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Blank postcard print titled 'Military Operations, Dublin, June-July 1922 / Shell Exploding on Four Courts'. The image is credited to Hogan, Dublin.

Letter to Lena May Murphy, Cork, from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (23 Nov. 1918). It reads: ‘I must thank you very sincerely for your great kindness to my dead father in his last illness. All at home are never done telling everybody of you and your wonderful goodness’. This letter was sent by [Maire] Murphy, 35 Mercier Park, Curragh Road, Cork, to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (13 Nov. 1991), explaining that Lena May Murphy was her late aunt. With a copy photograph of Lena May Murphy, and notes by Fr. Nessan re Lena May who worked as a nurse caring for elderly patients.

Text of a poem or song signed by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and dated ‘9/4/4/20’. Fr. Dominic occasionally used the republican calendar to denote his years: 1920 was the fourth year of Republic founded in 1916. With a phonetic aid to pronunciation.

The series contains souvenir booklets and miscellaneous ephemera and artefacts relating to the 1916 Rising. Most of the booklets contain photographic postcards depicting various figures, events and artefacts associated with the Easter Rising and its aftermath.

Subscription cards and leaflets for the Happy Death Society, Holy Trinity Church, Cork. The card notes that the object of the Society is ‘to constantly pray and prepare for the grace of a happy and holy death’.

Photographic print of four Capuchin friars in the garden of Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. One of the friars (seated centre) is possibly Br. Felix Harte OSFC (1861-1935). The friar seated on the left is possibly Br. Stanislaus Walsh OSFC (1842-1910). The friar seated on the right is Br. Elzear Kelly OSFC (1857-1937)

Brochure advertising the sale of Ards House and Estate. The brochure has photographic prints of Sheephaven Bay, Ards House, and the associated workmen’s cottages. It is noted that the sale includes 2,000 acres. Ards House comprises a stone-built Georgian style residence with ‘six reception rooms, a billiard room, 19 principal bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a nursery suite, splendid servant’s quarters, ample garages and stabling, 20 cottages and beautiful pleasure grounds’. The brochure provides details on various facets of the property and notes that the owner (Lady Ena Stewart-Bam) ‘has been in negotiation with the Irish Land Commission, who are quite prepared to give every facility to an intending purchaser’. The agent is noted as Messrs Battersby & Co., 39 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. The brochure also notes:
• The sale of the historic ‘Doe Castle’ ruin with about 30 acres of demesne land.
• The potential sale of ‘furniture which includes some old and rare pieces and a valuable library’.
• That the ‘Ards Estate has been in the possession of the Stewart family for about 150 years. The first Stewart of Ards and the First Marquess of Londonderry were only brothers. The present head, Lady Stewart-Bam of Ards, is selling the property as her husband’s chief interests are in South Africa’.
• That the price for the freehold is £50,000 including sporting and fishing rights.

Letters from the Most Rev. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe (1888-1963), to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. re arrangements for the purchase of Ards House by the Capuchins. A letter of 1 Mar. 1930 expresses his pleasure on hearing that ‘negotiations with the Land Commission have been successful. About the time of taking over the property, really it does not matter; just make arrangements as you consider convenient’. A letter on 18 Mar. 1930 affirms that the friars ‘may fix up an Oratory at once … as soon as things are in order’.

Architectural plans (elevations and sections), designs, drawings and sketches for the new Capuchin House of Studies and Ard Mhuire Friary and Church, County Donegal, prepared by James Rupert Boyd Barrett (c.1904-1976), architect, 5 Camden Place, Cork. The file includes the following architectural records:

1. Sketch plan for House of Studies, Ard Mhuire Friary
   Date: Nov. 1958
   Number: Sketch 1
   Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
   Sheet size: OS; 104 cm x 77 cm
   Note: With colour washes

2. Sketch plan for basement and ground floors of the House of Studies
   Date: 5 Jan. 1959
   Number: Sketch 2
   Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
   Sheet size: 69 cm x 67 cm
   Note: With colour washes

