Statement of accounts of John Delaney, building yards and joinery works, Henry Street, Cork, to James Finbarre McMullen, architect, for contract work on Holy Trinity Church, on the adjoining Capuchin Friary, and on 24 South Mall. The costs relate to the addition of an extension to the Church, extensive interior decoration and structural alterations. Detailed summaries of the completed work (with costs) are provided in the statement. With cover letters from John Delaney to McMullen.
Statement of revenue account to the year ended 30 June 1911 with statement of liabilities of assets of Patrick Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin / 30 June 1911. One of the liabilities is a payment of £350 to Seumas MacManus. Prepared by D. O’Connor, chartered accountants, 13 Westmoreland Street, Dublin.
Resolutions of the Father Mathew Hall Committee referring to the statement of accounts for 1892 and to the generosity of subscribers who have allowed a ‘most satisfactory advancement of the work done by the sodality in previous years’.
A statement by Larry Whitehead, bus conductor, regarding the activities of Michael O’Riordan and Larry Wright, ‘two professed Marxists’, and Joseph Fahy, ‘a disciple of Trotsky’, in a branch of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union. Whitehead also refers in general terms of the threat of communist infiltration of the ITGWU.
dismissed but the notice of dismissal was withdrawn after the meeting of Fr. Kavanagh with the Board of Directors. Statement by James Murphy, sub-editor, The Standard, who was
Statement by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to the Chief of Staff of the IRA, Four Courts’ Barracks, on the need to stamp out Freemasonry in Ireland. The report reads: ‘Freemasonry is the same everywhere in principle and desire – to destroy all religion Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Pagan to make way for its own lewd and lustful phallic worship’. Fr Dominic urges that no restraint be shown in destroying Masonic emblems. He writes: ‘I think you may have no scruple in destroying them, I think they should be destroyed in as much as they are not religious emblems, but symbols of lewdness, lust and impurity. The reason for the destruction should be made publicly known’.
Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. and the Zambian National Judo team with President Kenneth Kaunda following a state reception in Lusaka
Creator: Father John Harrington
Father Harrington discusses the state in which Ferryhouse is held by the Order and how the Rosminians do not hold any corporate property.
A clipping of an article reporting on arrangements for the state funeral of Douglas Hyde. The article is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (15 July 1949).
Includes letters and bills from; Electricity Supply Board (ESB); the Office of Public Works; Department of Education; Cork Corporation.