Two bound volumes containing tables of contents for issues of 'The Father Mathew Record' from October 1928 to July 1948 (Vol. 42, No. 7) and from August 1948 (Vol. 42, No. 8) to December 1967 (Vol. 59, No. 12). The second volume also contains an index for 'Eirigh' from January (Vol. 60, No. 1) to May 1969 (Vol. 61, No. 4). The indexes were possibly compiled by Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap.
Draft articles submitted for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record' (later 'Eirigh'). The file includes articles written by the following authors: Christine Crowley, E.M. Stacey, Dr. Ivor Browne, Aloys Fleischmann (interview transcript), Frank Aiken TD, Deirdre McGarry, Fr. Simon O’Byrne OFM (1928-2011), Anne Elizabeth O’Neill, Edith M. Geoghegan, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Richard Kehoe, Gerald Malone, Cecily Lambert, Desmond Cryan, F.N. O’Neill, John Cahill, Breda Owens, Fr. Francis MacNamara OP, John Turpin, and Joseph O’Connor.
FILING CABINET 009:
DRAWER TWO: SPENCER PAPERS
FILE SIX: ARTICLES:
The Highgate Catholic, October 1894, pp.40-42, an article giving Father George Spencer’s own account of his conversion, 1834
Highgate Catholic, 1895, article on Fr Ignatius Spencer CP.
Cross, December 1912
An Irish writer, name given in Gaelic using Gaelic alphabet, ‘Father Ignatius Spencer and Ireland’, Catholic Bulletin, vol.V, no.9, September 1915, pp.677-688.
Cross, September 1933, ‘E.B.’, pp.192-195, ‘A Remarkable Convert’, a review of Fr Urban Young’s Life of Fr Ignatius Spencer CP.
Catholic Gazette, October 1933, review of Fr Urban Young’s Life of Fr Ignatius Spencer CP by Edith Pearson and another by ‘J.H.’
Cross Annual, December 19??, article by Fr Urban Young, ‘Fr Ignatius Spencer CP’.
Ransomer, September 1938, pp.9-11, article by Fr Urban Young CP on Fr Ignatius Spencer CP.
Sermon notes in Fr Urban Young’s writing, November 1939 to the Children of Mary, St Mary’s, Harborne.
Revd Fr F.W. Kershaw, ‘A Great Englishman Forgotten’, Harvest, February, 1945, pp.24-25.
Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, ‘Fr Ignatius Spencer CP (1799-1864), Southward Record, vol.XXIX, no.334, June 1955, pp.130-133. 3 copies
Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, ‘Fr Ignatius Spencer CP (1799-1864), Southward Record, vol.XXIX, no.335, July 1955, pp.151-155. 3 copies
F. Donovan, ‘To Win Britain Back to the Faith’, Catholic Fireside, 12 December 1969, vol.CLXXI, no.4163, pp.425-427
Sr Anna Maria Reynolds CP, ‘Loss and Gain: A Tale of Two Converts’, Clergy Review, vol. LXII, no.8, August 1977, pp.308-317.
K. Fields, ‘Sutton’s Royal Link’, Lancashire Life, July 1981, p.36.
Fr Eugene Kennan CP, ‘Father Ignatius Spencer CP, 1799-1864’, Catholic Gazette, July 1981, pp.16-18, 2 copies
Paper on Fr Ignatius Spencer and the SVP, circulated by Fr Ignatius McElligott CP as no.12 of his In Diebus Illis, 26 May 1982.
Fr Ignatius McElligott CP, Statement re 1923 Archbishop of Liverpool repeated and a statement from the Cross, November 1926 by Henry Browne SJ, date of Fr Ignatius McElligott’s article?
Rt Rev. Bishop Francis Thomas of Northampton, Notes on the Annual Meeting of the Converts’Aid Society, 2 July 1984, Annual Report of the Converts Aid Society, 1984, pp.10-13, referring to Fr Spencer’s care for his housekeeper, Mary Wykes, also a convert.
Anonymous, ‘George Spencer, Father Ignatius of St Paul’, source unknown, pp.164-173 [Oscott?], 1980s?
Fr Hubert Condron CP, ‘A Spencer and the SVP’, The New Vincentian, August 1994, p.9.
Sr Dominic Savio (Hamer) CP, ‘Unity in the Truth: Father Ignatius Spencer’s Crusade of Prayer, 1839-1864’, North West Catholic History, vol.XXIII, 1996, pp.5-18
Sr Dominic Savio (Hamer) CP, ‘Unity in the Truth: Father Ignatius Spencer’s Crusade of Prayer, 1839-1864’, North West Catholic History, vol.XXIII, 1996, pp.5-18, an Italian translation, La Sapienza Della Croce, XIV, no.2, April-June 1999, pp.175-187.
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Articles of Agreement of William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, and Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci, with Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC relating to the purchase (for £1,000) of premises on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built.
Counterpart agreement between Patrick Pearse, Emily MacCarthy, and the Intermediate Board of Education regarding St. Enda’s School. Pearse is referred to as the ‘owner and manager’ of St Enda’s School. The agreement refers to the provision of ‘equipment and appliances for the practical teaching of The Natural and Experimental Sciences’. The document is signed by Patrick Pearse and the other parties to the agreement. The seal of the Board of Education is fixed to the document. Includes a schedule of payments to be made to the Intermediate Board of Education.
Articles of contract of Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC, Queen Street, with Joseph O’Reilly, 4 Anglesea Street, Cork, sculptor, for the work on the High Altar to be erected in Holy Trinity Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork. The contract refers to certain stipulations and conditions including the superintendence of Fr. Caesar Pascal OSFC over the work. The specification for the work is annexed to the contract which is to be completed for the total cost of £169. The specification outlines the design, ornamentation and materials to be used in the construction of the new altar. It also includes two small line drawings of the finials, designed by P.J. Scannell, 14 Douglas Street, which will support some of the statutes surrounding the altar.
Photocopies of articles on various subjects relating to the history of the Capuchins in Cork. The articles are taken from an unnamed local publication. The articles are illustrated. The article headings include:
• Chapel at Blackamoor Lane, c.1771.
• Chapel at Sober Lane, c.1756.
• Holy Trinity Church / George Pain’s winning design for Father Mathew Memorial Church.
• Memorial Chapel.
• Callaghan’s Gates.
• The Corn Exchange.
• Father Mathew Memorial Tower.
• John Hogan’s bust of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.
• Statue of William Crawford.
• Funeral of Fr. Mathew.
• St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork.
• Fr. Arthur O’Leary OSFC
The photocopies have been laminated and are extant in plastic sleeves.
Artist's impression of apparition to Bl. Charles