A letter from Alice Ginnell (1882-1967) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Ginnell was a Westmeath-born nationalist, feminist, and prominent member of Cumann na mBan. The letter refers to her hope to have an article published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ on the recently deceased Marie Perolz Flanagan. Marie Perolz (d. 12 December 1950) was a radical Irish activist and revolutionary whose close acquaintances included James Connolly, Jim Larkin, and Constance Markievicz. Perolz was a member of the Irish Citizen Army and was also associated with Delia Larkin’s Irish Women Workers’ Union. In her letter, Ginnell concurs with Captain Robert Monteith’s description of Perloz as a ‘white flame … both spiritually and nationally’. All the women she suggests as an author for such a tribute were celebrated for their close association with the nationalist movement. Her first preference was Helena Moloney (1883-1967), another veteran of the Irish Citizen Army, who fought in the General Post Office in the 1916 Rising. Alternatively, she refers to ‘John Brennan’, a pseudonym for Sydney Gifford Czira (1889-1974), a journalist, former suffragette, and radical nationalist whose sisters Muriel MacDonagh and Grace Plunkett were both left widowed after 1916. Finally, Ginnell mentions ‘Madame MacBride’ or Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953), a leading political activist and revolutionary.
Letter from Alice Curtayne, Downings House, Prosperous, County Kildare, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. commending the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
A letter from Alfie Byrne to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for a copy of the ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Byrne writes ‘many of the incidents mentioned are still fresh in my memory as I was present at the reading of the document at the Corporation meeting on April 19th 1916. I was also on Bachelor’s Walk on that famous Sunday of the Howth gun running only as a sightseer?’
Letter from Alfie Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him the copy of the ‘magnificent production’ of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
A letter from Alan Downey, ‘Waterford News’ Offices, 49-51 O’Connell Street, Waterford, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. conveying his impressions of the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
A letter from Fr. Henry Gaffney OP, St. Mary’s, The Claddagh, Galway, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., congratulating him on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and its 'valiant onslaught on the northern tyranny'. Gaffney adds ‘You have done greater work than all the loud politicians’.
The sub-series comprises volumes and notebooks containing drafts of letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers connected with 'The Capuchin Annual'.
