A letter from Francis MacManus to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to his note on Alice Curtayne’s lecture. He also asks Fr. Senan not to pay him before publication as that ‘big heart of your’s behind the brown robe may lead you to buying a pig in a poke’.
A clipping of a satirical article reporting on a performance of a play by Myles na gCopaleen (Brian O’Nolan / pen-name Flann O’Brien) in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (26 January 1943).
A letter from Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Boston College, Massachusetts, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his concern on hearing that the friar has had to travel to London for a serious operation. Connolly writes ‘I cannot believe that England could be a more desirable place for you at the moment. Every day brings such added horrors regarding friends on the other side of the Atlantic …’.
Letter from Maurice Walsh, Ard na Glaise, Stillorgan Park, County Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing his ‘usual subscription towards making damn Corkmen saintly – if that is at all possible’.
A clipping of an article by Aodh de Blacam reviewing Terence MacSwiney’s ‘Principles of Freedom’ published by Talbot Press. The clipping is taken from the ‘Sunday Independent’ (9 October 1921).
An engraved print of the novelist Gerald Griffin. The print is taken from a ‘painting by Mecier / Engraved by Deane’. The publication from which the print was taken is not stated.
A postcard print of the author Alexander Irvine. The caption reads ‘Alexander Irvine / (Author of “My Lady of the Chimney Corner.”) / Portrait by J. Langtry-Lynas / Presented by Mrs. Beamish’.