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The sub-series contains records relating to legal issues arising out of the management of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin. The records specifically relate to the transfer of ownership of the Hall from elected trustees of the temperance sodality to the Capuchin Franciscan Order. This process was complicated by the legal guarantees required to ‘ensure that the purpose for which the property was acquired, and the Hall originally built would be maintained’. Other issues include negotiations with the representatives of the Merchant Tailors’ School, the original owners of the ground at 131-5 Church Street upon which the Hall was built and with the tenants of cottages on Bow Street and Nicholas Avenue who rented their properties from the Hall trustees.

Correspondence of Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, with Valentine Miley, solicitor, 12 South Frederick Street, Dublin, regarding the appointment of legal trustees for the Hall property. The file includes copy notices sent by Fr. Columbus to committee members regarding the amendment needed to the ‘General rule of the Father Mathew Hall OSFC and the “Sacred Thirst” Branch of St. Patrick’s Branch League of the Cross’. With solicitor costs for the completion of a deed assignment for the appointment of a new committee and trustees.

Correspondence relating to the financing, construction, fitting-out of Father Mathew Hall. Most of the letters refer to estimates for interior furnishing and the fitting out of the Hall. Correspondents include: The National Bank Ltd.; John L. Smallman, sanitary and gas engineer; Henry Kerrill & Sons, engineers, coppersmiths and electricians; Edmundson’s Furnishing & Engineering Co.; Walter Glynn Doolin, 20 Ely Place, Dublin, secretary of the Father Mathew Hall building committee; the Patriotic Assurance Company, 2 College Green, Dublin.

Letters to Walter Glynn Doolin, engineer, from John Kennedy, 11 & 12 Merrion Row, Henry Kerrill & Sons, 80 Drumcondra Road, C. McNamara, 10 Christchurch Place, and others regarding estimates for the installation of gas and lighting fittings in the Father Mathew League of the Cross Hall, Church Street.

Specifications from E.J. Creed, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, J. Treacy & Co., 17 Stoneybatter, Dublin, and J. Seward, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, Dublin, for internal and external painting works of the president’s room, billiard room, toilet, return room, staircases and other parts of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. With a manuscript draft of the said specification and contract.

Specification for the reconstruction of seating arrangements at the rear of the auditorium in Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, by J. Seward, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, Dublin. Includes a schedule of work to be done, materials to be used and form of tender.

Letters to Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap. from Gaffney Halligan & Co., solicitors, Artane Roundabout, Dublin 5, requesting information to enable the purchase of the freehold interest in 128 Church Street, and 1, 1A and 6 Nicholas Avenue, Dublin 7. The solicitors note that the Capuchin friars did not appear to ‘own the freehold of the above properties, as their title appears to be leasehold held under a lease from Samuel Worthington who in turn held his interest from the Merchant Tailors’ School’.

A small collection of records relating to the routine repair, refurbishment and maintenance of the physical fabric of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin.

Copy deeds, leases and solicitors’ correspondence relating to legal issues connected with the Father Mathew Hall property including of the purchase of the ground rent from Lord Congleton. The file includes copy correspondence from Sean Ó hUadaigh, solicitor, referring to the ‘plot of ground on which 11-15 May Lane formerly stood’ (20 Mar. 1969). Other correspondents include Montgomery and Chaytor, solicitors, 16-17 Clanwilliam Terrace, Grand Canal Quay, Dublin (relating to the title of the Merchant Tailors’ Charity to the Hall property); Frank Ward & Co., solicitors, Equity House, Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, regarding the purchase of the freehold interest by Stephen Ducie of 1 & 1A Nicholas Avenue from the Capuchin Order (11 Apr. 1994). These copy documents were probably prepared by solicitors to clarify title in respect of the Father Mathew Hall property and adjoining cottages.