File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes: • ‘Father Mathew Anniversary / Celebration in Father Mathew Hall / Eloquent Oration by Rev. Dr. Murphy’, 'Cork Examiner', 11 Oct. 1911. • ‘Fr. Mathew in Galway / How the Great Apostle of Temperance was received in the city’, 'The Connaught Tribute', 14 Oct. 1911. • ‘The Father Mathew Anniversary’, 'The Leader', 20 Oct. 1906. • ‘Father Mathew Anniversary’ / Celebrations in Cork’, 'Cork Examiner', 11 Oct. 1905. • ‘Temperance Laws in an Irish Parliament / Dramatic Measures Outlined’. [c.1912]. Refers to speech by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to the Maynooth Union on temperance legislation. • ‘Father Burke on Intemperance’, 'The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator'. [c.1905]. • ‘The temperance movement in England’, 'Irish Catholic', 16 July 1904.
Clippings referring to a procession and retreat (given by Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC) to the League of Young Irish Crusaders attached to St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
Power of attorney by Fr. Anthony (John) Travers OSFC, ‘formerly of Church Street, but now of Saint Helens, Tasmania', appointing his brother Fr. Aloysius (William) Travers OSFC (joint-owner and tenant) to execute deeds for, and receive rents for, certain fee simple, freehold and leasehold properties in Dublin. Fr. John declares that he is likely to be permanently resident in Tasmania. The deed is witnessed by Edgar William Lawrence, Launceston, Tasmania.
File of newspaper clippings mainly re various anniversaries and commemorations connected with Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance campaign. The file includes: • ‘The Church’s Peril / Crusade against the drink evil / Glasgow’s Great Welcome to Father Hays’. [c.1905]. • ‘Temperance Legislation for Ireland / The Very Rev. Father Aloysius Travers OSFC’. [c.1912]. • ‘Father Mathew: Leader and Priest / Oration by Very Rev. Father Aloysius Travers OSFC’, 'Irish Catholic', 18 Oct. 1913. • ‘Intemperance / Powerful Sermon by Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC’. [c.1912]. • ‘Temperance Cause in Enniscorthy / A Capuchin Father on local topics’. [c.1912]. Refers to a sermon given by Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. • ‘Twelve “Half-Ones” / Drunk by a youth of 17’. • ‘Our Pioneer Column / Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart / Annual Meeting’, 'Irish Catholic', 14 Dec. 1912. • ‘The Temperance Cause / Great Mission by Capuchin Fathers / Demonstration at Graigue, County Kilkenny’. • ‘Father Mathew’s Day’ / Reminiscences of his visit to the United States’. • ‘Total Abstinence in Scotland / The League of the Cross in Glasgow’, 'Glasgow Observer', 12 Sept. 1891. • ‘Father Hays and the Apostolate of Temperance / Father Mathew’s work revived’. 26 Jan. 1901. • ‘For Total Abstinence / The Rev. Thomas F. Burke CSP preaches in St. Joseph’s Cathedral’, 'The Hartford Daily Times', 7 Aug. 1901. • ‘The Great Catholic Veteran / Right Rev. Monsignor Nugent’s Long Career’, 'The Monitor and New Era', 27 May 1904. • ‘The Cause of Temperance / Demonstration in Ardmore’. Refers to a total abstinence mission given by Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC.
A group portrait of several Capuchin friars outside the Capuchin Friary on Church Street in Dublin. The photograph may have been taken on the occasion of a jubilee celebration for Fr. Salvator Maria Corrigan OFM Cap. The group includes: Standing at door: Fr. Benedict Phelan OFM Cap. (1874-1947) Second row, first on the left: Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) Second row, second on the left: Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (1861-1935) Second row, third on the left: Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1875-1965) Second row, fourth on the left: Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926) Second row, fifth on the left: Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. (1881-1962) Second row, sixth on the left: Br. Leo Cronin OFM Cap. (1859-1949) First row, first on the left: Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (1975-1950) First row, second on the left: Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (1870-1957) First row, fourth on the left: Fr. Salvator Maria Corrigan OFM Cap. (1835-1919)
Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Peter (Edward) Bowe OSFC and others for preparing a deed of conveyance to vest Church property in nine members of the community as joint tenants and for a power of attorney from Fr. Anthony (John) Travers OSFC (resident in Tasmania) to Fr. Aloysius (William) Travers OSFC. Total cost: £33 5s 4d. 2 copies. With letters from Thomas J. Furlong to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC and Fr. Paul Neary OSFC referring to a deed executed by Miss Maher on 19 Aug. 1897 conveying the property bequeathed to her following the death of her brother (Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC, died 10 Sept. 1894) to the Capuchin community on Church Street.
Author: Maire Ni Ćillin Publisher: Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son Ltd. Language: English The Irish Capuchin Archives holds both the 1913 and 1915 editions. Manuscript annotation on the 1913 edition reads: ‘Memory summons another picture of the Friars in the garb of brown … Maire Ni Ćillin’. One of the copies also has a manuscript dedication from the author to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. on the fly-leaf.
A pass permitting Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to travel ‘over the streets of Dublin by day and night’. The pass is authorised by Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt, Assistant Provost Marshal.
