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Register of receptions and professions of male members of the Third Order / Secular Franciscan fraternity attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The information is listed under name, address, name in religion, dates of reception and profession and remarks. Gilt title on the front cover reads ‘Third Order of St. Francis / Register of Members’.

Receipt and expenditure book of the brothers of the Third Order fraternity attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The volume includes receipts of subscriptions received from brothers and isolated tertiaries. Expenditure entries include monthly masses, postage, preacher stipends and newsletter publications.

Minute and notice book of the brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The minutes of monthly meetings refer to notices for novices, arrangements for pilgrimages and retreats, matters pertaining to attendance and observance, and notices of sick and deceased members. The title on the front cover reads ‘Notices Brothers Fraternity’. There is a gap in the minutes from Feb. 1968 to April 1974 and from the latter date until Aug. 1980.

A letter from the examiner of claims in relation to an application for an income tax exemption (charity) for the Catholic Boys’ Brigade, Church Street.

Letter from James J. Darragh, 154 North King Street, to Lieutenant McNamara thanking Boys’ Brigade members for their messages of condolence on the death of his mother. Darragh added ‘All I can say is that as long as I am connected with the Brigade (and which I intend to be for many years I hope, in spite of the many mean tricks that are being resorted to try to get me out of it), I will always look after the interests of the officers …’.

Letter from the Most Rev. Abraham Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory, to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, referring to an anonymous letter published in the 'Kilkenny Journal' appearing to advocate ‘the introduction of a Boys’ Brigade into Kilkenny to be worked by and under the supervision of your fathers in Walkin Street’. Brownrigg expresses his disapproval of such a proposal. With a letter from Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC assuring the Bishop that ‘our fathers in Kilkenny have no knowledge whatsoever of the anonymous letter … nor has there ever been any question or thought amongst us … of having anything to do with a Boys’ Brigade in your city’.

Bound volume containing newspaper clippings providing accounts of the tenement collapse and the subsequent funeral and burial of the seven victims. The clippings also give lists of subscribers to the relief fund established after the disaster. The volume also contains a manuscript list of twenty-seven Capuchin friars at St. Marys of the Angels, Church Street, at Rochestown College, and at Father Mathew’s (Holy Trinity) Church in Cork. The list is headed by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, ‘the Lord Mayor’s Chaplain’. The list also includes Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, ‘superior of Fr. Mathew’s Church, Cork’, and Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, President, Rochestown College, Cork. The volume also contains a manuscript list of people with private addresses in the environs of Church Street and North King Street. The list also notes ‘Father Mathew Hall’ for all the signatories. This may be a list of members of a religious sodality or, alternatively, a list of subscribers to the Tenement Disaster fund.