Bound volume containing newspaper clippings providing accounts of the tenement collapse and the subsequent funeral and burial of the seven victims. The clippings also give lists of subscribers to the relief fund established after the disaster. The volume also contains a manuscript list of twenty-seven Capuchin friars at St. Marys of the Angels, Church Street, at Rochestown College, and at Father Mathew’s (Holy Trinity) Church in Cork. The list is headed by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, ‘the Lord Mayor’s Chaplain’. The list also includes Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, ‘superior of Fr. Mathew’s Church, Cork’, and Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, President, Rochestown College, Cork. The volume also contains a manuscript list of people with private addresses in the environs of Church Street and North King Street. The list also notes ‘Father Mathew Hall’ for all the signatories. This may be a list of members of a religious sodality or, alternatively, a list of subscribers to the Tenement Disaster fund.
The subseries comprises a large collection of bound pamphlets, leaflets, and booklets assembled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., the editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Much of the material is directly related to and largely produced during the Irish revolutionary period in the early twentieth century. The broad subjects include the Home Rule crisis (1912-14), World War I (1914-18), the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence (1919-21), and the Civil War (1922-23).
Included are some official government publications and items from private organizations such as patriotic and volunteer societies, religious associations, and various republican affiliates and organisations. Other content in the bound pamphlet collection is indicative of Moynihan’s eclectic interest in Irish church history, Franciscan history, antiquities, Irish literature and art, Gaelic culture, historiography, and the contemporary political and economic situation in Ireland. It appears that Moynihan bound the original pamphlets together to form a reference library for the Capuchin Publications Office.
A bound volume of pamphlets. A manuscript index gives the pamphlet titles on the first page. The volume includes several typescript (English-language) pamphlets seemingly published in Italy during the Second World War. The titles include ‘The Roman Question’, ‘Letters to visitors in Italy’ (Giovani Papini), and ‘Land reclamation in Italy’ (Cesare Longobardi). Some of these pamphlets include pro-fascist and pro-Benito Mussolini statements. Also includes a typescript copy of Nicola Turchi’s ‘Irish Medieval Culture’. The volume also includes several unrelated Irish pamphlets.
The subseries comprises a large collection of bound volumes containing photographic material, newspaper and magazine clippings, original historical records, and ephemera compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., the editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The content of the volumes is extremely varied and, in many instances, includes rare original records reflecting Moynihan’s interest in Irish history, and particularly the revolutionary period. Some of the material listed here complements content published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ with several original photographs extant in the volumes reproduced in various editions of the periodical.
Other content (especially the clippings) is suggestive of Moynihan’s eclectic interest in Irish church history, Irish Capuchin history, antiquities, Irish literature and art, Gaelic culture, historiography, and the contemporary political and economic situation in Ireland especially during the Second World War.
A bound volume with black and white photographs and colour postcard prints. Gilt title on the front cover reads ‘Photographs’. The volume includes images of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., with other Capuchin friars including Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. Several photographs of unidentified religious sisters are also extant in the volume. The volume includes images associated with pilgrimages to Rome and to the monastic site on the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland. Several colour postcard images of the stained-glass windows in Chartres Cathedral in France are also present in the volume.
A bound volume containing colour postcard images of scenic locations around Ireland, mostly in County Kerry. Includes various scenes around Killarney. The volume also includes postcards of Croagh Patrick in Mayo and an image of the control tower at Shannon Airport in County Clare. All the postcards have manuscript notes on the reverse by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The notes appear to be draft letters written by Fr. Senan to his secretary Mollie Baxter in circa 1953. There are duplicate postcards, and some are loose within the volume.
A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex, a journalist, writer and war correspondent. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / I’. The content of the letters includes references to contemporary politics in Britain and Ireland, literary matters, Catholic publications, and general religious topics. Atteridge's letters suggest some support for Irish republicans and Éamon de Valera.
A bound volume containing the correspondence of Fr. Henry Rope. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / III’. The file includes Father Rope’s letters mainly from Irish correspondents, most notably from William Frederick Paul Stockley (Woodside, Tivoli, Cork), and from his wife Germaine and his daughter Violet Stockley. The volume also includes letters from Bernadette O’Byrne (Corville, Roscrea, County Tipperary), George Noble Plunkett, Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin), Vincent Rochford, Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, Laurence Ryan (79 Derby Road, Seedley, Manchester), Richard Barry O’Brien (100 Sinclair Road, Kensington, London), Fr. David Humphreys (Presbytery, Killenaule, County Tipperary), The Irish Book Shop Limited (45 Dawson Street, Dublin), Patrick Fogarty (‘The Irish Catholic’, 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Patrick MacSwiney (Presbytery, Dunmanway, County Cork), Patrick Langford Beazley (editor of ‘The Catholic Times’), ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’ (Fleet Street, Dublin), Fr. Joseph Darlington SJ (editor of ‘The Irish Monthly’, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin), Fr. P.J. Connolly SJ (editor, ‘Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review’, 34 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Patrick John Little, Frank Gallagher (4 Wilton Place, Dublin), Seán O’Callaghan (The New Ireland Publishing Company Ltd., 13 Fleet Street, Dublin), John P. Boland (Catholic Truth Society, London), and An t-Athair Súilleabháin (Piltown, County Kilkenny). The volume includes a letter from Father Rope to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the delivery of some more of his archive of Irish letters which he thinks may be ‘keep worthy’. (28 July 1951); Printed ‘Statement from Dáil Eireann / The ‘Free State” Constitution / Subversion of the Republic’ (1937); Typescript titled ‘The defender of small nations at Millstreet’ with manuscript additions by William Frederick Paul Stockley. (Aug. 1918).
A bound volume containing the correspondence of Fr. Henry Rope. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / VII’. The file includes several lengthy letters from Fr. E. Carroll (Catholic Church, Crayford, Kent). Some of this correspondence refers to the contemporary political situation in Ireland (1920-22). The volume also includes letters from Sister Rosario (Carmelite Convent, Woodbridge, Suffolk), Fr. Finbar Ryan OP (editor of ‘The Irish Rosary’, St. Saviour’s Priory, Dominick Street, Dublin), Andrew Hilliard Atteridge, and Cecily Casey (24 London Road, Bromley, Kent).
A bound volume containing the correspondence of Fr. Henry Rope. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / VI’. The volume includes several letters from Aodh de Blacam. Other correspondents include Fr. James Routledge (St. Dunstan’s, Moston, Manchester), Lillian Metge (Yew Tree House, Chester Road, Erdington, Birmingham, reverse of the letter has a printed handbill by Metge titled ‘No Vote – No Register’), Eoin O’Mahony (auditor, university philosophical society, Cork), H.S. Dean (editor of ‘The Universe’), Fr. Stephen M. Browne SJ (Miltown Park, Dublin), Fr. Joseph Keating SJ (editor of ‘The Month’), Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Patrick Langford Beazley (editor of ‘The Catholic Times’), Fr. P.J. Connolly SJ (editor, ‘Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review’, 34 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Bridget Lynch (Clifden, County Galway), Mary Faherty (Kilronan, Aran Islands, County Galway), and Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin). The first item in the volume is a letter from Father Rope to Fr. Senan and refers to his archive of correspondence from Aodh de Blacam which he will send to the friar. Reference is also made to the disposition of his letters from George Noble Plunkett and ‘other Irish letters which seem to me well worth preserving … in your archives’. (12 July 1951).