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A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the title page reads ‘Private Letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / 11 March 1949’. Includes references to the Captain Robert Monteith fund and contemporary politics. Other letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required lengthy periods of hospitalization in 1949 and in 1953) and to the serious debts accumulated by the Publications Office. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair,), Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, John J. O’Kelly (‘Sceilg’), Aodh de Blacam, Charles E. Kelly, Br. Colmcille Ó Conbhuidhe (Mellifont Abbey, Collon, County Louth), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., John Desmond Sheridan, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, H. Martin Hamilton, Bishop John Dignan, Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Doran Hurley, Adolf Morath (photographer), Thomas Francis O’Sullivan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Lennox Robinson, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Christopher T. Rooney, Frank E. Benner (Fruithill Park, Andersonstown, Belfast), Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Frank Gallagher (Glór Na Mara, Sutton, County Dublin), Ernest Newman, Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Bernard T. Hart (Brooklyn, New York), Monsignor Denis McDaid (Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Pádraig De Brún, Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), John MacCourt (Manitoba, Canada), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), John English & Co. (printers), Sister Augustine Murray (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Monsignor Hugh Finnegan (Saint Joseph’s, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan), Robert Monteith, Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Judge John J. Kelly (West Washington Street, Chicago), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap. (Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans), Eileen Crean, Frieda Le Pla, Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Winefride Nolan, Fr. John Ryan SJ (35 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Fr. Patrick Gannon SJ (Miltown Park, Dublin), Lily McCormack, Tomás S. Cuffe, Philip F. Roden (11a Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), D.L. Kelleher, Archbishop John D’Alton, Archbishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Benedict Kiely, J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin), Peter F. Anson, Thomas MacGreevy, Joan Hammond (referring to her reception into the Catholic Church) and Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap.

Includes: A long draft letter to Joseph O’Connor provides a description of Fr. Senan’s interview with Páraig ‘Paudeen’ Ó Caoimh, deputy military governor of Mountjoy prison in Dublin during the Civil War (1949); A letter to O’Connor affirms that Seán O’Casey ‘abominates everything a Catholic Irishman holds sacred’ (22 Nov. 1952); A letter to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, refers to the crippling amount of debt accumulated by the Capuchin Publications Office over the past twenty-five years. Fr. Senan wrote ‘for a good few years the yearly income amounts to £22,000 but unfortunately the outgoings in any given year amount to £24,000 or so’. He also confirms that the profits from the ‘Angelic Shepherd’ publication has failed to clear the office’s debt and asks for a new letter of authorization for the bank. He asks for Fr. Colman’s forgiveness and refers to his hope that assistance from ‘two wealthy American friends’ will help clear the debt (22 Apr. 1953); A letter to Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. refers the death of Maud Gonne MacBride. Fr. Senan wrote ‘She was terrific character. God rest her. I used to love to get her to tell the story of how she went to Spain, was it in 1907, to assassinate King Edward VII’ (28 Apr. 1953).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Letters – private and confidential / 1953’. Many of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required a lengthy period of hospitalization in 1953) and to the need to acquire additional members of the Association of Patrons of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Liam Brophy (Roebuck Road, Dundrum, County Dublin), Kevin MacManus, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Br. Colman O’Neill OP (Saint Mary’s, Tallaght, County Dublin), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork, refers to the souvenirs of Canon Patrick Sheehan which he obtained from the Presentation Convent in Doneraile which he promises to return, 22 June 1953), Ethel Mannin, John Henning (Sutton, County Dublin), Sister Mary Joseph SL (Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, Webster Groves, Missouri), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Ellen Murnane (41 East Main Street, Portland, Connecticut), Diarmuid Breathnach, Doran Hurley, Denis Gywnn, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap., Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Patrick Kennedy (St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada), Sister Gabriel (Maryknoll Sisters, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Fr. William F. Labadie OSA, Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Joan Hammond, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Fr. Henry McHenry (45 Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Kathleen O’Toole (Kiltegan, County Wicklow), Fr. William J. Fletcher (Sacred Heart Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin, refers to the ‘new statues’ on the façade of St. Mary of the Angels, 5 Sept. 1953, p. 126. Fr. Senan writes ‘Leo Broe has exaggerated some aspects of the figures but that is necessary, I’m afraid, when you consider how high up they will be sited’), Thomas MacGreevy, Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Richard King (refers to permissions sought to reproduce the Irish Saints’ postcard series published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’, 10 Sept. 1953, pp 131-2; another letter to King refers to his resignation as chief illustrator for the ‘Annual’, 14 Sept. 1953) and Fr. John Challis (Saint Joachim’s Presbytery, 122. Shepperton Road, Victoria Park, Western Australia).
