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Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’.

A clipping of a short death notice for William Woodlock, ‘one of the Divisional Magistrates of Dublin’. The article is taken from the ‘Irish Catholic’ (June 1890).

A clipping of a poem titled ‘In Memory of Rev. Canon Sheehan’ by “Lis Mor” published in ‘The Leader’ (6 Feb. 1915).

Memoriam card for Canon Patrick Sheehan ‘who died on the 5th October 1913 / Rosary Sunday / aged 61 years’.

A photographic print of the three-storey former parochial house in Doneraile, County Cork, the home of Canon Patrick Sheehan from 1895 to 1913.

Note from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain), An Cumann Gaelach, University College Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

Clippings of obituaries for Aodh de Blacam in the ‘Evening Herald’ and ‘Sunday Press’ (January 1951).

Card from Mary de Blacam to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for his sympathy on her husband’s recent death.

A clipping of an obituary article titled ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916). The opposite page has a print of Fr. Michael O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’.

A letter from Benedict Kiely (1919-2007) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Kiely refers to his impending marriage, his intention to buy a house, and requests a loan from the Capuchin friar.