Index book of individuals taken off the membership roll of the Third Order fraternity attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The information is listed alphabetically under name, address, guild number, date of enrolment and remarks (mainly in relation to attendance and the taking of communion). It appears that most of the members were removed due to non-attendance at meetings or moving (emigrating) away from Dublin. The title on the first page reads ‘Index of members taken off the books from 1932’.
Register of the Confraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Church Street. The register contains a list of names of individuals enrolled into the said Confraternity. Most of the names are attached to various Catholic schools (particularly in the Dublin area). Other enrolled members were associated with the Irish Bottle Company, Charlotte Quay, the Coombe Hospital, and the South Dublin Union.
Register of professions of female members of the Third Order fraternity attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The receptions are listed under date, address, and name in religion.
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’.
Newspaper cuttings covering the collapse of two tenement buildings at No. 66 and No. 67 Church Street on 2 Sept. 1913. The reports provide descriptions of the disaster and the subsequent funeral of the seven victims at St Michan’s Church, Halston Street. Some of the photographic prints show the attendance of Capuchin friars at the funerals including Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Fr. John Butler OSFC and Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC. The file includes cuttings from the 'Evening Telegraph', 'Irish Independent', 'Daily Sketch', and 'Freeman’s Journal'.
