File relating to an article on the Taize Community published in The Capuchin Annual. Includes a letter from Br. Charles Eugene, Secretary to the Prior of Taize (23 Aug. 1966) referring to the enclosed article and interview extracts with Frère Laurent, spiritual director at Taize. The file also contains several black and white prints: • A crowd of pilgrims at St. Sergius Monastery in Zagorsk (now Sergiyev Posad) in the Soviet Union. • The visit of Metropolitan Nikolin to Tilbury Abbey in 1964. • The interior of the Ecumenical Centre in Antwerp, Belgium.
Draft article by Pádraig Ó Broin titled ‘An Aerideacht at St. Enda’s fifty-five years ago’. It is noted that Ó Broin was a captain in the Irish Citizen Army, and was a member of the fourth battalion, Irish Volunteers.
File containing newspaper clippings, correspondence and notes relating to articles on ecumenism published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1967). The file includes letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. from some of the authors who contributed articles on the subject including Rev. Robert A. Nelson, President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, Geoffrey Hand, Fr. Eoin de Bháldraithe (Waldron) O Cist., Moone Abbey, County Kildare, Robert McAfee Brown, Fr. William J. Sullivan Cssp., Kevin McNamara and Fr. Michael T. Irvin. The clippings (primarily from the 'Irish Times' and 'Irish Independent') include various reports on the ecumenical movement in Ireland.
Draft of an article by Beda Herbert titled ‘Chateaubriand 1768-1848 / Stormy Career of a Master Apologist’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1968), pp 151-57.
Recollections of the 1916 Rising by Nicholas Laffan titled ‘Ireland’s War of Independence / Easter Week 1916’. It is noted that Laffan was a Captain in G Company, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers. With a cover letter from Laffan to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. stating that this article ‘has not appeared in any paper’. He also states that he is an old member of the Third Order of St. Francis (Merchants’ Quay) having joined in April 1904 (66 years ago)’.
Draft article by Edward MacLysaght titled ‘S.R. Lysaght: The Author and the Man’. The file also contains a copy manuscript titled ‘Another Imaginary Conversation / 3 Dec. 1931’ compiled for an article titled: ‘Sidney Royce Lysaght: the author and the man’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975), pp 225-229. The piece was written by Edward MacLysaght. The manuscript refers to family reminiscences pertaining especially to his father, Sidney Royse Lysaght (1860-1941), an Irish writer, who worked in the iron industry. His son, Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), was a writer and authority on Irish family history. The file also includes two copies of ‘The amazing war experiences of Patrick Lysaght / An Irishman of the Royal Irish Rifles / the first unit to meet the Germans at Mons in 1914’. It is noted that this narrative was first recorded in December 1938.
