Play scripts and poem texts submitted by participants in the Father Mathew Feis. The plays are 'Cats of Egypt' by T.B. Morris (‘under 17 groups’) and 'The Tangled Web' by Austin Walsh (Immaculate Conception Club, Clondalkin, County Dublin). The file also includes works by Barbara Bingley, Joseph Chiari, William Allingham, and Herbert Gedger.
Play scripts for 'The Glassyman' by Sigerson Clifford, 'The Travelling Man' by Lady Gregory, 'Riders to the Sea' by John M. Synge and an adaptation of the 'Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allen Poe. The scripts have been annotated for performances in Father Mathew Hall.
Father Mathew Hall programmes for a Lecture and Memorial Concert, 9 Oct. 1949; the Dublin Shakespeare Society’s production of Hamlet, 25-28 Nov. 1954; the ‘Father Mathew National Drama Festival’; the Fourth Festival of Drama staged by the Irish Federation of Women’s Clubs, 17 Feb.-6 Mar. 1975.
Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet Plans, elevations and sections of the Capuchin Friary and St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, by William A. Maguire & Associates, 34 Lower Baggot Street. The file includes: • First floor plan • Second floor plan • Roof plan • Sections of the Friary and Church from several perspectives See also section below titled Church and Friary Renovation 1970-1975.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch; 1/8 inch to 1 foot Plans by Charles McCarthy & Son, Emmet Place, Cork, Richard Hennessy & Sons, engineers and contractors, 61 Grand Parade, Cork, and Thomas H.M. Wain, 15 Cook Street, consulting engineer, Cork. They show heating and piping installations for the ground, first and second floors of the Holy Trinity Friary and Church, Cork. For documentation relating to this building work see CA HT/2/5/22.
Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot Floor plans showing proposed building alterations to Father Mathew Hall and St. Brigid’s Hall. Ground and second floor plans showing proposed alterations to various rooms. References are made to the new proscenium wall and seating arrangements. The second plan shows Father Mathew Hall bordered to the north by Nicholas Avenue and to the south by the friary garden. Drawing ref. numbers: FMH 201/1-2. Drawn by E.G. O’Neill, 3 Dartmouth Square, Dublin 6.
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch Blue print of an electrical installation at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The plan shows various electrical works to be done in the auditorium, orchestra, stage and other rooms in the Hall. Plan by N. Mathews, consulting engineer, 104 Grafton Street, Dublin.
This section contains scale drawings used for building construction. The construction drawings include depictions of the Hall’s exterior, the interior electrical systems, the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning installations, and plumbing, structural systems and other building elements. The sub-series also includes blueprints and working print drawings used in construction and renovation.
A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.