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A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘I’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Gwynfor Evans (Wernellyn, Llangadog, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Wales), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Cathal O’Byrne, Pádraig De Brún, Aodh de Blacam, James Roberts (Boulevard of Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), David Marcus, Adolf Morath (photographer), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Vincent Evans (Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Monsignor Edward R. Gaffney, (Vicar General of the Archdiocese of New York), Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, D.L. Kelleher, John Pike (editor, ‘Renascene’, Marquette University, Wisconsin), John Desmond Sheridan, Denis MacDaid (Dun Laoighaire, County Dublin), Major General Hugo MacNeill, Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Bernadette Mary O’Byrne, Fr. P.J. Brophy, Séamus Campbell, John Rohan (Irish Cottage Imports, Palo Alto, California), Germaine Stockley, Fr. John Baptist Weldon OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Matthew Feehan (editor of the ‘Sunday Press’), Seumas MacManus, Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Charles E. Kelly, Sister Francis (Poor Clare Convent, College Road, Cork), Eoin O’Mahony, Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Desmond Hickey (41 Dufferin Avenue, Dublin), Máirín Allen, Séamus Ó hEocha (‘An Fear Mór’, Coláiste na Rinne, County Waterford), Maud Gonne MacBride, The Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), John English & Co. (printers), Peter F. Anson, Maureen McManus, Stanley Donald Nisbet, James Joseph Campbell, Hugh Greer, Fr. John Power (Our Lady of the Rosary and St. Therese of Lisieux, Saltely, Birmingham), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Douglas Newton (Aubery House, Paddington, London), Arthur Campbell (11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast), J.C. Coleman (Whitehall, Dublin), M.A. Keating (photographer, Nelson Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary), Patrick Power (photographer, Point Road, Dundalk, County Louth), Lily McCormack, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap., Max Gluckman, and Gerald Boland. Enclosures include a typescript list of the officers and council members of the Military History Society of Ireland (1949).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘A I’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Germaine Stockley, Frank Gallagher (Glór Na Mara, Sutton, County Dublin), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Lennox Robinson, D.L. Kelleher, Mary Hardebeck, Adolf Morath (photographer), Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Eugene Watters) (Cappagh, Finglas, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), T.J. Kiernan, Alan Macauley, Joseph Scott (National President, American League for an Undivided Ireland), John MacCourt, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto Abbey, Dalkey, County Dublin), Lily M. O’Brennan, David Marcus, Elizabeth Belloc, Michael McMullen (Secretary, Music Association of Ireland), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Jack B. Yeats, Aodh de Blacam, Henry Barratt, John English & Co. (printers), Charles J. O’Connell (Save Derrynane Committee), Michael A. Bowles, Jim O’Donovan, Michael Joseph MacManus, and Denis Gywnn.

Letter to Fr. Richard Henebry from [Fiontán?] providing technical details on phonographic records of Irish music and the use of cylinder recordings (Feb. 1908). With notes by Henebry on the subject.

Correspondence and papers assembled by John (Seán) Henebry (also known as Eoin de Hindeberg), a younger brother of Fr. Richard Henebry. John Henebry died in 1937. The file includes several postcards written (in Irish) by Fr. Richard Henebry to his brother while on the continent in 1913. The photographic print shows an unidentified coastal location. The file also includes a letter from Patrick J. Merriman (Registrar, University College Cork) to John Henebry on his regret that Fr. Richard’s ‘manuscript on Irish music cannot be found’, adding ‘it is a loss to the country’ (25 Apr. 1916). Other letters (Fr. Patrick Power and Joseph Downey, Secretary, University College Cork) express condolences on the death of Fr. Richard on 17 March 1916. A note from Sir Bertram Windle encloses two clippings from the ‘Manchester Guardian’ (28-9 March 1916) containing tributes to the late priest. The file also includes a letter (in Irish) to John Henebry from Seán Ó Currín (28 May 1921).

The file comprises the following article clippings:
‘Pearse saw Ireland with idealism, and detachment’, 'Irish Press', 10 Nov. 1954. Another clipping from the same edition of the paper includes articles by Francis MacManus, Pádraig de Brún, and Lennox Robinson.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Emmet’s spirit over Rathfarnham’, 'Irish Press', 13 Nov. 1954.
Desmond Ryan, ‘A moment with Pearse’, 'Irish Press', 11 Nov. 1954. Includes a photograph Senator Margaret Mary Pearse, ‘the only surviving member of the family’.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Pearse the orator’, 'Irish Press', 12 Nov. 1954.