The volume includes the text of a talk titled ‘Seventh Centenary of the death of Saint Clare’ (Aug. 1953, pp 53-5); a letter to the editor questioning the appointment of Milan Horvat as chief conductor of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra in 1953 (pp 68-70).

A volume containing copy letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine has a gilt title ‘Minute Book’. Contains copy of personal letters to Fr. Senan (with some replies) relating to the Capuchin Publications Office and contemporary political matters. The volume has a partial alphabetical index of correspondents. Most of the correspondence dates from 1943 to 1945. Includes copy letters from Peter F. Anson, Professor Leonard Abrahamson, Aodh de Blacam, Fr. John Brosnan, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), David Barry, Pádraig De Brún, Michael A. Bowles, Helena Concannon, Nuala Costello (Tuam Art Club), C.P. Curran, Joseph Connolly (Office of Public Works), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, James Joseph Campbell, Sidney Carroll, Seán Crawford (The Square, Warrenpoint, County Down), Fr. William Dargan SJ, George Gavan Duffy, Eamon Donnelly, St. John Greer Ervine, John English & Co. (printers), Seán Feehan (Mercier Press), Charles Robert ffrench, 6th Baron ffrench, Joseph H. Fowler, Seamus de Faoite, Fr. Louis A. Gales, Gertrude Gaffney, Tadhg Gahan, Senator Denis Healy, Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ, Carl Hardebeck, Cahir Healy, Bulmer Hobson, Douglas Hyde, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Denis Ireland, D.L. Kelleher, T.J. Kiernan, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Seán Keating, Sir Shane Leslie, Frieda Le Pla, George A. Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Seán Lemass, Bishop Daniel Mageean, Dom Aubert Merten OSB, Fr. Frank Moynihan (editor of ‘The Advocate’, Melbourne, Australia), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Edith M. Scott Mason, Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Dr. Regina Madden, Seán Nesson, Maud Gonne MacBride, Michael McLaverty, Francis McCullagh, Dr. Colm McDonnell, Thomas MacGreevy, Bishop William MacNeely, John McCormack (Moore Abbey, Monasterevin, County Kildare), George Noble Plunkett, Séamus Ó Braonáin, Vincent O’Brien, Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Moira Ó Scannláin, Eoin O’Mahony, Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Máire Ní Shúilleabháin, Seán T. O’Kelly, Kathleen O’Brennan, Terence O’Hanlon, P.C. O’Mahony, David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Canon Patrick Rogers, Philip Rooney, Dr. James Ryan, Colin Johnston Robb, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Germaine Stockley, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Archbishop Bernard Mary Williams, Alfred White, Victor Waddington, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), and Jack B. Yeats.
