A captioned image which reads (from left) Captain John McEnery and his wife Alice McEnery (Sir John Lavery’s stepdaughter), and Father Joseph Leonard CM at the funeral of the painter Sir John Lavery in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin in January 1941. The print is credited to Charles C. Fennell.
A studio portrait of the artist Seán O’Sullivan.
A photograph of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. outside Patrick Pearse’s cottage at Ros Muc in the Connemara Gaeltacht in County Galway.
A production still from Delia Murphy Kiernan’s film ‘The Island Man’. The volume contains several production images from the film which was set on the Blasket Islands off the coast of County Kerry. The prints were assembled for a promotional article on the film published in ‘The Father Mathew Record’.
An image of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. with a de Havilland Gipsy Moth aircraft possibly at Kildonan Aerodrome near Finglas in County Dublin.
An image of the trial of Jan Cieplak, the Archbishop of Vilnius, and other Russian Catholic priests, at a revolutionary tribunal in Moscow in March 1923. The photograph was taken and captioned (below) by Francis McCullagh (1874-1956), an Irish journalist who reported on the trial for the ‘New York Herald’. The caption is taken from a letter from McCullagh extant in letter book at CA CP/3/1/1/5. Several of McCullagh’s photographs relating to the Russian Civil War and the foundation of the Soviet Union are extant in the photographic volume.
A studio portrait image of T.J. Kiernan.
An image of Cardinal Joseph MacRory (centre) leading a religious procession
A clipping of a short review of the first edition of ‘Bonaventura’ published in the ‘Cork Examiner’ (23 June 1937).
A letter from Thomas Gilmartin, Archbishop of Tuam, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘Bonaventura’ which he suggests will make ‘a most valuable addition to our current Catholic literature’.