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The letters relate to the purchase of the ground rent of a property known as ‘Morrissey’s, 17 Friary Street’, from AIB Bank by the FMC Trust for £1,000 and to the proposed purchase of the said premises by Kilkenny Corporation. Correspondents include John Lanigan & Nolan, Abbey Bridge, Dean Street, Kilkenny, Fr. Leo Cullen OFM Cap., the Town Clerk’s Office, Kilkenny Corporation, and the Charitable Commissioners Office. A letter from John Lanigan & Nolan refers to the property as being let to tenants called ‘the Floods … [comprising] two Alms Houses i.e. the old “Munster Arms” at an annual rent of £11.50 due half yearly’.

Letters and related records relating to the lease of Father Mathew Hall, Cork, by the Everyman Group Theatre Company. The agreement with the Company specified a lease for five seasons (October-April) commencing in November 1972 with a ‘view to increasing the occupancy of the Hall’. The Everyman Playhouse Ltd. agreed to have exclusive use and management of the Hall except during the period when the Feis Maitiú would be held. The file includes letters from Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap., Edmund Hayes, solicitor, draft and copy agreements re the lease and reports of the meetings of the representatives appointed by the Capuchin Provincial Definitory to negotiate with the Everyman Company. With a newspaper cutting from the 'Evening Echo' (6 Oct. 1972) titled ‘The Realisation of a Theatre “Dream”’ referring to the co-operative spirit of the Capuchin friars who agreed to a lease of the Hall ‘that covers the auditorium, offices and dressing rooms, but not the recreational rooms on the top floor’. The file also includes a copy page from 'The Father Mathew Record', 49, no. 12 (Dec. 1956), p. 7, giving a history of the Hall in Cork.

Correspondence regarding a legal dispute arising out of a lease of 48 North King Street offered by the Capuchin friars to Patrick Macken. On 14 Dec. 1871, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC wrote to Macken offering him a lease of the said premises at the yearly rent of £38. Correspondents include Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, Patrick Macken and Henry Oldham, solicitor, 42 Fleet Street, Dublin. A note from Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC is also included in the file. It reads ‘Make Mr. T. O’Reilly hasten with the maps and valuation of N. King Street properties and N. Brunswick Street to get the faculty from Rome for selling them’.

Correspondence of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC relating to a Corporation plan for the widening of Carter’s Lane. Most of the correspondence relates to a dispute with John Rogers who possessed stores at the corner of Smithfield facing onto Carter’s Lane and who objected to the scheme. The file includes a printed 'Report of the Paving Committee' which notes that Messrs John Jameson & Sons, the head landlords, have raised no objection to the proposed scheme. The Reports reads: ‘We are informed that nearly half the congregation of St. Mary’s Church are obliged to use this thoroughfare, in addition to which, on market days, loads of hay and straw are constantly passing through it’. 21 May 1912. Correspondents include Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Ignatius Rice, law agent, Dublin Corporation, and the Local Government Board.

Correspondence relating to the hiring of Father Mathew Hall mostly for rehearsals and performances of theatre shows and plays, and for use as a polling station. The file includes letters from the Dublin Grand Opera Society (DGOS); the British Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech; the Irish Life Dublin Theatre Festival; Dublin Corporation (regarding the hiring of the Hall for an exhibition in connection with the North King Street Improvement Scheme); Christ Church Cathedral Group; Opera Theatre Company, 18 St. Andrew Street, Dublin 2. The correspondents include Br. Kevin Crowley OFM Cap., President, and John Hanley, caretaker, Father Mathew Hall.

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’.

Correspondence relating to the redundancy appeals tribunal for a stage manager employed by the Capuchins at Father Mathew Hall from March 1958 to September 1968. Correspondents include Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap., Edmund Hayes, solicitor, and Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap., Provincial Bursar.

Correspondence relating to a lease by O’Ferrall to the Capuchins of Nos. 133 and 134 Church Street. Correspondents include Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC, Capuchin Convent, John O’Hagan, solicitor, 9 Harcourt Street, Dublin (later Arthur O’Hagan & Son), and Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great George’s Street. On 25 Jan. 1884 Fr. Bernard wrote: ‘The property which we hold from Mr. O’Farrell consists of 2 houses in Church Street, nos. 133 & 134 (now in the possession of a Mr. John Ryan who is I suppose a sub-tenant to us) and a plot of ground running from Church Street to Bow Street upon which I believe a house formerly stood, but which was condemned by the Corporation and had to be taken down’.

Correspondence mainly relating to repair work and insurance requirements for Father Mathew Hall, Cork. Includes letters from John A. Deasy, consulting engineer, Kelly and Barry & Associates, chartered architects, Br. Paul O’Donovan OFM Cap., and Barry O’Driscoll, solicitor.