A letter from Earnán De Siúnta (‘An Buachaillín Buidhe’) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the ‘good Christian work’ in publishing the ‘Bonaventura’ quarterly. He adds ‘The pity is that our Irish people, on the whole, are not given to reading publications of this sort. The country is flooded with English trash, which if not positively demoralising, is hopelessly inane’.
A Christmas greeting card from Con Cremin, Ireland’s Ambassador to France. The card has an illustration of the main entrance to the Irish College in Paris (Collège des Irlandais). Founded in the late sixteenth century, the college (located on Rue des Irlandais) was a Catholic educational institution in the French capital. The building is now used as a cultural center, known as the Centre Culturel Irlandais.
An postcard print of the entrance to the Irish College of St. Anthony in Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. The partially obscured inscription over the archway reads ‘Do ċum glóire Dé agus onóra na hÉireann (‘For the glory of God and the honour of Ireland’) and is taken from the ‘Annals of the Four Masters’.
