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Walker’s Century Scrap & News cutting book containing clippings, photographs, printed ephemera, and correspondence associated with Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume includes:
• Letters to Henebry from D. Ring (Secretary, Hurling Club, University College Cork), Pádraig Ó Dálaigh (Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin), Carey & Butler (Stockbrokers, 17 South Mall, Cork), Fr. Michael O’Flanagan (Micheál Ó Flannagáin, The Gaelic League, New York), Sir Bertram Windle (relating to Henebry’s application for the Chair of Irish language and literature in UCC in 1909), Fr. Michael Sheehan (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Heinrich Bewerunge, John Millar (2 The Glen, Limestone Road, Belfast), W.M. Kenealy (regarding the publication of Henebry’s article in the ‘Kilkenny Journal’ in November 1903), and Frank MacLysaght (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, Kilkenny).
• A collection of Henebry’s studio photographs along with other family and personal prints.
• Photographic print of Henebry’s grocery shop, Portlaw, County Waterford.
• Photographic print of the ruined Mount Bolton House near Portlaw in County Waterford.
• Postcard print of the Presbyterian Church & Bridge, Portlaw, County Waterford.
• Letter from Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to Henebry’s published works (6 Apr. 1927).
• Letter from John Henebry to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to ‘lost tunes’ from his brother’s manuscript (24 Apr. 1927).
• Manuscript text of a lecture given by Carl Gilbert Hardebeck titled ‘Doctor Henebry The Musician’. A note added by Fr. Senan suggests that the talk was given in Cork in about 1921. (12 pp).
• Clipping of a tribute article to Henebry titled ‘Dr. Henebry / His services to Gaelic Literature’. (1920).
• Clipping of letter from Henebry published in ‘Kilkenny Journal’ regarding criticism of his recent lecture (25 Nov. 1903).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘The Collecting of Irish music’ by Henebry (‘Waterford News’, 11 May 1914).
• ‘The best method of learning Irish’ by Henebry (‘The Leader’, 31 May 1902).
• Fr. Michael Sheehan’s tribute to Henebry (‘An Claidheamh Soluis’, 6-29 May 1916).
• ‘A soldier-author MP on Waterford’. Stephen Gwynn’s article on Waterford which refers to Henebry’s contribution to the Irish language (‘Munster Express’, 23 Oct. 1915).
• Report on Henebry’s funeral (‘Munster Express’, 25 Mar. 1916).
• ‘The Gaelic Endowment Fund / The Gaelic Chair at the University’. Refers to Henebry’s appointment to the Catholic University of America (‘The Irish World’, 18 Nov. 1901).

Photographic prints by Fr. Reginald Walker CSSp. (1885-1971). Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:

• Mount Gabriel and Roaring Water Bay on the Mizen Peninsula, County Cork.
• Mackerel men at Helvick Head, County Waterford.
• Diamond Mountain Connemara, County Galway.
• Franciscan Friary, Connemara, County Galway.
• Garrettstown beach, County Cork.
• Waterford Harbour as seen from Loftus Hall, County Wexford.
• Ashford Castle, County Galway.
• Carna, Connemara, County Galway.
• Dungarvan Bay and Comeragh Mountains, County Waterford.
• Clifden, County Galway.
• Irish Lightship Comet at Dún Laoghaire.
• The Ring, County Waterford.
• A stonecutter in Cashel, County Tipperary.
• A man collecting carrigeen (seaweed), Carraroe, Connemara, County Galway.
• Lighthouse ship at Dun Laoghaire Harbour, County Dublin.
• Rannafast, County Donegal.
• Roundstone, Connemara.
• Hore Abbey, Cashel, County Tipperary.
• Ballybricken, Waterford City.
• Glandore, County Cork.
• A colour party of Catholic Boys Scouts at Rockwell College, County Tipperary.
• Market day in Clifden, County Galway.
• Suir Valley near Golden, County Tipperary.
• Rosmuc, Connemara, County Galway.
• Taking in the harvest in Ring, County Waterford.