A letter from Jack B. Yeats, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., declining to write anything on 'this sad Irish question and the cruelties that go with it’.
A letter from Sir Shane Leslie, 107 Sloane Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., affirming that he has ‘avoided writing anything about Ireland’s problems during “the Emergency”’.
The subseries comprises a large collection of bound volumes containing photographic material, newspaper and magazine clippings, original historical records, and ephemera compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., the editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The content of the volumes is extremely varied and, in many instances, includes rare original records reflecting Moynihan’s interest in Irish history, and particularly the revolutionary period. Some of the material listed here complements content published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ with several original photographs extant in the volumes reproduced in various editions of the periodical.
Other content (especially the clippings) is suggestive of Moynihan’s eclectic interest in Irish church history, Irish Capuchin history, antiquities, Irish literature and art, Gaelic culture, historiography, and the contemporary political and economic situation in Ireland especially during the Second World War.
The cover of ‘New Review / the first British news magazine’ with an illustration of Éamon de Valera. The caption reads ‘Éire’s De Valera / The republican became the uncrowned king’.
A copy of a tribute to Sinéad de Valera written by the journalist and Irish language activist Shan Ó Cuiv.
A pen-portrait of Éamon de Valera by Shane Leslie described as the ‘editor of the “Dublin Review,” an old Redmonite, and a cousin of Mr. Winston Churchill’.
An election flier promoting Vivion de Valera, the Fianna Fáil candidate, in the Dublin North West by-election held on 4 December 1945.
A clipping of an article by P.S. O’Hegarty regarding the Sinn Féin funds controversy, a legal dispute over the ownership of monies given to Sinn Féin prior to the split in the party in 1923. The clipping is taken from the ‘Sunday Independent’ (11 May 1947).
A clipping of photographic print and notice regarding the death of Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Press’ (28 August 1948).
A clipping of an appreciation of the late Archbishop Paschal Robinson by Sir Shane Leslie. Reference is made in the article to Robinson’s efforts to save Frank Ryan following his capture by nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. The tribute article was published in ‘The Standard’ (3 September 1948).