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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 containing newspaper clippings and ephemera with extensive annotations by Fr. Henry Rope on events relating to the Irish Revolution, the Civil War, the position of Catholics in Northern Ireland, and Anglo-Irish relations. Typescript annotation on inside front cover reads ‘The Revd. H.E.G. Rope, Plowden, Lydbury North, Salop.’ Manuscript title to the volume (on first page) reads ‘Occasional Notes on Ireland (1923)’.
The contents include:
• Clippings from various publications and periodicals including ‘The Leader’, ‘Éire / The Irish Nation’, ‘The Irish World’, ‘The Catholic Times’, ‘The Standard’, ‘An Phoblacht’, ‘The Irish Times’,
• An article titled ‘De Valera’s Designs / Issues in Southern Ireland’ (‘Morning Post’, 24 July 1924, p. 10).
• A review of Daniel Corkery’s ‘The Hidden Ireland’ (‘Catholic Times’, 26 Nov. 1926, p. 21).
• An article on the first death of a hunger striker, ‘Republican Bulletin’ (21 Nov. 1923, p 24).
• An article titled ‘Archbishop Mannix welcomed at Waterford / Freedom of the city conferred’ (‘Cork Examiner’, 13 Aug. 1925, p. 34).
• ‘Nationalities and languages / Specially contributed by Professor Stockley’ (‘Waterford News’, 13 June 1924, p. 39).
Inserts include ‘An appeal for a Catholic and National Monument / St. Patrick’s XV Centenary Memorial (1932) and a flier for the Central Catholic Library, 16 Hawkins Street, Dublin.

This section comprises files of loose letters to Fr. Henry Rope. The letters are primarily from Irish correspondents or include commentary on Irish events.

A file of letters from leading Irish language scholars, academics, philologists, celticists, and linguists to Fr. Richard Henebry. The file includes letters from Whitley Stokes, Seán Ó Ciarghusa (Seaghán Ó Ciarsaigh), Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (‘An Seabhac’), John Strachan (Thorndale, Prestwick, Scotland; The Owens College, Manchester), Edmund Crosby Quiggin, John Rhys, Heinrich Zimmer (Chair of Celtic Studies, University of Berlin), Holger Pedersen, Seamus Clandillon (Wolfe Tone Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary), Kuno Meyer (41 Huskission Street, Liverpool), Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’) (Glen House, Carrignavar, County Cork), Ludwig Christian Stern, and Osborn Bergin. The letters include references to scholarly interpretations of Irish texts and proposals for the teaching of the language. John Strachan wrote ‘I made the acquaintance there [Dublin] of Father Dineen, an interesting and energetic person. He is working at a modern Irish dictionary. The thesaurus progresses. Vol. II is nearly printed. There is now only the introduction to write’ (10 Mar. 1903). A later letter from Strachan asks ‘Why, O why do you waste your time over these fruitless bickerings, when you might be doing something useful?’ He adds ‘As to America, it depends, I suppose on how fast the stipend grows, if it is enough to live upon, I should strongly advise you to go, and to stick to Irish and eschew politics’ (25 Jan. 1904). Whitley Stokes wrote ‘Kuno Meyer is tolerably well in health and has induced Sir Antony MacDonnell to contribute handsomely to the support of a school of Irish studies’ (29 Oct. 1903). Osborn Bergin’s letters relate to disagreements with Henebry over Irish language usage. He writes ‘I wish you would not ask me to look over any more of these proofs. Our ideals are too far apart for anything like the “plan of campaign” Dr. Sheehan suggests. There are many kinds of Irish that give me pleasure in the reading, but I object on principle to trying to force an artificial switch back style on the public, with sudden jolts and lurches from 17th century to 19th century and from that to the 10th century and back. No! It won’t do. When I hear people calling you a faddist, I cannot work up much conviction in contradicting them’ (29 Nov. 1908).

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.

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’.