3. Sketch plan of alterations to accommodation block of the House of Studies.
   Date: 5 Jan. 1959
   Number: Sketch 3
   Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
   Sheet size: 69 cm x 67 cm
   Note: With colour washes

4. Elevations and sections for alterations to the House of Studies and Friary
   Date: 7 Apr. 1959
   Number: Drawing 5
   Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
   Sheet size: 110 cm x 66 cm
   Note: With colour washes

5. Sketch, elevation, floor plan and axonometric view of the Friary
   Date: 14 Jan. 1960
   Number: Sketch 1
   Scale: 1 inch to 32 feet
   Sheet size: 117 cm x 69 cm
   Note: With colour washes

6. Elevation and sections of the House of Studies
   Date: 9 Oct. 1962
   Number: Drawing 8
   Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
   Sheet size: 126 cm x 71 cm
   Note: With colour washes

7. Floor plans (ground, first and second) of the House of Studies
   Date: 15 Oct. 1962
   Number: Drawing 7
   Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet; 1 inch to 22 feet
   Sheet size: 130 cm x 72 cm
   Note: With colour washes. The sheet shows the location of the Old Ard Mhuire Friary (formerly Ards House) with a note indicating that this is ‘to be demolished’.

8. Revisions to ground floor plan of the House of Studies
   Date: Jan. 1963
   Number: Drawing 3
   Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet
   Sheet size: 114 cm x 67.5 cm
   Note: The sheet is torn and frayed. Careful manual handling is required.

9. First-floor plan of the House of Studies
   Date: Jan. 1963
   Number: Drawing 4
   Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet
   Sheet size: 110 cm x 67 cm

10. Revisions to second-floor plan of the House of Studies
    Date: Jan. 1963
    Number: Drawing 5
    Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet
    Sheet size: 110 cm x 67 cm

11. Survey of proposed Ard Mhuire Friary and the House of Studies
    Date: 26 July 1963
    Number: No file number given
    Scale: 1 inch to 32 feet
    Sheet size: 76 cm x 61 cm
    Note: The survey was completed by E.G. Pettit, consulting engineer, 7 South Mall, Cork, for J.R. Boyd Barrett. The survey shows the location of the Old Ard Mhuire Friary (formerly Ards House) relative to the site of the new House of Studies.

12. Details of Altar Rail in Ard Mhuire Friary Church
    Date: 1965
    Number: Drawing 53
    Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot
    Sheet size: 72 cm x 48 cm

13. Details of seating in Ard Mhuire Friary Church
    Date: Nov. 1965
    Number: Drawing 54
    Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot
    Sheet size: 104 cm x 73 cm

14. Sketch plan of sanctuary layout in Ard Mhuire Friary Church
    Date: 24 Aug. 1965
    Number: No file number given
    Scale: 1 inch to 4 feet
    Sheet size: 66 cm x 56 cm

15. Design for layout of sacristy in Ard Mhuire Friary Church
    Date: Oct. 1965
    Number: Drawing 52
    Scale: ½ inch to 1 foot
    Sheet size: 61 cm x 36 cm

16. Details of choir stalls in Ard Mhuire Friary
    Date: Mar. 1965
    Number: Drawing 40
    Scale: 3 inches to 1 foot; 1 inch to 1 foot; ⅛ inch to 1 foot
    Sheet size: 94 cm x 70 cm

17. Landscaping and garden plan for Ard Mhuire Friary
    Date: July 1965
    Number: No file number given
    Scale: 1 inch to 16 feet
    Sheet size: 92 cm x 67 cm
    Note: The plan was compiled by Powers of Waterford.

An inventory for furniture and interior fittings belonging to ‘Ards Castle’ (presumably Ard Mhuire Friary), Creeslough, County Donegal, to be sold at a demolition sale on 12 Oct. 1966. The auctioneers are noted as Quinn Bros. & McGowan, Longford. The building contractors are P.J. McLoughlin & Co., Longford.