Statement of accounts for Pilsworth Trust 1888, 'in ac[count] with Very Rev[eren]d P[eter] Duff [CM] & o[the]rs', regarding money due from Thomas Morrissey CM to Francis R Power.
Two statements of accounts. The first, dated 9 March 1912, is for the year ending 31 August 2911. The second is from 31 August 1911 to 29 February 1912.
Statement of accounts of John Delaney, building yards and joinery works, Henry Street, Cork, to James Finbarre McMullen, architect, for contract work on Holy Trinity Church, on the adjoining Capuchin Friary, and on 24 South Mall. The costs relate to the addition of an extension to the Church, extensive interior decoration and structural alterations. Detailed summaries of the completed work (with costs) are provided in the statement. With cover letters from John Delaney to McMullen.
Statement of accounts and bill of variations forwarded by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, relating to survey work carried out by Francis Shorthall, Chartered Quantity Surveyor, 10 Leinster Street, Dublin. The bills refer to the contract for the new library and extension at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street.
Statement of revenue account to the year ended 30 June 1911 with statement of liabilities of assets of Patrick Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin / 30 June 1911. One of the liabilities is a payment of £350 to Seumas MacManus. Prepared by D. O’Connor, chartered accountants, 13 Westmoreland Street, Dublin.
Resolutions of the Father Mathew Hall Committee referring to the statement of accounts for 1892 and to the generosity of subscribers who have allowed a ‘most satisfactory advancement of the work done by the sodality in previous years’.
A statement by Larry Whitehead, bus conductor, regarding the activities of Michael O’Riordan and Larry Wright, ‘two professed Marxists’, and Joseph Fahy, ‘a disciple of Trotsky’, in a branch of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union. Whitehead also refers in general terms of the threat of communist infiltration of the ITGWU.
Statement by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to the Chief of Staff of the IRA, Four Courts’ Barracks, on the need to stamp out Freemasonry in Ireland. The report reads: ‘Freemasonry is the same everywhere in principle and desire – to destroy all religion Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Pagan to make way for its own lewd and lustful phallic worship’. Fr Dominic urges that no restraint be shown in destroying Masonic emblems. He writes: ‘I think you may have no scruple in destroying them, I think they should be destroyed in as much as they are not religious emblems, but symbols of lewdness, lust and impurity. The reason for the destruction should be made publicly known’.
A clipping of an article reporting on arrangements for the state funeral of Douglas Hyde. The article is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (15 July 1949).