Alphabetical register of members of the Sacred Heart Sodality, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Entries are listed under name, residence, guild number, date of enrolment (sometimes given as the Saint’s day for the day of enrolment), and remarks. Occasionally, details are given in relation to the dates of death of members. The title page is annotated: ‘Miss M. Kendrick appointed Secretary, June 1924. (Fr. Canice Bourke, OSFC, Director)’. The following list of directors of the Sodality is given: Fr. Ferdinand Glenny OFM Cap., January 1929. Fr. Macartan McGirr OFM Cap., August 1931. Fr. Ferdinand Glenny OFM Cap., September 1937. Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., October 1943.
Register (reception book) of the female members of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny. The entries are listed under date of reception, name, name in religion, address and by whom professed. Occasional remarks such as ‘deceased’ or ‘gone to Dublin’ are included for some individuals. The final page of the register contains a note by Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. indicating that the book has been closed and a new register opened (11 Apr. 1940).
A letter from Fr. C. O’Neill, St. Peter’s Presbytery, Milford Street, to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., a Capuchin friar, referring to the effects of bombing raids during the Belfast Blitz in April 1941. He writes ‘A great disaster has befallen this city and I have lost a few very saintly tertiaries. Many people have left, for the houses are not habitable; others have fled in fear. But no-one on the Falls Road area was injured. The Catholic Church in the city was damaged save for a few panes of glass. The disaster will affect our Triduum somewhat, but I think it is better to have it, all the same. It would never do to give up on prayer and the people are saying the Rosary in the streets every night in this parish. The horror of an air-raid is inconceivable until one has seen it’.
Cutting from a Kilkenny newspaper referring to a report in 'The Father Mathew Record' on an inspection tour by Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. for the proposed Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. See also CA AMI/1/3/1.
