Letter from Alfie Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him the copy of the ‘magnificent production’ of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
Letter from Alexander Edward Miller regarding his candidacy in the forthcoming Trinity College by-election. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Thomas Ball on his appointment as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The contest was won by Edward Gibson.
A letter from Alan Downey, ‘Waterford News’ Offices, 49-51 O’Connell Street, Waterford, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. conveying his impressions of the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
Letter from Áine b. Ė. Ceannt, [wife of Ėamonn Ceannt], 44 Oakley Rd., Ranelagh, noting that ‘it is terrible to find that the rebels at Church St. are not only self-willed but so mightily independent’. She compliments Father Albert for saying the mass in Irish: ‘I felt how pleased poor Eamonn would be’. She gives news of the ailing condition of Muriel MacDonough’s ‘poor soon [who] has to go to a nursing home and lie on his back for months’. She also refers to the North Roscommon by-election and a well-received letter from Fr. Augustine Hayden which was printed in the Roscommon Herald
A letter from ‘Francis P. Bassonwell’, republican internee, Crumlin Road Jail, Belfast, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding his efforts to distribute thirty copies of the ‘Orange Terror’ supplement. He also refers to the banning of the ‘Orange Terror’ offprint in Northern Ireland.
A letter from Fr. Henry Gaffney OP, St. Mary’s, The Claddagh, Galway, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., congratulating him on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and its 'valiant onslaught on the northern tyranny'. Gaffney adds ‘You have done greater work than all the loud politicians’.
A letter from Edward Thomas (‘E.T.’) Keane, editor of the ‘Kilkenny People’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the ‘Orange Terror’ reprint. Keane states that ‘certain features of what you call Orange Terror are duplicated in the twenty-six counties’. He notes that ‘we probably have more internees, men and women, in the twenty-six counties … Our “Republican” government can do what they like and sit on criticism’.
