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A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from D.L. Kelleher, Alison King (Vico Terrace, Dalkey, County Dublin), Joseph A. McCarthy (6 Trafalgar Terrace, Monkstown, County Dublin), Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Ethel Mannin, Sister Mary de Pazzi (Rosemount, Booterstown, County Dublin), Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand, enclosing a photograph of Michael A. Bowles), Margaret Mary Pearse, Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Pádraig De Brún, Séamus Campbell, Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Peter F. Anson, Ernest Keegan, Fr. Hugh Morely OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, John Alvin Feltis, Doran Hurley, Adolf Morath (photographer), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Seán T. O’Kelly (President of Ireland), Thomas MacGreevy, Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’), Fr. J. O’Connell (St. Columban’s Seminary, Essendon, Victoria, Australia), Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Alan C. Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Sister Gabriel (Maryknoll Sisters, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Michael A. Bowles, Donald Attwater (Saint Ives, Cornwall), Alfred White (15 Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Chester Beatty Library, Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Elisabeth Dubreuil-Chambardel, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Maire Ó Brolcháin (Lenaboy Park, Galway), Nancy Leonard (Carrollstown, Trim, County Meath), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Jack B. Yeats, Fr. Jack Hanlon, Sister Bernarda (St. Antony’s Convent, Pavaratty, India), Fr. Colman O’Neill OP, An tAthair Micheál Ó Sé OFM Cap. (Fr. Michael O’Shea), Archbishop John Colburn Garner, Sister M. Liguori (Booterstown, County Dublin), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Winefride Nolan (Aughrim, County Wicklow), and Major A.F. Joslin (Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine, Germany).

Record book chronicling the work of the National Temperance Crusade undertaken by the Capuchin friars at the request of the Irish Catholic bishops. The volume contains brief accounts of the various missions and the numbers who took the pledge in the various dioceses. The volume is paginated, and the information is arranged alphabetically by diocese name. It appears that the volume was left unused as a large portion of the content is left blank. A two-page manuscript insert by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC refers to the origins of the temperance crusade and to the request from the Catholic bishops to the Irish Capuchins to formally begin their temperance missions in October 1905.

Draft report (28 Feb. 1907) by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC (1857-1939), Provincial Minister, on the work of the first year of the National Temperance Crusade led by the Capuchin friars. The report was compiled for Fr. Bernard Christen of Andermatt OSFC, Minister General of the Capuchin Order in Rome. With a cover letter (21 May 1907) from Fr. Paul and a manuscript copy of Fr. Bernard’s reply. The report reads:
‘The Irish Bishops confided this National Crusade to us in October 1905 … but the preaching of the Crusade did not practically begin before January 1906. … The preaching of this Temperance Crusade was specially carried out by twelve of our Fathers, who have been almost constantly engaged during the time. Their labours in the parishes partook much of the character of short missions or spiritual exercises, sometimes for three days, other times a week, and not infrequently a fortnight’.
The report also includes testimonials from various Irish bishops and other prominent figures commending the work of the Capuchin friars in leading the temperance crusade.

List of papers read at the Father Mathew Union Meetings from 1902-24 ‘which it is proposed to reprint in a memorial volume’. The report of the Father Mathew Union for 1910 has ‘Rev. C.C. Hynes, “St. Patrick’s Temperance League of the West”’.

Report on the ‘Great Meeting’ on the temperance cause held in the Town Hall, Skibbereen, County Cork, on 21 April 1904. The report is a reprint taken from the 'Cork County Eagle'. Includes a lengthy preface by the Most Rev. Denis Kelly, Bishop of Ross.

Report by Fr. Benignus Brennan OSFC on temperance missions given in various part of the country. The report includes the location of the mission, frequently terse information on the success (or otherwise) of the preaching including the numbers taking the pledge, and the general state of the temperance cause in the locality. The report includes references to missions held in Burtonport, Dungloe, Gweedore, Falcarragh, Dunfanaghy, Ballyshannon, Athleague, Westport, Achill and Ballygar. The report for Achill Island (where a mission was held from 9-12 Nov. 1906) reads as follows:
‘Ochone, ochone, the memory of it is enough to make one laugh or weep. The people are moral but absolutely indifferent, if not worse. About 330 took the pledge in this district and most of the people didn’t come near the church at all, so our exhortations to come to the retreat the old woman would answer – “musha may I would and may be wouldn’t”. To give a triduum in Achill and thereby do good would require the eloquence of St. Chrysostom, the strength of a Jerome and the support of the cat o’ nine tails, with which to drive the semi junipers to church. “Sure”, say they, “if our priests can’t do their work, let them pay others to do it out of their own pockets”. The parish priest was a splendid curser and in mortal terror of Fr. P[au]l’.

Letters from the Most Rev. Patrick O’Donnell (1856-1927), Bishop of Raphoe, to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minister, re the progress of temperance work in County Donegal.

File relating to a temperance mission in the parishes in the deanery of Dungarvan, County Waterford. The file includes correspondence from Fr. Prendergast, Parish Priest, Dungarvan, and a summary listing of the dates and arrangements for the proposed mission (conducted by the Capuchin friars) in various parishes in Waterford.

Letter from Fr. William OSFC, Franciscan Monastery, Crawley, Sussex, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing a copy of a blessing from Pope Pius X. It reads: ‘… the Friars Minor Capuchin of the Irish Province, charged by the Bishops of Ireland, to spread the apostolate of Temperance, have had the happy idea of aggregating to such a society even the children, and at the present moment there about two hundred thousand young members who promise to abstain throughout their lives from alcoholic beverages …’.