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A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter refers to Vincent Crompton, a recently released IRA prisoner.

A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride, Roebuck House, Clonskea, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., referring to the issue of partition.

Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the advance copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She also refers to the plight of republican prisoners on hunger strike in the Curragh camp in County Kildare. She writes ‘Though you may think the policy of these men unwise, no one can question their sincerity and courage’.

Letter from Fr. Richard Henebry to Maurice Davin, Deerpark, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. Davin refers to his pleasure on having recently met with Henebry in his home in County Tipperary.

Letter from Maurice Walsh, Ard na Glaise, Stillorgan Park, County Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. recommending the ‘enclosed sketch by the bearer’ which may be worthy of publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Walsh added ‘For some reason beyond me, my stuff has a certain market value that is, I fear, beyond the resources of the Annual; and, as you know, my terms with you are market value or nothing’.

A letter from Michael de la Bédoyère, ‘The New Catholic Herald’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.

A letter from Michael de la Bédoyère, ‘The New Catholic Herald’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A letter from Michael Knightly, Press Censor, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., re the restrictions in place of the publication of the number of people employed at any airport in Ireland. (Volume page 70).

Letter from Michael McLaverty to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for sending a copy of the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.

A letter and signed print of Micheál Ó Ciánain (Michael Keenan), a piper from Shercock in County Cavan, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. His letter refers to a local tradition regarding Andrew Campbell (1711-1769), the Bishop of Kilmore, who was known as the ‘the Piper Bishop’ during the Penal era. Ó Ciánain explains how the prelate ‘disguised himself as a piper’ with the instrument serving as ‘a Bell to call the flock together at a time when no Bell could be heard’.