The volume includes a copy of a letter from David Gray, United States Minister in Ireland, to Cardinal Joseph MacRory re partition and the presence of American troops stationed in Northern Ireland (7 Oct. 1942, pp 19-25).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters / London October 1954’. However, the volume includes copy letters from 1944 to 1955 and transcribed letters from Canon Patrick Sheehan (1852-1913). Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Sr. Mary Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, R.F. Browne (Chairman, Electricity Supply Board), Sister Frances Moynihan (Convent of Mercy, Blackrock, County Dublin), Tomás Ó Riain, Margaret McDonnell (Dalguise, Monkstown, County Dublin), Thomas J. Collins (‘Dublin Opinion’, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Hamish Fraser, T.J. Molloy, Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Sister M. Ligouri (Booterstown, County Dublin), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Fr. Kieran Collins (Union Hall, County Cork), Doran Hurley, John Alvin Feltis, James P. Murphy (13 Montgomerie Road, Prestwick, Aryshire, Scotland), Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Rev. Martin Brenan (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare), Dr. Regina Madden (The Eire Society of Boston), Fr. W.O. O’Neill (Catholic Mission, Kilungo, Kenya), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Arthur Campbell (11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast), Eugene F. Collins (Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin), Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Seán Lemass, Fr. Peter J. O’Leary (Saint John’s Church, Greenfield, Iowa), and Michael A. Bowles. The volume includes several pages of transcriptions by Fr. Senan of letters written by Canon Patrick Sheehan to a Sister of Mercy. A note suggests that these letters were written while he was receiving treatment for a terminal illness in the South Infirmary in Cork (1912-3).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications’ Office. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Letters from Fr. Senan OFM Cap. / Private’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Demetrius Manousos OFM Cap. (Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, New York), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Doran Hurley, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Maud Gonne MacBride, Sir Gilbert Laithwaite (British Ambassador to Ireland), Liam Ruiséal (The Fountain Bookshop, Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork), Sister Mary Phelan, Fr. Sylvester OFM Cap. (Librarian, San Lorenzo Capuchin College, Rome), Roderick Wilkson (Glasgow, Scotland), Michael A. Bowles, Sister M. Bernard (Lisieux, France), Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), Patrick McDevitt (Glenties, County Donegal), John English & Co. (printers), Fr. Denis Fahy CSSp, Elizabeth Corr, Bishop John Dignan, Thomas MacGreevy, Aodh de Blacam, Robert Monteith, Patrick MacKenna (Maple Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), H. Martin Hamilton, Clare Sheridan (sculptor), Fr. Gerard Fassler OFM Cap. (Mahenge Mission, Tanzania), Séamus Campbell, Páraig Ó Caoimh (Patrick O’Keeffe), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Johanna Coakley, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister, referring to the extraordinary success of ‘The Angelic Shepherd’ publication, 20 Sept. 1950), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St. Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh), Fr. Jack Hanlon, Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap., Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Nuala Moran (Editor, ‘The Leader’), Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Adolf Morath (photographer), Pádraig De Brún, Dr. Richard Lavelle, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Victor Waddington, Sister M. Dolorine (Webster College, Missouri, United States), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Helena Concannon, Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Provincial Curia, Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Peckham, London), Fr. H. Russell SMA (Society of African Missions, 23 Bliss Avenue, Tenafly, New Jersey), Fr. Michael J. Troy (Kimmage Manor, Dublin), J.A. Power (Blackheath Drive, Clontarf, Dublin), Br. Colmcille Cregan OFM Cap., Sister Mary Berchmans Roche (Medical Missionaries of Mary, Booterstown, Dublin), Fr. Thaddeus MacVicar OFM Cap., (refers to the death of Aodh de Blacam, 15 Jan. 1951), Bishop Daniel Cohalan (John’s Hill, Waterford), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Kathleen Moloney (District Hospital, Edenderry, County Offaly), William Monk Gibbon, Gary Mac Eoin, Canon J. Harmon (Parochial House, Ardee, County Louth), Margaret Bowles, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Peter F. Anson, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Monsignor Martin Brenan (President, St. Patrick’s College, Carlow), Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland, United States), Mannix Joyce, Seumas MacManus, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (Boston College, Massachusetts), Fr. Celsus. O’Connell O.Cist (Mount Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Professor Leonard Abrahamson, Seamus Murphy (Wellington Road, Cork), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Seán Collins, Michael F. Moynihan, Fr. Louis A. Gales (Catechetical Guild, Minnesota), Sir Shane Leslie, Sister Mary Joseph (Director, The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, Missouri, United States), John Hennig, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Willem Sassen, John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), Cormac Breathnach, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne) (Downings House, Prosperous, Naas, County Kildare), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Fr. William Purcell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Sr. Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, refers to the Medical Missionaries of Mary in Massachusetts, 7 Mar. 1951), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Ida Monahan, Fr. T.J. Walsh, Fr. Andrew Carew OFM Cap., Séamus Campbell, and Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure).

