Draft article by Charles Conaghan titled ‘An intrepid Donegal Ecclesiastic of the Sixteenth Century / The Most Reverend Donal McConagle / Bishop of Raphoe (1562-1589)’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1976).
A draft article titled ‘An tAthair Peadar’. The manuscript provides a short assessment of Peadar Ó Laoghaire’s contribution to Irish language literature. The text was probably compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
A draft article on the life and work of An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire. The article suggests that ‘an Athair Peadar’s Irish of the People and the autonomous verb have won the day. So, it is not alone for the quantity of his works but for the wide field in which he worked that we have to claim for an Athair Peadar that he is the “Father of Modern Irish”’. The author added ‘He was ordained in 1867, the Fenian year, and his pays his tribute to the Fenian men with the reserve of the Catholic priest reminding us that in O’Donovan Rossa’s paper there was no word of Irish …’. The article appears to be incomplete.
An offprint of an article by Fr. Richard Henebry titled ‘An Unpublished Poem by W. English’. The article appeared in the first number of ‘Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie’, a periodical founded in 1897 by Kuno Meyer and Ludwig Christian Stern. A manuscript annotation on the first reads ‘To his brother with the writer’s compliments’.
A view of Annestown (in Irish ‘Bun Abha’, meaning ‘river’s end’), a small coastal village in County Waterford, in about 1955. The tower of the Church of Saint John the Baptist is visible in the image. This small-scale rural church was constructed by the Board of First Fruits, an institution of the Church of Ireland, which was established in 1711 to build and improve Anglican churches and rectories in Ireland. The Church of Saint John the Baptist in Annestown dates to about 1822.
Minute book of the committee organising the annual prize draw in aid of the Capuchin Publications Office. The principal prize was an automobile (either a Volkswagen or Austin car). The minute book covers routine organisational meetings from 1955 to 1967. With typescript inserts in the volume.
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'.