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- 1944-1955 (Creation)
- 1912-1913 (Accumulation)
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200 pp; 17.5 cm x 11 cm; Bound volume, manuscript, newspaper clipping
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A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters / London October 1954’. However, the volume includes copy letters from 1944 to 1955 and transcribed letters from Canon Patrick Sheehan (1852-1913). Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Sr. Mary Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, R.F. Browne (Chairman, Electricity Supply Board), Sister Frances Moynihan (Convent of Mercy, Blackrock, County Dublin), Tomás Ó Riain, Margaret McDonnell (Dalguise, Monkstown, County Dublin), Thomas J. Collins (‘Dublin Opinion’, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Hamish Fraser, T.J. Molloy, Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Sister M. Ligouri (Booterstown, County Dublin), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Fr. Kieran Collins (Union Hall, County Cork), Doran Hurley, John Alvin Feltis, James P. Murphy (13 Montgomerie Road, Prestwick, Aryshire, Scotland), Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Rev. Martin Brenan (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare), Dr. Regina Madden (The Eire Society of Boston), Fr. W.O. O’Neill (Catholic Mission, Kilungo, Kenya), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Arthur Campbell (11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast), Eugene F. Collins (Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin), Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Seán Lemass, Fr. Peter J. O’Leary (Saint John’s Church, Greenfield, Iowa), and Michael A. Bowles. The volume includes several pages of transcriptions by Fr. Senan of letters written by Canon Patrick Sheehan to a Sister of Mercy. A note suggests that these letters were written while he was receiving treatment for a terminal illness in the South Infirmary in Cork (1912-3).
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- Irish
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Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents
Joseph O'Connor: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=188
Thomas J. Collins: https://www.dib.ie/biography/collins-thomas-joseph-a1864
Joan Hammond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hammond
Hamish Fraser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Fraser
Doran Hurley: https://bethlehembooks.com/person/doran-hurley/
Arthur Campbell: https://www.adams.ie/irish-artist-directory/arthur-campbell-art-sold-at-auction
Art O'Brien: https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-arthur-patrick-donovan-a6508
Seán Lemass: https://www.dib.ie/biography/lemass-sean-a4787
Michael A. Bowles: https://www.dib.ie/biography/bowles-michael-andrew-a0820