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Corkery, Denis, 1914-1997, Capuchin priest
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Letter Book

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The volume contains letters to: J. Rooney, Dollard Printing House, Seán T. O’Kelly, James Lyons, John P. Barton, Mannix Joyce, Monsignor Arthur Ryan, Richard R. Lawton, Brian O’Higgins, Liam O’Shaughnessy, Dr. Liam Brophy, Fr. Denis Corkery OFM Cap., Dermot Flynn, Tadhg Gavin, Fr. T.J. Walsh, Fr. Fergal O’Connor OP, Rev. Thomas A. Egan, Richard J. King, Dorothea Barclay, William Daly, Kevin Faller, Joseph Foyle, Sean Gaynor, Fr. Thomas Halton, Doran Hurley, Margaret Holland, John Irvine, Peter D. Thomas, Elizabeth May, Fr. Bartholomew Egan OFM, Paul Martin-Dillon, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., Basil Payne, Professor Anthony Hughes, James Johnston, John Robinson, Seán Nesson, Horst Stein, Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap., John G. O’Neill, Canon Sydney MacEwan, Desmond Fennell, Benedict Kiely, and Alison King.

Register of Accounts

Register of accounts with various suppliers for goods and services supplied to the Capuchin friars in Church Street. The register includes accounts for pharmaceuticals, wine, and various foodstuffs. Fr. Denis Corkery OFM Cap. annotated some of the pages in the volume with Irish language extracts.

Temperance Campaign Account Book

Account book with details of receipts from the sale of temperance medals, manuals, certificates and crosses by the Irish Capuchin friars. Reference is made to certificates sold by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC (1874-1951) and Fr. Luke Sheehan OSFC (1873-1937). It is noted that Fr. Luke was a missionary at Steamer Point in Aden in 1903. The latter portion of the volume was subsequently used by Fr. Denis Corkery OFM Cap. (1914-1997) as a notebook for transcribing material (mostly in Irish and French). The dates of these entries are c.1970.