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A notebook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters. The notebook was compiled while Fr. Senan was visiting England and receiving medical treatment in a clinic on Wimpole Street in London. Dr. Colm A. McDonnell accompanied him for a portion of his trip. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Private letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / June 1954 – September 1954’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Church Street Friary, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, Independent House, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, Rev. John O. Buchmann, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (refers to his sorrow on hearing that O’Hara will be leaving Ireland to take up a new diplomatic appointment in England. Fr. Senan also wrote ‘twenty-six years in an editor’s chair should be a stretch long enough for anyone’, 14/15 June 1954, pp 13-15), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Leo Smith (Dawson Gallery, Dublin), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Thomas MacGreevy, Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Bernard Sheppard, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. The volume includes pasted-in newspaper clippings and postcard prints mainly acquired while Fr. Senan was in England. The postcards include images of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Royal Family, and some views of Stoke-on-Trent.

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters / November 1958’. Several of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s desire to expedite his move to Australia. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Kathleen M. Murphy, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Peggy Spillane (gives news of his decision to ‘retire from the Order, devote my remaining years to the writing of books, offer Mass every morning, and live wherever I choose myself’, 3 Dec. 1958), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap (refers to an offer by Archbishop Prendiville of a chaplaincy appointment at a ‘Sisters of Mercy hospital’ in Australia and communications from Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re his incardination into the Archdiocese of Perth, 16 Mar. 1959), Bríd Breathnach, L.C.1 Blennerhassett, Fr. Donal O’Connor, Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Dr. Anthony Dempsey (Botley, Oxfordshire), Thomas MacGreevy, Monsignor Francis Cremin (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare, refers to his close association for many years with the late Canon Dineen, 7 Apr. 1959), Michael F. Moynihan, Sister Mary de Pazzi, Joan Hammond, Ríona O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Sister M. Ligouri (Booterstown, County Dublin), Seán O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. James O’Mahony (refers to Fr. Senan’s disinclination to remain in Dublin permanently, January 1959), John Shea (Annascaul, County Kerry), and Michael A. Bowles. A copy letter from Fr. Senan to Archbishop Prendiville affirms that he has ‘an enormous amount of private papers to dispose of’ (March 1959).

A bound volume containing the correspondence of Fr. Henry Rope. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / III’. The file includes Father Rope’s letters mainly from Irish correspondents, most notably from William Frederick Paul Stockley (Woodside, Tivoli, Cork), and from his wife Germaine and his daughter Violet Stockley. The volume also includes letters from Bernadette O’Byrne (Corville, Roscrea, County Tipperary), George Noble Plunkett, Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin), Vincent Rochford, Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, Laurence Ryan (79 Derby Road, Seedley, Manchester), Richard Barry O’Brien (100 Sinclair Road, Kensington, London), Fr. David Humphreys (Presbytery, Killenaule, County Tipperary), The Irish Book Shop Limited (45 Dawson Street, Dublin), Patrick Fogarty (‘The Irish Catholic’, 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Patrick MacSwiney (Presbytery, Dunmanway, County Cork), Patrick Langford Beazley (editor of ‘The Catholic Times’), ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’ (Fleet Street, Dublin), Fr. Joseph Darlington SJ (editor of ‘The Irish Monthly’, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin), Fr. P.J. Connolly SJ (editor, ‘Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review’, 34 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Patrick John Little, Frank Gallagher (4 Wilton Place, Dublin), Seán O’Callaghan (The New Ireland Publishing Company Ltd., 13 Fleet Street, Dublin), John P. Boland (Catholic Truth Society, London), and An t-Athair Súilleabháin (Piltown, County Kilkenny). The volume includes a letter from Father Rope to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the delivery of some more of his archive of Irish letters which he thinks may be ‘keep worthy’. (28 July 1951); Printed ‘Statement from Dáil Eireann / The ‘Free State” Constitution / Subversion of the Republic’ (1937); Typescript titled ‘The defender of small nations at Millstreet’ with manuscript additions by William Frederick Paul Stockley. (Aug. 1918).

A bound volume containing the correspondence of Fr. Henry Rope. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / VII’. The file includes several lengthy letters from Fr. E. Carroll (Catholic Church, Crayford, Kent). Some of this correspondence refers to the contemporary political situation in Ireland (1920-22). The volume also includes letters from Sister Rosario (Carmelite Convent, Woodbridge, Suffolk), Fr. Finbar Ryan OP (editor of ‘The Irish Rosary’, St. Saviour’s Priory, Dominick Street, Dublin), Andrew Hilliard Atteridge, and Cecily Casey (24 London Road, Bromley, Kent).

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex, a journalist, writer and war correspondent. The volume is annotated on the spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / I’. The content of the letters includes references to contemporary politics in Britain and Ireland, literary matters, Catholic publications, and general religious topics. Atteridge's letters suggest some support for Irish republicans and Éamon de Valera.

