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Letter from Bertie Ahern, TD, Minister for Finance, to Br. Kevin Crowley OFM Cap., enclosing a response from the Arts Council regarding a request for financial assistance with the costs of running the Feis Maitiú. With manuscript notes regarding the aforementioned request.

Poems used for various interpretation and choral speaking competitions at the Father Mathew Feis. Competitions include choral speaking (primary schools) and Irish language poems.

Results reports for the Father Mathew Feis. The list includes entries under the titles of competition name, competitor name and place or ranking.

Notices and guidelines for adjudicators at the Father Mathew Feis as set down by the committee. The guidelines note that the ‘minimum mark for a Certificate in Feis Maitiú is 85 marks and the maximum/top mark is 92/93/94. Lowest mark not below 77. Usual range 78 to 92’.

Adjudicators’ reports for the competitions held at the Father Mathew Feis in 1992. The reports include remarks made by various adjudicators at the Feis including May McHenry and Anne Dockery. The reports include entries under the title of competitor’s number, competition number, competition title and marks awarded. The competitions assessed include the boy’s and girl’s solo elocution, the Father McAuliffe cup and the oratorio.

Register of masses (and confessions) at Holy Trinity Church.

Copy cutting from the National Mirror, 3 Feb. 1992, referring to a ceremony held in St. Ignatius Church, Lusaka, to mark the creation of the new Capuchin Vice-Province in Zambia. A photograph shows Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Flavio Roberto Carraro OFM Cap., General Minister, at the celebration.

Cardinal Owen McCann, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, with Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap. and Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap. in Athlone parish, Cape Town, South Africa.

Correspondence of Fr. Dan Joe O’Mahony OFM Cap., President, Br. Daniel O’Brien OFM Cap., Celia Hanley and Patricia Melligan, secretaries, Father Mathew Feis, mostly seeking subscriptions for corporate sponsorship and requests from teachers for poems and other Feis syllabi, and arrangements for competition adjudicators and students. The file includes a letter from Thelma Conlan, President, Speech and Drama Teachers Association, affirming that it ‘would be a great loss if a Feis of such stature was to become a thing of the past’. She suggests to Fr. Dan Joe that the ‘Association would be prepared to take over the running of this excellent Feis’; a letter from A. Ó hAonghusa, secretary to Michael D. Higgins, Minister for Arts, regretting that he cannot attend the launch of the Feis (9 Feb. 1993). With a newspaper clipping from the 'Evening Herald', 8 Feb. 1997, referring to the Feis Maitiú and the TV personalities who appeared in the Feis including Gay Byrne, Brenda Fricker, Frances Black and Hugh O’Connor.