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A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope from William Frederick Paul Stockley (Woodside, Tivoli, Cork). The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / VIII’. The first item in the volume is a letter from Fr. Rope to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to his long-standing friendship with the late Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941). The letter is dated 25 April 1951 and contains information about Atteridge’s life. The Stockley letters are mostly personal correspondence with references to contemporary politics and various religious subjects.

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 mall pouch annotated on spine with ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / X’. The pouch contains letters to Father Rope from Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, editor of ‘The Month’ from 1912 to 1939. ‘The Month’ was a Catholic review magazine published by the English Province of the Society of Jesus. The letters refer to literary matters and contributions by Father Rope to the periodical.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume is annotated in gilt on the spine ‘Letters to Dr. Henebry / Vol. II’. The volume contains many letters from Heinrich Bewerunge, a German-born musicologist, and a Professor at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare. The letters from Bewerunge (1903-11) refer primarily to scholarship on church music. Many of the remaining letters relate to Henebry’s interactions with individuals connected with Conradh na Gaeilge and other organisations promoting the Gaelic Revival. The file includes letters from C. MacCarthy (Rob Roy Hotel, Queenstown, County Cork), Fr. Patrick Lynch (St. Wilfrid’s Church, Hulme, Manchester), P. Lonergan (County Waterford), Fr. Paul Kehoe (Mulrankin, Bridgetown, County Wexford), M. Crotty (9 Parnell Street, Waterford), J. Lennon (Dumore East, County Waterford), Fr. Thomas F. Furlong (Administrator, Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford), Seámus O Féihille (Riverquarter, County Kilkenny), Fr. James K. Fielding (Mooncoin, County Kilkenny), Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO, Canon John O’Mahony (Glenville, Crookstown, County Cork), John O’Meara (Barrack Hill, Clonakilty, County Cork), Fr. R. Little (Pairc-An-Tobair, Quin, County Clare), Tomás de Róiste (Conradh na Gaeilge, County Tipperary), Lillian Smiddy (Hampshire House, Adelaide Road, Kingstown), Michael Beary (Bridge Cottage, Mount Melleray, Cappoquin, County Waterford), M. J. Byrne (11 Princes’ Street, Tralee, County Kerry), E. Riordan (Isca Villa, Rushbrooke, County Cork), P.W. Kenny (Kingsmeadow House, Waterford), Dáithí Ó Dubháin, R.J. Brennan (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, County Kilkenny), James Walsh (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Eleanor Hull (Irish Texts Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Sister Benignus McGrath (Monastère du Bon Pasteur, Angers, France), Pádraig Ó Dálaigh (Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin), Margaret O’Reilly (The Irish Book Company, 4 D’Olier Street, Dublin), Vicar A. Suppiger (Lucerne, Switzerland), Patrick Delaney (Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Fr. M.F. Callanan (St. Columba’s Church, Durango, Colorado), Charlotte Milligan Fox (Irish Literary Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Patrick Healy, and Fr. John Doody (President, St. Kiernan’s College, Kilkenny). The file includes a letter (26 Apr. 1907) from Fr. Richard Henebry to his brother John Henebry, and letters to the latter conveying sympathies on the former’s death. A letter (in Irish) from Séamus Breathnach (Lismore, County Waterford) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the friar’s research on Henebry’s work is also extant in the volume (12 Sept. 1924).

A bound volume containing letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The spine is titled with the names of the correspondents in the volume. These are Sir Bertram Windle, Fr. Michael Sheehan, and Kuno Meyer (41 Huskission Street, Liverpool). Most of the letters in the volume are from Fr. Michael Sheehan and relate to Gaelic scholarship and Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. One of the letters from Kuno Meyer refers to Henebry’s tribute to the late Heinrich Zimmer (1851-1910), the German-born Irish language scholar (20 Feb. 1911). The volume also contains a copy of Henebry’s lengthy reply to Meyer. Henebry wrote ‘Now I will stand for no man to say which is untrue in order to vilify my religion and the religion of my people. Why import theological discussions into Keltics? The Grammatica Celtica was written by a Catholic. Read it through and you will fail to find a single reference to ‘Der relige Dr Martin Luther in it’ (28 Feb. 1911). The letters from Windle refer to matters relating to Henebry’s Professorship of Irish in University College Cork and to the latter’s declining health.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume is annotated in gilt on the spine ‘Letters to Dr. Henebry / Vol. I’. Many of the letters refer to the Gaelic League and general Irish language activism. The volume contains letters from Norma Borthwick (47 Haddington Road, Dublin), Madeline O’Connor (Simmonstown, Celbridge, County Kildare), Fr. P. Feeney (St. Patrick’s Home, Hennessy’s Road, Waterford), Fr. Thomas F. Furlong (Administrator, Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford), Fr. T.A. Pembroke (President, Rockwell College, Cashel, County Tipperary), Thomas McGrath (Ballinaclash, Clashmore, Youghal), Charlotte Dease (‘Searloit Ní Déisighe’, Rath House, Ballybrittas, Queen’s County), Fr. M.F. Callanan (Presbytery, Killimore, Ballinasloe), Patrick Riordan (42 St. John’s Road, Boxmoor, Hertfordshire), F. O’Byrne (St. John’s Presbytery, Fountains Road, Liverpool), Fr. Pendergast (St. Nicholas Presbytery, Kilmeaden, County Waterford), Canon James O’Meara (Church of St. Oswald, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Manchester), Padraig Ó Gormáin (Collège des Irlandais, Paris), Fr. Kelleher (St. John’s College, Waterford), John Heffernan (St. Patrick’s College, Thurles, County Tipperary), Máire de Paor (Henry Street, Dublin), M.J. Crowe (Cumberland Street, Birr, County Offaly), Sr. M. Assumption (Lynton, Devon), Tess O’Donnell (South Mall, Lismore, County Waterford), Alice Stopford Green (36 Grosvenor Road, Westminster), Margaret O’Reilly (Macroom, County Cork), Charlotte Milligan Fox (Irish Literary Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Eleanor Hull (Irish Texts Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), and C. MacCarthy (Rob Roy Hotel, Queenstown, County Cork).

