A postcard print captioned 'Presbyterian Church & the Bridge, Portlaw, County Waterford'. The church dates to about 1845. The two-storey building adjacent to the church is the manse (a name given to a house inhabited by a minister, typically from the Presbyterian, Methodist or other Reformed Protestant religions). The manse in Portlaw was occupied by the Reverend David Ferguson, Presbyterian minister in Portlaw, from about 1843 to 1887. The Presbyterian church in Portlaw was closed in 1931.
An image of the ruined Mount Bolton House near Portlaw in County Waterford. A figure in clerical garb (possibly Fr. Richard Henebry) stands at the doorway.
A clipping of an article by Fr. Richard Henebry titled ‘The Collecting of Irish music’ (‘Waterford News’, 11 May 1914). The article refers to Henebry's work on the preservation of traditional Irish tunes and to the need to establish an 'Phonogram Archive of Irish music' in University College Cork.
Letter from Fr. Mícheál Ó Flannagáin, The Gaelic League, 149 Broadway, New York, to Fr. Richard Henebry. Flannagáin refers to Hudson Maxim (1853-1927), an American military inventor and author.
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 Richard Henebry titled ‘An Unpublished Poem by W. English’.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’.
Recollections of the 1916 Rising by Nicholas Laffan titled ‘Ireland’s War of Independence / Easter Week 1916’. It is noted that Laffan was a Captain in G Company, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers. With a cover letter from Laffan to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. stating that this article ‘has not appeared in any paper’. He also states that he is an old member of the Third Order of St. Francis (Merchants’ Quay) having joined in April 1904 (66 years ago)’.
Flier and programme for Clar na h-Oibre organised by the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) in Lismore, County Waterford, on 30 Nov. 1903. The principal lecture was given by Fr. Richard Henebry on ‘The aim and objective of the Gaelic League’.
