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Irish Capuchin Provincial Archives Address: Capuchin Provincial Archives, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin 7. Telephone: +00353 (0)1 8730599 (ext. 25) Email: capuchinarchives@gmail.com Website: http://www.capuchinfranciscans.ie/ Enquiries to: Provincial Archivist Access: 10.00-13.00, 14.00-17.00, Mon.-Fri., by advance appointment only. Major Collections The archives contain the records of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Ireland from 1615 to circa 1980, with the bulk of the papers relating to individual Capuchin Franciscans, Capuchin administration in the Irish Province, sermon and retreat notes and various sodalities and tertiaries. The entire collection is currently being processed. The collection is divided into two sections – historical (pre-provincial) and contemporary (dating to the post-1885 period and the re-establishment of the Irish Capuchin Province). Principal collections include: Records relating to Capuchin houses in the dioceses of Dublin, Cork, Ossory and Raphoe and to overseas missions undertaken by Irish Capuchins in New Zealand (Wellington and Auckland), Australia (New South Wales) and the United States (thirteen houses in California and one house in Oregon), and in Africa (fourteen houses in Zambia and one house in South Africa). Correspondence between the Minister General of the Order, congregations of the Roman Curia, the Holy See and the Irish Province Provincial and General Chapter meetings. Novitiate registers and papers. Material on studies and formation. Records of sodalities including the Third Order of St. Francis; Total Abstinence Association; Guard of Honour of the Blessed Sacrament; Sacred Heart Sodality; Archconfraternity of St. Anthony of Padua; Confraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Personal papers and polemical writings of Fr. Arthur O’Leary, OFM Cap. and Fr. Theobald Mathew, OFM Cap., the ‘Apostle of Temperance’. Correspondence and papers of Fr. Albert Bibby, OFM Cap., Fr. Dominic O’Connor, OFM Cap., and other Capuchins involved in ministering to court-martialed insurgent leaders following the Easter Rising. This collection includes contemporary republican pamphlets, newspapers, handbills, photographs, correspondence and other documents relating to the War of Independence, the Treaty and the Civil War. Rare books (including incunabula) written by Capuchins or of interest to the Order, reference works, books by members of the Irish Province and publications by the Order in Ireland (including full series of The Father Mathew Record and The Capuchin Annual). Works of art (including original works by Richard King). Artefacts (including a large collection of printing blocks, framed historical banners and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century chalices and devotional objects). Maps and plans of properties held by the Capuchin Order in Ireland from the seventeenth century onwards. Photographic collections.

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