Dossier 2 - Canon Sheehan Research Volume

A bound volume compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. containing letters, clippings, and ephemera relating to Canon Patrick Sheehan. A manuscript note by Fr. Senan on the opening page reads ‘Canon P.A. Sheehan / 1852-1913’. Some of the commemorative material is original and was seemingly collected by Fr. Senan and pasted into the volume. The file includes:
• A postcard portrait print of Canon Sheehan titled ‘The Author of ‘My New Curate” etc’.
• ‘Supplement to the “Cork Free Press”, October 18th, 1913 / The Late Canon Sheehan, P.P., D.D. Doneraile’.
• Postcard prints of the ‘Lady Altar and War Memorial, the Cathedral Church of St. Mary and St. Boniface, Plymouth’.
• Clippings and correspondence relating to ‘The Capuchin Annual’ prize for an essay on Canon Sheehan marking the centenary of his birth (1952). The correspondents include Sister M. Stanislaus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Winefride Nolan (Aughrim, County Wicklow), Thomas MacGreevy, P. Invers Rigney, Liam Brophy, and Fr. John O. Buchmann (Saint Leo’s Rectory, Irvington, New Jersey).
• Letter from Francis William Doyle Jones, sculptor, 2 Wentworth Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea, London, to a Mr. Gallagher, returning the books and photographs which he had sent him. Doyle Jones completed a memorial statue of Canon Sheehan in Doneraile in 1925. The letter is dated 12 Oct. 1925.
• Letters from Sister M. Conception and Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork) to Fr. Senan forwarding information, recollections, clippings, notes, and suggestions for content on Canon Sheehan to be published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. (Sept.-Oct. 1951; Feb. 1952).
• Letter from Sophie Raffalovich O’Brien to Fr. Senan regarding her article on Canon Sheehan. (3 Oct. 1951).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘Canon Sheehan at home in Doneraile’ published in ‘The Irish Monthly’ (Aug. 1915).
• Clipping of an article by P. Thompson titled ‘Canon Sheehan / Priest and Novelist / The Mission of a Great Munsterman’. (‘Cork Examiner’, 20 Jan. 1934).
• Poem titled ‘In Memory of Rev. Canon Sheehan’ by “Lis Mor” published in ‘The Leader’ (6 Feb. 1915).
• Clipping of an article by Professor William Frederick Paul Stockley titled ‘Canon Sheehan and his People’ (‘The Kerryman’, 21 Mar. 1934’).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘Concerning the author of “Luke Delmege”’ published in ‘The Irish Monthly’ (Dec. 1902).
• Postcard print of Lisdoonvarna with annotations (by Fr. Senan) identifying Fr. Tim O’Keeffe, Fr. Horgan PP, and Canon Patrick Sheehan. The photograph was most likely taken at Lisdoonvarna Spa in County Clare (c.1905).
• Typescript article by D.L. Kelleher titled ‘Canon Sheehan: Philosopher and Friend’. Includes a transcript of a letter from Sheehan to Kelleher dated 27 Aug. 1913.
• Memoriam card for Canon Patrick Sheehan ‘who died on the 5th October 1913 / aged 61 years’.
• Clipping of a poetic tribute by Maurice R. Cussen to the late Canon Sheehan ‘for the unveiling of his memorial statue at Doneraile’ (‘Weekly Examiner’, Oct. 1925).
• Clippings of photographic prints of the unveiling of the statue (by Francis William Doyle Jones) of Canon Patrick Sheehan in the churchyard in Doneraile (‘Cork Examiner’, 19 Oct. 1925). Manuscript notes identifying the individuals present in the photographs are attached. The notes were probably written by Sister M. Conception, Presentation Convent, Doneraile.
• Clipping of article reporting on the funeral of Canon Patrick Sheehan (‘Weekly Free Press’, 15 Oct. 1913).
• Typescript copy of a ‘Resolution of Regret from the Charleville Irish Land and Labour Association’ on the death of Canon Sheehan. Taken from the Weekly Free Press (18 Oct. 1913).
• Copy reflections on the life of Canon Sheehan by Sister M. Ita O’Connell and Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork).
• Photographic print of the three-storey parochial house in Doneraile, the former home of Canon Patrick Sheehan. (c.1951).
• Clippings from the ‘Cork Examiner’ re the centenary celebrations of the birth of Canon Sheehan in Mallow, County Cork. (10 Nov. 1952).
• Photographic prints of a bust of Canon Sheehan by Joseph Higgins (1885-1925).