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A postcard print of Con Colbert. The caption notes that he ‘took a prominent part in the Rebellion / Executed May 8th 1916’.

A postcard print of Seán Costello. The caption notes that he ‘died of from [a] wound received in Action while on Despatch Duty at Boland’s Mills’.

An image of a thatched cottage near Rosslare in County Wexford.

A letter from Fr. Henry Gaffney OP, St. Mary’s, The Claddagh, Galway, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., congratulating him on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and its 'valiant onslaught on the northern tyranny'. Gaffney adds ‘You have done greater work than all the loud politicians’.

Letter from Cahir Healy to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. seeking information on the publication of the ‘Orange Terror’ offprint.

A letter from J.J. Campbell, 27 Old Cavehill Road, Belfast, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., expressing his admiration for the 1943 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Campbell writes ‘To Northern folk it makes a most direct appeal and you have earned their very real gratitude. Irish scholarship has reason to be proud of your work’.

A letter from Eduard Hempel, German Minister to Ireland, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., thanking him for a copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943).

A letter from An tAthair Pádraig De Brún, University College Galway, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A pair of gold candlesticks gifted to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The base of the candlesticks are engraved: ‘Very Revd. T. Mathew President / Very Rev. J.J. Murphy Vice-President / Cork Total Abstinence Benefit Society / AD January 1842’.

A letter from Fr. C. O’Neill, St. Peter’s Presbytery, Milford Street, to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., a Capuchin friar, referring to the effects of bombing raids during the Belfast Blitz in April 1941. He writes ‘A great disaster has befallen this city and I have lost a few very saintly tertiaries. Many people have left, for the houses are not habitable; others have fled in fear. But no-one on the Falls Road area was injured. The Catholic Church in the city was damaged save for a few panes of glass. The disaster will affect our Triduum somewhat, but I think it is better to have it, all the same. It would never do to give up on prayer and the people are saying the Rosary in the streets every night in this parish. The horror of an air-raid is inconceivable until one has seen it’.