A large bound volume containing photographic prints mainly of individuals and events associated with the Irish Revolution. The images were probably compiled for publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The volume is not paginated. The volume includes the following image content:
• A Home Rule demonstration on Sackville (O’Connell) Street in Dublin.
• Photographs of the 1916 Rising leaders including Tom Clarke, Patrick Pearse, William Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Éamon de Valera, and Con Colbert.
• Prints of John Redmond, Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Eoin MacNeill, Constance Markievicz, Terence MacSwiney, Erskine Childers, Kevin O’Higgins, Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., Margaret Pearse, Arthur Griffith, Kevin Barry, Thomas Whelan, Eoin O’Duffy, Seán T. O’Kelly, Dan Breen, Thomas Kelly, Douglas Hyde, Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM, William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne, Delia Murphy Kiernan, Archbishop William Walsh, James Ryan, William T. Cosgrave, and Timothy Healy.
• Photographs of Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliaries.
• Images of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
• Press photographs showing events during the War of Independence.
• Images of Fianna Éireann groups.
• A photograph of the interior of the General Post Office from ‘The Irish Builder’ (25 March 1916).
• Images of the aftermath of the 1916 Rising in Dublin.
• A postcard reproduction of a portrait of Constance Markievicz by the Polish artist Bolesław Szańkowski (1901).
• Images of the destruction in Dublin at the outset of the Civil War.
• Several republican funerals.
• An image of Avondale House in County Wicklow.
• Released republican prisoners (1917).
• Postcard images of the burning of Cork during the War of Independence (1920).
• Images of National (Free State) Army soldiers during the Civil War.
• An image of army veterans at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin (c.1890).
• Photographs of the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin (1932).

A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Recent Irish History’. The volume is a ‘Walker’s Century Scrap & Newscutting Volume’. The content is wide ranging and includes numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, some original photographs, fliers, ephemera, and pasted-in content relating primarily to the Irish Revolution and partition. The volume also includes many documents relating to the anti-Treaty interest during the Civil War. Many clippings of obituaries are also present in the volume. An alphabetical index of individuals (and some events) referred to in the documents is present in the opening pages of the volume. The volume is paginated.
The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following:
• William O’Brien
• Bishop Edward O’Dwyer
• Éamon de Valera
• Thomas Ashe
• Terence MacSwiney
• Arthur Griffith
• Liam Mellows
• Roger Casement
• Kilmainham Jail
• Seán Treacy
• Elizabeth O’Farrell
• Mount St. Benedict, Gorey, County Wexford
• Kevin Barry
• Julia Grenan
• Katharine O’Shea
• President de Valera’s view on the Boundary Commission (1924)
• Michael Collins
• Archbishop Daniel Mannix
• Erskine Childers
• Cathal Brugha
• Douglas Hyde
• Senator David Robinson
• Vere Foster
• Alfred O’Rahilly
• Patrick John Little
• Arthur Clery
• Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO
• John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair. (His departure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1915).
• Hugo Flinn
• Fr. Peter Yorke
• ‘Proposed terms of settlement’ (typescript draft, 7 May 1923)
• ‘Behind stone walls’. Refers to the continued imprisonment of republicans by the Free State government during the Civil War.
• Niall Mac Giolla Bhrighde (Neil McBride)
• Voting paper for the ‘Masonic Orphan Boys’ School Election – November 1942’
• ‘Propaganda’ / an address delivered by the auditor Louis V. Nolan at the solicitors buildings, Four Courts, 27 October 1942
• ‘Leo O’Brien / His life in service in the movement for Ireland’s Independence’. For more information on Leo O’Brien see https://www.irishcatholic.com/fighting-for-irelands-freedom-drove-me-mad-claimed-convicted-murderer/
• T. J. Kiernan
• ‘Memorandum of Ambulance work & efforts for peace’ by John P. Homan (d. 1944), Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. The document refers to his work with St. John’s Ambulance during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin in June-July 1922. Mention is made of his interactions with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and the friar’s efforts to secure a cessation of hostilities.
• An original pamphlet titled ‘Who is the real foe of the Irish / (by Hugh O’Neill)’ [c.1917]. 11 pp.

A bound volume with a manuscript title on the spine which reads ‘Irish history’. The content of the volume is varied and includes newspaper clippings, photographs, printed fliers, and original ephemera relating primarily to the Irish Revolution. The volume pages are not paginated. The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following:
• Letters from Piaras Béaslaí and Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (‘An Seabhac’).
• Clippings relating to the 1916 Rising and War of Independence.
• The funeral of Thomas Ashe.
• Photographic print of the visit of King Edward VII to the Phoenix Park racecourse, Dublin (April 1904).
• Michael Davitt.
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
• Erskine Childers.
• Patrick Holohan.
• Archbishop John D’Alton.
• The Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
• Numerous original fliers, leaflets and handbills relating to the War of Independence and later the anti-Treaty interest during the Civil War.
• A flier titled ‘Funeral Procession of the “Freeman’s Journal”’ (1924).
• Numerous republican street ballad fliers and leaflets.
• Publicity material and original printed ephemera relating to Thomas Ashe.
• An original United Irish League national convention meeting ticket signed by Joseph Devlin (23 April 1912).
• A flier for a patriotic concert to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Robert Emmet, held in the Rotunda Rooms in Dublin (4 March 1915).
• Dublin by-election flier (1915).
• Signed Constance Markievicz postcard print (1918).
• The funeral of Hermann Görtz (May 1947).
• Obituaries for Tomás S. Cuffe (1949).
• Clippings towards the end of the volume relate to later commemorations (and obituary notices) for prominent Irish nationalists.
• Photographs placed at the end of the volume show several actors in traditional Gaelic clothing for a theatrical performance (most likely a Saint Patrick pageant).

