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Orders and lists of mass sermons preached by priests at the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny. The entries are listed under date (usually at Lent, Easter and other religious feast days) and the name of the celebrant. It is noted in the 1903 list that the maximum duration of sermons at mass is twenty minutes. One of the lists is titled ‘Lenten discourses’.

Catalogue of books held in the library of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The works are listed under various subject headings: moral theology, canon law, sacred history, scripture (hermeneutics), spiritual treaties, sermons, literature, literature and profane history, temperance literature, general science, philosophy and political economy. The works are listed individually under title and author. Manuscript title on title front cover reads: ‘Catalogue no. 1 / Holy Trinity Church / Library Catalogue / 1903’.

This series includes records relating to Irish Capuchin missionary activity in South Africa which commenced with the arrival of the first friars in 1929. The series comprises material such as correspondence, financial reports, minutes, journals, newsletters, maps, publications and a collection of photographic albums and prints.

File relating to an abortive attempt to establish an Irish Capuchin missionary presence in the Cape Colony, South Africa. In 1903, Bishop Hugh McSherry (1852-1940), Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope (Eastern District), invited the Irish Capuchins to establish missionary foundations in his Vicariate. The large missionary area offered to the friars comprised the civil divisions of Albert, Aliwal North, Herschel and Barclay East collectively known as the Gariep (later Aliwal) territory. The file includes:
• Ecclesiastical return of the numbers of missions and Catholics in the Eastern Vicariate. 30 June 1903.
• Correspondence between Bishop Hugh McSherry and Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister.
• Draft report of Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC on his visit to Port Elizabeth to view the proposed territory in March 1904.
• Draft letters to the Capuchin Minister General re the proposed mission.
• Draft memoranda of agreement for the proposed mission stations and properties to be held by the Irish Capuchins in the Vicariate.
• Colour trace map of the Eastern Vicariate showing the locations of the proposed Capuchin mission stations.
Other correspondents include: W.H. Butler, J. Commins, Fr. Lewis B. Gately, Fr. J.J. O’Reilly, St. Mary’s, Cape Town, and Fr. Bernard Christen of Andermatt OSFC, Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans. On 13 July 1903, Bishop McSherry wrote: ‘I fear it would be practically impossible for me in a letter to convey to you any fair idea of the state of things in this country. Everything here is quite different to what it is at home – climate, season, habits and customs of the people, conditions of travelling, the ways of the natives – everything’. Later, the Bishop explained that the ‘mission district is 175 miles in its greatest length and 75 miles in its greatest width. It contains the important towns of Ailwal and Burghersdorp and the following smaller ones, Jamestown and Barclay East. … There are no Catholic schools in the district. The climate is about the best in South Africa or in the world’. (4 Jan. 1904).

This series comprises historical catalogues and schedules of records held in the archives of Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. Some of the material noted in these catalogues is now extant in the Irish Capuchin Archives. However, other archival material referenced in these descriptive lists has now evidently been lost.

A bound volume containing letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The spine is titled with the names of the correspondents in the volume. These are Sir Bertram Windle, Fr. Michael Sheehan, and Kuno Meyer (41 Huskission Street, Liverpool). Most of the letters in the volume are from Fr. Michael Sheehan and relate to Gaelic scholarship and Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. One of the letters from Kuno Meyer refers to Henebry’s tribute to the late Heinrich Zimmer (1851-1910), the German-born Irish language scholar (20 Feb. 1911). The volume also contains a copy of Henebry’s lengthy reply to Meyer. Henebry wrote ‘Now I will stand for no man to say which is untrue in order to vilify my religion and the religion of my people. Why import theological discussions into Keltics? The Grammatica Celtica was written by a Catholic. Read it through and you will fail to find a single reference to ‘Der relige Dr Martin Luther in it’ (28 Feb. 1911). The letters from Windle refer to matters relating to Henebry’s Professorship of Irish in University College Cork and to the latter’s declining health.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume is annotated in gilt on the spine ‘Letters to Dr. Henebry / Vol. I’. Many of the letters refer to the Gaelic League and general Irish language activism. The volume contains letters from Norma Borthwick (47 Haddington Road, Dublin), Madeline O’Connor (Simmonstown, Celbridge, County Kildare), Fr. P. Feeney (St. Patrick’s Home, Hennessy’s Road, Waterford), Fr. Thomas F. Furlong (Administrator, Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford), Fr. T.A. Pembroke (President, Rockwell College, Cashel, County Tipperary), Thomas McGrath (Ballinaclash, Clashmore, Youghal), Charlotte Dease (‘Searloit Ní Déisighe’, Rath House, Ballybrittas, Queen’s County), Fr. M.F. Callanan (Presbytery, Killimore, Ballinasloe), Patrick Riordan (42 St. John’s Road, Boxmoor, Hertfordshire), F. O’Byrne (St. John’s Presbytery, Fountains Road, Liverpool), Fr. Pendergast (St. Nicholas Presbytery, Kilmeaden, County Waterford), Canon James O’Meara (Church of St. Oswald, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Manchester), Padraig Ó Gormáin (Collège des Irlandais, Paris), Fr. Kelleher (St. John’s College, Waterford), John Heffernan (St. Patrick’s College, Thurles, County Tipperary), Máire de Paor (Henry Street, Dublin), M.J. Crowe (Cumberland Street, Birr, County Offaly), Sr. M. Assumption (Lynton, Devon), Tess O’Donnell (South Mall, Lismore, County Waterford), Alice Stopford Green (36 Grosvenor Road, Westminster), Margaret O’Reilly (Macroom, County Cork), Charlotte Milligan Fox (Irish Literary Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Eleanor Hull (Irish Texts Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), and C. MacCarthy (Rob Roy Hotel, Queenstown, County Cork).