‘Return showing the names of persons subscribing towards the repairs of the above-named Church and Convent’ (Cork: Flynn & Company, printers, 66 George’s Street, Cork). A printed appeal on the inside front cover refers to the need for funds to execute the necessary buildings and repairs as ‘with the approach of winter, the Community find themselves literally "without a roof over their heads"’. The account book is incomplete and relates only to the Coburg Street districts. Entries are listed under names, residences and amount of weekly subscriptions. The remainder of the volume contains a history of the vicissitudes of the Irish Capuchins in the late nineteenth century. Includes short biographical notes on Fr. Louis O’Riordan OSFC (Vice-Provincial and later Commissary General), Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (a Capuchin friar from Lyons, France, who was Commissary General of the Cork and Rochestown houses) and Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC (first Provincial Minister of the reconstituted Irish Capuchin Province in 1885).
Copy articles from the 'Cork Daily Herald' and 'Cork Examiner' referring to the architectural style and construction of the new Capuchin Friary adjoining Holy Trinity Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork.
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).
Account book for a fund for the restoration and redesign of Holy Trinity Church, Cork. Entries are listed under the headings of date, amount, source and total. The principal sources for the fund include mass collections, individual donations, subscriptions from Third Order members and interest on deposits. Payments from the fund (principally to architects, surveyors, engineers, consultants and contractors) are noted on pp 8-9. A statement from Bank of Ireland, 83 South Mall, Cork, is inserted into the volume and affirms that the fund's current account with the Bank was closed on 3 Oct. 1988.
Letters and memoranda regarding alterations and refurbishment work on Holy Trinity Church in the early 1980s. The file includes an outline of the ‘preparatory steps’ taken by the Provincial Minister and Definitory (Council) in the lead up to the renovation and remodelling of the Church; Copy letter from Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (22 Sept. 1981) expressing concerns about the liturgical aspects of the refashioning of the Church and Fr. Brendan O’Mahony’s reply; newspaper cuttings reporting on the renovation work and fundraising for the same. With a printed booklet and a newspaper clipping ('Cork Examiner') referring to a Mass celebrating the official re-opening of Holy Trinity Church on 28 Nov. 1982.
Letter to Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a copy of the proposed renovation work on the sacristy of Holy Trinity Church. The work is to be completed by J. Cahill, engineer, at a cost of £7,489.
Receipt and expenditure book for the Capuchins, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The expenditure accounts relate primarily to the purchase of groceries and sundries, the payment of salaries and utilities, rent payments, and travel expenses. Income entries include monies derived from donations, Mass stipends and dues, retreats and missions and other benefactor sources.
