Dossier 3 - Bound Volume of Letters to Fr. Richard Henebry

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume is annotated in gilt on the spine ‘Letters to Dr. Henebry / Vol. II’. The volume contains many letters from Heinrich Bewerunge, a German-born musicologist, and a Professor at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare. The letters from Bewerunge (1903-11) refer primarily to scholarship on church music. Many of the remaining letters relate to Henebry’s interactions with individuals connected with Conradh na Gaeilge and other organisations promoting the Gaelic Revival. The file includes letters from C. MacCarthy (Rob Roy Hotel, Queenstown, County Cork), Fr. Patrick Lynch (St. Wilfrid’s Church, Hulme, Manchester), P. Lonergan (County Waterford), Fr. Paul Kehoe (Mulrankin, Bridgetown, County Wexford), M. Crotty (9 Parnell Street, Waterford), J. Lennon (Dumore East, County Waterford), Fr. Thomas F. Furlong (Administrator, Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford), Seámus O Féihille (Riverquarter, County Kilkenny), Fr. James K. Fielding (Mooncoin, County Kilkenny), Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO, Canon John O’Mahony (Glenville, Crookstown, County Cork), John O’Meara (Barrack Hill, Clonakilty, County Cork), Fr. R. Little (Pairc-An-Tobair, Quin, County Clare), Tomás de Róiste (Conradh na Gaeilge, County Tipperary), Lillian Smiddy (Hampshire House, Adelaide Road, Kingstown), Michael Beary (Bridge Cottage, Mount Melleray, Cappoquin, County Waterford), M. J. Byrne (11 Princes’ Street, Tralee, County Kerry), E. Riordan (Isca Villa, Rushbrooke, County Cork), P.W. Kenny (Kingsmeadow House, Waterford), Dáithí Ó Dubháin, R.J. Brennan (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, County Kilkenny), James Walsh (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Eleanor Hull (Irish Texts Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Sister Benignus McGrath (Monastère du Bon Pasteur, Angers, France), Pádraig Ó Dálaigh (Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin), Margaret O’Reilly (The Irish Book Company, 4 D’Olier Street, Dublin), Vicar A. Suppiger (Lucerne, Switzerland), Patrick Delaney (Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Fr. M.F. Callanan (St. Columba’s Church, Durango, Colorado), Charlotte Milligan Fox (Irish Literary Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Patrick Healy, and Fr. John Doody (President, St. Kiernan’s College, Kilkenny). The file includes a letter (26 Apr. 1907) from Fr. Richard Henebry to his brother John Henebry, and letters to the latter conveying sympathies on the former’s death. A letter (in Irish) from Séamus Breathnach (Lismore, County Waterford) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the friar’s research on Henebry’s work is also extant in the volume (12 Sept. 1924).