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A copybook containing transcriptions of Gaelic texts compiled by Fr. Richard Henebry. The text appears to be a transcription from the British Library Additional Manuscript (15,403) titled ‘Treatise on the virtues of herbs and medals in alphabetical order’. The original text is a vellum MS and was dated by Standish O’Grady to the sixteenth century.

A scrapbook containing clippings, printed ephemera, and some letters associated with Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume includes:
• Declaration of Fr. Richard Henebry for citizenship of the United States. (Washington, 6 June 1897).
• ‘Facts for Brother Hibernians / save the Gaelic chair and the honor of Ireland / extract from the letter of instructions addressed by the university to Dr. Henebry, August 26, 1898, on the occasion of his first coming to America to take up the work of the Gaelic chair’. (1902)
• Clipping of an article titled ‘The collecting of Irish music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry (‘Waterford News’, 12 May 1911).
• Review of Captain Francis O’Neill (ed.), ‘Music of Ireland / Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Melodies’ (Chicago, 1903) by Fr. Richard Henebry (‘An Claidheamh Soluis’, 26 Sept. 1903).
• Review of Henebry’s ‘A contribution to the phonology of Desi-Irish’ (‘Catholic University Bulletin’, Jan. 1899).
• An article titled ‘Dr. Henebry on Irish music’ (‘The Leader’, 19 Dec. 1903).
• An article by Henebry titled ‘Of race tradition’ (31 Jan. 1903).
• ‘On the tonality of music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. (‘The Leader’, 20 Feb. 1904).
• ‘Professor Zimmer gives his views on the Irish Language movement … Duty of Irishmen to save the Irish language / Rev. Richard Henebry, PhD, Catholic University of America, Washington’ (‘Irish World’, 1 Apr. 1899).
• D.J. Llewellyn ‘The Stradbally Portrait’ (‘Little Flower Monthly’, Sept. 1950). The article refers to recollections of Fr. Henebry.
• ‘How a fortune was missed / finding of long-lost masterpiece in Clogheen’ (‘The Nationalist’, 16 Sept. 1950). The article refers to Henebry’s role in discovering a long-lost portrait of Saint Thomas Moore.

Assorted clippings, mostly relating to the life and work of Fr. Richard Henebry. The file includes:
• Clippings of an article titled ‘Irish Music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. A manuscript annotation indicates it was published in ‘The Irish Year Book / Leabhar na hÉireann’ (1908).
• Advertisement for Thomas Hennebry, wholesale grocer, 16 George’s Street, Waterford. ‘The Waterford Star’, 24 Feb. 1906.
• An artifice referring to the publication of ‘Duanaire Dáibhid Uí Bhruadair/Poems of David O’Bruadair’ (edited by Fr. J. C. McErlean SJ and published by the Irish Texts Society in 1910).
• An article re an address by Fr. Richard Henebry re the summer school in Ring College in County Waterford (c.1908).
• Off-print drafts of an article titled ‘On the tonality of music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. (Published in ‘The Leader’, 20 Feb. 1904).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘Some Gaelic Scholars by F.D.T.’. The article includes photographic prints of Rev. Patrick O’Donnell, Rev. Eugene O’Growney, Douglas Hyde, Fr. Michael O’Hickey, and Fr. Richard Henebry (Catholic University, Washington). (c.1900).
• A clipping of an article publicizing the posthumous publication of ‘A handbook of Irish Music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. ‘The Father Mathew Record’, Vol. 17, No. 8 (Aug. 1924), pp 131-4.
• A clipping of an article titled ‘Stáir-cuimhne ar Reistéird de Hendeberg’ published in ‘St. Ursula’s Annual’.
• An appreciation article re Fr. Richard Henebry published in ‘The Collegian’ (1918). Includes photographic print of Henebry.

Draft poems by Donal O’Connor titled ‘Autumn Light on a Shadow’ (15 Sept. 1964) and ‘Tired’.

A collection of poems by Myles O’Farrell. The anthology includes ‘Wedding Anniversary / 1971’, ‘Rosemary Tobin / 16 November 1970’, ‘Highway to Sligo’, and ‘In old Connemara’.

The file comprises the following article clippings:
‘Pearse saw Ireland with idealism, and detachment’, 'Irish Press', 10 Nov. 1954. Another clipping from the same edition of the paper includes articles by Francis MacManus, Pádraig de Brún, and Lennox Robinson.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Emmet’s spirit over Rathfarnham’, 'Irish Press', 13 Nov. 1954.
Desmond Ryan, ‘A moment with Pearse’, 'Irish Press', 11 Nov. 1954. Includes a photograph Senator Margaret Mary Pearse, ‘the only surviving member of the family’.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Pearse the orator’, 'Irish Press', 12 Nov. 1954.

Letter from Margaret Mary Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (6 April 1955), conveying her blessings at Easter and remembering her pilgrimage to Rome with the friar. The letter is attached to a typescript (with manuscript additions) of an article titled ‘The books we want written’.

Letters to James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, from the Treasurer’s Department, City of Birmingham Council, re the repayment of a loan of £100. The file includes a statement of loan repayment and a receipt for the same.