A list of paintings on loan from ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office on Capel Street in Dublin. The paintings were loaned for the Tuam Art Club exhibition and include work by Jack B. Yeats, Richard King, Seán Keating, and Harry Kernoff.
A clipping of article by Seán (John) Keating on artistic events in 1948. The article was published in the ‘Irish Review and Annual / A supplement to the “Irish Times”’ (December 1948).
A letter from Máirín Allen, 183 Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. on a proposal for her to write an article on the fine arts in Belfast.
A Christmas greeting card from Clare Sheridan to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The card includes a photographic print of Sheridan working on a sculpture of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. The caption reads ‘Oak tree from Battle Abbey, Sussex, carved in Galway by Clare Sheridan / 1949’.
A photographic print of (from left) Angela Christina MacDonnell, Countess of Antrim, Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., Gladys Maccabe and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. The photograph was taken at the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Gladys Maccabe and her husband Max Maccabe at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin.
A pamphlet and poem reflecting on John Hogan’s marble statue of the Transfiguration. The statue is held in Mount Argus Passionist Monastery in Harold’s Cross in Dublin. The poem asks the reader to remember the ‘weed-grown, cold [and] forgotten’ grave of the sculptor in the cemetery. The poetic tribute was written by John Clarke (1868-1934), a County Antrim-born nationalist and journalist who wrote numerous articles on Gaelic cultural revivalist subjects, often using the penname ‘Benmore’.
A clipping of an article the memorial windows designed by Catharine O’Brien for Lissadell Church in County Sligo. The commission was given to O’Brien by Lady Gore-Booth. The article was published in the ‘Evening Mail’ (4 November 1950).