Invitation card to the 34th annual meeting of the Father Mathew Memorial Hall, from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OSFC, President. The speakers include J.T. Kelly, T.C, Joseph Mooney, and the Rt. Hon. Justice Moloney.
Blank invitation card to the Pontifical Mass held in Holy Trinity Church to mark the centenary of the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The mass was celebrated by the Most Rev. Cornelius Lucey, Bishop of Cork, on 9 Dec. 1956.
An invitation card to a private viewing of Evie Hone paintings of the Stations of the Cross (commissioned for the parish church in Kiltulla in County Galway).
An invitation card for the first meeting of Dáil Éireann held on 7 January 1919. This inaugural meeting was held in private with only Sinn Féin members invited. The principal business conducted at this meeting was the election of a committee tasked with the drawing up of key documents to be discussed at the first sitting of the Dáil proper which was held on 21 January in the Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin.
An invitation to a ceremony conferring the Freedom of Dublin upon Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, and Paul A. Dever, Governor of Massachusetts, at City Hall. The invitation was sent to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (Volume page 49).
Letters to Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. responding to invitations to attend the blessing and opening of the Capuchin House of Studies and the new Ard Mhuire Friary on 13 Nov. 1966. The attendees included many local parish priests, Capuchin friars, members of other religious congregations and various lay people involved in the construction of the buildings. The file also includes a copy of the official declaration of the blessing of the foundation (in Latin) signed by Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, a list of donations to the building fund, an invitation card to the solemn blessing and opening and a menu card for the celebratory dinner.
Draft and galley-proof of an ‘Invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary / a translation of a very early Irish poem – perhaps as early as the sixth century’.
Invoices (and estimates) from Dollard Printing House, Mornington Park, Dublin 5, re printing costs for 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file also includes calculations for the costs of printing the 'Annual' from 1973 to 1976. It is noted that there was over a ninety percent increase in printing costs in these years. The total cost for printing 6,288 copies in 1976 was £14,532.24.