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 postcard picture image of the Gallarus Oratory in Ard na Caithne on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry.
A postcard print titled ‘Sunset, Croagh Patrick, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland’.
A postcard print titled ‘Bathing at Kilkee, Co. Clare’.
A bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Jack B. Yeats / National Loan Exhibition / 1945’. The volume contains photographic prints showing some of the 179 Yeats’s paintings on display at the exhibition. The exhibition was held at the National College of Art in Dublin in June and July 1945. Fr. Senan Moynihan played a significant role in organising the exhibition. Printed extracts from a catalogue are extant in the volume which include information on painting titles, dimensions, and provenance. The volume also includes some related clippings re Yeats’s artistic output, a Christmas card from the Cuala Press, letters from Yeats to Fr. Senan, and a ink-sketch signed by the artist. The letters date from 1941 to 1946. Several of Yeats’s paintings displayed in the exhibition including ‘The Funeral of Harry Boland’ (1922) and ‘Communicating with Prisoners’ (1924) were in the possession of Fr. Senan at the time of the National Loan Exhibition.
The file also includes loose correspondence relating to the event including many copy letters from Fr. Senan, mostly dating to 1944. Some original letters to Fr. Senan are also extant in the file. The correspondents include Jack B. Yeats, C.P. Curran, Ernie O’Malley, D.L. Kelleher, P.J. Little, Monsignor Pádraig de Brún, Richard J. King, James Sleator, Victor Waddington, R.R. Figgis, Laurence Campbell, Josephine McNeill, and Séamus Ó Braonáin. The file also contains several typescript lists of paintings by Yeats which were exhibited.
An image of Jack B. Yeats paintings on display at the National Loan Exhibition. The paintings are captioned with clippings taken from a printed catalogue.
An image of Jack B. Yeats paintings on display at the National Loan Exhibition. The paintings are captioned with clippings taken from a printed catalogue.
A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. returning a copy of an article by Thomas MacGreevy which has ‘given him great pleasure to read’ as it ‘treats my paintings handsomely’. Yeats also promises to send some ‘mental notes about the scenes of the three pictures’.
A letter from Victor Waddington to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. agreeing to anonymously support the National Loan Exhibition for Jack B. Yeats. Waddington writes ‘I have already enough bitter experience of being branded as an opportunist Jew because I saw fit to help in what I thought I was right to help in. Apart from this, I and my people, are so rapidly, day by day, being reminded that we are non-Gaelic (this term becoming the same as Aryan or non-Aryan except that Gaelic is another word) so I have no inclination to take part in anything …’.
A letter from Séamus Ó Braonáin to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding the potential of radio broadcasts devoted to Jack B. Yeats and the National Loan Exhibition of his paintings.