Fragmentary notes seemingly compiled by James Joseph O’Kelly (1842-1916). One of the notes opens with ‘The glad news of the release of the prisoners had hardly reached here …’. Other notes contain addresses ‘Mr. Martin Lynch, Kilmore Lock, Ballinasloe, County Galway’ and ‘Mr William Duffield, Society Street, Ballinasloe, County Galway’ with references to them being notified of the ‘departure of goods’.
Letter from Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’), Conradh na Gaeilge, Cork, referring to his Irish translation of Daniel Dafoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’. His translation (‘Eachtra Robinson Crúsó’) was published by Conradh na Gaeilge in 1909.
Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to arrangements for the serial publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”’ by Tadhg Ó Murchadha in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. Fr. Laurence added ‘Since I finished above, I have had a chat with a keen Irish student – Frank Ryan who is studying in Dublin for his degree in “Celtic Studies”. He is delighted you are commencing your work in Record for March. He also has promised to do something next month (February). He thinks a vocabulary would not be necessary – however just do as you think best’. Fr. Laurence also refers to Ryan’s contention that ‘all lovers of Irish will be looking forward to Seandún’s recollections’.
Copy letter from Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne), 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to Diarmuid Ó Murchadha referring to Br. Senan Moynihan’s assertion that he (Ó Murchadha) had supplied the manuscript copy of part two of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin” to the friar.
Draft manuscript of an article by Aodh de Blacam titled ‘With the last pilgrims at the closing of the door’. The manuscript has a cover letter from de Blacam to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Both the letter and the manuscript are dated 10 January 1951. Fr. Senan later bound de Blacam’s draft into a volume with a spine title ‘A. de. B’s last MS. For The Capuchin Annual’.
A biographical sketch of the life of Dom Columba Marmion OSB titled ‘A Great Irish Benedictine’. The sketch appears to be incomplete (p. 24/26). The remainder of the typescript is a compilation article on various monastic sites associated with Saint Columbanus in Italy including Bobbio Abbey.
A flier noting the establishment of a representative body in London to assist the work of the Emergency Committee in Dublin. The document notes that ‘in many parts of Ireland, owing to the state of terrorism which exists, persons who endeavoured to assert their legal rights cannot procure, except from great distance, the commonest necessaries of life, and are obliged to perform for themselves and families the most menial offices’. The flier expounds on the work of the Emergency Committee in assisting landowners and asks for financial assistance to aid their work.
Circular letter from Thomas P. Butler, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Gilbert De L. Willis, Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention. Topics include the elections for a new convention and the redemption of encumbrances.
