Advertising flier for the Association of Patrons of 'The Capuchin Annual' seeking new members and subscriptions to support the work of the publication as an ‘ambassador of Irish life and values at home and abroad’. The reverse of the leaflet prints several positive reviews of the 'Annual' from publications and newspapers in Ireland and abroad.
Draft manuscript of an article by Aodh de Blacam titled ‘With the last pilgrims at the closing of the door’. The manuscript has a cover letter from de Blacam to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Both the letter and the manuscript are dated 10 January 1951. Fr. Senan later bound de Blacam’s draft into a volume with a spine title ‘A. de. B’s last MS. For The Capuchin Annual’.
Publisher: Dublin: Humphrey & Armour Language: English: Full title: 'Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance / twenty-ninth annual report for the year 1907'. Label on front cover reads: ‘£150 extra per annum required’.
Date: 1733 Author: Robert Witham (d. 1738) Publisher: [Douai: s.n.], With permission and approbations. Full title: 'Annotations on the New Testament of Jesus Christ: in which I. The literal sense is explained according to the expositions of the ancient Fathers. II. The false interpretations, both of the ancient and modern writers, which are contrary to the received doctrine of the Catholick-Church, are briefly examined and disproved. III. With an account of the chief differences betwixt the text of the ancient Latin-version, and the Greek in the printed editions, and mss. The first volume'. Series: Part of a two-volume publication. A reprint of R. Witham’s annotated translation, first published in 1730.
Date: 1744 Author: Fr. Silvestro da Milano OSFC Publisher: Milano: nella stamperia di Pietro Antonio Frigerio Full title: 'Annali dell’ ordine de’ frati minori Cappuccini. Appendice al tomo terzo, divisa in due parti / già esposta nell'idioma latino dal padre Fr. Silvestro da Milano annalista generale de’Cappuccini e descritta, ed accresciuta nell'italiana favella da Fr. Giuseppe da Cannobio annalista presentaneo'. Series: Published in two volumes.
An offprint of an article by Fr. Richard Henebry titled ‘An Unpublished Poem by W. English’. The article appeared in the first number of ‘Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie’, a periodical founded in 1897 by Kuno Meyer and Ludwig Christian Stern. A manuscript annotation on the first reads ‘To his brother with the writer’s compliments’.
The file contains the following edition of this Catholic national newspaper: 22 Oct. 1948 (Vol. 20, No. 30). The edition carries reports on the celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny and the centenary of the founding of the Friary Church on Walkin Street.
A draft article on the life and work of An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire. The article suggests that ‘an Athair Peadar’s Irish of the People and the autonomous verb have won the day. So, it is not alone for the quantity of his works but for the wide field in which he worked that we have to claim for an Athair Peadar that he is the “Father of Modern Irish”’. The author added ‘He was ordained in 1867, the Fenian year, and his pays his tribute to the Fenian men with the reserve of the Catholic priest reminding us that in O’Donovan Rossa’s paper there was no word of Irish …’. The article appears to be incomplete.
A draft article titled ‘An tAthair Peadar’. The manuscript provides a short assessment of Peadar Ó Laoghaire’s contribution to Irish language literature. The text was probably compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
A prayer sheet titled 'An Offering for Ireland ... For the early release of our imprisoned Leaders and fellow-countrymen and women'. Printed by the Gaelic Press, Dublin.