A bound volume with a manuscript title on the spine which reads ‘Irish history’. The content of the volume is varied and includes newspaper clippings, photographs, printed fliers, and original ephemera relating primarily to the Irish Revolution. The volume is not paginated. The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following:
• The anti-conscription campaign (1918).
• Nationalist and republican fliers and later anti-Treaty publicity material.
• Election filers and ephemera (1919-1922).
• Election flier titled ‘Put Him In To Get Him Out / vote for Griffith: the man in jail for Ireland’ (1918).
• A certificate of membership of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Dublin (1859).
• Original newspaper clippings relating to the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence.
• Sinn Féin bulletins (1924).
• South Armagh By-Election Handbill, 1918.
• Fianna Fáil election material.
• Newspaper clippings relating to Ireland’s policy of neutrality during the Second World War.
• Photographic print of Tom Kettle.
• ‘Comóradh i n-onóir Mhichíl Ui Chléirigh ... 25ú lá de mhí Meithimh, 1944’ (Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1944) with an enclosed invitation to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
• Original newspaper clippings re the Plan of Campaign (1886).
• Copy photographic prints of portraits of various Irish nationalist leaders including Theobald Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Daniel O’Connell, William O’Brien, and Michael Davitt.
• Copy photographic print of John O’Leary.
• Photographic print of the exterior of St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, Dublin.
• Photographs of the destruction following the 1916 Rising.
• Membership certificate for the Wolfe Tone and Ninety-Eight Memorial Association (1898).
• Newspaper clippings relating to the 1922 general election.
• A printed flier (in Irish) from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (1944).
• A letter from Eamon Donnelly to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (22 Dec. 1944). For biographical information on Donnelly see https://www.newry.ie/history/the-story-of-eamon-donnelly

A bound volume with a manuscript title on the spine which reads ‘Irish history’. The content of the volume is extremely varied and includes newspaper clippings, photographs, printed fliers, and original ephemera relating primarily to the Irish Revolution. The volume is not paginated. The volume includes the following:
• Photographic prints of paintings of various Irish nationalists, writers, and public figures such as Patrick Sarsfield, Luke Wadding, Edmund Ignatius Rice, Daniel O’Connell, James Stephens, Lord Charlemont, Robert Emmet, William Smith O’Brien, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Isaac Butt, Peadar Ó Laoghaire, Arthur Griffith, and James Connolly.
• Original postcard prints of many of the 1916 Rising leaders.
• Memorial cards for Terence MacSwiney and Cathal Brugha.
• Photographic prints of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral.
• Photographic print of the deceased Thomas Ashe.
• Postcard print titled ‘Dr Kathleen Lynn and the ‘Republican Triplets’
• Irish Volunteer photographs.
• Original photographs relating to the War of Independence, released prisoners, invitation cards and ephemera re the first Dáil meeting in January 1919.
• Numerous photographic prints of the commemoration on O’Connell Street of the 1916 Rising anniversary in 1941 (the prints were published in the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’),
• A print titled ‘British Army Leaves the Curragh Camp, County Kildare, 1922’.
• Postcard print titled ‘Enniscorthy leaders of the Rising’.
• Images of Thomas Ashe’s funeral.
• Photographic print of National Amy troops at Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin, 1922.
• Original Constance Markievicz material.
• An image captioned ‘Freemasons’ Hall, Dublin, 1922’.
• Original Frank Fahy prisoner material.
• Postcard prints of the Catholic Emancipation centennial celebrations on Watling Street Bridge, Dublin, 1929.
• An hand drawn illustration of ‘Tintown’ at the Curragh Camp, County Kildare, 1923.
• Republic of Ireland Bond Certificate, 1920.
• Thomas MacDonagh images.
• Terence MacSwiney material.
• An image of Noel Lemass in the Mansion House, Dublin, 1915.
• Material relating to James Montgomery (Press Censor).
• A Charles Stewart Parnell Christmas card, 1880,
• A postcard image of the Cenotaph, Leinster House, Dublin.
• Original photographs of Éamon de Valera.
• A manuscript poem in Irish titled ‘To the Taoiseach after the Storm’ by Pádraig De Brún.
• Several images of the funeral of Michael Collins, Dublin, 1922.
• Political postcard cartoons relating to Irish Revolution.
• Images of Molly Childers and Seán T. O’Kelly.