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An image of two inhabitants of the Aran Islands in about 1940. The title of the print is ‘seanchas’, an old Irish word referring to the act of storytelling and conveying an ancient tale handed down by oral tradition. A ‘seanchaí’ was a storyteller or a custodian of this tradition.

The song uses the refrain ‘Up Plunkett and McGuinness! For I want my four green fields'. Joseph McGuinness contested the 1917 South Longford by-election. At that time, he was prison in Lewes, Sussex, for his part in the 1916 Rising.

A clipping of a review article on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) published in ‘The Catholic Bulletin’ periodical. Reference is made in the article to various Capuchin friars including Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (‘whose body lies in a leaden casket in a graveyard away in South-Western California’), and to Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. who ‘lies amid the snows of the North West’.

A clipping of a positive review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1934) published in ‘The Derry Journal’ (5 January 1934).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) by Patrick Kavanagh published in the ‘Irish Times’ (10 January 1942).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) published in ‘The Kerryman’ (21 December 1935).

A clipping of an article titled ‘The Moonlight of Memory by The Rev. Canon P.A. Sheehan, D.D., P.P.’ (Cork Free Press, 17 Jan. 1914).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) published in 'The Nationalist’ (Clonmel, County Tipperary) on 28 December 1935.

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) published in the ‘The Standard’ (13 December 1935).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) published in ‘The Universe’ (23 January 1942).