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A bound volume with a manuscript annotation on spine which reads ‘Capuchin Annual / 1943’. The volume contains original letters and newspaper clippings offering mostly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943-46). The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers. Correspondents include ‘Richard Rowley’ (Richard Valentine Williams), Aodh de Blacam, Carl Hardeback, Maud Gonne MacBride, D.L. Kelleher, James Joseph Campbell, Pádraig De Brún, C.P. Curran, Peter F. Anson, Pearse Hutchinson, Thomas MacGreevy, Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM, Arthur M. Campbell, Frank Duff, Kathleen O’Brennan, John McCormack, George A. Little, Iseult Gonne, Bishop Daniel Mageean, Denis Ireland, Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Canon Peter Rogers, Alan Downey (editor of the ‘Waterford News’), Fr. Paul Bussard (editor of the ‘Catholic Digest’), Fr. Ralph Gorman CP, Fr. Louis A. Gales, Art Ó Briain (Art O’Brien), Frieda Le Pla, Moira O’Scannlain (Forest Hills, Long Island, New York), Regina Madden (The Eire Society of Boston), Germaine Stockley, Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Thomas Gaisford-St. Lawrence (Howth Castle, County Dublin), Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector of All Hallows College, Dublin), Monsignor Pádraig de Brún, Mary Hardebeck, Fr. Peter Keane OMI, Mervyn Wall, Edith Scott Mason, and Fr. Gino Paro (Apostolic Nunciature, Dublin). A letter from Leo O’Brien, a prisoner in Mountjoy Jail, is also extant in the volume. Many of the letters and clippings refer to the ‘Orange Terror’ article which appeared in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943) and was later reprinted as as off-print.

Negative film transparencies of various photographic prints and documents used to illustrate commemorative features on the 1916 Rising in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1942) and in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1966). Several of the prints show rebel leaders, scenes of destruction in the aftermath of the Rising, and an illustration showing the execution of a rebel leader in Kilmainham Jail.

A bound book, formerly ‘The Works of Ruskin / library edition / Vol. II’, in which clippings relating to the 1916 Rising taken from contemporary newspapers have been laid in. The clippings (including many printed photographs and illustrations) cover the fighting and the subsequent executions of the rebel leaders. The volume includes contemporary accounts mainly taken from loyalist publications, including the ‘Irish Times’, ‘Daily Sketch’ and ‘Weekly Dispatch’. The volume also includes articles from the ‘Cork Free Press’. The end pages of the volume contain clippings relating to the Civil War and material re the deaths and executions of leading republicans during the latter stages of that conflict. A few articles from the late 1930s and early 1940s (presumably compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.) are also extant in the volume. Inserts include typescript ephemera mainly from anti-Treaty and republican sources during the Civil War. The volume is not paginated.

Letters relating to the foundation of Glenstal Abbey in 1927.

History of the Welsh and Irish Mission, with a background history of both countries as an introduction.

'A History of Ards' by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. published by Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary. The booklet traces the history of the Ards estate from its occupation by the Wrays and the Stewarts to the arrival of the Capuchins in 1930. The chapter headings include: Life in the old mansion, The auction (1927), From manor house to Capuchin Friary, Novitiate and House of Theology, Life in the Friary, and Retreat House. The file also includes typescript and manuscript drafts of the text. Some of the photographs which appeared in the publication are extant at CA DL/5/1

Author: Rev. James Birmingham of Borrisokane
Publisher: Dublin: Milliken and Son, Grafton Street
Language: English
Edition: Second Edition
Full title: 'A memoir of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew / with an account of the rise and progress of temperance in Ireland'. Ink stamp on title page: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Order, Ireland’;