Offprint of an article by Burke Wilkinson titled ‘Erskine Childers / The Boston Connection’. The article was originally published in the 'Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society', 86 (1974), pp 53-63.
Review of 'The Capuchin Annual' (1937) published in the 'Irish Times' (28 Dec. 1936). The review has a reproduction of a pencil portrait of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. by Seán O’Sullivan. The review remarks that ‘it is a fine volume, and the distinguished editor, Father Senan, has given us one of the brightest magazines of the season’.
Clipping from the 'Catholic Standard' (9 Feb. 1973) of an article titled ‘The missions are still necessary’. The article includes a photograph of Sr. Agnes Manifold, an Irish-born Medical Missionary of Mary.
An Irish prayer book titled ‘An Choróinn Mhuire / an t-Athair Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Canónach, S.P., do shaothruigh / an t-Athair Ristéard Pléimean, Ph. D. do chuir i n- eagar’ (Dublin: Muintir na Leabhar Gaedhilge, Brún agus Nuallán, 1917). A manuscript annotation on the first page refers to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. / 17 March 1917.
A copy of ‘Aithris ar Chŕiost / Tomás a Cempis do sgrı́obh; an t-athair Peadar Ua Laoghaire d’aistirigh. Leabhar a haon’ (Baile Átha Cliath: Brún agus Ó Nóláin, teór, 1930).
A manuscript text titled ‘The significance of Fr. Peter O’Leary’. The text reads ‘He [Ó Laoghaire] visualized an Ireland without a city. The city pained him, and he misjudged it – reading “Sgothbhualadh” you sense that’. The article is likely 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.
Sans titreLetter to Patrick Pearse from Eleanor Rogers Cox, 655 Broadway, New York. The letter refers to an invitation to Pearse speak at a meeting of the Poetry Society of America.
Letter to Patrick Pearse from Harry C. Phibbs, 551 West 149th Street, New York, referring to Pearse’s attendance at the Bunker Hill Club.
Letter to Patrick Pearse from Michael O’Connor, Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, New York, regarding a donation from the Sarsfield Club of Long Island.