File 3 - Letters requesting Missions and Retreats

25 items; Manuscript

Letters to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minster, requesting parish missions and retreats. The file includes letters requesting missions in Ballygar (Galway), Gurteen (Sligo), Westport (Mayo), Claremorris (Mayo), and Ballymote (Sligo). The file also includes some copy replies from Fr. Paul. The Rev. Jeremiah O’Toole, Parish Priest, Kilmeena, Westport, remarked: ‘I have eighteen islands inhabited islands close to the mainland, and I would be pleased if you offered [the temperance] Crusade on a Sunday’. (21 Sept. 1906).