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A bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Art and Artists’. The volume contains newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence (particularly re reproductions of paintings), printed ephemera (exhibition catalogues), and photographic content relating to prominent Irish artists, and exhibitions of their work. Many of these artists were associated with Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The file also includes colour and black and white reproductions of work by old masters and various continental artists. Includes assorted clippings and some original letters from Jack B. Yeats, and documents re Seán O’Sullivan RHA, Patrick Joseph Tuohy, James Humbert Craig, and the sculptors John Hogan, and Jerome Connor. Also includes some original letters from George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948). With a typescript list of paintings loaned by ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office to the Tuam Art Club exhibition in 1945.

A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on spine which reads ‘Art and Artists’. The volume contains newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence (particularly re loans of paintings), printed ephemera (exhibition catalogues), and photographs relating to prominent Irish artists, and exhibitions of their work. Many of these artists were associated with Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The volume includes:
• Clippings (obituaries) and photographs relating to the death of Albert Power (1881-1945). The photographs show Éamon de Valera, Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. in attendance at Power’s funeral. The clippings include an appreciation by C.P. Curran. (‘Sunday Independent’, 15 July 1945).
• Photographic copies of artwork by various old masters.
• Photographic prints of Mary Redmond (1863-1930). Includes images of her at work on the Father Mathew Statue (O’Connell Street, Dublin). One of these photographs is dated 30 June 1891. Another image shows her memorial bust for RIC District Inspector William Limbrick Martin.
• A clipping of an article by Kathleen O’Brennan, ‘Seán Keating Speaks Out’, ‘The Irish Digest’ (c.1945).
• A flier for the Tuam Art Exhibition, St. Jarlath’s College, County Galway (1-4 April 1945).
• A catalogue of the Evie Hone Exhibition, The Dawson Gallery, Dublin. (Oct.-Nov. 1945).
• A clipping of an article titled ‘Stained glass at An Tur Gloine’, ‘Irish Statesman’ (13 Mar. 1926).
• Typescript list of paintings and artworks loaned from ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office. Includes works by Jack B. Yeats, Seán O’Sullivan, Seán Keating, and Richard King. (1946). With similar lists of artworks (paintings and sketches) loaned to the Tuam Art Exhibition in 1948 and in 1950.
• Clippings with references to the Victor Waddington Galleries on South Anne Street, Dublin (1947) and exhibitions in the Royal Hibernian Academy.
• Includes a letter to Fr. Senan from Sir Shane Leslie re a painting titled ‘The Eviction’ by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson, 1846-1933). 10 May 1947.
• Catalogue for the exhibition of art by Sir Gerald Kelly RHA, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin. (11-13 Mar. 1948).
• Catalogue of art by Jacob Epstein, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin (Apr. 1948).
• Letters to Fr. Senan from Germaine Stockley and Somhairle Mac Cana (1948)
• Letters to Fr. Senan from Seamus Murphy, sculptor, enclosing a photographic print of his bust of Thomas Davis. (21 Oct. 1942-16 Mar. 1943)
• A letter to Fr. Senan from Máirín Allen (22 Oct. 1948) and a photographic card from Clare Sheridan (Dec. 1949).
• A flier advertising an exhibition by nine painters in the ‘Art in Ulster’ exhibition, Gallery, 55a Donegall Place, Belfast. (19-31 Jan. 1948)
• A catalogue of paintings by Anne Yeats (1948)
• Photographic prints of Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald at an exhibition of paintings by Max and Gladys MacCabe, Dawson Gallery, Dublin (Sept. 1950).
• A printed flier on John Hogan’s sculpture of the dead Christ in St. Teresa’s Church, Dublin. Text (poem) by ‘Benmore’. (Dec. 1924).

Other artists referred to in the volume (mainly in newspaper clippings and exhibition catalogues) include:
Dermod O’Brien
Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917)
Robert James Enraght-Moony (1879-1946)
Laurence Campbell (1911-2001) Includes images of the sculptural busts of Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
J. Humbert Craig RHA (1877-1944)
Jack Bilbo (1907-1967)
Thomas J. Cullen (1879-1947)
George Frederick Campbell (1917-1979)
Clare Sheridan
Dugald Sutherland MacColl (1859-1948)
Andrew O’Connor (1874-1941), sculptor
Seán Keating
May Power (1903-1993), sculptor
Oisín Kelly (1915-1981)
Fr. Jack Hanlon (1913-1968)
Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974)
Harry Kernoff (1900-1974)
Oliver Sheppard (1865-1941)
Charles Geoghegan (1820-1908), architect
Seán O’Connor (1909-1992)

