Statement of Christian Church Leaders re the political upheaval against Zambia’s long-serving President Kenneth Kaunda. Includes resolutions of the meeting of the Joint GRZ/MMD Committee of Experts on the Constitution Bill, 1991, held on 24 July 1991 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Lusaka, Zambia.
Statement of accounts of John Delaney, building yards and joinery works, Henry Street, Cork, to James Finbarre McMullen, architect, for contract work on Holy Trinity Church, on the adjoining Capuchin Friary, and on 24 South Mall. The costs relate to the addition of an extension to the Church, extensive interior decoration and structural alterations. Detailed summaries of the completed work (with costs) are provided in the statement. With cover letters from John Delaney to McMullen.
Statement of accounts and bill of variations forwarded by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, relating to survey work carried out by Francis Shorthall, Chartered Quantity Surveyor, 10 Leinster Street, Dublin. The bills refer to the contract for the new library and extension at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street.
Statement of revenue account to the year ended 30 June 1911 with statement of liabilities of assets of Patrick Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin / 30 June 1911. One of the liabilities is a payment of £350 to Seumas MacManus. Prepared by D. O’Connor, chartered accountants, 13 Westmoreland Street, Dublin.
Resolutions of the Father Mathew Hall Committee referring to the statement of accounts for 1892 and to the generosity of subscribers who have allowed a ‘most satisfactory advancement of the work done by the sodality in previous years’.
Statement by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to the Chief of Staff of the IRA, Four Courts’ Barracks, on the need to stamp out Freemasonry in Ireland. The report reads: ‘Freemasonry is the same everywhere in principle and desire – to destroy all religion Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Pagan to make way for its own lewd and lustful phallic worship’. Fr Dominic urges that no restraint be shown in destroying Masonic emblems. He writes: ‘I think you may have no scruple in destroying them, I think they should be destroyed in as much as they are not religious emblems, but symbols of lewdness, lust and impurity. The reason for the destruction should be made publicly known’.
Article by Máire Nic Ghiolla Phádraig titled ‘Stair Chonradh na Gaeilge / Stair Gluaiseachta Sóisialta’. With a cover letter from Seán Mac Mathúma, Conradh na Gaeilge, to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (30 Sept. 1973).
Photographic prints of the stained-glass windows in Ard Mhuire Friary Church. The file includes two-page description of the windows with reflections on their symbolism and meaning. With a roughly drawn sketch map showing the positions of the windows in the church.