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Specification by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of work to be done and materials to be used in the carrying out of the proposed new aisle, porches, and extension to the nave at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.

Specification for the reconstruction of seating arrangements at the rear of the auditorium in Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, by J. Seward, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, Dublin. Includes a schedule of work to be done, materials to be used and form of tender.

Specification for electrical installation works at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, by Nicholas Mathews, engineer, 104 Grafton Street, Dublin. With a statement of the general conditions of the contract.

Specification for the workmanship and materials required in the building of a retail shop and premises on Bristol Street in Birmingham for James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. The specification was compiled by John Smith & Son, architects, 88 Colmore Row, Birmingham. James Pearse had inherited his father’s shop in Bristol Street in Birmingham and seemingly had an architectural firm draw up plans for it to be converted into a newsagent and domestic dwelling.

Specification and contract of agreement with Alex Chestnutt & Company, organ builders, Manor Street, Waterford, for the installation of a ‘two-manual organ’ at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The agreement (dated 28 July 1914) with Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, guardian, notes that the consideration money for the installation of the organ was £580. The file includes letters from Alex Chestnutt to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC in which the former notes that ‘owing to this unfortunate war there is very little doing in the organ building trade … and having many bills to meet now at the end of the year I have no other course to take but to ask if you will kindly oblige me with another £100’. (30 Dec. 1914). With letters to Fr. Pius Duggan OSFC, guardian, regarding an estimate from the cleaning and overhaul of the organ (8 Feb. 1930).

Publisher: Dublin: The Gaelic Press, 30 Upper Liffey Street
Language: English
Physical description: 13 pp; ill.; map; 21 cm x 14 cm
There is a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on front cover.