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Letter from Lily O’Brennan, 44 Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him for his work on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.

Letter from Lillie Connolly [wife of James Connolly], 22 St Patrick’s Road, Drumcondra, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., expressing her joy that her son Roderic has started school and has promised to make for ‘lost time’. She also expresses her delight on hearing the ‘little message from the dear Countess [Markievicz]’. She adds ‘I pray and long for the day when she may enjoy her freedom’. With cover.

A letter from Liam Ó Buachalla, Inis Ealga, Galway, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for a copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and commending the content of the publication.

Letter from Liam Mellows, Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, to his mother. Written at 5 a.m., shortly before his execution. It reads: ‘The time is short and much I would like to say must go unsaid. But you will understand in such moments heart speaks to heart. At 3.30 this morning we (Dick Barrett, Rory O’Connor, Joe McKelvey and I) were informed that we were to be “executed as a reprisal”. … I go to join Tone and Emmett, the Fenians, Tom Clarke, Connolly, Pearse, Kevin Barry and Childers. My last thoughts will be on God, and Ireland, and you. …. I had hopes that some day I might rest in some quiet place – beside Grandfather and Grandmother in Castletown (Co. Wexford), not amidst the wordly pomps [sic] of Glasnevin but if it is to be the prison clay, it is all the sweeter for many of our best lie here …’.

Letter from Lennox Robinson (1886-1958), 1 Clare Street, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. Robinson writes ‘Things are very dark and distracted over here but not more than elsewhere I suppose. Perhaps, somehow, good may come but one often despairs of it’.

General letter from Leesons street from MMM

A letter from Kathleen O'Brennan (1876-1948), 44 Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. O'Brennan offers an article for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record' and expresses her hope that she and sister (Áine Ceannt) will see Fr. Senan soon.