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Brophy, Fiacre, 1871-1926, Capuchin priest
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Assignment of a Lease by Thomas Murphy to Fr. Peter Bowe and others

Lease by Thomas Murphy to Fr. Peter (Edward) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy and Fr. Nicholas (Maurice) Murphy OSFC, Church Street, Dublin, of a parcel of ground situated on the west side of Bow Street. In consideration of £540 and £110 and for the residue of the terms (two hundred years) specified in the original leases dating to 20 April 1842 and 11 May 1843.

Lease by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe to Bernard O’Reilly of premises on Carter’s lane

Lease by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Bartholomew (Fiacre) Brophy OSFC and Fr. Nicholas (Maurice) Murphy OSFC, Church Street, to Bernard O’Reilly, dairyman, of the aforementioned old dwelling house and dairy yard situated on the north side of Carter’s Lane off Smithfield for 999 years in consideration of £182 and at the yearly rent of 1s. One of the covenants attached to the lease specifies that the lessee ‘will not use the said premises or permit the same to be used as an appurtenant to any of the purposes of a brewer, distiller, malt house or storage for the sale of intoxicating liquors or for any asylum hospital or other institution for any offensive, noisy or dangerous trade, business, manufacture or occupation of any nuisance …’. With a draft of the lease prepared by T.J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, Dublin. The file also includes a letter from Bernard O’Reilly to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC on the subject of the said lease (1 Sept. 1914).

Receipt and Expenditure Ledger

Ledger and account book for the Capuchin community at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The ledger provides a daily record of income received and expenses incurred by the community. Notes are made of income derived from mass stipends, street collections, sodalities, Third Order payments and temperance publications. Reference is also made to monies received from donations, alms, bequests, and cheques. Expenses include travel tickets, staff wages, groceries, building repairs and other sundries. The entries are periodically signed by the Friary Guardian and by the Provincial Minister at Visitations
The front cover is endorsed in typescript with a list of Friary Guardians:
Fr. Bernard Jennings 1883-1886
Fr. Nicholas Murphy 1886-1893
Fr. Francis Hayes 1893-1895
Fr. Anthony Travers 1895-1898
Fr. Peter Bowe 1898-1901
Fr. Fiacre Brophy 1901-1904
Fr. Thomas Dowling 1904-1907
Fr. Laurence Dowling 1907-1910
It is also noted that Fr. Laurence began a ‘new ledger in Sept. 1907’. See CA CS/3/1/6.

Receipt and Expenditure Ledger

Receipt and Expenditure Ledger

Ledger and account book for the Capuchin community at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The ledger provides a daily record of income received and expenses incurred by the community. Notes are made of income derived from mass stipends, street collections, sodalities, Third Order payments and temperance publications. Reference is also made to monies received from donations, alms, bequests, and cheques. Expenses include travel tickets, lay staff wages, groceries, building repairs and other sundries. An entry from November 1908 refers to the payment of £30 to John Keogh for the completion of work on the Calvary at St. Mary of the Angels. The entries are periodically signed by the Friary Guardian and by the Provincial Minister at visitations.
Manuscript annotation on first page reads:
‘Particulars supplied to the Archbishop at his Grace’s request.
Church of St Mary of the Angels – building was begun June 12th 1868. Total cost including altar pulpit, altar rails, organ but not furniture was £60,000
Architect, James McCarthy
Contractors, Michael Meade & son.
The Sacred Heart Chapel built as an aisle church was begun in March 1908. Cost: £4,000.
Architects, Ashlin & Coleman
Contractors, Thomas Connolly’.
A later annotation (in the hand of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.) reads:
‘House ledger from October 1907 (Fr. Laurence Dowling, Guardian) to December 1929 (Fr. Angelus Healy, Guardian)’.
A List of Friary Guardians is supplied:
1907-1910, Fr. Laurence [Dowling]
1910-1913, Fr. Angelus [Healy]
1913-1916, Fr. Augustine [Hayden]
1916-1919, Fr. Fiacre [Brophy]
1919-1925, Fr. Benedict [Phelan]
1925-1928, Fr. Edward [Walsh]
1928-1931, Fr. Angelus [Healy]
1931-1934, Fr. Edward [Walsh]

Notices of meetings of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade Committee

Notices of meetings of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade Committee

Notices of meetings of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade Committee, Church Street. The file includes invitations requesting attendance at annual meetings which were held in the Brigade Hall, Church Street. The notices and resolutions are mainly signed by James J. Darragh, Honorary Secretary, and refer to routine administrative matters including the election of officers, expenditure and accounts, the arrangement of rooms and premises, the repair of the Hall, and various rules and constitutional matters. The file also includes the correspondence of Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and James J. Darragh regarding a dispute within the committee regarding an amendment to rule 10 of the constitution which noted that the ‘Brigade shall be governed by the President assisted by a Capuchin Father as Vice President who shall be appointed by the President. … The President alone shall have authority in spiritual matters – the lay members being responsible for the financial affairs’.

Correspondence relating to the appointment of new trustees

Correspondence relating to the transfer of properties on Church Street (nos. 155-157) to lay trustees of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade. Correspondents include, Thomas J. Furlong, solicitor, 11 Eustace Street, Dublin, Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minister, William Mooney & Son, solicitors, 16 Fleet Street, Dublin, Michael Murphy, solicitor, 44 South Mall, Cork, and John Jameson, Bow Street Distillery, Dublin. Most of the correspondence relates to instructions to be given to solicitors with respect to the drawing up of a conveyance for the above-mentioned properties and to the need for approval of the deed which allows Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC and Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC to retire from their trusteeship. John Jameson assured Fr. Fiacre that ‘this company would be very reluctant to put up a building that would be objectionable to your community. … I thought there was no likelihood of the neighbourly relations which have always existed between this company and yourselves being interrupted’. On 20 Dec. 1904 Fr. Paul Neary OSFC stated that the ‘members of our Order who are trustees of the Church Street premises of the Boys’ Brigade have no desire to continue their trusteeship and are willing to hand it to any persons to whom they can do so, without breach of their trust’.

Letter from M. Mahony

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).

Letter from the Town Clerk, Cork Corporation

Letter from F.W. McCarthy, Town Clerk, Cork Corporation, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC regarding the attendance of the municipal authorities at the laying of the foundation stone of the ‘Father Bernard Memorial’.

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