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.
Irish Independent, Tom Mitchell, William Cosgrave, Peter Pisani, Éamon de Valera
Articles taken from the Irish Independent newspaper containing photographs and articles concerning the celebration of the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin in June 1929 including photographs of William Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council (Taoiseach), Peter Pisani, Archbishop of Constantia and numerous Irish bishops and archbishops.
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’.