A bound volume containing the correspondence of Fr. Henry Rope. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / III’. The file includes Father Rope’s letters mainly from Irish correspondents, most notably from William Frederick Paul Stockley (Woodside, Tivoli, Cork), and from his wife Germaine and his daughter Violet Stockley. The volume also includes letters from Bernadette O’Byrne (Corville, Roscrea, County Tipperary), George Noble Plunkett, Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin), Vincent Rochford, Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, Laurence Ryan (79 Derby Road, Seedley, Manchester), Richard Barry O’Brien (100 Sinclair Road, Kensington, London), Fr. David Humphreys (Presbytery, Killenaule, County Tipperary), The Irish Book Shop Limited (45 Dawson Street, Dublin), Patrick Fogarty (‘The Irish Catholic’, 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Patrick MacSwiney (Presbytery, Dunmanway, County Cork), Patrick Langford Beazley (editor of ‘The Catholic Times’), ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’ (Fleet Street, Dublin), Fr. Joseph Darlington SJ (editor of ‘The Irish Monthly’, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin), Fr. P.J. Connolly SJ (editor, ‘Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review’, 34 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Patrick John Little, Frank Gallagher (4 Wilton Place, Dublin), Seán O’Callaghan (The New Ireland Publishing Company Ltd., 13 Fleet Street, Dublin), John P. Boland (Catholic Truth Society, London), and An t-Athair Súilleabháin (Piltown, County Kilkenny). The volume includes a letter from Father Rope to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the delivery of some more of his archive of Irish letters which he thinks may be ‘keep worthy’. (28 July 1951); Printed ‘Statement from Dáil Eireann / The ‘Free State” Constitution / Subversion of the Republic’ (1937); Typescript titled ‘The defender of small nations at Millstreet’ with manuscript additions by William Frederick Paul Stockley. (Aug. 1918).

A bound volume containing the correspondence of Fr. Henry Rope. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / VII’. The file includes several lengthy letters from Fr. E. Carroll (Catholic Church, Crayford, Kent). Some of this correspondence refers to the contemporary political situation in Ireland (1920-22). The volume also includes letters from Sister Rosario (Carmelite Convent, Woodbridge, Suffolk), Fr. Finbar Ryan OP (editor of ‘The Irish Rosary’, St. Saviour’s Priory, Dominick Street, Dublin), Andrew Hilliard Atteridge, and Cecily Casey (24 London Road, Bromley, Kent).

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex, a journalist, writer and war correspondent. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / I’. The content of the letters includes references to contemporary politics in Britain and Ireland, literary matters, Catholic publications, and general religious topics. Atteridge's letters suggest some support for Irish republicans and Éamon de Valera.

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).

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex, and from Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, (editor of ‘The Month’), 31 Farm Street, Berkeley Square, London. The volume is annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / V’. The file also includes a solitary letter from Mary Faherty (Kilronan, Aran Islands, County Galway). Faherty refers to the ‘Man of Aran’ film (1934) and suggests that it ‘didn’t do us any justice anyway, it is not the real Aran life that this generation saw’. (13 Jan. 1935). The Keating letters primarily refer to literary matters while the Atteridge letters mainly relate to publishing and contemporary political developments in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex. The volume is annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / IV’. The file also includes letters from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge’s wife (Helen Atteridge) and several letters from Fr. James Routledge (St. Dunstan’s, Moston, Manchester). Other correspondents include Fr. Finbar Ryan OP (editor of ‘The Irish Rosary’, St. Saviour’s Priory, Dominick Street, Dublin), Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (New Priory, Quex Road, Kilburn, London), and Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’ Office, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin, referring to the political stance of her newspaper, 5 Mar. 1936). Atteridge letters refer mainly to literary matters, Catholic publications, and contemporary politics in both Britain and Ireland.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex. The volume is annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / II’. The letters refer mainly to literary matters, Catholic publications, and contemporary politics in Britain and in the Irish Free State. Some of the Atteridge’s letters suggest a degree of hostility to the leadership of Cumann na nGaedheal and a sympathy for the republican opposition. The file also includes letters from Fr. Andrew Macardle SJ (St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin), and Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’ Office, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin).

