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The file contains the following editions of this local newspaper:
29 June 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 26)
6 July 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 27)
Special commemorative editions of the 'Kilkenny People' published to mark the Congress of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland which was held in the city. The Congress had as its theme ‘Social Problems in Ireland’. The edition of 6 July 1935 contains a report of an address by Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.

Letter from Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, referring to a request from Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. for some items which he requires for the missions.

Correspondence of John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, Messrs W.K. Cleere & Son, 8 Ormonde Road, Kilkenny, regarding the design, dimensions, and installation of new confessional boxes in the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The enclosed designs of the new confessionals by John J. Robinson are extant at CA KK/2/3/17.

Letter from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church Street, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the mission list and querying an item in the accounts furnished from Capuchin General Curia in Rome.

Letter to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, from the Home Rule Club, John’s Quay, Kilkenny, conveying the organisation’s sympathy on the loss sustained by the Order following the death of Fr. Raphael Quinn OFM Cap. in California.

Letter from John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, 81 High Street, Kilkenny, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the will of Margaret Carthy (d. 6 Mar. 1940) in which she leaves the sum of £5 for masses to be said for the repose of her soul. The solicitors assert that ‘there are not sufficient assets to meet any of the legacies contained in the will of deceased, as all available monies will go towards paying her funeral expenses …’.

Bills of costs from W.K. Cleere & Son, 8 Ormonde Road, Kilkenny, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. for contract work on St. Anne’s Shrine and for the extension of the floor in the Third Order Chapel.

Letter to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. from Fr. Valentine OFM, Franciscan Convent, St. Laurence Street, Drogheda, enclosing a statement regarding Teresa Bradley’s (formerly Gilmartin) membership of the local congregation of the Third Order of St. Francis.

Letter from Thomas W. Franks, solicitor, agent for the Harty Estate, to John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, regarding the sale by John Slater of premises on Pennyfeather Lane to the Capuchin Friary. Franks refers to the Capuchins’ intention to ‘buy this property in order that they may have room for building at a future date … and to their intention to demolish the existing buildings on this holding which are more less derelict’. With a letter from John Lanigan & Nolan to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. confirming that the purchase of John Slater’s premises has been completed. The file also includes an acknowledgment from John Slater, a rent receipt and a certificate of rateable valuation for the said holding (30 Jan. 1939).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘X’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Seumas MacManus, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seamus de Faoite, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Piaras Ó hOisín (‘c/o McClory’, Pax House, Fr. Griffin Road, Galway), Pearse Hutchinson (‘Findrum’, Rathgar Road, Dublin), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Bishop John Dignan, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Sir Shane Leslie, Stanley B. James, Tomás S. Cuffe, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Vivian O’Connell OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork), L.V. Mill Arden (Main Street, Killarney, County Kerry), Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Canon Patrick Rogers, Thomas MacGreevy, Myles Farrell, Br. Laserian O’Connor OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Friary, Cork), Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Peter F. Anson, Germaine Stockley, Máire de Blacam, Br. Fergus Buckley OFM Cap. (Sichili Catholic Mission, Northern Rhodesia), Pádraig Ua Duinnín, Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Moira O’Scannlain (Red Forest Hills, New York), Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. (Capuchin Franciscan College, Rochestown, County Cork), Maud Gonne MacBride, Séamus Campbell, Benedict Kiely, Joseph Colligan (37 Lower Buckingham Street, Dublin), Elsie Crichton-Stuart, Mary Hardebeck, Sister M. Christopher (Assumption Convent, Cork), K. Murphy (Honorary Secretary, NUI Club, Shaftesbury Avenue, London), Marion King (3 Eaton Square, Monkstown, Dublin), David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Colin Johnston Robb, Máire Ní Shúilleabháin (Rodeen, Castletownbere, County Cork), Pat Lawlor (Nathans Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand), Francis McCullagh, Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh), Máirín Allen, Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Friary, Cork), Sr. Mary Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Richard King, C.P. Curran, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., and Dr A.T. Schofield (Inglewood, Melksham, Wiltshire).