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Letter to Margaret Pearse from A.H. Lindop, district superintendent, British Homes Assurance Corporation, 17a Dawson Street, Dublin, re the payment of a subscription.

Photographic print of a large congregation attending a Sacred Thirst Confraternity meeting in St. Mary of the Angels. The congregation appear to be holding lighted candles. An annotation by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. reads ‘March 13th-20th 1904. Sacred Heart Glowing Ceremony’.

Letter from M. Mahony, St. Helen’s, Blarney, County Cork, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC (1871-1926), referring to the recent death of Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (d. 26 Dec. 1904).

Record book chronicling the work of the National Temperance Crusade undertaken by the Capuchin friars at the request of the Irish Catholic bishops. The volume contains brief accounts of the various missions and the numbers who took the pledge in the various dioceses. The volume is paginated, and the information is arranged alphabetically by diocese name. It appears that the volume was left unused as a large portion of the content is left blank. A two-page manuscript insert by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC refers to the origins of the temperance crusade and to the request from the Catholic bishops to the Irish Capuchins to formally begin their temperance missions in October 1905.

Report on the ‘Great Meeting’ on the temperance cause held in the Town Hall, Skibbereen, County Cork, on 21 April 1904. The report is a reprint taken from the 'Cork County Eagle'. Includes a lengthy preface by the Most Rev. Denis Kelly, Bishop of Ross.

'The United Irishman' was an Irish nationalist newspaper co-founded by Arthur Griffith and William Rooney. The first publication was issued on 4 Mar. 1899 it ran until 1906. It was sub-titled ‘A National Weekly Review’. The file contains the issue of 23 Apr. 1904 (Vol. 11 No. 269). This edition published copy correspondence from the Capuchin Friary in Cork relating to the ‘Vindication of Monsignor Persico’ (pp 2-3).

Design for altar to the Virgin Mary at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny by Samuel F. Hynes, architect, Cork. The design is signed by the architect.

Confirmation from Fr. Paul Neary OSFC (1857-1939), Provincial Minister, of the election of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC as guardian of Holy Trinity Friary.

Assignment of a lease from Margaret Maughan, High Street, Dublin, to Thomas Murphy, 27 Cabra Road, Dublin, of premises on Bow Street now in the possession of Thomas Fallon for the residue of the term of two hundred years specified in the original lease of the said property dating to 11 May 1843. In consideration of £110.

Copy will and probate of Matthew Murphy, 43 Montpellier Hill, Dublin, veterinary surgeon (d. 15 Nov. 1897). He devises the rents and profits accruing from his various properties (including premises on Bow Street) to his nieces Elizabeth and Mary Anne Murphy. They are to be paid an annuity of £25 per annum. The probate was granted on 4 January 1898. The certified copy of the will and probate were made on 26 August 1904. With a statutory declaration by Matthew Murphy stating that he is the eldest son of Matthew Murphy (d. 15 Nov. 1897) and that his mother (Ellen Murphy) was a daughter of Thomas Fallon (d. 20 Sept. 1871). The declaration is signed 26 August 1904.