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A clipping of a review of the second issue of ‘Bonaventura’ published in the ‘Irish Times’ (16 October 1937).

A clipping of a review of the third issue of ‘Bonaventura’ published in ‘The Waterford News’ (10 December 1937). Particular attention is given to writers from Waterford who contributed articles to the publication.

A Christmas greeting card from William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe. The card illustration is most likely the work of Richard King (Rísteard Ó Cíonga).

A Christmas greeting card from Clare Sheridan enclosing a photograph of her at work in her studio in Galway.

A Christmas greeting card from Arthur M. Campbell. The card has an illustration by Campbell titled ‘Knock near Carnlough, County Antrim’.

A postcard from Kathleen M. Murphy wishing Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. a happy Christmas. The picture side of the card shows Iona Cathedral and St. Martin’s Cross in Scotland.

A Christmas greeting card from Peadar Seán Doyle, a Fine Gael Teachta Dála. The card shows the then recently unveiled eighteen-meter-high granite obelisk on Leinster Lawn on the Merrion Square side of Leinster House, the seat of the Oireachtas or parliament of Ireland. The obelisk (designed by the OPW architect Raymond McGrath) commemorated Arthur Griffith, the President of Dáil Éireann, Michael Collins, the revolutionary leader, and Kevin O’Higgins, a leading Irish Free State minister who was assassinated in 1927.

A card conveying Christmas blessings from Archbishop Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.

A New Year card (‘Herzliche Neujahrsgrüße’ translates as New Year’s greetings) from Eduard Hempel, a diplomat who served as Germany’s minister to Ireland (his official title was ‘envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary’) from 1937 to 1945.