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File relating to James Pearse’s purchase of shares in the People’s Bread Company Limited, 4 Moorgate Street, London. The file includes a memorandum of association and correspondence.

Letter from John Connolly, auctioneer and valuer, to Fr Edmund Comerford CM regarding the buying-out of ground rents.

Letter from John Connolly to Father Edmund Comerford CM regarding the buying-out of ground rents at Sweetman’s Avenue, Blackrock.

Deeds, correspondence and related legal documents concerning negotiations for the purchase of premises on Walkin Street (later Friary Street) by the Capuchin Order. The principal vendor and fee farm grant holder was the Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson (Church of Ireland Rector of Ballymoney, County Cork). Some of Robinson’s relations also had interests in the properties. The file relates primarily to the protracted negotiations for the purchase, and to efforts to trace title to the properties (Robinson had inherited the fee farm grant of rents accruing from the premises through his mother, Margaret Anne, a daughter of Captain James Montgomery Blair). Reference is also made to various mortgages on the properties and to the original fee farm grant of 1705 made by James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde. The Capuchins eventually secured the property in 1919 for £650 (See CA KK/2/1/1/3/13). The final conveyance contained a covenant by the vendor to indemnify the property transferred against all rents accruing out of any other premises which he continued to hold on Walkin Street.

A bound volume containing publishing works by Fr. Michael O’Hickey. Includes some clippings and manuscript additions. The inside front cover has a print of Fr. O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’. A later annotation on the opening page reads ‘Very rare / unique’. Printed title to spine reads ‘Writings of Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’. The volume includes:
• ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916).
• ‘Primary schools and their management / by Sacerdes and Sagart’ ([privately printed], 1907). 64 pp.
• ‘The True National Idea by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey / A lecture delivered in the hall of the Catholic Commercial Club, Dublin, on November 3rd, 1898, under the auspices of the Central Branch of the Gaelic League’. (Dublin, Gaelic League Pamphlets, Third Edition, 1898). 8 pp.
• ‘The Irish language movement: its genesis, growth and progress / by Rev. Michael P. O’Hickey’ ([Dublin, Gaelic League, 1902]). 15 pp.
• ‘The nationalisation of Irish education / by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey’. ([Dublin, Gaelic League, 1902]). 23 pp.
• ‘An Irish university, or else / by Rev. Michael P. O’Hickey. (Waterford, M.H. Gill & Son, 1909). 20 pp.
• ‘The Irish language and Irish intermediate education / VII / Dr. O’hickey’s reply to Dr. Mahaffy, Dr. Gwynn and Dr. Atkinson (Dublin: Gaelic League Pamphlets – no. 17, [c.1902]). 14 pp.
• ‘The Future of Irish in the National Schools / by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey’ (Dublin: Gaelic League Pamphlets – no. 9, 1900). 12 pp.
• ‘The Golden Age of the Irish Church / A lecture by Rev. Michael P. Hickey’ (Glasgow, P. Donegan & Co., 1890). 32 pp.
• ‘Wanted – an Irish university; also essays on university and kindred subjects / Collected and edited by an Irish priest’ (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1909). 128 pp.
• ‘Further documents bearing on the dismissal of Rev. Dr. O’Hickey from the Irish Chair of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth’. ([Privately printed, c.1909]).
• ‘Memorandum dealing with the constitution, history and authority of the Board of Trustees of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth: with some account of the visitors, past and present’. ([Privately printed, c.1909]). 31 pp.

The series contains a large collection of published works and biographical accounts dealing with the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The collection also includes works relating to various teetotal and temperance movements in Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Many of the publications listed below are connected with the temperance revival of the late nineteenth century exemplified by the foundation of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association by Fr. James Cullen SJ in 1898. The works are listed in chronological order by date of publication.