File 4 - Copy Letter Book

255 pp; 25.5 cm x 20.5 cm; Bound volume; manuscript, and newspaper clipping

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Minute Book’. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the letters relate to contemporary political events while others refer to financial difficulties with the continued operation of the office (1953). Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Áine Ceannt, John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), James M.B. Wright, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Maurice D. Blunden (Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, County Wicklow), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair, includes references to conversations with Éamon de Valera), Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. John Quinlan (Killorglin, County Kerry), John English & Co. (printers), Cormac Breathnach, Margaret Mary Pearse, Hugh O’Hagan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Eric Boden, Robert Monteith, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Seámus Ó Mathúna (Youghal, County Cork), Helena Concannon, Br. Charles A. Lynam (Saint Patrick’s, Montgomery Place, New Rochelle, New York), Adolf Morath (photographer), Paul Hutton (Rochestown, County Cork), Joseph J. Carroll (Whitestone School, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia), Frank Fahy, Doran Hurley, Michael P. Albert (73rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Mildred McTiernan (1741 Newhall Street, San Francisco), John Desmond Sheridan, Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), Sister. M. Dolorine (Webster College, Missouri, United States), Michael A. Bowles, Seán MacBride (Roebuck House, Clonskea, Dublin), Sister M. Teresa Dymphna (Prioress, Mount Carmel Convent, Nairobi, Kenya), Johanna Coakley, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister Joseph Patrick (Sisters of Charity, St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, County Dublin), Sister M. Vincenzo (Dominican Convent, Muckross Park, Donnybrook, Dublin), Aileen O’Reilly, Patrick Duffy (Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Cathal O’Byrne, Fr. Robert Mageean CSSr, Diarmuid Breathnach, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Robert Brennan, Seamus Murphy, Tom Evans (Evans’ Towers Hotel, Glenbeigh, County Kerry), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Kevin MacGrath (Mespil Road, Dublin), D.L. Kelleher, Leonard J. Schweitzer, Denis Gywnn, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Pádraig De Brún, Michael O’Higgins, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seumas MacManus, Liam Brophy, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Vincent O’Connor (231 South Taylor Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois), Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Mannix Joyce, C.J. Woollen, James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), and J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin).

• English
• Irish

The spine is cracked and is partially detached from the text block. Careful handling is required.

Copy letters from 1947 towards the end of the volume refer to appeals for the Association of Patrons of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (APCA), and to a public fund to purchase Jack B. Yeats’s painting ‘Above the Fair’ (exhibited at the Victor Waddington Galleries) for the nation.

Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents

Áine Ceannt: https://www.dib.ie/biography/ceannt-aine-a1580
Máirín Cregan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/cregan-mairin-a9572
Joseph O'Connor: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=188
Cormac Breathnach: https://www.dib.ie/biography/breathnach-cormac-charlie-walsh-a0911
Margaret Mary Pearse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mary_Pearse
Robert Monteith: https://www.dib.ie/biography/monteith-robert-a5892
Helena Concannon: https://www.dib.ie/biography/concannon-helena-a1918
Frank Fahy: https://www.dib.ie/biography/fahy-francis-patrick-frank-a2988
Doran Hurley: https://bethlehembooks.com/person/doran-hurley/
John Desmond Sheridan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/sheridan-john-desmond-a8038
Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF: https://citydesert.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/jerome-hawes-priest-hermit-architect/
Seán MacBride: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macbride-sean-a5109
Cathal O'Byrne: https://www.dib.ie/biography/obyrne-cathal-a9260
Seamus Murphy: https://www.dib.ie/biography/murphy-seamus-a6096
Robert Brennan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/brennan-robert-a0934
Fr. Henry Edward George Rope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Edward_George_Rope
Denis Gwynn: https://www.dib.ie/biography/gywnn-denis-rolleston-a3691
Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien: https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-sophie-raffalovich-a6495
Pádraig De Brún: https://www.dib.ie/biography/de-brun-padraig-browne-patrick-a2457
Michael O'Higgins: https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=bcheights19461004.2.20&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow): https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19530316&id=STA1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HKYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=5225,1577481
Seumas MacManus: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macmanus-seumas-a5736
Gerald Boland: https://www.dib.ie/biography/boland-gerald-a0762
Mannix Joyce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannix_Joyce
James Comyn: https://www.dib.ie/biography/comyn-sir-james-peter-a1906