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Letter from Pádraig Ó Séaghdha to Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’).

Manuscript transcript of Robert Emmet’s ‘Speech from the dock’ (1803) by Terence MacSwiney. The text is a copy by MacSwiney of an Irish translation of Emmet’s speech made by Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’). The text was later bound into a volume by Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Manuscript copy by Terence MacSwiney of Robert Emmet’s speech’. A manuscript addition suggests that the original translation by Ó Murchadha was published in ‘Fáinne an Lae’ in May 1899.

Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the proofs of the Irish language manuscript ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”’ for the March edition of ‘The Father Mathew Record’. He also suggests that Frank Ryan will correct the proofs.

Letter from Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne), 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to ‘Brother Shannon’ (Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.), St. Bonaventure’s Capuchin Hostel, Cork, re the possibility of publishing of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin” in the ‘Sinn Féin’ newspaper. The file includes a copy of MacSwiney’s letter to Diarmuid Ó Murchadha about the matter in which she suggests that the journal would have a ‘wider and possibly more appreciative circle of readers’ in ‘Sinn Féin’. With Ó Murchadha’s reply to MacSwiney.

Letter from Seán Ó Floinn, Kirwan’s Hotel, Carrick-on-Suir, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the publication of the work by Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’) in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. He also asks that copies be sent to John Henebry in Portlaw, County Waterford.

Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. consenting to the publication of Fr. Augustine Hayden’s appreciation of Seandún (Tadhg Ó Murchadha) so long as ‘he keeps clear of politics’. Fr. Laurence also confirms that he has sent copies of ‘The Father Mathew Record’ to Douglas Hyde.

A letter from N. O’Connor to the editor of the ‘Evening Herald’ refuting the assertion that his late brother (General Rory O’Connor) ‘left all his money to the Minister [Kevin O’Higgins] responsible for his death’.

A clipping of a report on the decision of the British government to ban all travel between Great Britain and Ireland. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (3 March 1944).

A clipping of an image of James Joseph Campbell delivering a Catholic social week lecture in the Mansion House in Dublin. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (24 March 1944).

A postcard print captioned ‘The Sinn Fein Revolt in Dublin. the First and Only copy of “The Irish War News” issued by the Sinn Feiners’. ‘Irish War News’ was published by the republicans occupying the General Post Office in Dublin during the 1916 Rising.