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Memoranda regarding the history and work of the Conference of St. Francis (founded in 1905 by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.) in the environs of Greek Street and the Church Street Friary. The note refers to the building of Assisi House adjacent to the Greek Street flat complex opposite St. Michan’s Church of Ireland in which a boys’ club was founded in 1940. The note affirms: ‘In 1963 the premises known as Assisi House had to be demolished to make way for the widening of Church Street and since then we have not been able to find suitable accommodation to carry on our work’.

Copybook containing notes by Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, for his visitation to the Capuchin missions in Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa. The volume includes notes re meetings with regular superiors, individual friars, horariums, local customs, school and church constructions, baptisms, and other aspects of general missionary work.

Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars with Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. probably taken during his visitation in Africa in 1963. The photograph is annotated on the reverse giving the names of those present:
‘front row, left to right, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Alexander Halligan OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (Regular Superior), Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. Back, from left to right: Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Murphy OFM Cap.; Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap., Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap.’.

Agreement (dated 9 Sept. 1963) of Gerald More O’Ferrall, Elmore, 77 Park Avenue, Dublin, with Fr. Leonard Coughlan OFM Cap., Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, for the sale of nos. 133-134 Church Street, the house formerly known as no. 27 Bow Street and other properties as demised in the lease of 16 Dec. 1889. (See CA CS/2/2/5/11). The Capuchins are to pay the sum of £180 as part of the purchase money as a deposit and the residue before 28 Feb. 1964. The file includes numerous certified copies of conveyances, mortgages, schedules and other deeds relating to the title and later the sale of the aforementioned properties:
• Copy deeds for the appointment of new trustees for the said properties dated 2 May 1882; 15 Feb. 1889; 7 May 1910; 9 Sept. 1914. Certified copies compiled by A. O’Hagan & Son, 9 Harcourt Street, Dublin. 19 Sept. 1923.
• Declaration by Richard Ryan of A. O’Hagan & Son, solicitors for the vendor, affirming that on 31 July 1915 the properties were held by John More O’Ferrall (the father of Gerald More), and verifying that the said John More O’Ferrall acquired sole possession of the rents and profits of the properties following the death of his father Edward More O’Ferrall on 14 July 1914.
• Copy probate of the will of the said Edward More O’Ferrall (16 Sept. 1911) of Lisard, Edgeworthstown. Certified by A. O’Hagan & Son, solicitors, on 22 Aug. 1963.
• Requisitions on title to the premises known as 133-134 Church Street and 27 Bow Street, Dublin 7. Compiled by Alphonsus Grogan, solicitor, 1 Apr. 1963.
• Copy assignment and release of mortgage by the Munster & Leinster Bank Ltd. to Gerald More O’Ferrall (4 Sept. 1923). Certified by Brendan T. Walsh, solicitor, 4-5 Trinity Street, Dublin. The deed notes that Fr. J.B. Jennings OSFC occupied the premises on Church Street at the yearly rent of £51 8s 0d for 300 years from a lease dating to 1889.

Photographic print of Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, with a local woman and child at Sancta Maria Mission, Lukulu, Northern Rhodesia.

Ledger containing a monthly record of outgoing payments made from the Capuchin Publications Office. The information is given under date, recipient/company name, total, salaries, writers, printers, block-makers, photographs, advertising, insurance, office expenses, and petty cash.