslai, T.D.’ (New York: Reprinted by the Friends of Irish Freedom, Inc., [c.1921]).
A postcard print of the gatehouse (or porter's lodge) at the ruined Mellifont (Cistercian) Abbey in County Louth.
A leaflet listing Irish republicans who died in English jails. The final line reads ‘What are you going to do?’ Manuscript annotation reads ‘9th March 1919’.
A reprint of an article from the ‘Daily Express’ extolling the ‘noble work done by the Orange Committee’. Issued from the Committee’s Offices in Dublin by Athol Johnson Dudgeon, honorary secretary.