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Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from James Coleman FRSAI, 2 Rosehill Terrace, Queenstown, County Cork, concerning information on the predecessor to the Old Capuchin chapel on Blackamoor Lane, Cork. Coleman also expresses his satisfaction to find ‘a member of the Capuchin Order really interested in its history … [as] a large number of the Order now in Cork and Rochestown show nothing in the way of literary production any more than the secular priests who to my mind were never more illiterate than they are now’. With manuscript and typescript copies of the Coleman’s letters compiled by Fr. Angelus and a newspaper clipping of Coleman’s letter to the 'Cork Examiner' (19 Apr. 1924), referring to the chapel on Blackamoor Lane which was in use from 1771-1850.

Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., St. Bonaventure’s, Cork, seeking information on the Capuchins of Cork city (with sources) from circa 1654-1766. Fr. Stanislaus refers to Fr. T.J. Walsh’s article on the Cork Capuchins: ‘It reaches a high level, and will read well. You know he is preparing it for the Capuchin Annual, with illustrations’.

Letter from Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC regarding a story told to him by the Most Rev. Thomas Francis Hendricken (1827-1886), Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, during a visit to Kilkenny in c.1873. The story concerns a false accusation made against a priest by a young woman in the early 1830s. Fr. O’Dea also referred to his temperance ministry in India where the 2nd Battalion of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment were quartered. With a typescript note by Fr. Angelus.

Ledger and account book for the Capuchin community at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The ledger contains details of routine income and expenditure including wages for lay staff, building repairs, and various foodstuffs and groceries. Entries for income relate primarily to collections, donations, and bequests. The pages are pre-paginated in the volume. The mass register for the community commences at p. 86 and is titled ‘Liber pro missis dicendis ad intentionem superious localis’. The register provides a list of the names of individuals to whom a special intention or prayer is offered. The register runs from 16 Aug. 1886-31 Oct. 1889. The entries are signed by the celebrating priest. The mass intentions’ register runs from pp 86-309. A typescript insert is also extant. It reads: ‘Dublin House Ledger, July 1882 to July 1883. … income and expenditure during my administration, commencing July 1st 1882, Convent and Church of Our Lady of Angels Church Street, Dublin, D.A. [Albert] Mitchell, OSFC, Ex. C. Prov.’.
The front cover has been annotated by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.: ‘This ledger contains I. House expenses (Dublin) from 1st July 1882 to July 2nd 1883. II. Community Masses from August 16th 1886 to Oct. 31st 1889.
Guardians:
Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC, 1882-1883
Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC, 1883-1886
Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, 1886-1889’.

Lease by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC and other Capuchin friars, Franciscan Capuchin Friary, Church Street, to Robert Kavanagh, grocer, tobacconist and confectioner, of the dwelling house and premises known as no. 151 Church Street, together with a plot of ground upon which nos. 11-15 May Lane formerly stood, for 150 years at the yearly rent of 1s and in consideration of the sum of £300. With a letter from Seán Ó Huadhaigh, solicitor, to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., regarding Kavanagh’s lease of 12 May Lane and questions re the title to the premises. 20 Mar. 1969.

Letters from Mrs Poer Shee [var. Power Shee], Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Vicar Provincial, regarding negotiations for the handing over of the Archer Chalice to the Capuchins in Kilkenny. The chalice was originally presented by Walter Archer to the Chapel of the Blessed Mary in the Monastery of St. Francis in Kilkenny in 1606. Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC wrote to Fr. Paul explaining that Miss Poer Shee ‘will hand over the chalice to us in Kilkenny to be held until the Franciscans would get a foundation there, when she would wish it to go there (as being more in accordance with its origins) … . She gives the chalice quite freely and generously’. It is unclear from the correspondence if the agreement handing over the chalice to the Capuchins was ever fulfilled. With a sketch of the chalice. The file also includes a letter from [J.S. Gill], St. Mary’s, Lanark, Scotland, to Fr. Angelus regarding an ‘OFM Chalice’ with a Kilkenny connection dating to 1632 (the letter is dated 20 Feb. 1936), and a clipping from 'The Father Mathew Record', Vol. 39, No. 6 (June 1945) of an article titled ‘The Story of a Chalice’ by Colin Johnston Cobb. The said chalice is inscribed ‘CAPVCINORUM LOCI KILKENIAE’. See also CA KK/8/15.

Photographic print of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. with five other Capuchin friars and a young girl. The photograph was taken at Doe Castle, County Donegal. One of the other friars is Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.
Note: A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads: ‘Taken at Doe Castle, July 12th, 1930’.