A volume containing copy correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Most of the letters are manuscript copies of Fr. Senan’s outgoing letters but the volume also includes some copies of letters received by the friar. A partial alphabetical and page index of correspondents is included at the start of volume. The spine is gilt-titled ‘Minute Book’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes correspondence with Peter F. Anson, Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Séamus Ó Braonáin, Aodh de Blacam, Michael A. Bowles, Frank E. Benner, Captain Charles Brennan, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Maire Comerford, C.P. Curran, Eugene Collins, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Alice Curtayne, Joseph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Fr. Terence Connolly SJ, Archbishop John D’Alton, Bishop John Dignan, Fr. James Enright (Castleisland, County Kerry), Kevin R. Egan, Seán Feehan (Mercier Press), John English & Co. (printers), Patrick Gallagher, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Carl Hardebeck, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Seán Keating, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Delia Murphy, T.J. Kiernan, Richard J. King, D.L. Kelleher, Benedict Kiely, Charles E. Kelly, Frieda Le Pla, Sir Shane Leslie, Dr. George Little, Patrick John Little, Fr. Frank Moynihan, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., An tAthair Micheál Ó Sé OFM Cap. (Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap.), Fr. Christopher Mangan (Archbishop’s House, Dublin), Francis McCullagh, Herbert Mackey, Bishop William MacNeely, John McCormack, Lily McCormack, Maud Gonne MacBride, Cardinal Joseph MacRory, Major General Hugo MacNeill, Seumas MacManus, Br. Brendan Neary (Salesian Missionary College, Ballinakill, County Laois), Fr. James T. Nolan, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), May O’Connell (Melbourne, Australia), Seán T. O’Kelly (President of Ireland), Art O’Brien, Vincent O’Brien, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Jarlath A. O’Connell, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM (Papal Nuncio to Ireland), Canon Patrick Rogers, Colin Johnston Robb, Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (Cathedral, Simla, India), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Germaine Stockley, Iseult Gonne (‘Mrs Francis Stuart’), Oscar Traynor, Éamon de Valera, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Mrs F.L. Vickerman, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Victor Waddington, Mervyn Wall, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Joseph B. Whelehan, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), and Jack B. Yeats.

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the correspondence refers to the ‘Orange Terror’ article originally published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ while other letters reference the artwork of Jack B. Yeats and Richard King, and contemporary political matters. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Seumas MacManus, Michael O’Higgins, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Lily McCormack (provides his recollections of the funeral of John McCormack, 8 Jan. 1948), Aodh de Blacam, Bishop John Dignan, Thomas MacGreevy, Alan C. Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Patrick John Little, Myles O’Farrell, Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), General Aodh MacNeill, Maud Gonne MacBride, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Thomas R. Lynch (South Hill Street, Los Angeles), Delia Murphy (refers to her performance at concert in aid of the Carl Hardebeck fund in Belfast, 4 Oct. 1945), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Seán Moylan, Seán T. O’Kelly, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Edith M. Scott Mason, Frank E. Benner, Frieda Le Pla, Hubert Rooney, Jack B. Yeats, Oscar Traynor (Minister of Defence), Ellen O’Grady (Tralee, County Kerry), Tomás S. Cuffe, Peter F. Anson, Sir Shane Leslie, Fr. John Brosnan (St. Mary’s Church, Los Angeles), Éamon de Valera, Victor Waddington, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Sara Allgood, Richard James Hayes, David Marcus, T.J. Kiernan (Irish Legation, Canberra, Australia), Michael McDunphy (Director of Bureau of Military History, refers to McDunphy’s hopes of obtaining recollections of the 1916 Rising from Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. and Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., 19 Sept. 1947), Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Seamus de Faoite, Germaine Stockley, Kathleen M. Murphy, Séamus Campbell, Fr. Henry S. Glendon OP (Holy Cross Church, Tralee, County Kerry, refers to the artist Michael Healy), Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Fr. Frank Moynihan (Nazareth House, Hammersmith, London), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Frank