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A signed menu card for a reception marking the visit of Cardinal John Joseph Glennon to Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin. The card is signed by Cardinal Glennon. It is also signed by Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh (Seán T. O’Kelly), the President of Ireland, and by his wife Phyllis Bean Úi Cheallaigh (Phyllis O’Kelly). The other signatures are those of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, Seán Mac an tSaoi (Seán MacEntee), the Minister of Health, and Séamus Ó Riain (James Ryan), the Minister of Agriculture. Cardinal Glennon died five days later in Dublin (9 March 1946). His body lay in repose in All Hallows College (his old seminary) before being returned to the United States for burial in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.

A letter from Patrick James Smyth, Auburn Villa, Rathgar, Dublin, to James Joseph O’Kelly, referring to the recruitment of an Irish brigade for service in France. The letter reads ‘Shortly after the capitulation of Sedan, I was informed by Mr. T.D. Sullivan that an accredited agent of the French government was in Dublin … and that he wished to see me’. The letter appears to be incomplete. The letter is endorsed ‘7204’.

Letter from Pádraig Ó Séaghdha to Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’).

Manuscript transcript of Robert Emmet’s ‘Speech from the dock’ (1803) by Terence MacSwiney. The text is a copy by MacSwiney of an Irish translation of Emmet’s speech made by Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’). The text was later bound into a volume by Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Manuscript copy by Terence MacSwiney of Robert Emmet’s speech’. A manuscript addition suggests that the original translation by Ó Murchadha was published in ‘Fáinne an Lae’ in May 1899.

Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the proofs of the Irish language manuscript ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”’ for the March edition of ‘The Father Mathew Record’. He also suggests that Frank Ryan will correct the proofs.

Letter from Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne), 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to ‘Brother Shannon’ (Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.), St. Bonaventure’s Capuchin Hostel, Cork, re the possibility of publishing of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin” in the ‘Sinn Féin’ newspaper. The file includes a copy of MacSwiney’s letter to Diarmuid Ó Murchadha about the matter in which she suggests that the journal would have a ‘wider and possibly more appreciative circle of readers’ in ‘Sinn Féin’. With Ó Murchadha’s reply to MacSwiney.

Letter from Seán Ó Floinn, Kirwan’s Hotel, Carrick-on-Suir, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the publication of the work by Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’) in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. He also asks that copies be sent to John Henebry in Portlaw, County Waterford.

Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. consenting to the publication of Fr. Augustine Hayden’s appreciation of Seandún (Tadhg Ó Murchadha) so long as ‘he keeps clear of politics’. Fr. Laurence also confirms that he has sent copies of ‘The Father Mathew Record’ to Douglas Hyde.

Letter from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain), An Cumann Gaelach, University College Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A photographic print of Aodh de Blacam. A manuscript note attached reads 'Please substitute enclosed snapshot in any future hue-and-cry for Aodh de Blacam as it is 25 years later and tactfully conceals absence of thatch'.