Bill and certificate of costs to James Finbarre McMullen (c.1909-1957), 30 South Mall, Cork, and Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, for contract work by J.A. O’Connell & Sons, sculptors, and Bartholomew Barry, builder, in ‘erecting an Altar, marble rails and floor at the shrine of St. Anne in Father Mathew Church, Cork’, and for work on the new addition to the side of the Church leading to the vestry room.
Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from J. Isaac & Sons, organ builders, Elm Park, Blackpool, Cork; Lawrence Isaac, 20 Forster Street, Galway; Evans & Barr Ltd., Coolbeg Street, Belfast, and others regarding quotations, specifications and costs for the installation of an organ at Holy Trinity Church. With invoices and receipts for payment of shipping costs and work on the new organ.
Account book for payments to a fund for the renovation of Holy Trinity Church, Cork, from Nov. 1970-Mar. 1972. Entries are listed under the headings of date, name of benefactor or payee and amount subscribed. Many of the benefactors are listed as anonymous. The first two folio pages of the volume may have been used as a cheque payments’ register (from 12 May 1970-5 Aug. 1970).
The file includes: • ‘Down Dublin Streets / Capuchin Friary’. An article on the Church Street Capuchins and the 1916 Rising by Eamonn Mac Thomais. c.1980. • An article (with photographic prints) reporting on the funeral of Roddy Connolly, a son of the 1916 Rising leader James Connolly. A number of Capuchin friars from Church Street were in attendance at the funeral in Glasnevin Cemetery. 'Irish Press', 19 Dec. 1980. • Report on the ‘Progress through the family’ seminar held in Carysfort College, Blackrock, Dublin. 'Family Solidarity News', Summer 1988. • Clipping of a photographic print of Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap. at the annual blessing of the animals on the Feast of St. Francis at The King’s Inn, Dublin. 'Irish Catholic', 8 Oct. 1992. • Clipping of a photographic print of Fr. Mike Tobin OFM Cap., Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Kieran Garvey OFM Cap. in the garden of the Church Street Friary. 'Irish Catholic', 26 July 1990.
Photograph of the High Altar, sanctuary and interior of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. A single unidentified friar is sitting in the pews. The photographer/studio is credited as Thomas F. Geoghegan, 6 Sackville Street, Dublin
Photographic print of a group of Capuchin friars playing croquet in the garden of the Church Street Friary. The game is taking place in front of a high wall which fronts out onto Bow Street. Fr. Paul Neary OSFC and Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC appear to be participating in the game.
Photographic print of the exterior of St. Mary of the Angels, taken from the right on Church Street. The print is by Keogh Bros. Ltd., 75 Lower Dorset Street, 124 Stephen’s Green West, Dublin. The print is pasted onto card.
Photographic print of the exterior of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, taken from the street opposite and slightly to the right. The photograph shows the large wall fronting onto Church Street and surrounding the friary garden. The photographer/studio is credited as C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.
Photographic print of St. Anne’s Shrine in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The photographer/studio is credited as C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin.
Epitome of deeds and leases relating to properties held by the Capuchins in Cork. The epitome commences with an abstract of a lease by John Lecky to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 2 Nov. 1832 (CA HT/2/1/2/10) and concludes with a summary of an assignment by Fr. Cherubim Mazzini OSFC and others to Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC and others of all interest and claims on premises on Charlotte Quay and on Queen Street dated 8 Mar. 1875 (see CA HT/2/1/2/13). The volume also includes transcripts and notes taken from the ‘old account book of the Cork Friary’, covering the personnel, governance and history of the Order in Ireland (specifically in Cork) from 1836 to 1859. The original volume is extant at CA HT/3/1/1.
