A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications’ Office. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Letters from Fr. Senan OFM Cap. / Private’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Demetrius Manousos OFM Cap. (Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, New York), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Doran Hurley, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Maud Gonne MacBride, Sir Gilbert Laithwaite (British Ambassador to Ireland), Liam Ruiséal (The Fountain Bookshop, Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork), Sister Mary Phelan, Fr. Sylvester OFM Cap. (Librarian, San Lorenzo Capuchin College, Rome), Roderick Wilkson (Glasgow, Scotland), Michael A. Bowles, Sister M. Bernard (Lisieux, France), Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), Patrick McDevitt (Glenties, County Donegal), John English & Co. (printers), Fr. Denis Fahy CSSp, Elizabeth Corr, Bishop John Dignan, Thomas MacGreevy, Aodh de Blacam, Robert Monteith, Patrick MacKenna (Maple Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), H. Martin Hamilton, Clare Sheridan (sculptor), Fr. Gerard Fassler OFM Cap. (Mahenge Mission, Tanzania), Séamus Campbell, Páraig Ó Caoimh (Patrick O’Keeffe), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Johanna Coakley, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister, referring to the extraordinary success of ‘The Angelic Shepherd’ publication, 20 Sept. 1950), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St. Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh), Fr. Jack Hanlon, Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap., Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Nuala Moran (Editor, ‘The Leader’), Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Adolf Morath (photographer), Pádraig De Brún, Dr. Richard Lavelle, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Victor Waddington, Sister M. Dolorine (Webster College, Missouri, United States), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Helena Concannon, Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Provincial Curia, Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Peckham, London), Fr. H. Russell SMA (Society of African Missions, 23 Bliss Avenue, Tenafly, New Jersey), Fr. Michael J. Troy (Kimmage Manor, Dublin), J.A. Power (Blackheath Drive, Clontarf, Dublin), Br. Colmcille Cregan OFM Cap., Sister Mary Berchmans Roche (Medical Missionaries of Mary, Booterstown, Dublin), Fr. Thaddeus MacVicar OFM Cap., (refers to the death of Aodh de Blacam, 15 Jan. 1951), Bishop Daniel Cohalan (John’s Hill, Waterford), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Kathleen Moloney (District Hospital, Edenderry, County Offaly), William Monk Gibbon, Gary Mac Eoin, Canon J. Harmon (Parochial House, Ardee, County Louth), Margaret Bowles, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Peter F. Anson, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Monsignor Martin Brenan (President, St. Patrick’s College, Carlow), Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland, United States), Mannix Joyce, Seumas MacManus, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (Boston College, Massachusetts), Fr. Celsus. O’Connell O.Cist (Mount Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Professor Leonard Abrahamson, Seamus Murphy (Wellington Road, Cork), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Seán Collins, Michael F. Moynihan, Fr. Louis A. Gales (Catechetical Guild, Minnesota), Sir Shane Leslie, Sister Mary Joseph (Director, The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, Missouri, United States), John Hennig, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Willem Sassen, John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), Cormac Breathnach, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne) (Downings House, Prosperous, Naas, County Kildare), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Fr. William Purcell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Sr. Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, refers to the Medical Missionaries of Mary in Massachusetts, 7 Mar. 1951), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Ida Monahan, Fr. T.J. Walsh, Fr. Andrew Carew OFM Cap., Séamus Campbell, and Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure).
Sin títuloA 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).
A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex, and from Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, (editor of ‘The Month’), 31 Farm Street, Berkeley Square, London. The volume is annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / V’. The file also includes a solitary letter from Mary Faherty (Kilronan, Aran Islands, County Galway). Faherty refers to the ‘Man of Aran’ film (1934) and suggests that it ‘didn’t do us any justice anyway, it is not the real Aran life that this generation saw’. (13 Jan. 1935). The Keating letters primarily refer to literary matters while the Atteridge letters mainly relate to publishing and contemporary political developments in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.
A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She also refers to her publication and work the issue of prison reform.
A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1945-6) published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (11 February 1946).
Letter from James A. Whelan to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the popularity of the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ in London.
A copy of Kathleen O’Brennan’s short review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1945-6) published in the ‘America’ magazine published by the Jesuits in New York (2 February 1946). O’Brennan refers to Fr. Senan as an ‘astute editor’ who has ‘launched many of the promising young authors of today’.
A clipping of a letter from James J. Campbell regarding the meaning of the symbolism in Richard King’s depiction of Saint Ita which was published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1945-6). The letter was published in ‘The Leader’ (2 March 1946).
A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1946-7) published in the ‘Irish Bookman’ (May 1947).
Letter from Pearse Hutchinson to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. He commends the drawings of Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. in the ‘Annual’ and refers to his future employment prospects.