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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.

A Christmas spiritual bouquet card from Margaret Mary Pearse to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A clipping of a review article on Daniel Corkery’s ‘Synge and Irish Literature’. The review was published in the ‘Dublin Magazine’ (Oct.-Dec. 1931).

A letter from Mary MacSwiney to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to some writings of Terence MacSwiney which may be suitable for publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She refers to the ‘short sketch of O’Donovan Ross’ or ‘some extracts from the “Music of Freedom”, the first book he published in 1907’. She adds that the Terence’s papers were ‘badly scattered’ as a result of ‘enemy action from time to time’.

A clipping of a report on court case in London considering the question of the domicile of the late James Joyce. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (2 November 1942).

A letter from Mary MacSwiney to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. seeking the return of some Terence MacSwiney material which they had sent him.

A clipping of an article of an article reviewing the literary work of Canon Patrick Sheehan. The article is taken from ‘The Advocate’ (Melbourne, Australia), published on 6 September 1928.

A letter from William Magennis to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for conveying his blessing and congratulations.