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A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the title page reads ‘Private Letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / 11 March 1949’. Includes references to the Captain Robert Monteith fund and contemporary politics. Other letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required lengthy periods of hospitalization in 1949 and in 1953) and to the serious debts accumulated by the Publications Office. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair,), Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, John J. O’Kelly (‘Sceilg’), Aodh de Blacam, Charles E. Kelly, Br. Colmcille Ó Conbhuidhe (Mellifont Abbey, Collon, County Louth), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., John Desmond Sheridan, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, H. Martin Hamilton, Bishop John Dignan, Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Doran Hurley, Adolf Morath (photographer), Thomas Francis O’Sullivan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Lennox Robinson, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Christopher T. Rooney, Frank E. Benner (Fruithill Park, Andersonstown, Belfast), Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Frank Gallagher (Glór Na Mara, Sutton, County Dublin), Ernest Newman, Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Bernard T. Hart (Brooklyn, New York), Monsignor Denis McDaid (Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Pádraig De Brún, Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), John MacCourt (Manitoba, Canada), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), John English & Co. (printers), Sister Augustine Murray (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Monsignor Hugh Finnegan (Saint Joseph’s, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan), Robert Monteith, Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Judge John J. Kelly (West Washington Street, Chicago), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap. (Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans), Eileen Crean, Frieda Le Pla, Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Winefride Nolan, Fr. John Ryan SJ (35 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Fr. Patrick Gannon SJ (Miltown Park, Dublin), Lily McCormack, Tomás S. Cuffe, Philip F. Roden (11a Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), D.L. Kelleher, Archbishop John D’Alton, Archbishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Benedict Kiely, J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin), Peter F. Anson, Thomas MacGreevy, Joan Hammond (referring to her reception into the Catholic Church) and Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap.

Includes: A long draft letter to Joseph O’Connor provides a description of Fr. Senan’s interview with Páraig ‘Paudeen’ Ó Caoimh, deputy military governor of Mountjoy prison in Dublin during the Civil War (1949); A letter to O’Connor affirms that Seán O’Casey ‘abominates everything a Catholic Irishman holds sacred’ (22 Nov. 1952); A letter to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, refers to the crippling amount of debt accumulated by the Capuchin Publications Office over the past twenty-five years. Fr. Senan wrote ‘for a good few years the yearly income amounts to £22,000 but unfortunately the outgoings in any given year amount to £24,000 or so’. He also confirms that the profits from the ‘Angelic Shepherd’ publication has failed to clear the office’s debt and asks for a new letter of authorization for the bank. He asks for Fr. Colman’s forgiveness and refers to his hope that assistance from ‘two wealthy American friends’ will help clear the debt (22 Apr. 1953); A letter to Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. refers the death of Maud Gonne MacBride. Fr. Senan wrote ‘She was terrific character. God rest her. I used to love to get her to tell the story of how she went to Spain, was it in 1907, to assassinate King Edward VII’ (28 Apr. 1953).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Letters – private and confidential / 1953’. Many of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required a lengthy period of hospitalization in 1953) and to the need to acquire additional members of the Association of Patrons of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Liam Brophy (Roebuck Road, Dundrum, County Dublin), Kevin MacManus, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Br. Colman O’Neill OP (Saint Mary’s, Tallaght, County Dublin), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork, refers to the souvenirs of Canon Patrick Sheehan which he obtained from the Presentation Convent in Doneraile which he promises to return, 22 June 1953), Ethel Mannin, John Henning (Sutton, County Dublin), Sister Mary Joseph SL (Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, Webster Groves, Missouri), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Ellen Murnane (41 East Main Street, Portland, Connecticut), Diarmuid Breathnach, Doran Hurley, Denis Gywnn, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap., Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Patrick Kennedy (St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada), Sister Gabriel (Maryknoll Sisters, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Fr. William F. Labadie OSA, Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Joan Hammond, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Fr. Henry McHenry (45 Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Kathleen O’Toole (Kiltegan, County Wicklow), Fr. William J. Fletcher (Sacred Heart Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin, refers to the ‘new statues’ on the façade of St. Mary of the Angels, 5 Sept. 1953, p. 126. Fr. Senan writes ‘Leo Broe has exaggerated some aspects of the figures but that is necessary, I’m afraid, when you consider how high up they will be sited’), Thomas MacGreevy, Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Richard King (refers to permissions sought to reproduce the Irish Saints’ postcard series published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’, 10 Sept. 1953, pp 131-2; another letter to King refers to his resignation as chief illustrator for the ‘Annual’, 14 Sept. 1953) and Fr. John Challis (Saint Joachim’s Presbytery, 122. Shepperton Road, Victoria Park, Western Australia).
The volume includes the text of a talk titled ‘Seventh Centenary of the death of Saint Clare’ (Aug. 1953, pp 53-5); a letter to the editor questioning the appointment of Milan Horvat as chief conductor of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra in 1953 (pp 68-70).

A bound volume with a gilt title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1937-9). The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers.

Copies of ‘Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin Rosa, 1831-1915 / souvenir of public funeral to Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, August 1st, 1915'. Includes commemorative essays and poems by Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Arthur Griffith, James Connolly, Brian O’Higgins, and others. The roster of the O’Donovan Rossa Funeral Committee is extant on p. 24. Published in Dublin (Patrick Mahon, printer, 3 Yarnhall Street), in 1915.

A large soft-bound copybook containing most likely shorthand (stenography) exercises.

Correspondence of James Pearse with Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891), 20 Circus Road, St. John’s Wood, London. The letters refer to various publications on atheist and secularist issues by Bradlaugh and to Pearse’s dealings with the former’s publishing house. In a letter (29 September 1884) Bradlaugh wrote ‘As we have started a completely equipped printing office at 67 Fleet Street in addition to our publishing department we shall be pleased if at any time you can favour us with any commands for printing’. A copy letter from Pearse to Bradlaugh (5 December 1884) noted that it has been ‘six weeks since my pamphlet “Socialism a curse” was issued from your office’. A letter (4 July 1885) from Bradlaugh reads ‘I have heard some of your pamphlets [are] highly spoken of by friends. I am glad you liked the Birmingham meeting’. A letter (2 July 1885) from Pearse to Bradlaugh reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’. A letter (7 July 1885) from Pearse reads ‘The fact is I am extremely disgusted with what I read in this morning’s papers, especially the action of the ungrateful Irish Party’. A letter (16 Sept. 1889) from Bradlaugh reads ‘it is quite impossible for me to print in the “National Reformer” anything which William Stewart Ross prints in the “Agnostic Review” as he has ‘circulated the very vilest libels about me’. In a letter (17 Sept. 1889) Pearse writes ‘I have written a letter to the “Agnostic Journal” upon [the] same subject (agnosticism and atheism) principally because my name was mentioned therein’.

Letters to James Pearse from Arthur Bonner, 20 Circus Road, St. John’s Wood, London, providing an estimate for the printing of Pearse’s manuscript titled ‘Socialism’. Includes an Invoice from the Freethought Publishing Company to Pearse for the printing of one thousand copies of ‘Socialism a curse’. The letters (from 1889) refer to the poor health of Charles Bradlaugh (1883-1891).