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Bound volume containing numerous newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Many of the clippings also refer to the temperance campaign conducted by the Capuchin friars in the first decade of the twentieth century. The file includes:
• ‘The Father Mathew Memorial Hall / Address by His Grace the Archbishop / Temperance Reform and the New Parliament’, 'Freeman’s Journal', 5 Feb. 1906.
• Printed letter of the Most Rev. Patrick O’Donnell, Bishop of Raphoe, regarding the need for total abstinence. 20 Dec. 1905.
• ‘Temperance / Capuchin Fathers / Archbishop Walsh speaks of their services / Gaelic League’s work’. [Oct. 1905].
• ‘The Temperance Cause / Important Statements by the Bishop of Waterford / His Lordship’s condemnation of Clubs’, 'Cork Examiner', 5 Mar. 1902.
• ‘Total Abstinence Re-Union’, 'The Anglo-Celt', 23 July 1894.
• ‘Lecture by Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC in Father Mathew Hall, Dublin’, 12 Apr. 1904.
• ‘The Father Mathew Centenary / Laying the corner-stone of the Memorial Church, Charlotte Quay’, 'Cork Examiner', 7 May 1890.
• ‘The Temperance Question / The Industrial Movement’, 22 Mar. 1904.
• ‘The Father Mathew Centenary / The Celebration in Cork / Mr. John Redmond MP preaches a crusade’, 14 Oct. 1889. Refers to a meeting of the Father Mathew Branch of the League of the Cross held in Halston Street, Dublin, and planning for the centennial celebrations of the birth of Fr. Mathew in 1890.
• ‘The Archbishop of Dublin at Lucan / Blessing of a new cemetery / the temperance movement / Father Mathew’s statue, 'Freeman’s Journal', 12 May 1890. [at p. 26].
• ‘Temperance in Ireland and the Very Rev. P.J. Columbus Maher OSFC’. The file also includes a sketch of the grave-side of Fr. Columbus in Glasnevin Cemetery.
• ‘Diocese of Armidale / Dean Albert Mitchell’s OSFC Installation’.
• ‘The Total Abstinence Movement / St. Finbarr’s West Temperance Club / The Mathew Anniversary’, 'Cork Examiner', 14 Oct. 1902.
• ‘Temperance Cause / Father Mathew Anniversary / Address by Bishop of Achonry’, 'Freeman’s Journal', 10 Oct. 1916.

Correspondence of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Presbytery, Church Street, relating to arrears of an annuity (2s 6d) due from Michael Murphy, a tenant occupying premises on Bow Street. The file includes a certificate from the North Dublin Union Workhouse notifying the friends of Michael Murphy that his remains will be at their disposal on 24 Aug. 1887 and a receipt from Thomas Fitzpatrick and Mary Anne Fitzpatrick for £2 ‘which was the amount due by the Fathers to Mr. Michael Murphy for his holding which is now free forever from rent or charge of any kind. We accept this to bury him and renounce all further claims on the Community’.

Lease by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, ‘the sub-lessors’, to John Morgan, North King Street, ‘the sub-lessee’, of the houses known as nos. 56 Brown Street and nos. 43 and 44 Bow Street, for 134 years at the yearly rent of £10 and in consideration of the sum of £212 12s 0d. The deed contains an annexed sketch map depicting the demised premises. Scale: 16 feet to 1 inch.

This section includes deeds, leases and other legal documents relating to the title to three houses fronting onto Church Street (nos. 138-140) which subsequently became part of the present-day Capuchin Friary. It was evident that Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC (1849-1923) and the other Capuchins friars were eager to purchase these derelict properties with the intention of ‘pulling down the houses’ in order to expand the Friary. In 1886, Fr. Nicholas succeeded in acquiring these plots which later became part of the Friary garden. By 1914, a solicitor reported that all traces of the original buildings and houses had completely disappeared.

Assignment from the Munster Bank Ltd. (the vendors) to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (1836-1910), Fr. Nicholas Maurice Murphy OSFC and Fr. Bernard Joseph Jennings OSFC, Charlotte Quay, Cork (the purchasers) of the residue of a lease dated Oct. 1781 (see CA HT/2/1/2/4) of premises on Charlotte Quay in consideration of £2,500 – £500 to be paid immediately with the remaining sum to be paid in ‘five instalments of £400 each within five years from the date hereof with interest’. With a deed of covenant from the Bank indemnifying the purchasers in respect of any legacies, law suits, equity claims and demands arising out of the will and codicils of William Clarke on the said premises. The file also includes a copy memorial of an assignment from Fr. Seraphim Van Damme OSFC and others to Henry Sutton Noblet, solicitor, 25 South Mall, Cork, of the residue of the aforementioned lease in consideration of £20 (dated 1882).

Deed of covenant of title for the assignment of properties on Charlotte Quay from Thomas Wellbank Morgan, 13 Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, Kent, and others to Fr. Maurice (Nicholas) Murphy OSFC, Fr. Thomas (Matthew) O’Connor OSFC, Fr. Joseph (Bernard) Jennings OSFC and Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Charlotte Quay, Cork. The deed refers to the intended purchase by the Capuchin friars of the said premises as set out in a deed of assignment dated 21 Jan. 1895. With a declaration of James Scanlan, 69 South Mall, Cork, agent, affirming that he has, for the past sixteen years, received the rents of the Charlotte Quay properties for Thomas Wellbank Morgan. 1 Jan. 1895.

File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes:
• ‘The temperance movement in Whitehouse / Powerful sermon by Very Rev. Father Nicholas [Murphy], Dublin, 'The Irish News and Belfast Morning News', 18 Mar. 1902.
• ‘The temperance movement in Whitehouse / Powerful sermon by Very Rev. Father Nicholas [Murphy], Dublin, 'The Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner', 22 Mar. 1902.
• ‘Theobald Mathew / Anniversary Commemoration / Lecture by Very Rev. J.T. Murphy, President, Blackrock College / Speech by Mr. John Dillon MP’, 'Freeman’s Journal', 10 Dec. 1901.
• ‘The temperance crusade / Powerful appeal by Very Rev. Fr. Nicholas [Murphy] OSFC’, 4 Jan. 1902.
• ‘Temperance Cause’, 'Irish Catholic', 21 Oct. 1905.