A bound volume containing clippings of newspapers and articles (and some correspondence) compiled by Fr. Henry Rope. Some of the content relates to the Irish political situation (1919-22) while there are also articles and ephemera relating to religious subjects with extensive annotations and notes by Father Rope. Typescript annotation on first page reads ‘The Rev. H.E.G. Rope, Plowden, Lydbury North, Shropshire’. The volume was previously a printed publication titled on the spine ‘Empyrean Building’. The contents include:
• Typescript titled ‘The defender of small nations at Millstreet’ with manuscript additions by William Frederick Paul Stockley. (Aug. 1918).
• Typescript titled ‘Statement of Charles Kenny, of No. 1, Ulster Terrace, North Strand, Dublin, taken at the Mansion House, Dublin’. (19 July 1918).
• Letter from Fr. Joseph Darlington SJ, editor of ‘The Irish Monthly’, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, to Father Rope referring to ‘Irish Affairs’. (15 Mar. 1922).
• Copies of the ‘Irish Bulletin (London Edition)’. 1922.
• Clippings from the ‘Universe’ and the ‘Catholic Times’ re sectarian riots in Ulster.
• Louis J. McQuilland, ‘The image in the mirror’, ‘The New Witness’ (3 Jan. 1919).
• ‘The death of Right Rev. William Bernard Kelly, Bishop of Geraldton’, ‘The West Australian Record’ (31 Dec. 1921).
• Manuscript copy of a poem titled ‘Inaugural Ode’ by Aodh de Blacam (1935).
• Letters from Fr. Albino, League of International Peace, 22 Ainger Road, London, to Father Rope referring to the Anglo-Irish Treaty and his efforts to promote wider peace and conciliation (1922).
• A clipping of an article titled ‘University Extension / Meeting at Cambridge’, ‘East Anglian Daily Times’ (Aug. 1902).
• ‘Abbey Rebuilt by Monks / Labour of love on the Buckfast Pile / War Memories / Retreat were “enemies” worked in peace’, ‘Daily News’ (3 Mar. 1922).
• Clipping of an article reporting on a sermon on the dangers of proselytism by Fr. Francis M. Browne SJ at St. Francis Xavier Church on Gardiner Street in Dublin (‘Irish Catholic’, 18 Feb. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (14 January 1922). Includes large format advertisement for the Irish White Cross.
• Letter from W.B. O’Dowd, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, Texas, to Fr. Rope. (10 Mar. 1920).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (15 Apr. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (22 Apr. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘The Catholic Gazette’, Vol. V, No. 3 (Mar. 1922).
• Clipping of an article by Shane Leslie titled ‘Impression of Rome’, ‘Catholic Times’ (1922).
• Articles reporting the death of Pope Benedict XV (d. 22 Jan. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘The Far East / Organ of Ireland’s Mission to China’, Vol. V, No. 2 (Feb. 1922).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘Extermination Plan in Belfast’, ‘Irish Independent’ (22 Apr. 1922).
• Clipping of a letter article by Maud Gonne MacBride titled ‘The Women of Donegal / How other women may help’ (‘Irish Independent’, 22 Apr. 1922); Clipping of a photograph showing ‘Mrs O’Callaghan and Mary MacSwiney, women members of the Dáil’ (‘Daily Mirror’, 28 Apr. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (29 Apr. 1922).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘The Jews’ by Shane Leslie, ‘Catholic Times’ (29 Apr. 1922).
• Colourized postcard print of Saint Brendan’s Catholic Church in Birr, County Offaly.
• Clipping re Jack B. Yeats’s paintings published in ‘The Leader’ (6 May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (6 May 1922).
• Letter from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge to Fr. Henry Rope (7 May 1922).
• Letter from Lennox Robinson, 1 Clare Street, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. He writes ‘Things are very dark and distracted over here but not more than elsewhere I suppose. Perhaps, somehow, good may come but one often despairs of it’. (3 Apr. 1919).
• Letter from Seumas MacManus, 264 West 94th Street, New York City, to Fr. Henry Rope. (1 May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (13 May 1922).
• Letter from C.E. Chesterton, ‘The New Witness’, 20 & 21 Essex Street, London, to Fr. Henry Rope. Refers to the ‘Irish affairs’ and the Anglo-Irish Treaty. (1 May 1922).
• Letter from Fr. Herbert Vaughan, ‘The Catholic Gazette’, to Fr. Henry Rope. (19 May 1922).
• Copies of the ‘Irish Bulletin (London Edition)’ (May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (20 May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘The Far East / Organ of Ireland’s Mission to China’, Vol. V, No. 6 (June 1922).
• Letter from Aodh de Blacam, Falcarragh, County Donegal, to Fr. Henry Rope. (1 June 1922).