A letter from Kathleen O’Connell to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘Bonaventura’ sent to Éamon de Valera. She also attaches a cheque for a copy of the painting of Matt Talbot which de Valera would like sent to his house.
A letter from Earnán De Siúnta (‘An Buachaillín Buidhe’) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the ‘good Christian work’ in publishing the ‘Bonaventura’ quarterly. He adds ‘The pity is that our Irish people, on the whole, are not given to reading publications of this sort. The country is flooded with English trash, which if not positively demoralising, is hopelessly inane’.
A Christmas greeting card from Con Cremin, Ireland’s Ambassador to France. The card has an illustration of the main entrance to the Irish College in Paris (Collège des Irlandais). Founded in the late sixteenth century, the college (located on Rue des Irlandais) was a Catholic educational institution in the French capital. The building is now used as a cultural center, known as the Centre Culturel Irlandais.
A clipping of an article reporting on the unveiling and blessing of a memorial to Seán Heuston in the Phoenix Park in Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (6 December 1943). The article includes a photographic print of Fr. Michael J. Heuston OP, a Dominican friar, and a brother of the 1916 leader. The memorial sculpture of Seán Heuston in the Phoenix Park was created by Laurence Campbell. (Volume page 192).