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Photographic prints for article by ‘Hibernicus’ on the canonization of Blessed Pope Pius X (1835-1914), in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1955). The file includes press photographs from Foto Attualita’ Giordani. The prints have manuscript captions on the reverse. The file includes prints of the original tomb of Pope Pius X, the procession of the body and relics of Pope Pius X to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, and the mass of canonization at St. Peter’s Basilica, on 13 June 1954.

Article titled ‘Agriculture as a source of employment’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1961), pp 145-153. The draft article was written by Lieutenant-General M.J. Costello and is dated 18 Nov. 1959 at the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee, College of Commerce, Rathmines, Dublin.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex, and from Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, (editor of ‘The Month’), 31 Farm Street, Berkeley Square, London. The volume is annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / V’. The file also includes a solitary letter from Mary Faherty (Kilronan, Aran Islands, County Galway). Faherty refers to the ‘Man of Aran’ film (1934) and suggests that it ‘didn’t do us any justice anyway, it is not the real Aran life that this generation saw’. (13 Jan. 1935). The Keating letters primarily refer to literary matters while the Atteridge letters mainly relate to publishing and contemporary political developments in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.

Copy letter to [Patrick Pearse] from Seumas MacManus, Plainfield, New Jersey, re a meeting. MacManus also affirms that he has sent a letter to the ‘Gaelic American’ about Pearse’s ‘mission’.

Letter from Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, referring to a request from Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. for some items which he requires for the missions.

• Cutting of an article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Political difficulties of Fr. Mathew’s Association’, 'Irish Press', 10 Apr. 1970.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Dublin Castle and the Temperance Movement’. An annotation affirms that this was published in the 'Evening Echo' in 1982. Typescript, 5 pp.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Political difficulties of Fr. Theobald Mathew’. This article was published in the 'Irish Press', 10 Apr. 1979. Typescript, 4 pp.
• An article by Fr. Nessan titled ‘Temperance and toleration / Father Mathew’s formula for national unity’. The article was published in 'The Pioneer' (Apr. 1985), pp 26-8. Typescript, 5 pp.
• Photocopy of an article on the ‘Great Temperance Rally at Cork’, 'The Father Mathew Record', Mar. 1926, pp 71-5. Copy print, 5 pp.
• Newspaper cutting of a letter from Peter Scott titled ‘Fr. Mathew and the North’. The author responds to a recently-published article by Fr. Nessan.
• An article by Fr. Nessan on the Total Abstinence Society founded in Cork on 10 Apr. 1838. The article was submitted to the 'Cork Examiner' in Apr. 1988 but was unpublished. Typescript, 3 pp.
• Copy extracts from the State Paper Office referring to the legality of holding meetings of Temperance Societies. 13-14 Mar. 1840. Typescript, 1 p.
• Outline for a lecture by Fr. Nessan on the Cork Total Abstinence Society founded by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. An annotation suggests that the lecture was given at a Pioneer Seminar in Cork on 24 Sept. 1988. Typescript, 9 pp.
• Copies of reviews by Fr. Nessan and Pat O’Keeffe of 'Father Mathew and the Irish Temperance Movement, 1838-1849' by Colm Kerrigan (Cork, 1992). Typescript and cutting, 4 pp.
• Extracts from the Income and Expenditure Account Book of the Cork Temperance Society, 1 Jan. 1848-31 Dec. 1848. Typescript, 2 pp.

Printing block used to reproduce the shield symbol of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association. The printing block was probably used in the production of pledge certificates in the mid-twentieth century.

Notes on the progress of the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) and the Irish language revival movement in Cork. The author of the text is not stated. A portion of the text reads ‘It was the opinion of several sincere workers including O[sborn] Bergin … that a second branch should be open to the gen[eral] pub[lic] including ladies and therefore they started a branch called the Lee Branch in Pope’s Quay. The leading members of the Central Branch in Dublin did not take very kindly to this as they thought that it would only weaken the movement in Cork. They began to teach Irish in the Lee Branch by means of subject lessons and were successful for a time …’.