A production still from Delia Murphy Kiernan’s film ‘The Island Man’. The volume contains several production images from the film which was set on the Blasket Islands off the coast of County Kerry. The prints were assembled for a promotional article on the film published in ‘The Father Mathew Record’.
An image of the trial of Jan Cieplak, the Archbishop of Vilnius, and other Russian Catholic priests, at a revolutionary tribunal in Moscow in March 1923. The photograph was taken and captioned (below) by Francis McCullagh (1874-1956), an Irish journalist who reported on the trial for the ‘New York Herald’. The caption is taken from a letter from McCullagh extant in letter book at CA CP/3/1/1/5. Several of McCullagh’s photographs relating to the Russian Civil War and the foundation of the Soviet Union are extant in the photographic volume.
A letter from Thomas Gilmartin, Archbishop of Tuam, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘Bonaventura’ which he suggests will make ‘a most valuable addition to our current Catholic literature’.
A postcard print of St. Peter’s Church in Drogheda, County Louth. The title reads ‘Oliver Plunkett Memorial Church, Drogheda’. The church contains the National Shrine of Saint Oliver Plunkett. The card was published by the Catholic Truth Society in Drogheda.
A letter from León Ó Broin to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to his review of ‘Bonventura’ in ‘The Leader’ newspaper. He also refers to an article in the ‘Cork Examiner’ by Eamon Donnelly.