A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. She refers to a letter of introduction she wrote for a 'Rumanian' who is seeking work in Ireland teaching French.
Letter from Maud Griffith, 132 St. Lawrence Rd., to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., asking him to ‘find out anything about Arthur. He was arrested at 1 a.m. this morning, what I fear [is that] he may be deported tonight before I could see him …’.
Letter from Fr. Richard Henebry to Maurice Davin, Deerpark, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. Davin refers to his pleasure on having recently met with Henebry in his home in County Tipperary.
Letter from Maurice Walsh, Ard na Glaise, Stillorgan Park, County Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. recommending the ‘enclosed sketch by the bearer’ which may be worthy of publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Walsh added ‘For some reason beyond me, my stuff has a certain market value that is, I fear, beyond the resources of the Annual; and, as you know, my terms with you are market value or nothing’.
Letter from Miceál Ó Coileáin (Michael Collins), Aire Airgid (Minister for Finance), Dáil Éireann, Mansion House, Dublin, to Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne (Terence MacSwiney), regarding monies from the city of Cork in connection with the advancement of the Dáil Éireann Loan. In Irish.
A letter from Michael Knightly, Press Censor, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., re the restrictions in place of the publication of the number of people employed at any airport in Ireland. (Volume page 70).
A letter and signed print of Micheál Ó Ciánain (Michael Keenan), a piper from Shercock in County Cavan, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. His letter refers to a local tradition regarding Andrew Campbell (1711-1769), the Bishop of Kilmore, who was known as the ‘the Piper Bishop’ during the Penal era. Ó Ciánain explains how the prelate ‘disguised himself as a piper’ with the instrument serving as ‘a Bell to call the flock together at a time when no Bell could be heard’.
