Correspondence of Fr. Berchmans McCarthy OFM Cap, guardian, Ard Mhuire Friary, with Córas Iompair Éireann re travel concessions on rail and bus fares for the Capuchin community.
Correspondence with G.C. Pillinger & Co., 43 Grand Parade, Cork, regarding the inspection and maintenance of the boiler and heating systems at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. With promotional literature from the company.
Correspondence of Fr. Columbus Murphy OSFC, President, Father Mathew Hall, regarding demands for payments of income tax. The file includes demand notices and letters from the Inspector of Taxes. In April 1938 Fr. Columbus wrote ‘The Father Mathew Hall is the social centre attached to the Sacred Thirst Sodality. Since 1891 it has provided a club for the people of the district acting as a powerful factor in uplifting these people and encouraging temperance amongst them. In providing for these people decent and safe pastimes and entertainment we produce each year plays, concerts etc the artists in which are drawn from the members of our hall and are of course members of the Temperance Association Sodality. The Hall is heavily in debt and any profits are applied to reduce this debt’. Fr. Columbus later admitted that a good many of the shows staged in the Hall are run at a loss and that the ‘Feis is usually a financial failure – but it is doing good work so we continue’.
Correspondence of John George MacCarthy, solicitor, MP, 70 South Mall, Cork, with Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC regarding the serving of notices to quit on tenants occupying premises on Tory Top Lane, Cork.
A collection of letters sent to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. by republican internees and prisoners including Cathal Brugha, William Partridge, Constance Markievicz and Austin Stack.
Correspondence of Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, with Sean Ó hUadaigh, solicitor, 51 Dawson Street, Dublin, mainly concerning the renting of six cottages held by the trustees of Father Mathew Hall. The six cottages were 29-30 Bow Street and 11-15 Nicholas Avenue. The letters relate to efforts to secure the possession of 14 Nicholas Avenue from the relatives of Miss Effie Murphy, a former tenant of the said property (a notice of trespass was issued to George Murphy and his family), and the issuing of general notices to the occupiers in relation to an increase in rents. Other legal issues referred to in the correspondence include counsels’ opinion on title, insurance matters, the accounts of Father Mathew Hall and the title deeds of the Hall. The file includes costs from Ó hUadaigh in relation to leases and other matters pertaining to the title of the above-noted cottages.