File containing illustrations by Fr. Francis Xavier Dent submitted by John Mescal for potential publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. A letter (19 Mar. 1976) from Mescal to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. notes that Fr. Dent gave him final versions of his poems and some accompanying illustrations in about 1964, shortly before his tragic death. Mescal notes that poems by Fr. Dent were published in 'The Capuchin Annuals' in 1952, 1953-4, and in 1955, and expresses his hope that Fr. Dent’s final poems and illustrations can be published in the Annual. The file includes a bound volume with sketches titled ‘Mary, Mother of Sorrows’, and many ink illustrations drawn by Fr. Dent 'Annual' from c.1952-61. Includes images of the Nativity, St. Joan of Arc, landscapes and still-lifes. With newsletters from St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Highbury, London (May- July 1959).
Copy of Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan’s (1852-1913) poem ‘Sentan the Culdee’. The poem was originally published in 'The Irish Monthly', XXIV, (Jan. 1896), pp 1-10.
Draft poetry submitted by Don Philip O’Sullivan for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes poems titled ‘Mountains’, ‘Evening on Lough Sheelin’, ‘Pastor Angelicus’, ‘November Evening’, and ‘Summer Morning’.
Draft poems submitted by James W. Kelly titled ‘Bessarabia’, ‘Have you no anger?’, ‘Moving towards the desert’, ‘The Stars’, ‘A passing thought’, ‘The Gold Brick’, ‘Not Oedipus’, ‘Have you no anger’, ‘Soliloquy’, and ‘Israel’.
Draft poems submitted by Joseph Doran. The poems are titled ‘Jet Flight Home’, ‘Astronaut’, ‘Weed Gatherers’, ‘Mountain Corn’, ‘Winter Harbour’, ‘Remember’, ‘The Quarry’, ‘The Little Homes of Mourne’ and ‘Montana Sheep Herd’.
Draft stories by Diarmuid Breathnach, 31 Victoria Road, Rathgar, Dublin, titled ‘Pretension’, ‘Clonmacnoise’, ‘When the robe was rent’, and ‘Nationalism’.
Draft articles submitted by Mary A. Elliot, Station House, Castlefinn, Lifford Post Office, County Donegal. The articles are titled ‘The road to the rainbow’, ‘The fairy coach’, ‘Mischief in the bog’, ‘Tim the tailor’s pipe’, ‘The golden thimble’ and ‘The fairy millers’.
