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Notices of meetings of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade Committee, Church Street. The file includes invitations requesting attendance at annual meetings which were held in the Brigade Hall, Church Street. The notices and resolutions are mainly signed by James J. Darragh, Honorary Secretary, and refer to routine administrative matters including the election of officers, expenditure and accounts, the arrangement of rooms and premises, the repair of the Hall, and various rules and constitutional matters. The file also includes the correspondence of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and James J. Darragh regarding a dispute within the committee regarding an amendment to rule 10 of the constitution which noted that the ‘Brigade shall be governed by the President assisted by a Capuchin Father as Vice President who shall be appointed by the President. … The President alone shall have authority in spiritual matters – the lay members being responsible for the financial affairs’.

Constitution of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade authorised under the patronage of the Most Rev. William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin. One copy is endorsed on the front cover ‘Founded by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OFM Cap.’. The file contains eight copies of the document.

A flier titled 'A plea for the Catholic Boy’s Brigade by E.D. Daly'. The flier refers to the good works performed by Boys’ Brigade members in the Church Street area and seeks subscriptions to aid the organisation. It reads: ‘At present Church Street is not quite up to the mark of its energetic past. The sites of several of its rookeries of wickedness are now covered by Police Courts, and by buildings in which Capuchins carry on their work. …. How long this breeding ground of sin and crime existed in the past must be left to imagination. What is certain is that this worst spot of the worst city in Ireland was selected by the Capuchin Order as a place in which to live, beside the poor, and to help them against temptations to crime and intemperance. To anyone who can feel for the poor, and understand evils around them which they do not realise themselves, the way to Church Street from Sackville Street is still like a descent into Hades, if traversed about 8 p.m. at this time of year’. The file contains three copies of the document.

Annotated photographic prints (black and white, half-length portrait) of William Coffey, ‘treasurer in the active workers’ and Peter Tierney, ‘the first organiser along with Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC’.

Annual reports and statements of accounts of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The booklets provide reports on annual general meetings, activities, speeches and events held in the Hall and provide annual accounts of receipts and expenditure. The 1901 report (pp 20-3) gives an account of a speech by Pádraig Pearse in the Hall on 2 March 1902 commending the giving of classes ‘for the study of our native language, and forms of self-culture amongst our members.’ He added ‘There is a certain bad old tradition that one cannot be a good Irishman unless he “takes a dhrop”. Now, I think you will all allow if there is one body in Ireland which is concerned more than another for the maintenance of genuine Irish traditions, that body is the Gaelic League … [and] in the ranks of no body in Ireland will you find proportionally so many total abstainers as in those of the Gaelic League’. Pearse suggested that there should be more cooperation between the Gaelic League and the temperance movement. In 1906, it was reported (p. 20) that ‘owing to several exceptional expenses, rendered necessary by the increase of membership and the extension of temperance work, we have not been able to reduce our indebtedness to the Bank’. The statement of accounts noted that £1,405 6s 5d was owed to the National Bank by December 1906. The front covers of the booklets have ink drawings of the Hall fronting onto Church Street.

File containing photographic prints of the Stewart-Bam residence at Ards House, Creeslough, County Donegal. These are images of the residence (and former owners) before the Capuchin friars took possession of Ards House in 1930. Some of the prints were reproduced in 'A history of Ards' (1991) by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. The file includes:
• Copy print of the gardens at Ards House in 1859. Fr. David notes that this photograph was taken by David Knox (1821-1895).
• Sir Pieter von Blommenstein Bam in the uniform of a Lieutenant Colonel during the Boer War in South Africa, c.1900.
• The staff of Ards House in 1906. The photograph is annotated on the reverse with the names of the male and female servants.
• Servants and staff welcoming the newly married Ena Dingwell Tasca Stewart-Bam and Sir Pieter von Blommenstein Bam (d. 20 Dec. 1928) at Ards House in 1910. The smaller copy of the print has the following annotation: ‘Taken over 20 years ago, at some kind of reception given to the Stewards by his tenants xx – Sir Peter and Lady Stewart. Arrow on photograph points to present gardener (W. Barr)’.
• An original print of a group with two jarveys outside Ards House in about 1910.
• Copy print of a sketch map of the Ards Estate Home Farm Offices, the property of A.J.R. Stewart.
• Ena Dingwell Tasca Stewart-Bam on the front stairway in Ards House in c.1910.
• A woman with a young child (presumably tenants) outside a cottage on the Ards Estate.

Portrait prints of Dom Columba Marmion OSB. One of the prints has a manuscript annotation crediting the image to ‘Stanley’.

File of loose newspaper clippings relating to the Capuchins in Cork and their ministries. The file includes:
• Report on a retreat given in Holy Trinity Church conducted by Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC. [c.1900].
• Report on a retreat given to the Commercial and Professional Sodality at the Tertiary Chapel, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The retreat was given by Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC. [c.1900].
• Photographic print of the unveiling of the National Monument on the Grand Parade, Cork, on 17 Mar. 1906. The spire of Holy Trinity Church can be seen in the distance. 'Cork Weekly Examiner', 24 Mar. 1906.
• Photographic prints of the Mass marking the anniversary of the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in Holy Trinity Church, Cork. Another print shows some of the local dignitaries who attended the Mass alongside some of the friars of the Cork community. 'Cork Weekly Examiner', 5 Dec. 1921.
• Article on the history of Bridge Street, Blackamoor Lane (the site of the old Capuchin Friary), Friars’ Walk, and Crosse Green. 'Cork Weekly Examiner', 28 June 1924.
• ‘The South Parish, Cork’ by Senex. An article exploring the history of the parish including the old Capuchin friary on Blackamoor Lane. [c.1925].
• Report on a Solemn High Mass in Holy Trinity Church marking the centenary of Catholic Emancipation. 'Cork Examiner', 9 July 1929.
• ‘The Church of the Holy Rood in Cork’ by M. Holland. 'Cork Examiner', 7 Dec. 1929.
• Photographic print of the conferring of degrees at University College Cork. The group includes Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. who received a Doctorate, Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. and Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap. 'Cork Examiner', 11 Mar. 1931.
• ‘Cork Pilgrimage to Lourdes’, 'Cork Examiner', 11 Oct. 1932. Includes a photographic print of the pilgrimage group with Fr. Alphonsus Carroll OFM Cap., spiritual director.
• Report on the Kinsale Annual Retreat conducted by Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. and Fr. Alphonsus Carroll OFM Cap., Holy Trinity Friary. [1933].
• Group photograph of friars attending a bazaar in Father Mathew Hall, Cork, in aid of the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa. The group includes Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (1904-1989). Cork Examiner, 26 Oct. 1939.

Two plates showing exterior views of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church in Cork. One of the plates is by Mayne, Lord Edward Street, Dublin.

Copies of an advertisement flier for the firm of James Pearse & Sons, sculptors, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.