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- 1917-1951 (Creation)
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68 pp; Bound volume; 28 cm x 21.5 cm; Manuscript, typescript and printed
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A 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).
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Aodh de Blacam: https://www.dib.ie/biography/de-blacam-aodh-hugh-saunders-blackham-aodh-sandrach-de-blacam-a2455
Eoin O'Mahony: https://www.dib.ie/biography/omahony-eoin-seosamh-a6877
Fr. Stephen M. Browne SJ: https://www.dib.ie/biography/brown-stephen-james-meredith-a1017
Lillian Metge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Metge
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: https://www.dib.ie/biography/blunt-wilfrid-scawen-a0752
Fr. Joseph Keating SJ: https://archive.catholic-heritage.net/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=ABSI%2FSJ%2F88