Flier giving a schedule of various events associated with the Father Mathew Centenary in Dublin in October 1890. The flier refers to the ceremony (19 October 1890) for the laying of the top-stone of the pedestal upon which the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville Street will be erected. Other events include a grand concert and public meetings in the Rotunda, Dublin. Printed by the 'Freeman’s Journal', Ltd., Dublin.
Flier from the Halston Street Total Abstinence Society seeking subscriptions to fund the building of a new Hall on a site ‘secured at the junction of Church Street and Bedford Street’. The flier notes that ‘until now the work [of the Sodality] has been done in a wretchedly small hall which is no longer available for the perpetuation and increase of this great social reform’. The flier also provides a list of subscriptions for the fund.
Fliers re meetings of landowners in County Louth called by the Provisional Committee of the Landowners and Encumbrancers’ Association and to be held in Dundalk. One of the fliers was issued by G.C. Smyth, Sheriff of County Louth.
Fliers requesting assistance from the public for the renovation of St. Mary of the Angels. A flier from Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., guardian, declares that the ‘Church was built over 90 years ago. … Since then no major work has been carried out. We have been advised by our architects that the roof must be replaced immediately. The total cost will not be less than £35,000’.
Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot Floor plans for heating and boiler works at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, by Musgrave & Co. Ltd., St. Ann’s Ironworks, Belfast. The plan is for Fr. Camillus Killian OSFC, guardian. Tracing no.: 35624.
Scale: 1 inch to 60 feet First and second floor plans for the proposed additions to the Capuchin Friary by Samuel F. Hynes, architect, 41 South Mall, Cork. The plan is titled ‘Drawing No. 2’. The second floor contains mostly cells whilst the first floor includes guest rooms, the upper part of the choir and the library.
A view of the quay at Queenstown, County Cork, in about 1900. The image shows the ‘Flying Fox’, a small paddle steamer and tug, used to ferry passengers and luggage to transatlantic liners before their passage to North America. The ‘Flying Fox’ was later involved in the rescue of survivors from the ‘Lusitania’ following an attack by a German submarine on 7 May 1915. The ‘Flying Fox’ was owned by the Clyde Shipping Company. She was built in 1885 and seems to have spent most of her life in Cork. During the First World War it was requisitioned by the British Admiralty as ‘Flying Fox II’. In 1919, she was sold to the Moville Steamship Company and worked in Lough Foyle until 1927, as the ‘Cragbue’.
