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Memoranda regarding the history and work of the Conference of St. Francis (founded in 1905 by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.) in the environs of Greek Street and the Church Street Friary. The note refers to the building of Assisi House adjacent to the Greek Street flat complex opposite St. Michan’s Church of Ireland in which a boys’ club was founded in 1940. The note affirms: ‘In 1963 the premises known as Assisi House had to be demolished to make way for the widening of Church Street and since then we have not been able to find suitable accommodation to carry on our work’.

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Memoranda re books held in the Kilkenny Friary Library. The notes were probably compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Particular reference is made to annotations, marginalia and inscriptions found on the frontispieces of the volumes. Some of the memoranda are very fragmentary and incomplete. Many of the books referred to in the memoranda are now extant in the Provincial Archives. See CA KK/10 for a listing of some these texts from the Kilkenny Friary Library.

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Booklet containing the recollections of Fr. Michael Murphy OFM Cap. particularly in relation to his role in establishing Namushakende Parish Church in the Diocese of Mongu, Zambia. Reference is also made to his missionary work in Kashembe, Namboata, Nanjuca and Litoya. The photographic print shows a celebration outside St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church in Namushakende on 25 Mar. 2004.

Memoir by a Vincentian, Father Tom Davitt CM, on his time as a seminarian at Saint Joseph's, Blackrock, from 1946 to 1947.
The memoir was published as an article in Colloque 50, Winter 2004, pp. 107-134, and is available on this page: http://www.diskon.ie/colloque.html

An account by Father Stanislaus Brindley CM, of UCD Studies for Blackrock seminarians in the 1940s. Also published online in Colloque 50, Winter 2004, pp. 135-140, available online at the same link as above.

Also an account by Father Davitt, who as part of his studies in Saint Joseph's, went to visit the Maison-Mere (Vincentian Mother House) in Paris in 1949.

An unpublished ‘Memoir of Father Theobald Mathew OSFC / The Apostle of Temperance’ compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. The title page gives a date of 17 March 1929 at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin. A list of mainly published sources is given for the text. The memoir is comprised of two parts. Part I: Testimonies and Part II: Father Mathew before 1838.

Autobiographical memoir of Canon James Casey (1824-1909). At pp 21-6 reference is made to Casey having taken the pledge from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 22 Sept. 1840. He writes ‘I remember well the crowds and the crushing. … The people were got to kneel down in rows while enthusiastic priests rode among the vast multitude to keep order. The great and special graces showered down that day will never be known till the day of judgement’.