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Twelfth annual report of the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, in 1891. The report notes that ‘in a few days prior to our last annual meeting, this whole building was formally opened by His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin for the advancement of the Total Abstinence cause, and of our Holy Religion in this district of the city’. The report refers to the various fundraising efforts undertaken in support of the local temperance movement. The file also includes a supplemental report (1892). The supplemental report states that an annual meeting ‘should have been held on the third Sunday in January but … His Eminence Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, had gone to reap in a better world the reward of a saintly life in this’. The reports include references to attendances at weekly temperance meetings and to the staging of various lectures, exhibitions and performances in the Hall.

Minute book of the committee organising the annual prize draw in aid of the Capuchin Publications Office. The principal prize was an automobile (either a Volkswagen or Austin car). The minute book covers routine organisational meetings from 1955 to 1967. With typescript inserts in the volume.

'An Stoc' was edited by Tomás Ó Máille (1880-1938). Ó Máille was born in Connemara and was educated in University College Manchester, in Freiburg and later in Berlin. He became professor of Irish studies at University College Galway. Among his published works were 'The language of the annals of Ulster' (1910); 'An Gaoth Aniar' (1920); 'MacDatho' (1927); 'Medb Chriachna' (1934); 'Diarmad Dann' (1936); 'An Béal Beo' (1936). He edited 'An Stoc', which contained Irish poetry, folklore extracts and other forms of cultural revivalist and nationalist literature. 'An Stoc' was published in Galway by Coláiste na h-Iolsgoile. The file contains the following issues:
Dec. 1917. Vol. 1, No. 1
Jan. 1918. Vol. 1, No. 2
Feb.-Mar. 1918. Vol. 1, No. 3
Apr.-May 1918. Vol. 1, No. 4.
Apr.-May 1920. Vol. 2, No. 10.

The file comprises the following editions of this weekly republican newspaper:
6 Nov. 1925 (Vol. 1, No. 21)-25 Dec. 1925 (Vol. 1, No. 28);
1 Jan. 1926 (Vol. 2, No. 1)-2 Apr. 1926 (Vol. 2, No. 14);
23 Mar. 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 8);
20 Apr. 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 12)-4 May 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 14);
18 May 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 16);
8 June 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 19).
Multiple copies of some editions are extant.

Drafts of an article by Padraig Ó Ríain titled ‘An Grammatica Celtica / a culra agus a hudar’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1970).

The file comprises the following editions of this Anti-Treaty republican publication: 20 Nov. 1923 (No. 2); 22 Nov. 1823 (No. 3); 11 Dec. 1923 (No. 10). Issue No. 3 is ink-stamped: ‘O’Dwyer, tobacconist and newsagent, 30 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork’.

A file containing an Irish language manuscript titled ‘An Craos-Deamhan’ (with English translation) by An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire. The manuscript (with the accompanying translation) was seemingly sent for serial publication in the ‘Cork Sun’ newspaper. The newspaper ran from 18 April 1903 to 1905. The text was sent to Máire Ní Shíthe, the Irish-language editor of the ‘Cork Sun’ (43 Grand Parade, Cork). The text relates to Cathal mac Finguine (died 742). The tale was edited in Irish with an Irish-English glossary by Ó Laoghaire in 1905. It was published by An tAthair Peadar as ‘An Craos–Deamhan ó’n seana–sgéal 'Aislinge Meic Con Glinne' (Dublin, 1905). An envelope in the file is annotated in the hand of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and reads: ‘The original manuscript of ‘An Craos-Deamhan’ by an tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire with his own English translation’.