Declaration of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph (Columbus) Maher OSFC, Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC and Fr. Christopher Augustus Nangle OSFC regarding title to the plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon the Roman Catholic Church known as St. Mary of the Angels now stands. The file also includes a similar declaration by James Spring, 65 Eccles Street, Dublin, certifying that his father Richard Spring, Fr. Daniel Murray and Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC were assigned the said premises as joint tenants for the residue of the term of 99 years granted in the original lease of 4 Aug. 1826 (See CA CS/2/2/1/2). The declarations refer to an annexed plan with the plot delineated in red and the boundary of St. Mary of the Angels’ Church coloured blue. The plan (22 cm x 24 cm) was drawn by O’Neill & McCarthy, architects, and is endorsed with the signatories of the parties to the declarations. With burial and death certificates for the aforementioned Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC (date of internment: 6 Nov. 1840); Richard Spring (date of death: 19 Jan. 1864); the Most Rev. Daniel Murray, late Archbishop of Dublin (internment: 1 Apr. 1852).
The file contains the following editions of this newspaper published in London (No. 127, Strand):
22 Feb. 1815 (No. 3,805)
23 Feb. 1815 (No. 3,806)
Correspondence of Fr. Dan Joe O’Mahony OFM Cap., President, Br. Daniel O’Brien OFM Cap., Celia Hanley and Patricia Melligan, secretaries, Father Mathew Feis, mostly seeking subscriptions for corporate sponsorship and requests from teachers for poems and other Feis syllabi, and arrangements for competition adjudicators and students. The file includes a letter from Thelma Conlan, President, Speech and Drama Teachers Association, affirming that it ‘would be a great loss if a Feis of such stature was to become a thing of the past’. She suggests to Fr. Dan Joe that the ‘Association would be prepared to take over the running of this excellent Feis’; a letter from A. Ó hAonghusa, secretary to Michael D. Higgins, Minister for Arts, regretting that he cannot attend the launch of the Feis (9 Feb. 1993). With a newspaper clipping from the 'Evening Herald', 8 Feb. 1997, referring to the Feis Maitiú and the TV personalities who appeared in the Feis including Gay Byrne, Brenda Fricker, Frances Black and Hugh O’Connor.
Letter from Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Cork, to Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap., enclosing a notice from the Cork Corporation Fire Department regarding the use of the Hall for bingo.
Sans titreFile includes sermon preached by Bishop Florence McCarthy, Bishop of Cork, dated between 1802 – 1810 and two typewritten copies of this sermon ; typewritten copy of a sermon preached by Late Very Rev. Thomas Burke, O.P. ; two typewritten copies of a sermon given on 21 November 1782 for the reception of Miss Oliffe; sermon delivered by Archdeacon James Bastible, on 9 May 1771, on the occasion of the bi-centenary of the Ursuline Sisters coming to Cork; talk by Fr. Peel O.P. on Nano Nagle; Nano Nagle; and Undaunted daughter of Desires a Study in Sanctity by T.J. Walsh (handwritten).
Sans titreA bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘cuttings’. The volume contains newspaper and magazine clippings reflecting a wide range of literary and religious subjects. The volume includes several obituaries for prominent Irish emigrants (both religious and lay) in North America. The file also includes original photographs and ephemera relating to a pilgrimage to Ireland organised by Richard Cushing (1895-1970), Archbishop of Boston, in 1949. The photographs show Archbishop Cushing meeting various political and religious figures, including President Seán T. O’Kelly, Taoiseach John A. Costello, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop John D’Alton, Paul A. Dever (Governor of Massachusetts), and the Capuchin friars, Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. Typescript documents and ephemera are also extant in the volume, including material sourced from ‘The Advocate’ (Melbourne, Australia), and ‘The Father Mathew Record’.
A copybook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the letters refers to the pilgrimage to Rome organised by Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. which included Senator Margaret Pearse, Cormac Breathnach, and Thomas MacGreevy. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Gerard Fassler OFM Cap. (Mahenge Mission, Tanzania), Fr. Frederick Lynk SVD (editor, ‘The Christian Family’, Evanston, Illinois), Adolf Morath (photographer), William Monk Gibbon, Cormac Breathnach (Lord Mayor of Dublin), Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Jarlath A. O’Connell, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Sister Eveleen Coyle RSCJ (Convent of the Sacred Heart, Armagh), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Archbishop John Charles McQuaid (refers to admissions to Trinity College Dublin), and Bernard Halliday (bookseller, Leicester, refers to the letters of ‘William Gladstone and Sherlock’ which Fr. Senan has purchased as a ‘collector of autographs of Irish interest’, 13 June 1950).
