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Letters from P.R. Fitzgibbon, Registrar’s Office, St. Louis, Missouri, to Fr. Richard Henebry. The letters refer to some of the activities of the Gaelic League in the United States. Fitzgibbon addresses Henebry as ‘Dear Cousin’.

Walker’s Century Scrap & News cutting book containing clippings, photographs, printed ephemera, and correspondence associated with Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume includes:
• Letters to Henebry from D. Ring (Secretary, Hurling Club, University College Cork), Pádraig Ó Dálaigh (Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin), Carey & Butler (Stockbrokers, 17 South Mall, Cork), Fr. Michael O’Flanagan (Micheál Ó Flannagáin, The Gaelic League, New York), Sir Bertram Windle (relating to Henebry’s application for the Chair of Irish language and literature in UCC in 1909), Fr. Michael Sheehan (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Heinrich Bewerunge, John Millar (2 The Glen, Limestone Road, Belfast), W.M. Kenealy (regarding the publication of Henebry’s article in the ‘Kilkenny Journal’ in November 1903), and Frank MacLysaght (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, Kilkenny).
• A collection of Henebry’s studio photographs along with other family and personal prints.
• Photographic print of Henebry’s grocery shop, Portlaw, County Waterford.
• Photographic print of the ruined Mount Bolton House near Portlaw in County Waterford.
• Postcard print of the Presbyterian Church & Bridge, Portlaw, County Waterford.
• Letter from Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to Henebry’s published works (6 Apr. 1927).
• Letter from John Henebry to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to ‘lost tunes’ from his brother’s manuscript (24 Apr. 1927).
• Manuscript text of a lecture given by Carl Gilbert Hardebeck titled ‘Doctor Henebry The Musician’. A note added by Fr. Senan suggests that the talk was given in Cork in about 1921. (12 pp).
• Clipping of a tribute article to Henebry titled ‘Dr. Henebry / His services to Gaelic Literature’. (1920).
• Clipping of letter from Henebry published in ‘Kilkenny Journal’ regarding criticism of his recent lecture (25 Nov. 1903).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘The Collecting of Irish music’ by Henebry (‘Waterford News’, 11 May 1914).
• ‘The best method of learning Irish’ by Henebry (‘The Leader’, 31 May 1902).
• Fr. Michael Sheehan’s tribute to Henebry (‘An Claidheamh Soluis’, 6-29 May 1916).
• ‘A soldier-author MP on Waterford’. Stephen Gwynn’s article on Waterford which refers to Henebry’s contribution to the Irish language (‘Munster Express’, 23 Oct. 1915).
• Report on Henebry’s funeral (‘Munster Express’, 25 Mar. 1916).
• ‘The Gaelic Endowment Fund / The Gaelic Chair at the University’. Refers to Henebry’s appointment to the Catholic University of America (‘The Irish World’, 18 Nov. 1901).

Letters to Patrick Pearse from M. Lally, Irish Industrial Development Company, 514 Parkway Building, Philadelphia, re arrangements for a meeting in Wilmington in aid of St. Enda’s School.

List of subscribers from New York to the St. Enda’s School Building Fund. The list provides the amount given by each subscriber.

Musical score (sheet music) for ‘Róisín dubh’ by Carl Hardeback (1869-1945). (Dublin, Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1902).

Life insurance policy letter from the Patriotic Assurance Company for Patrick Pearse, 5 George’s Ville (now Sandymount Avenue), Dublin. 5 Feb. 1901. The insurance policy is for £300 at the rate of £1 6s 1d payable half yearly … ‘the sum assured being payable at death or at 60 years of age with profits’. With a receipt for payment on said policy dated 31 January 1902.

Letters to James Pearse from E.H. Johnston. The letters refer to payments of rent by Pearse on his residence at 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. With an enclosed set of accounts re payments for the upkeep of the premises.