A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘A2’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Denis Gywnn, Maud Gonne MacBride (enclosing a letter from Vincent Crompton, an Irish republican), M.G. Keenan, Julester Shrady Post, Mary Devlin (Limefield House, Moville, County Donegal), Val Mulkerns, Robert Kelly (Mary’s Home, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada), John English & Co. (printers), Maurice J. Moriarty, Henry Barratt, Arthur Campbell (11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast), Fr. W.A. Connell SJ, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Fr. Theodore Matthews CP, Séamus Campbell (editor, ‘Irish Bookman’), Henry F. Meagher (Knockmore, Kilmallock, County Limerick), Adolf Morath (photographer), Bishop William MacNeely, Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Dr. J. Vincent Carroll, Kevin Francis Mulkearn, Lily McCormack, P.P. Tunney, John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap., Fr. T.J. Walsh, Kess van Hoek, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, E.E. Barton, Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, and Maureen McManus. Enclosures include a typescript report of the interview between a deputation of the National Music Association of Ireland with the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (25 Oct. 1948).
A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘I’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Gwynfor Evans (Wernellyn, Llangadog, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Wales), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Cathal O’Byrne, Pádraig De Brún, Aodh de Blacam, James Roberts (Boulevard of Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), David Marcus, Adolf Morath (photographer), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Vincent Evans (Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Monsignor Edward R. Gaffney, (Vicar General of the Archdiocese of New York), Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, D.L. Kelleher, John Pike (editor, ‘Renascene’, Marquette University, Wisconsin), John Desmond Sheridan, Denis MacDaid (Dun Laoighaire, County Dublin), Major General Hugo MacNeill, Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Bernadette Mary O’Byrne, Fr. P.J. Brophy, Séamus Campbell, John Rohan (Irish Cottage Imports, Palo Alto, California), Germaine Stockley, Fr. John Baptist Weldon OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Matthew Feehan (editor of the ‘Sunday Press’), Seumas MacManus, Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Charles E. Kelly, Sister Francis (Poor Clare Convent, College Road, Cork), Eoin O’Mahony, Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Desmond Hickey (41 Dufferin Avenue, Dublin), Máirín Allen, Séamus Ó hEocha (‘An Fear Mór’, Coláiste na Rinne, County Waterford), Maud Gonne MacBride, The Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), John English & Co. (printers), Peter F. Anson, Maureen McManus, Stanley Donald Nisbet, James Joseph Campbell, Hugh Greer, Fr. John Power (Our Lady of the Rosary and St. Therese of Lisieux, Saltely, Birmingham), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Douglas Newton (Aubery House, Paddington, London), Arthur Campbell (11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast), J.C. Coleman (Whitehall, Dublin), M.A. Keating (photographer, Nelson Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary), Patrick Power (photographer, Point Road, Dundalk, County Louth), Lily McCormack, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap., Max Gluckman, and Gerald Boland. Enclosures include a typescript list of the officers and council members of the Military History Society of Ireland (1949).
A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘A I’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Germaine Stockley, Frank Gallagher (Glór Na Mara, Sutton, County Dublin), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Lennox Robinson, D.L. Kelleher, Mary Hardebeck, Adolf Morath (photographer), Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Eugene Watters) (Cappagh, Finglas, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), T.J. Kiernan, Alan Macauley, Joseph Scott (National President, American League for an Undivided Ireland), John MacCourt, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto Abbey, Dalkey, County Dublin), Lily M. O’Brennan, David Marcus, Elizabeth Belloc, Michael McMullen (Secretary, Music Association of Ireland), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Jack B. Yeats, Aodh de Blacam, Henry Barratt, John English & Co. (printers), Charles J. O’Connell (Save Derrynane Committee), Michael A. Bowles, Jim O’Donovan, Michael Joseph MacManus, and Denis Gywnn.
The volume contains approximately 489 copy letters written by members of the Father Mathew Centenary Committee mostly relating to the raising of subscriptions for the Father Mathew Statue on Sackville (later O’Connell) Street, Dublin. The volume is partially indexed by recipient. Correspondents include the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the editors of the 'Freeman’s Journal', the 'Irish Times' and other national newspapers, various local temperance societies and associations, the Irish National Foresters’ Benefit Society, George Noble Plunkett, Mary Redmond (sculptor), John Redmond MP, various trades councils and societies, the Most Rev. William Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, Alfred Webb MP, and Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne. Most of the letters are carbon copies and some are partially illegible.
The sub-series comprises volumes and notebooks containing drafts of letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers connected with 'The Capuchin Annual'.
Letter, in Latin, written by the Students at Blackrock, most of whom signed in Irish, in response to greetings.
Letter from to Terence O’Reilly, 5 North Great George’s Street, Dublin, solicitor, returning a draft conveyance and stating that they have no objection to having a covenant reinstated in the matter of a lease by the Right Hon. William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford and Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and others of a plot of ground situated on the west side of Church Street.
Letter from Fr. William OSFC, Franciscan Monastery, Crawley, Sussex, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing a copy of a blessing from Pope Pius X. It reads: ‘… the Friars Minor Capuchin of the Irish Province, charged by the Bishops of Ireland, to spread the apostolate of Temperance, have had the happy idea of aggregating to such a society even the children, and at the present moment there about two hundred thousand young members who promise to abstain throughout their lives from alcoholic beverages …’.
Letter from J. Taylor, National Bank Limited, Dublin, to ‘Reverend Prior, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin’ enclosing ‘a short list of deeds … connected with Church St. solely’. With a typescript copy of said list.
A letter from Edward Thomas (‘E.T.’) Keane, editor of the ‘Kilkenny People’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the ‘Orange Terror’ reprint. Keane states that ‘certain features of what you call Orange Terror are duplicated in the twenty-six counties’. He notes that ‘we probably have more internees, men and women, in the twenty-six counties … Our “Republican” government can do what they like and sit on criticism’.