Official Communiqués from Republican Ministers including Éamon de Valera, President; Austin Stack, Minister for Finance; Padraig Ó Ruitleis, Minister for Home Affairs. These typescript duplicates of communiqués were published by the publicity department of the Anti-Treaty ‘Dail Eireann’ Republican Government. Includes Statement on ‘Why the Four Courts was Attacked’; Statements for publication regarding the trial of Capt. Erskine Childers in November 1922; Statement regarding the treatment of Joseph Clarke by Free State authorities. Clarke acted as the courier for the First Dáil but was interned from January 1921. Released in 1923, he acted as caretaker of the Sinn Féin headquarters on Harcourt Street, and founded the Irish Book Bureau. Although the Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin rejected participation in the Dáil, they continued to contest local elections, and Clarke sat on Dublin Corporation. (13 Nov. 1922); Proclamation by Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of the IRA, declaring allegiance to De Valera as President of the Republic and pledging ‘our support in all the legitimate efforts to maintain and defend the Republic …’. 3 copies. (28 Oct. 1922); Order from Padraig Ó Ruitleis, Minister for Home Affairs, decreeing ‘that until further notice the present be observed as a time of National mourning, that all sports and amusements be suspended, that all Theatres, picture houses and other places of amusement and rest be closed …’. (13 Mar. 1923); ‘Cease Fire Order’ issued by Éamon de Valera on 27 April 1923: ‘As evidence of our good-will, the Army Council [of the IRA] is issuing herewith an Order to all Units to suspend aggressive action – the order to take effect as soon as may be, but not later than noon Monday, April 30th’. With blank nomination form used by Republican candidates in the parliamentary elections for the Third Dáil Eireann held on 16 June 1922. Printed by Browne & Nolan, Ltd., Printers, Dublin.
Flier advertising plays to be performed by pupils of Scoil Éanna (St. Enda’s School), Cullenswood House, Oakley Road, on 5-7 February 1910. The plays to be performed were ‘The Destruction of the Hostel’ by Padraic Colum and ‘Iosagán’ by Patrick Pearse. Includes lists of performers in each of the plays and contextual notes on the plays.
Photographic prints by Arthur O’Callaghan. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:
• Shop Street, Galway.
• Silver Strand, County Wicklow.
• Chapelizod, Dublin.
• Dublin Mountains.
• Lough Corrib, County Galway.
• Slane Castle, County Meath.
• Romanesque Doorway, Castledermot, County Kilkdare.
• Drogheda, County Louth.
• Balbriggan Harbour, County Dublin.
• The Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow.
• Hollywood Glen, County Wicklow.
• Countryside near Castlecomber, County Kilkenny.
• Prospect Point, Swords, County Dublin.
• Lough Ramor, County Cavan.
• Clonmacnoise, County Offaly.
• Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ballymote, County Sligo.
• Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar, County Westmeah.
• St. Patrick’s Well, Oran, County Roscommon.
• River Moy, County Sligo.
• Boyle Abbey, County Roscommon.
• Canal Bridge, Lesson Street, Dublin.
• River Liffey from Knockmaroon Hill, Dublin.
• St. Mel’s Cathedral, Longford.
• Donaghmore Church and Round Tower, County Meath.
• Courthouse, Dundalk, County Louth.
• The Bull Ring, Wexford.
• The Yellow Steeple (St. Mary’s Abbey), Trim, County Meath.
• Thatched cottage near Lusk, County Dublin.
• Bridge across the River Shannon at Drumsna, County Leitrim.
• Trim Castle, County Meath.
• Countryside around Letterfrack, County Galway.
• Ballinasloe, County Galway.
• Dun Laoighaire Harbour, County Dublin.
• Lough Ennell, County Westmeath.
• Taaffe’s Castle, Carlingford, County Louth.
• Market day, Longford.
• Lough Derg, County Tipperary.
• Clogher Head, County Louth.
• Saint Laurence’s Gate, Drogheda, County Louth.
• Lough Derravaragh, County Westmeath.
• Kilcullen, County Kildare.
• Ballyhaunis, County Mayo.
• Baldongan Castle [Baldungan Church], County Dublin.
• Skerries Harbour, County Dublin.
• The Hill of Mael, County Westmeath.
• Charlestown, County Mayo.
• Brittas, County Wicklow.
• Thatched cottage in Rathowen, County Westmeath.
• Maynooth, County Kildare.
• O’Connell Bridge, Dublin.
• Belclare, County Galway.
• Fore Abbey, County Westmeath.