Fahy, James Mason (English actor, 1909-1984), Francis McCullagh, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), H. Lytton Wilson (Secretary, The F.J. McCormick Memorial Committee), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), James McGurrin (President, American Irish Historical Society, New York, refers to the purpose and ethos of the ‘Annual’ and need for support from patrons in the United States, 2 Feb. 1948), Colin Summerford, Mary Hardebeck, Fr. J.F. Forde (Diocesan Inspector, Cathedral Presbytery, Cork), Eduard Hempel (refers to the case of Kurt Von Burgsdorff, former Governor of Kraków, Poland), Fr. Louis A. Gales (Catechetical Guild, Minnesota), Jarlath A. O’Connell, Mary O’Connell (‘The Advocate’, Beckett Street, Melbourne), Vincent Evans, Benedict Kiely, Ernest Musgrave (Director, City Art Gallery, Leeds, referring to a loan of ‘The old road, Dungarvan’ (1925) by Jack B. Yeats, 23 Apr. 1948), Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Francis J. Little (Rathgar Road, Dublin), Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh), Frederick May, Clare Sheridan, Richard King, Richard Hayward, G.F. Troup Horne (Birbeck College, London), and Bishop William MacNeely.

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Letters from Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters’. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes many references to the financial difficulties experienced by the office. A partial alphabetical index of correspondents is provided at the beginning of the volume. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Aodh de Blacam, Frank E. Benner (Fruithill Park, Andersonstown, Belfast), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister, refers to efforts to alleviate the deteriorating financial situation in the Capuchin Publications Office, 3 Apr. 1951), Frank E. Dubrey, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., John English & Co. (refers to the use of the ‘Annual’ printing blocks for ‘The Father Mathew Record’, his wish to return the ‘Record’ to its former size, and a print for the ‘Record’ of between 12,000 to 15,000 a month, 20 May 1951), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., John Lloyd, Gertrude O’Brien (Adams Street, Chicago), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Hugh O’Hagan, Michael O’Leary (Sutton, County Dublin), James M.B. Wright, Albert Dryer (Kenyon Street, Fairfield, Sydney), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Denis O’Shea (Evergreen Street, Cork), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Adolf Morath (photographer), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Diarmuid Breathnach, Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, John J. Kelly, Doran Hurley, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Thomas MacGreevy, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India),Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Sister M. Patrick, (The Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahircon, Ennis, County Clare), Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Mannix Joyce, Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Eileen Crean, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (refers to his intention to publish a lengthy article in the next edition of the ‘Annual’ on Tom Cream, the Antarctic explorer ‘who was a neighbour of mine in Kerry in the old days’, 20 Feb. 1952), Richard King, Seumas MacManus, Mother Mary Martin (Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, Drogheda, County Louth), Fr. Jack Hanlon, Kathleen O’Connell (Government Buildings, Dublin), Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Kevin MacGrath (Mespil Road, Dublin), Hamish Fraser, Aileen O’Reilly, Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin, claiming that ‘all our financial difficulties would be resolved if we could succeed in getting a few thousand new life-members for the Association of Patrons’, 5 Apr. 1952), Rev. John O. Buchmann (St. Leo’s Rectory, Irvington, New Jersey), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne) (Downings House, Prosperous, Naas, County Kildare), Fr. Andrew Carew OFM Cap. (Guardian, Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Michael P. Reynolds (Abbey Terrace, Ballymote, County Sligo), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Margaret Mary Pearse, Owen McCabe (Clones, County Monaghan), Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ, Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, seeking permission to read and retain ‘books and periodicals treating of communism and periodicals written or edited by communists’, 22 June 1952), Frieda Le Pla, Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. (refers to Matt Talbot’s prayer book which he lent to Fr. Canice some fifteen years ago and which he would now like returned, 4 July 1952), Séamus Campbell, Winefride Nolan (Aughrim, County Wicklow), and Bishop Daniel Mageean.