A file of loose letters to Fr. Henry Rope. Includes letters to Father Rope from Fr. Joseph Kelly (Bishop’s House, Birkenhead, refers to the Home Rule crisis and the ‘Orange Crusade’, 13 Nov. 1912), Patrick Langford Beazley (editor of ‘The Catholic Times’), Louis J. McQuilland, Patrick O’Riordan (Two Harbours, Minnesota), Fr. William Kane SJ, Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin), Dom Aidan OSB (The Abbey, Isle of Caldey, Tenby, South Wales), Fr. Finbar Ryan OP (editor of ‘The Irish Rosary’, St. Saviour’s Priory, Dominick Street, Dublin), Eoin MacNeill (Netley, Blackrock, County Dublin), Fr. J. Mulcahy (52 Harlesden Gardens, London), Fr. Daniel Hudson CSC (‘The Ave Maria / A Catholic Family Magazine’, Notre Dame, Indiana), John P. Boland (Catholic Truth Society, London), Fr. Declan OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), James M. Rae (‘The Irish Catholic’, 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Rev. Sir John R. O’Connell (Mission House, Brondesbury Park, London), Fr. Patrick MacSwiney (Presbytery, Kinsale, County Cork), and Maureen Boland (40 St. George’s Square, London).

Letters from William Frederick Paul Stockley (Woodside, Tivoli, Cork, and Dún Meadon, Cork), to Fr. Henry Rope. The letters include references to Catholic literature and spirituality, the Gaelic League, academia, and the writings of various authors. Some of the letters refer to the contemporary political situation in Ireland (including discussion of the treatment of Irish political prisoners) and to events in Europe. One of the letters (17 Mar. 1921) refers to the case of Alice Cashel imprisoned in Galway Jail. Stockley writes ‘She is in prison for six months. He sister says she loves to hear poetry. She is a distinguished graduate, and teacher, and a fine type. She knows Irish well’. Stockley suggests that Father Rope could send her a copy of his poetry. The file also includes letters to William Frederick Paul Stockley from Patrick O’Byrne, (Corville, Roscrea, County Tipperary), Mary Corkery, Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne), Richardson Evans (11 Holland Villas Road, Kensington, London), Monica Rafferty, and Dr. Bernard O’Connor (Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn, London) and Conn Mac Murchadha, Director, Sinn Féin Re-organising Committee, 15 College Green, Dublin, re an invitation to attend a public meeting. It is noted that that the ‘object of the meeting is to launch publicly the Republican civilian movement by reorganising Sinn Féin, the only Republican political organisation which is definitely pledged to the support of the Irish Republic’ (11 July 1923).
It appears that Fr. Henry Rope later annotated most of the letters with date ascriptions.

Letters to Fr. Henry Rope from Fr. James Routledge (St. Dunstan’s, Bluestone Road, Moston, Manchester). Many of the letters refer to political developments in Ireland during the revolutionary period with some references to Routledge’s thoughts regarding Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera.

A bound volume containing original letters from Roger Casement to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume has a gilt title to spine which reads ‘Roger Casement to Dr. Henebry’. The letters refer to the Irish national movement, the language revival, and contemporary political matters. Casement writes ‘You should get “United Irishmen” for Dec. 9th, this week’s issue – and read Griffith’s speech to the delegates of the National Council. He touches the right note I think – and the historic truth of the economical aspect of our country’s plight is sound’ (8 Dec. 1905). In another letter, Casement refers to James Ward who is imprisoned in Castlebar in County Mayo and to efforts to establish an ‘Irish training college – a school rather, for Ulster Irish and Ulster teachers’ (5 Feb. 1906). Casement added ‘Some one writing as “Sinn Fein II” wrote up your “Urbs Intacta” in the “United Irishmen” of 3rd March. It is a terrible pity Waterford should have so little Irish spirit. It was not ever thus’. A letter of 19 March 1906 refers to a ‘great concert’ in Covent Garden Opera House organised by the Gaelic League. He adds ‘I wish I could help you in Waterford. You must be in a shoneen place … The Catholic shoneen is far worse than the Protestant – for the latter there is a historical, or often recent justification and his environment has so acted on him that he thinks his very patriotism – such that it is – is rather British than Irish – for the Catholic shoneen there is no such legitimate excuse’. Reference is also made to the South Dublin election and to the libel action against Arthur Griffith. A letter of 16 Oct. 1907 refers to Casement’s subscription for Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford which he sent to Henebry while he was in Brazil.

Letters and cards from Fr. Michael Sheehan, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to Fr. Richard Henebry. The correspondence refers mainly to issues associated with Irish language education, university administration, and to Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford, which Sheehan co-founded with Henebry.