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Draft biography of the architect, James Joseph McCarthy (1817-1882) with a list of his principal works (including the Capuchin Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin). References are made to his Royal Hibernian Academy exhibitions, to his appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Catholic University of Ireland, and to controversies over the restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin and the commission to build St. Colman’s Cathedral in Queenstown (Cobh). The file includes a newspaper clipping referring to the history of the Capuchins on Church Street. The clipping includes a photographic print of the old Capuchin Chapel on the street which was built in 1796 and was replaced by St. Mary of the Angels in 1864.

Photographic prints submitted by James Lyons, 24 Grenville Villas, Bachelors’ Quay, Cork. Most of the prints are captioned and some bear the date: 16 July 1964. The file includes the following images:

• The tomb of the Mac Finin Dubhs at Kilmackillogue, County Kerry.
• The ruins of Ardea Castle, County Kerry.
• The ruins of the old church at Kilmackillogue, County Kerry.
• Connemara Lakeland, County Galway.
• Farmstead near Ballyvaughan, County Clare.
• Keel Strand, Achill Island.
• The moorland around Westport, County Mayo.
• Dunmanus Bay, County Cork.
• The Goats' Path overlooking Bantry Bay, County Cork.
• Fishing vessels moored at Castletownbere, County Cork.
• Glengarriff as seen from the Bantry Road, County Cork.
• The seashore at Kilcrohane.

Calling card for James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.

Two letters from James Pepper, Moyola, Dundrum, County Dublin, to Father Thomas Morrissey CM, regarding some property at Rathangan, County Wicklow. James Pepper is collecting rents on behalf of James Pepper who is deceased.
Also a note on documents that were stored with the letters.