Includes a list of subscribers for a charity concert and benefit held in aid of the missionary work of Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. in India (Oct. 1946), pp 45-54; A letter to Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap. reads ‘For almost twenty-five years I have been intimately associated with printing in this dear country of ours but never have I found conditions worse than they are at present, fantastic is the only adequate word to describe the increase in the cost of production of both the ‘Annual’ and the ‘Record’. And my only hope of survival is to enrol a few thousand good Americans as members … of the Association of Patrons’. (11 Feb. 1952, pp 93-5); a biographical note and reflection on Bishop William MacNeely (pp 166-8).

A volume containing copy correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private / 3 February 1953’. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A partial alphabetical index of correspondents is included in the opening pages of the volume. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Johanna Coakley, Fr. Terence J. Connolly SJ, Alan Downey (‘Waterford News’), Patrick Fanning (‘Offaly Independent’), Joan Hammond, John English & Co. (printers), Doran Hurley, Monsignor Richard J. Glennon, Fr. Gilbert Bermingham OFM Cap. Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Richard King, Robert Monteith, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., T.J. Molloy (‘Independent’ Newspapers), Henry F. Meagher (Knockmore, Killamallock, County Wicklow), Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. Patrick McDaid, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Tomás Ó Ríain, Terence O’Hanlon, Séamus Ó Cearbhaill, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Ellen Murnane (41 East Main Street, Portland, Connecticut), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Sister Josephine (Convent of Mercy, Cork), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Victor Waddington, Fr. Basil Wrighton, and Jack B. Yeats. A lengthy copy letter from Fr. Senan to Richard King refers to ongoing financial difficulties in the Capuchin Publications Office and to a dispute with the artist (13 Jan. 1954), pp 188-202.

A volume containing copy correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / 27 July 1951’. However, the copy correspondence covers dates from 1953 to 1954. The file contains copies of his personal letters, correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office with references to acute financial difficulties in the office, and Fr. Senan’s prolonged ill-health. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), James A. Glennon (116 East 92nd Street, New York), Albert Dryer, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Richard King, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Sister M. Joseph (Presentation Convent, Clondalkin, County Dublin), Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Joan Hammond, Frieda Le Pla, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), James D.B. O’Toole, Archbishop John D’Alton, Doran Hurley, Daphne Pochin Mould, Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Br. Laserian O’Connor OFM Cap. (Capuchin College, Rochestown, County Cork), Fr. Vianney Cashell OFM Cap., Kathleen O’Connell (Government Buildings, Dublin), Josephine Moynihan (Dominican College, Eccles Street, Dublin), Edward A. Beatty (114 Rathgar Road, Dublin), and Fr. Daniel R. Conway OFM Cap. (Saint Fidelis College, Herman, Pennsylvania). A copy letter from Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (but in the hand of Fr. Senan) to J.J. O’Conor, Manager, National Bank, Smithfield, Arran Quay, Dublin, refers to the ‘terrifying dimensions’ of the Capuchin Publication Office’s debt (18 Jan. 1954), pp 41-3; A copy letter from Fr. Senan of Joseph O’Connor reads ‘I have been here for twenty-six years now and my dearest wish for many months is to get out of the place! Some of the staff naturally enough of course are taking it rather badly – Mollie Baxter, for instance, who has been secretary to the office for twenty-five years; Jo Crean who has been a most devoted and efficient member for many years …’. (7 May 1954), pp 141-3.