History of Father Mathew Hall and Feis Maitiú Corcaigh
- IE CA HA/2/1/14
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- c.1985
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
History of Father Mathew Hall and Feis Maitiú Corcaigh
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Letters from Arnold Bax (1883-1953), 155 Fellows Road, London, and Grosvenor Hotel, Chester, to Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Cork. In 1929 the Feis Maitiú Corcaigh invited Bax, a well-known composer and poet, to become an adjudicator marking the beginning of a 24-year friendship with the prestigious local music festival. Most of the correspondence relates to arrangements for the Cork Feis and other matters of musical interest. The file includes fifteen original items in Bax’s hand. With contemporary manuscript and later typescript copies of Bax’s letters. The file also includes a typescript appreciation of Arnold Bax possibly written by Fr. O’Shea. It reads ‘The way he [Bax] came to Cork was simple enough. I attribute his coming to the initiative of Frau Fleischmann in the meeting of the Feis Maitiú Committee that was considering adjudicators for the year 1929. I remember at the time that it was mentioned that Bax had rather a Celtic strain in his compositions and the he would like to come’. Also includes a newspaper cutting of a letter from Bax to the 'Daily Telegraph' referring to a performance by a choir at the Catholic Cathedral in Cork. In Irish and English.
Letter from Earley & Company to Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OSFC
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Letter from Earley & Company, stained glass manufacturers, to Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OSFC and the community of friars in Kilkenny guaranteeing their work on the ceiling of St. Francis Church.
Letter from Earley & Company to Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OSFC
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Letter from Earley & Company, stained glass manufacturers, to Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OSFC re questions over liability for works executed in the Capuchin Friary Church in Kilkenny.
Holy Trinity Church and Friary
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An image of Holy Trinity Church and the adjoining Capuchin Friary before the completion of the spire and gothic portico in 1890.
Charlotte House, Queen Street, Cork
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Prints of Charlotte House at the corner of Queen Street and Charlotte Quay (now known as Father Mathew Street and Father Mathew Quay) in Cork. The building is five storeys in height. The gable end is topped with a cross. The building was located on a site on the south-east corner of Queen Street. Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC converted this house into a residence for the friars and Charlotte House, as it was known, remained in use until 1884 when the Capuchins took up residence in the present-day Holy Trinity Friary built by Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (1836-1910). The print may have been taken from a volume.
Interior of Holy Trinity Church, Cork
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
Photograph of the interior and High Altar of Holy Trinity Church in Cork.
Photographer/Studio: [Lawrence Studio, Dublin].
An ink stamp on the reverse: ‘Go mBeannuig Dia Dhuit, Nodlag 1917’. Printed title on front reads 'Interior, Father Matthew's [sic] Church, Cork'.
Exterior of Holy Trinity Church, Cork
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
A postcard print of the exterior of Holy Trinity Church and adjoining Capuchin friary viewed from the opposite bank of the South Channel of the River Lee in Cork.
Exterior of Holy Trinity Church, Cork
Parte de Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of the exterior of Holy Trinity Church on Father Mathew Quay viewed from the opposite bank of the South Channel of the River Lee in Cork.
Ordinations at Holy Trinity Church, Cork
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A group photograph of Capuchin friars probably on the occasion of ordinations at Holy Trinity Church in Cork. An annotation on the the reverse identifies the friars in the image: ‘Front: Frs. Fiacre (Guardian), Peter (Provincial Minister), the Most Rev. Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, Sylvester, Martin; Back: Frs. Macartan, Bonaventure, Cassin, Felix, Kieran, Pacificus, Edwin, Fintan, Conleth’.
Daniel Cohalan