Archival Book of Holy Trinity Friary, Cork

Volume containing notes on the history and records of the Capuchin community, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The front cover is annotated: ‘Cork OFM Cap. Archives, July 1954’. The volume was probably begun by Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap. (1892-1958) in June 1954. The title page reads: ‘Archives of Holy Trinity, Fr. Mathew Quay, Cork. Very Rev. Fr. Mel Farrell, guardian (1952)’. An annotation on the inside front cover indicates that some of the contents of the volume were extracted from archives extan

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Date
c.1880-1978
Reference
20
Extent and medium
239 pp; 32. 5 cm x 21.5 cm; Bound volume; Manuscript, typescript and printed
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Volume containing notes on the history and records of the Capuchin community, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork. The front cover is annotated: ‘Cork OFM Cap. Archives, July 1954’. The volume was probably begun by Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap. (1892-1958) in June 1954. The title page reads: ‘Archives of Holy Trinity, Fr. Mathew Quay, Cork. Very Rev. Fr. Mel Farrell, guardian (1952)’. An annotation on the inside front cover indicates that some of the contents of the volume were extracted from archives extant in a safe in the Friary called the ‘Stairchiste’. The volume is divided into a number of sections. The listing below follows the sequence of entries as found in the volume: • Extracts re from Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., 'The story of the Irish Capuchins' (1915), p. 1 • List and texts of inscriptions and memorials in Holy Trinity Church, pp 2-3. • Printed appeal in support of exiled French Capuchins in Cork. c.Nov. 1880. (See CA HT/7/1), p. 4. • Typescript extract from the 'Irish Penny Magazine' (18 May 1833) concerning the building of Holy Trinity Church, p. 5. • Transcript of the ‘Inscription on a bell given by the Cork house to Rochestown, Dec. 1923’, p. 6. • Note re stained glass windows in Holy Trinity Church (see CA HT/2/5/17), p. 7. • Note on chalices and sacred vessels in Holy Trinity Church, pp 8-11. • Relics and authentications, pp 13-15. • List of articles, records and relics relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC stored in a ‘wardrobe’. A note attached to the page indicates that some of these items were moved to Dublin (probably to the Provincial Archives in Dublin), pp 15a-17. • Historical annals covering the period of 1223-1924, pp 22-27. • Annals, including detailed notices (chapter meetings, obituary notices etc.) of the Holy Trinity community, pp 30-55. • Fr. Michael O’Shea’s death is recorded in Nov. 1958. A note indicates that ‘nothing was recorded by the local archivist from Nov. 1958 until April 1978’, p. 55. • Extracts from Fr. J. Walsh, ‘The Capuchins in Cork’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1952), pp 200-1. The entry is titled ‘A Capuchin lay brother’s diary’ and also contains extracts from an original ‘manuscript book of the community of the South Friary’, pp 206-9. • Entry titled ‘a partial catalogue of the archives and documents found in a safe. 5 July 1954’, p. 210. • Incomplete list of guardians of Holy Trinity Friary, 1863-1949, p. 211. • Record of Holy Trinity Community Chapter, 1952, p. 212. • Partial index to the contents of the volume, pp 230-9. With numerous church notices, mission fliers and newspaper cuttings inserted into the volume.
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The covers are partially detached from the volume. Some of the pages are frayed and torn. Careful manual handling is required.
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Irish Capuchin Archives
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Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church, Cork > Historical Writings

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Capuchin Convent, Charlotte Quay, Cork. Owing to the recent expulsions in France in pursuance of the policy of persecution adopted by the present French ministry, and which has resulted in breaking up the whole religious system of that country, casting multitudes of Cloistered Monks and Friars adrift upon the world, many of them being literally like their Divine Master and Model, "without a place whereon to lay their heads," the Capuchin Fathers in Cork, although greatly straitened in means, having two houses almost solely dependent upon the receipts at the church doors on Sundays and holidays, have had their already heavy burdens considerably augmented by the arrival of a number of students in theology and their professors from the Nantes Convent, from which they were expelled under circumstances of peculiar hardship, as fully detailed in the Cork papers. The Cork Convent, to which necessary additions are being made to render it capable of meeting the requirements of the Rule of St. Francis which is strictly observed by the Fathers, does not afford sufficient accommodation to the few religious who inhabit it. As the Rochestown Noviciate has more than its full complement of religious, and as only a temporary place of refuge has been with much difficulty procured at Whitepoint, near Queenstown, from which the Friars will soon have to be removed, there is an urgent need of pushing on the erection of two additional wings adjoining the Cork house; and it is to enable the Fathers to accomplish this work of absolute necessity and dispense such poor hospitality as they can to their persecuted French brethren, that an appeal is now made to public generosity to supplement the funds which are being strictly and exclusively applied to the interior decorations of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity—endeared to all Irishmen and admirers of the great Apostle of Temperance as "Father Mathew's Chapel,"—and the construction of the above-mentioned wings to the Convent, built in the simplest and most inexpensive style. It is with extreme reluctance that the Fathers tres Donations in aid of this good work, besides being a religious act, will also be an act of international courtesy and hospitality. The following gentlemen undertake to act as a committee:— The Very Rev. F. SIMEON, Commissary-General, O.F.M.C., Cork. THOMAS LYONS, Esq., J.P., Waterview, Passage West. JEROME J. MURPHY, Esq., Ashton House, Blackrock Road. JAMES MURPHY, Esq., J.P., Ringmahon, Blackrock. D. F. LEAHY, Esq., D.L., J.P., Knt. O.S.G., Shanakiel House, Cork. SIMON O'CONNOR Esq., Villa Nuova, Douglas. JAMES DALY, Esq., 80, South Main Street, Cork.

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