Note on the history and geography of the Caprivi Strip committed to the care of the Irish Capuchins ‘temporarily in 1944, and permanently after the War’. The memorandum refers to the establishment on 6 August 1944 of the Holy Family mission in the Eastern Caprivi Strip.
Memorandum re the need for temperance reform and the establishment of the Total Abstinence Association and the Catholic Total Abstinence Union. The report was read in the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin. It is noted that the organisation shall be ‘Catholic and non-political’.
A typescript note giving details of scholarships at St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, for 1914-15. The memorandum was compiled by Patrick Pearse, headmaster.
Memorandum by Fr. Michéal Ó Sé OFM Cap. on the chalice found in the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. A note re the chalice reads: ‘Rev. Dominus Johannes Foy possessor 35 annos Rector apud St. Leonard’s dec. 14 Julii 1894 R.I.P.’. See also CA KK/8/6.
Unsigned memo of discussion regarding employment of an Assumptionist Sister, Sr. Clare, at the Retreat House.
Memorandum of John William Greene, 4 Summerhill, Borough of Cork, corn merchant, to James O’Connell, 17-18 South Main Street, Cork, and others, proposing a tenancy from year to year of the corn store situated on Charlotte Quay, at the yearly rent of £65.
Memorandum of John Hedigan, 5 Charlemont Terrace, Borough of Cork, corn merchant, to Fr. Louis Hennessy OSFC, Queen Street, Cork, proposing a tenancy from year to year of the corn store situated on Charlotte Quay, at the yearly rent of £65.
A memorandum by Father Charles Sinnott CM on life in St Joseph’s, looked at from the point of view of a vocations director.
‘Memorandum of Ambulance work & efforts for peace’ by J.P. Homan, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. The memorandum refers to his work with St. John’s Ambulance during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin in June and July 1922. Specific mention is made of Homan’s interactions with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and the friar’s efforts to secure a cessation of the fighting. Includes a short clipping of an obituary for J.P. Homan (‘Irish Independent’, 6 Aug. 1944). (Volume pages 79-87).