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’.
An image of the Clonmult Monument in Midleton, County Cork. Designed by the sculptor Seamus Murphy, the obelisk commemorates the IRA members who were killed in the Clonmult ambush (20 February 1921) during the War of Independence.
An postcard print of the entrance to the Irish College of St. Anthony in Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. The partially obscured inscription over the archway reads ‘Do ċum glóire Dé agus onóra na hÉireann (‘For the glory of God and the honour of Ireland’) and is taken from the ‘Annals of the Four Masters’.
The front cover of ‘The Catholic Mirror’ (March 1945). The illustration is titled 'Saint Patrick's arrival in Ireland, at early dawn'. The bound volume includes some extracts from an article on the life of Saint Patrick published in the periodical.
Clippings of articles from the ‘Evening Herald’ and the ‘Irish Press’ reporting on the execution of William Joyce in Wandsworth prison in London on 3 January 1946. Joyce (better known by his nickname ‘Lord Haw-Haw’) was an American-born fascist sympathiser, anti-Semite, and Nazi propagandist during the Second World War.
