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Day book of receipts and expenditure of the Capuchin community of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The expenditure accounts contain entries for routine expenses incurred by members of the community. The receipts relate primarily to monies received from masses, sodality subscriptions, donations, chaplaincy duties, missions, and retreats. The entries are struck through presumably upon entry into the primary account ledger. A listing of participants at the Corpus Christi Procession in 1949/50 is extant at p. 398. The participants included the Liberty Hall Band, the Garda Band, the Knights of Malta, the Red Cross, the Girl Guides and St. John’s Ambulance. A list of ground rents is given at p. 401.

A bound volume titled ‘Book No. 2 / Blocks on Hand’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The block prints are listed by box number and other locations in the Capuchin Publications' office. The volume appears to have originally been used to list names, addresses and amounts subscribed (possibly for the Third Order of St. Francis Sodality, or the Association of Patrons of 'The Capuchin Annual'). The volume includes the following copy prints:
• Cardinal József Mindszenty (1892-1975), Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary.
• Drawings by Richard King.
• Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
• The Most Reverend Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Archbishop of Delhi and Simla.
• Consecration of Monsignor Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone by the Most Rev. Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio, at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 September 1950.
• Francis P. Matthews, Ambassador of the United States to Ireland.
• Powerscourt House, South William Street, Dublin.
• St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare.
• Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (1904-1989), Irish Capuchin Mission Secretary.
• Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. (1893-1977), Master of Novices, with newly professed friars in Rochestown, County Cork.

The subseries comprises a small collection of papers relating to the Pearse family, most notably Patrick Pearse (1879-1916), a writer, educationalist, and revolutionary. The collection also includes material relating to Patrick’s father, James Pearse (1839-1900), an English stonemason and sculptor who came to Ireland in about 1860. Following the death of his first wife in 1876, James Pearse married Margaret Brady (1857-1932), a Dublin-born shop assistant. The couple had four children, Margaret Mary Pearse (born 1878), Patrick Pearse (born 1879), William Pearse (born 1881), and Mary Brigid Pearse (born 1884). The collection includes some papers compiled by Margaret Pearse (née Brady), later a prominent nationalist figure and Dáil deputy, and her eldest daughter Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968), a teacher and Fianna Fáil politician. There are also a small number of papers associated with William Pearse (1881-1916), the younger son in the Pearse family. Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., the editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’, was a close acquaintance of Margaret Mary Pearse and corresponded with her frequently. Moynihan was seemingly gifted this small archive of family records by Margaret Mary Pearse, and the collection was later preserved among his personal papers.

Margaret Mary Pearse was a teacher, Irish language activist, and politician. She was born in Dublin on 4 August 1878, the eldest child of James Pearse and Margaret Pearse (née Brady). Margaret Mary worked with her brothers Patrick and William to found St. Enda’s School (Scoil Éanna) in Cullenswood House in Ranelagh, Dublin, in 1908. Following the deaths of her brothers in 1916, she took over the management of the school. Scoil Éanna continued until 1935 when financial troubles forced its closure. In public life, she was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Dublin County constituency at the 1933 general election. She subsequently served as a senator in Seanad Éireann (the upper house of the of the Oireachtas) from 1938 to 1968. Margaret Mary Pearse shared her brother’s cultural and political vision for Ireland and devoted much of her life to upholding Patrick’s legacy. She lived out her life in St. Enda’s, but was never completely free from financial difficulties. She died on 7 November 1968 and, following the wishes of her mother, bequeathed Scoil Éanna to the Irish state. The collection comprises mostly personal papers including correspondence, photographs, and ephemera. Many of the records relate to her role in the management of Scoil Éanna, her interest in education, and to her efforts to perpetuate the memory of the role played by her family in the revolutionary period.

A cover annotated ‘Pearse book’. Includes a clipping of a short article from the ‘Evening Mail’ (1 Feb. 1955) re a work called the ‘Bugle Calls’ supposedly written and composed by Gerald Crofts for Patrick Pearse before 1916.