A bound volume compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. containing letters, clippings, and ephemera relating to Canon Patrick Sheehan. A manuscript note by Fr. Senan on the opening page reads ‘Canon P.A. Sheehan / 1852-1913’. Some of the commemorative material is original and was seemingly collected by Fr. Senan and pasted into the volume. The file includes:
• A postcard portrait print of Canon Sheehan titled ‘The Author of ‘My New Curate” etc’.
• ‘Supplement to the “Cork Free Press”, October 18th, 1913 / The Late Canon Sheehan, P.P., D.D. Doneraile’.
• Postcard prints of the ‘Lady Altar and War Memorial, the Cathedral Church of St. Mary and St. Boniface, Plymouth’.
• Clippings and correspondence relating to ‘The Capuchin Annual’ prize for an essay on Canon Sheehan marking the centenary of his birth (1952). The correspondents include Sister M. Stanislaus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Winefride Nolan (Aughrim, County Wicklow), Thomas MacGreevy, P. Invers Rigney, Liam Brophy, and Fr. John O. Buchmann (Saint Leo’s Rectory, Irvington, New Jersey).
• Letter from Francis William Doyle Jones, sculptor, 2 Wentworth Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea, London, to a Mr. Gallagher, returning the books and photographs which he had sent him. Doyle Jones completed a memorial statue of Canon Sheehan in Doneraile in 1925. The letter is dated 12 Oct. 1925.
• Letters from Sister M. Conception and Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork) to Fr. Senan forwarding information, recollections, clippings, notes, and suggestions for content on Canon Sheehan to be published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. (Sept.-Oct. 1951; Feb. 1952).
• Letter from Sophie Raffalovich O’Brien to Fr. Senan regarding her article on Canon Sheehan. (3 Oct. 1951).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘Canon Sheehan at home in Doneraile’ published in ‘The Irish Monthly’ (Aug. 1915).
• Clipping of an article by P. Thompson titled ‘Canon Sheehan / Priest and Novelist / The Mission of a Great Munsterman’. (‘Cork Examiner’, 20 Jan. 1934).
• Poem titled ‘In Memory of Rev. Canon Sheehan’ by “Lis Mor” published in ‘The Leader’ (6 Feb. 1915).
• Clipping of an article by Professor William Frederick Paul Stockley titled ‘Canon Sheehan and his People’ (‘The Kerryman’, 21 Mar. 1934’).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘Concerning the author of “Luke Delmege”’ published in ‘The Irish Monthly’ (Dec. 1902).
• Postcard print of Lisdoonvarna with annotations (by Fr. Senan) identifying Fr. Tim O’Keeffe, Fr. Horgan PP, and Canon Patrick Sheehan. The photograph was most likely taken at Lisdoonvarna Spa in County Clare (c.1905).
• Typescript article by D.L. Kelleher titled ‘Canon Sheehan: Philosopher and Friend’. Includes a transcript of a letter from Sheehan to Kelleher dated 27 Aug. 1913.
• Memoriam card for Canon Patrick Sheehan ‘who died on the 5th October 1913 / aged 61 years’.
• Clipping of a poetic tribute by Maurice R. Cussen to the late Canon Sheehan ‘for the unveiling of his memorial statue at Doneraile’ (‘Weekly Examiner’, Oct. 1925).
• Clippings of photographic prints of the unveiling of the statue (by Francis William Doyle Jones) of Canon Patrick Sheehan in the churchyard in Doneraile (‘Cork Examiner’, 19 Oct. 1925). Manuscript notes identifying the individuals present in the photographs are attached. The notes were probably written by Sister M. Conception, Presentation Convent, Doneraile.
• Clipping of article reporting on the funeral of Canon Patrick Sheehan (‘Weekly Free Press’, 15 Oct. 1913).
• Typescript copy of a ‘Resolution of Regret from the Charleville Irish Land and Labour Association’ on the death of Canon Sheehan. Taken from the Weekly Free Press (18 Oct. 1913).
• Copy reflections on the life of Canon Sheehan by Sister M. Ita O’Connell and Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork).
• Photographic print of the three-storey parochial house in Doneraile, the former home of Canon Patrick Sheehan. (c.1951).
• Clippings from the ‘Cork Examiner’ re the centenary celebrations of the birth of Canon Sheehan in Mallow, County Cork. (10 Nov. 1952).
• Photographic prints of a bust of Canon Sheehan by Joseph Higgins (1885-1925).

A cash account book relating to James Pearse’s ecclesiastical sculpture business in Dublin. An annotation on the title page reads ‘Dublin, November 16th, 1877 / Cash book’. The book provides a record of routine expenditure (including travel and shipping expenses), and entries relating to cash lodged in bank accounts, ‘cash on hand’, and to payments received (particularly from various clerics and religious).