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Circular letter from Gilbert De L. Willis, Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention. Topics include the Local Government (Ireland) Bill and the Evicted Tenants’ Commission.

Draft sermon titled ‘On the necessity of and utility of penance’ by Fr. Richard Henebry.

Manuscript draft by Fr. Richard Henebry referring to the subjects of Irish music and literature. The headings include ‘Of the Keltic note’ and ‘Of Irish literature’. It reads ‘One should think that the first requisite for a neo-Keltist would be a thorough knowledge of the language and literature about to be manipulated. But strange to say it is never so. There is no one of the school that enjoys the faculty of being able to read a book in any Keltic dialect whatsoever. They depend entirely on translation …’. A two-page musical score is included. Rough pen and ink illustrations (including some of a piper and a fiddle player) by Henebry are extant on the covers.

‘The Georgics of Vergil / Book I / Based on Ribbeck’s text’ (London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place). Manuscript annotation on the front cover reads ‘Richard Henebry / May 1885’.

A copy of Seán Ó Currín, ‘Scríbhne Risteird de Hindeberg’ (Baile Atha Cliath: Brun agus Nualan). An edited collection of Fr. Richard Henebry’s writings and speeches published in 1924. Includes a photographic print of Henebry. With a manuscript dedication from the author to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Several clippings, mostly of reviews of the book (in English), are inserted into the volume. One of the clippings is of an article on the funeral of Nóra Ní Fhoghluda (d. Dec. 1925), the wife of Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’). Several Capuchin friars attended the funeral in the Church of Immaculate Conception in Cork.