A clipping of an article reporting on Archbishop Richard Cushing’s visit to Galway which included a civic reception at the university in the city. The article is taken from the ‘Connacht Tribune’ (24 September 1949). (Volume page 51).
A clipping of a letter from the artist Paul Henry regarding the need to find an appropriate location in Dublin for a gallery to house the paintings from the Hugh Lane bequest. The letter was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (4 October 1922).
A letter from Sir Shane Leslie, 18 Knightsbridge Court, Sloane Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFMCap. re a painting titled ‘The Eviction’ by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson, 1846-1933).
A letter from Germaine Stockley to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. giving particulars of the life of the late sculptor Joseph Higgins. She wrote ‘the great Irish sculptor died in Youghal in [the] beginning of 1925. I saw him a few days before his death. He died of consumption’. She also refers to Higgins’s son-in-law Seamus Murphy.
A clipping of a report (with photographs) on the opening of an exhibition of the work of the sculptor Clare Sheridan in the Dawson Galleries in Dublin. Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. attended the opening. The article is taken from ‘The Standard’ (28 May 1948).
An information flier on the Mainie Jellet travelling scholarship fund established to perpetuate the memory of her ‘inspiring work as a teacher and friend of the younger generation of Irish artists’.
A card publicising an exhibition of art from the Joseph Brennan Collection at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin. The exhibition included sculptures by Albert Power and Jerome Connor and paintings by Walter Osborne and Nathaniel Hone.