Minute book of the committee organising the annual prize draw in aid of the Capuchin Publications Office. The principal prize was an automobile (either a Volkswagen or Austin car). The minute book covers routine organisational meetings from 1955 to 1967. With typescript inserts in the volume.
Programmes for concerts and operatic performances organised as fund-raisers for 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes programmes for concerts held in the Gresham Hotel on 30 Aug. 1964 and on 28 Aug. 1966. The programmes list the music played and the performers. Include autographs of some of the operatic singers.
Lists of prize-winners for 'The Capuchin Annual' prize draw for 1962-3. With official licences from the Dublin Metropolitan Court for the promotion of a lottery. The file is kept within the covers of an 'Irish Industrial Year Book' (1931) from which the pages have been torn
Summaries of receipts and expenditure of the Capuchin Publications Office from 1965-71. Includes figures relating to the financial position of the two publications, 'The Capuchin Annual' and 'Eirigh'. With figures in respect of costs, amounts received from sales, advertising and subscriptions. With manuscript note (in pen) concerning the publications’ financial position in 1971-2.
Invoices from the Irish Photo Engraving Company, Cuffe Lane, Dublin 2. The invoices include copies of the requested photographic engravings. The engravings include sketches of Capuchin life by Grace Perry, illuminated pages from the Book of Kells, the Tara Brooch, Michael Collins, liturgical paintings by Richard King, and the first meeting of Dáil Éireann.
Off-print copy of 'Padna / The Story of a Corn-Porter' by D.L. Kelleher (1924). It is noted that ‘Padna’ is a version of ‘Cork’s Own Town’, originally published in 1920.
Offprint of an article by Burke Wilkinson titled ‘Erskine Childers / The Boston Connection’. The article was originally published in the 'Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society', 86 (1974), pp 53-63.
A collection of newspaper clippings and articles assembled by the editors of 'The Capuchin Annual'. Some of the clippings relate to the roles played by various Capuchin friars in events associated with the Irish Revolution. Other newspaper and magazine clippings include articles reviewing and critiquing various editions of the 'Annual'.
The series contains a collection of prints, drawings and photographs relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Most of the prints were produced for commemorative and devotional purposes and to celebrate Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign.
Copies of the 'Cork Examiner' (11 Oct. 1886) and the 'Cork Daily Herald' (11 Oct. 1886) with articles noting local commemorations of the anniversary of Fr. Mathew’s birthday.