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Letters from solicitors regarding the potential purchase of 151 Church Street (part of the Father Mathew Hall property) by clients who hold the said premises under a lease made on 7 Sept. 1920 from Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. and others to Robert Kavanagh for the term of 150 years at the nominal rent of 5d per year.

Correspondence from insurance companies mainly regarding public liability policies for the hiring by third parties of Father Mathew Hall. The file includes letters from Legal & Commercial Ltd., 23 Clyde Road, Dublin 4; Church & General, Gael Scoil Colaiste-Mhuire, Parnell Square, Dublin 1; M.B. Fitzpatrick, Insurance Consultants, 94 Mount Prospect Avenue, Dublin 3. The issues referred to include claims for theft of cash and personal injury, and insurance cover for Feis trophies and cups.

Letters from Montgomery and Chaytor, solicitors, 28-30 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, regarding claims for the payment of £100 per annum in rent on behalf of the Merchant Tailors’ Charity arising out of a lease (dated 13 Aug. 1889 for 150 years) of some of the Father Mathew Hall properties.

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

Letter to Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC from Walter Glynn Doolin, architect and civil engineer, 20 Ely Place, Dublin, regarding the design of the proposed Father Mathew Temperance Hall, Church Street. Doolin referred to Fr. Maher’s ‘instructions to provide a Hall capable of seating 1,000 persons exclusive of a permanent stage’ and submits detailed plans for the dimensions and layout of the Hall. Doolin affirmed that ‘there are upwards of 150,000 cubic feet in the building and I do not see how this amount of work can be done for much under £2,000’.

Specification for electrical installation works at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, by Nicholas Mathews, engineer, 104 Grafton Street, Dublin. With a statement of the general conditions of the contract.

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.

Letter from Br. Daniel O’Brien OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, to Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a report from Kerrigan, Sheanon and Newman, quantity surveyors, Earlsfort Court, 16 Lower Hatch Street, Dublin 2, regarding a schedule of necessary refurbishment and repairs required to the Hall.