Publisher: Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, Upper Sackville Street Language: English Full title: 'The League of the Cross Magazine and Crusade Journal, Catholic Temperance Gazette' Ink stamp reads: ‘Library OFM Cap., Church Street’. The volume contains the following editions: Mar. 1883 (no. 3), Feb. 1885 (no. 14), Apr. 1885 (no. 16), June 1885 (no. 18), Sept. 1885 (no. 21), and Oct. 1885 (no. 22).
A hard-bound volume containing a complete run of this weekly publication. The series runs from 1 Sept. 1900 (Vol. V, No. 1)-20 Feb. 1904 (Vol. VII, No. 26). The founding editor of 'The Leader' was the Waterford-born David Patrick Moran. He was educated in Mount Sion CBS, and later in St. Vincent’s College, Castleknock. On leaving school he went to London where he gained his first journalistic appointment at the 'Star' newspaper, founded by T.P. O’Connor. Moran was attracted to the Irish language movement and, through it, to Irish nationalism, during his thirteen years in London. In 1898 he returned to Dublin and joined the Gaelic League. In 1900 he founded 'The Leader', an outspoken weekly publication devoted to preserving important facets of the cultural and national heritage of the country. The Leader was an immediate success. 'The Leader' attracted a lot of Irish advertising and Moran saw the publicising of Irish goods as one of its main roles. He advocated buy Irish campaigns but sensibly warned that the Irish people would buy Irish goods only if they were ‘as good and as cheap’ as imports. An ink stamp on the inside front cover and on the fly leaf reads: ‘Father Matthew Temperance Hall, Church Street, Dublin’. Folio, some illustrations. Bound volume with title to spine ‘The Leader, Vols. 5-7’.
The file contains the following edition of this local newspaper: 23 Oct. 1948 (Vol. 55, No. 43). The edition carries reports on the celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny including a sermon preached by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. on the history of the Capuchins in the city. The celebrations were attended by the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Fr. Bonaventure McCafferty OFM Cap., Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., F.J. McGeary, editor of the Irish Independent and Mr. T.F. De Loughrey, Mayor of Kilkenny.
The file contains the following editions of this local newspaper: 16 June 2000 (Bishop Laurence Forristal on the occasion of first confirmations at the Capuchin Friary Church in Kilkenny). 13 June 2003 (Article re the refurbishment of the gravestones of eighteenth-century Capuchin Priests in Kilkenny. See also CA KK/6/4). 3 June 2005 (Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap. on the Capuchins in Kilkenny). 16 Sept. 2005 (Article titled: ‘Friary’s future hangs in the balance’).
Newspaper cutting reporting on the memorial service on the 19th anniversary of the deaths of Captain Thomas Hennessy and Commander Michael Dermody who died on Walkin Street on 21 Feb. 1921 in a clash with Crown Forces.
The file contains the following editions of this local newspaper: 29 June 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 26) 6 July 1935 (Vol. 43, No. 27) Special commemorative editions of the 'Kilkenny People' published to mark the Congress of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland which was held in the city. The Congress had as its theme ‘Social Problems in Ireland’. The edition of 6 July 1935 contains a report of an address by Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.
