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A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains mostly personal letters and includes correspondence from George Blennerhassett (Imperial Drive, North Harrow, Middlesex), John Alvin Feltis, Doran Hurley, Johanna Coakley (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Margaret Mary Pearse, Francis B. Ryan (Secretary, The National Film Institute of Ireland), Michael A. Bowles.

Letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Irish correspondents. The file includes letters from Fr. Patrick Nolan OSB (Erdington Abbey, Birmingham), Fr. John O’Brien SJ (19 July 1916, writes ‘I know how much you sympathize with Ireland. Many Englishmen of the ruling class seem hopelessly unable to understand Ireland.’), Hugh A. McCartan (4 Gifford Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin. Refers to the contemporary political situation in Ireland and to the Sinn Féin movement, 26 Aug. 1917), Barry M. Egan (32 Patrick Street, Cork. Refers to the murder of Tomás Mac Curtain and the independence struggle, 10 Dec. 1920), Daniel Corkery, Joseph Robinson (‘Poblacht na hEireann / (Scottish Edition’, Glasgow), Violet O’Connor, Domhnall Óg Ó Ceallacháin (Donal Óg O’Callaghan), Fr. P.J. Connolly SJ (editor, ‘Studies / An Irish Quarterly Review’, 35 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin, includes a description of the events of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park on 21 Nov. 1920), Thomas Kelly (67 King Street, New York), Shane Leslie, Fr. Martin Branagan, ‘The Herald / The National Labour Weekly’), J.R. Carey (St. Patrick’s Guild, 46 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Mairead O’Connell (Derrynane Abbey, Caherdaniel, County Derry), Fr. Patrick MacSwiney (Presbytery, Kinsale, County Cork), Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin), M.H. Gill & Son Ltd. (50 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin), Fr. Augustine O’Neill OFM (‘Assisi’, 4 Merchants’ Quay, Dublin. Refers to potential publications of articles by Father Rope in the periodical, 24 Jan. 1933). The file also includes two letters from Fr. Henry Rope to Canon Moriarty (1917).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Many of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health and his resignation as editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Includes letters from Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Patricia Lavelle (Castleknock, County Dublin), John Hennig, Seán MacBride (Roebuck House, Clonskea, Dublin), Sister Celestine (Presentation Convent School, Kodaikanal, India), Adolf Morath (photographer), Margaret Mary Pearse, Mary Hardebeck, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Thomas MacGreevy, Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Nora Ni Chathain, Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Ellen Murnane (41 East Main Street, Portland, Connecticut), Darach Connolly, Frank Moynihan (Pius XII Seminary, Banyo, Australia), Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Fr. Robert Mageean CSSr, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Sister Teresa (St. Joseph’s Carmelite Monastery, Ranelagh, Dublin), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Daphne Pochin Mould, Doran Hurley, Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), B. MacNamara (National Gallery of Ireland), Martin T. Cullen (St. John’s Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota), and Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (Boston College Library, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts), Robert Monteith, John Alvin Feltis, Rev. S.C.A. Rodrigues (Holy Redeemer Church, Mangalore, India), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Edith M. Scott Mason, Fr. Bruno Schaffer OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. (Sichili Catholic Mission, Northern Rhodesia), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Edward J. Little (Cliftonville, Bray, County Wicklow), Br. Aloysius Cleary OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Friary, Cork), Margaret McDonnell (Dalguise, Monkstown, County Dublin), Sister Joan Sweetman (Convent of the Sacred Heart, Monkstown, County Dublin), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Denis Gywnn, and Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Seán O’Connor, Doran Hurley, Hamish Fraser, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Sister Mary de Pazzi (Sisters of Nazareth, Sligo), Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), John Kelly (41 Northumberland Road, Dublin), D.L. Kelleher, Sister M. Ligouri (Booterstown, County Dublin), Margaret McDonnell (Dalguise, Monkstown, County Dublin), Sister M. Agnes (Larne, County Antrim), Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Sister M. Pius (Bon Secours Hospital, Glasnevin, Dublin), Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., J. Horgan (‘Innisroan’, 8 Ballymun Road, Glasnevin, Dublin), Thomas MacGreevy, and Richard Mulcahy (regarding Fr. Senan’s resignation from the Board of the National Gallery of Ireland).

A file containing loose clippings and Irish language notes relating to An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire. The notes appear to be extracts on the life of St. Patrick taken from the clippings. Some of the notes are fragmentary and incomplete but refer to traditions associated with the saint. One extract reads ‘It is stupid to talk of St. Patrick overturning the altars of paganism in Ireland. The first “pagan temple” which he turned into a Christian church was a barn!’. The contents of the file were extracted from the bound volumes at CA CP/3/4/2/1.

Draft transcription (with commentary and notes) of ‘Sgéal “Sheandúin”’ (Tadhg Ó Murchadha). The volume was probably used by Br. Senan Moyinhan OFM Cap. for his serial publication of the text in ‘The Father Mathew Record’ (July 1924-August 1925). Several loose (dated) enclosures and notes are extant in the volume. The first portion of the transcription is dated 10 February 1918. The final dated entry in the volume is 22 January 1922. Some possibly earlier notes and translations of religious texts are present on the opening pages of the volume.

Draft transcription (with emendations and notes) of ‘Sgéal “Sheandúin”’ (Tadhg Ó Murchadha). The transcription was probably compiled by Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. for his serial publication of Ó Murchadha’s text in ‘The Father Mathew Record’ (July 1924-August 1925). A photographic print of an infant child is inserted into the volume.

A typescript note giving details of scholarships at St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, for 1914-15. The memorandum was compiled by Patrick Pearse, headmaster.