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Clippings from the 'Irish Catholic', the 'Anglo-Celt', the 'Freeman’s Journal', 'Evening Telegraph' mainly relating to the progress of the Capuchin temperance mission. The file includes reports on the work of the Father Mathew Union, notes on temperance meetings, and lectures and sermons by Fr. Aloysius Travers OSFC and other friars in Father Mathew Hall, Dublin, and in Counties Cavan, Cork and Donegal, and in other locations.

Large-format schedule outlining mission and retreats to be given by the Capuchin friars. The entries are listed under the dates of the mission, parish, diocese, the name of parish priest, the friars engaged on the mission, and remarks.

A handbook for parish missions and retreats compiled by Fr. Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap. for use by Capuchin friars. It is noted that the handbook was ‘the fruit of a seminar on preaching organised in April 1983 by Fr. Michael Duffy OFM Cap., Director of Missions and Retreats’. The text has a forward by Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister.

The sub-series contains a large collection of letters written to the Capuchin friars requesting parish missions, tridua, retreats, public sermons and lectures. The letters are mostly from local clerics and parish priests, religious congregations (both male and female), and lay religious sodalities and temperance associations. Some of the letters provide detail on religious practices and observance. Other letters give information on local temperance activities.

Register of masses at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The title is extant on the verso of the first page: ‘Mass book, Friary, Kilkenny, 1 Jan. 1910’. The entries include the signatures of the celebrants. The entries were routinely signed by the Provincial Minster at visitations.

The sub-series contains research notes, document transcriptions, correspondence and publications on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (1915-1997). The Waterford-born Capuchin friar, Brother (later Father) Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. completed a thesis titled ‘The Life and Times of Fr. Theobald Mathew’ for an MA degree in University College Cork in 1939. He retained a life-long interest in the subject and accumulated a large number of documentary sources, publications and notes pertaining to Fr. Mathew and his campaign against intemperance.

Framed letter of Lord John Russell (1792-1878), Chatham Place, London, to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, re the grant of an annual pension of £300 from the Civil List as a mark of approbation for his work in combatting intemperance in Ireland.

Specification for the workmanship and materials required in the building of a retail shop and premises on Bristol Street in Birmingham for James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. The specification was compiled by John Smith & Son, architects, 88 Colmore Row, Birmingham. James Pearse had inherited his father’s shop in Bristol Street in Birmingham and seemingly had an architectural firm draw up plans for it to be converted into a newsagent and domestic dwelling.