Expenditure and receipt book for Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. An annotation on the front cover reads ‘Day book’. The entries are recorded under date, details and totals of expenses and receipts. Most of the expenditure relates to services and utilities such as rent, electricity, salaries and repairs. The receipts record monies mostly accruing from the showing of films, the sales of tickets and badges, and the use of the Hall for cards and billiards games.
Programme for St. Mary’s Boys Concert Party, ‘controlled by the Catholic Seaman’s’ Institute’, to be held in Father Mathew Hall, under the direction of Aloysius J. Johnson. With a list of invitations to the said concert.
Correspondence of Kathleen Murray, Honorary Secretary, Father Mathew Feis, mainly regarding requests from teachers and schools for Feis syllabuses, queries from adjudicators and letters of thanks to various sponsors. Includes a five-page typescript of a talk by Maurice Jacobson titled ‘The adjudicator and the music festival’. Other correspondents include the President of Father Mathew Hall.
Attendance register of the brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The entries in the volume are listed under name with his record of attendance at the weekly meetings. Some of the entry pages are titled ‘novices’. Notes and endorsements relating to subscriptions and receptions are extant on the final pages of the volume.
Two photographs of the Father Mathew Hall Orchestra on stage. The group includes Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. (front row, fifth from the right). Ink stamp on the reverse of one the prints reads: ‘Thomas Mathews, photographer, 6 Wynnfield Rd., Rathmines, Dublin’.
Correspondence mainly relating to repair work and insurance requirements for Father Mathew Hall, Cork. Includes letters from John A. Deasy, consulting engineer, Kelly and Barry & Associates, chartered architects, Br. Paul O’Donovan OFM Cap., and Barry O’Driscoll, solicitor.
Letters from Thomas Ryan & Sons, ecclesiastical sculptors, 30 & 32 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC, guardian, regarding the installation of statues and additions to the marble altar and pulpit at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny.
Copy lease of William Tankerville Chamberlain (1751-1802) , Justice of the Peace, Court of King’s Bench, Dublin, to William Hamilton and Mountjoy Hamilton, Stafford Street, Dublin, of a dwelling house on Church Street ‘near the old bridge’ for 900 years at the yearly rent of £10. The original lease is dated 4 March 1796. The copy was made at the Registry of Deeds for Thomas Falls, solicitor. The file includes a copy memorial of the said lease.
Correspondence of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC relating to a Corporation plan for the widening of Carter’s Lane. Most of the correspondence relates to a dispute with John Rogers who possessed stores at the corner of Smithfield facing onto Carter’s Lane and who objected to the scheme. The file includes a printed 'Report of the Paving Committee' which notes that Messrs John Jameson & Sons, the head landlords, have raised no objection to the proposed scheme. The Reports reads: ‘We are informed that nearly half the congregation of St. Mary’s Church are obliged to use this thoroughfare, in addition to which, on market days, loads of hay and straw are constantly passing through it’. 21 May 1912. Correspondents include Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Ignatius Rice, law agent, Dublin Corporation, and the Local Government Board.
