costs of printing and publishing the Positio and "Nano Nagle: woman of gospel".
article from the "Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society" on Bishop Francis Moylan.
Includes; sources used during research by Sister Pius O'Farrell while writing the Positio. Latin and Italian languages contained within this Series.
Notebook with references and extracts by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to McKenna’s unpublished history of Fr. Mathew’s temperance movement. The notes are arranged under various headings including:
His piety
His humility
His priestly character
His mode of life
Regarded as a saint
Working cures
Results of his work
His trials in his temperance work
Rules of his society
Manuscript, 41 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the travels of Fr. Mathew and James McKenna, his principal secretary, from May 1844 to Nov. 1845. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Notes from McKenna’s 'The History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland'. Typescript, 28 pp.
• Notebook containing an index to and summary of James McKenna’s unpublished ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’. The notes contain references to speeches of Fr. Mathew on temperance and brief summaries of the content of McKenna’s text. Manuscript, 69 pp.
• Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC from 1841-5. The notes include transcribed copies of letters from Daniel O’Connell to Fr. Mathew (26 Oct. 1844) and from Fr. Mathew to Mr. Buckingham (20 Oct. 1844). The principal source was probably James McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’. Manuscript, 16 pp.
• Extract from McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’ re Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign in Liverpool and his attitude towards distillers. ‘I have no personal hostility to distillers or brewers or vendors of strong drink’. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Extracts from John Francis Maguire’s 'Father Mathew / A Biography' and ‘History of the Temperance Reformation by James McKenna, chief travelling secretary to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’ confirming that Fr. Mathew first arrived in Cork in about 1814. The extracts are by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Typescript, 1 p.
This file contains notes on sets of correspondence between Gastaldi -[Bertelti] and Philips - Kennedy.
Denis Gwynn
This sub-fond is divided into three files the first of which contains research notebooks on Gentili's letters and his diary. The second file consists of a draft of 'Father Luigi Gentili and his mission.' The third file is a typescript copy of 'Father Luigi Gentili and his mission.'
Some of the items are in Italian and some letters state that the originals are held at Stresa.
Denis Gwynn
These notebooks contain information such as the 1839 reorganisation of the Apostolic Vicarates and also contains transcriptions of Gentili's letters, prayer book and his diary. Three of the notebooks may contain early drafts of the work.