A biographical sketch of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and an assessment of his work as editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The article reads ‘Last year Capuchin Periodicals transferred their editorial offices from the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, to nine large rooms in an old Georgian house at the foot of Capel Street ...’. The article includes a review of the 1941 edition of the ‘Annual’. It was published in the ‘Connacht Sentinel’ (4 February 1941).
A clipping of a profile of James Larkin Junior (better known as ‘Young Jim’ Larkin), the eldest son of the trade unionist and socialist ‘Big Jim’ Larkin. The article traces the younger Larkin’s journey from what is called his previous ‘extreme left’ communism to respected Labour Party parliamentarian. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (18 October 1952).
A clipping of an article on the ‘Lusitania’ memorial sculpture by Jerome Connor in Cobh, County Cork. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (15 February 1953).
A flier promoting a production of John Millington Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin in July 1953. The production was staged by Cyril Cusack (1910-1993) with the actor himself in the title role (as Christy Mahon). The cast also included the Belfast-born actress Siobhán McKenna (as Pegeen Mike), with appearances by Jack McGowran, Walter Macken, and Cyril Cusack’s wife Maureen.
A card advertising an exhibition of the artwork of Fr. Jack Hanlon in the Galerie du theatre de poche in Brussels in Belgium. A manuscript annotation on the card reads ‘best wishes, Jack’.
A clipping of an article by Donal B. O’Connell appealing for funds to save Derrynane, the former home of Daniel O’Connell in County Kerry. The article was published in ‘The Kerryman’ (25 May 1946).
A clipping of a photograph showing Dudley M. Hanley, Lord Mayor of Sligo, at a public reception marking the granting of the Freedom of the Borough of Sligo to Constance Markievicz in July 1917. The caption notes that the photograph was reprinted to mark the recent death of Dudley M. Hanley (d. 4 January 1946).
