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Lease of Frances MacDonnell, Torquay, County Devon, widow, to James Ball, North King Street, corn factor and seed merchant, of a dwelling house, warehouse, gateway and stable known as no. 47 situated on the North side of King Street, Dublin, ‘in which Martin White, druggist, lately deceased, formerly resided’, for 31 years at the yearly rent of £46. A ‘schedule of fixtures in the premises’ is appended to the margin of the lease. With two copies.

Power of attorney by John and Elizabeth Cordner, 5 Synnot Place, Dublin, appointing Thomas J. White, 4 Usher’s Quay, solicitor, as attorney to execute a deed of assignment of their interest in the premises of 133-134 Church Street and 27 Bow street sold at auction by James H. North on 29 June 1879. With a similar deed of 2 Dec. 1880 whereby Elizabeth Corner (now of 153 Whiton Street, Jersey City), appoints Thomas J. White to act for her in all matters relating to the collection of purchase monies accruing from the said properties.

Certified copy probate of Kate Hannell Plunkett (d. 6 Jan. 1921). She bequeaths to her cousin, Kathleen Corcoran, a daughter of the late Michael Corcoran, manager of the Hibernian Bank Limited, Sackville Street, all her interest in the plot of ground formerly known as Thunder’s Court, Church Street, situated at the rear of 141 Church Street, now in the possession of the Capuchin friars. The probate was granted on 19 Feb. 1921. The copy is certified by O’Keeffe & Lynch, solicitors, 30 Molesworth Street, Dublin, 3 Dec. 1940. With copy conveyance by the said Kathleen Corcoran to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. and Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., of said premises ‘now forming part of the grounds attached to the Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street’, in consideration of the sum of £200. The copy conveyance is endorsed on the title page: ‘offered as altered on behalf of Kathleen Corcoran … 5 Dec. 1940’.

The volumes list the names and addresses of parishioners in the Diocese of Ossory (and to a lesser extent in the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin). The lists were probably compiled by the Capuchin friars for the purposes of collecting quest money. The books are divided by geographical and administrative area (mainly townland and parish). Divisions include Rathdowney, Borris-in-Ossory, Castletown, Mountrath, Aghaboe (book IV); Bennetsbridge, Drumbell, Thomastown, Gowran, Castlewarren (book VI).

Research compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. and used for his MA thesis on the life of Fr. Mathew. The topics include Fr. Mathew’s upbringing and education, and genealogical research. The file also includes a copybook containing sources illustrative of social conditions in Ireland at the time of Fr. Mathew’s temperance crusade.

A copy report of a temperance procession held in Cork at Easter in 1842. The report provides a list of temperance societies and bands which marched on this occasion. The report may have been transcribed from a newspaper report published during the Father Mathew centenary celebrations in 1890. The report also has a copy of the ‘Centenary Ode’ composed for Fr. Mathew by Eugene Davis which was recited by Fr. Michael O’Flynn, CC, Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s Church, during the commemorations.

Letter from the Most Rev. Jeremiah Kinane, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re the inclusion of the centenary of the inauguration of the total abstinence campaign in the Bishop’s Lenten Pastoral Letters. With a typescript reply from Fr. Colman.

Lists of prize-winners for 'The Capuchin Annual' prize draw for 1962-3. With official licences from the Dublin Metropolitan Court for the promotion of a lottery. The file is kept within the covers of an 'Irish Industrial Year Book' (1931) from which the pages have been torn

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers associated with 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume includes copy letters to: Fr. Jerome Kiely, Liam Brophy, Fr. T.J. Walsh, Alison King, the Most Rev. Peter Thomas McKeefry, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Marie Noelle Kelly, Tadhg Gavin, and Seán Crawford.
• A copy letter to Doran Hurley refers to the prospects of increasing sales of the 'Annual' in the United States (3 Oct. 1957).
• A copy letter to Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. refers to the appointment of Br. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Fr. Henry’s nephew, as editor of 'The Father Mathew Record', and to Fr. Senan who ‘keeps in the best of form and is enjoying the quiet life – relieved of the onus of this place’. (21 Feb. 1958).