A letter from Bishop James Joseph MacNamee to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for a copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and commending its contents.
A letter from Bishop James Joseph MacNamee to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for a copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and commending its contents.
A letter from Bernard O’Kane, Bishop of Derry, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the quality of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. He adds ‘If we are to draw our people away from dangerous literature, we must offer them something which is not merely wholesome but attractive: you are doing this’.
A letter from Benedict Kiely (1919-2007) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Kiely refers to his impending marriage, his intention to buy a house, and requests a loan from the Capuchin friar.
Letter from Barry M. Egan (1879-1954), 32 Patrick Street, Cork, to Fr. Henry Rope. Egan refers to the murder of Tomás Mac Curtain and provides a commentary on the ongoing independence struggle.
Letter from A. de Staic (Austin Stack), Substitute Minister for Home Affairs,, to Terence MacSwiney, asserting that he has ‘deputed Mr. J.D. Kenny, BL, LLD, to make a tour of the Counties of Kerry, Cork and Limerick with instructions as to the setting up of the Courts. He will call on you shortly to discuss the subject’.
Letter from Austin Stack, prisoner no. 148, Manchester Prison, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., thanking the ‘friars of Church St.’ for the interest they have shown in their incarcerated ‘fellow countrymen and women’. Reference is also made to their prison conditions and to prisoner Fionán Lynch. With cover. The letter reads: ‘Your letter (which was written on the day following our removal from Belfast) was sent on after me to this place and I received it on the 3rd. I should not have got it at all in Belfast the way things were there. Of course we deem it good of you to think of us in this way but this is only what I should expect of you and the other Friars of Church Street and I hope that we may prove worthy of the interest in us shown by our fellow countrymen and women. There are ten of us here (including Fionán Lynch whom you know). We are devitalised of course after fourteen weeks solitary confinement in Belfast, but otherwise we are fairly well. A month hence I expect to be fit again with God’s help. Our good Capuchin fathers will ever be kindly remembered by the Irish prisoners and their friends, God bless you … Aibhistín de Staic’.
