A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She also refers to her publication and work the issue of prison reform.
A copy of Kathleen O’Brennan’s short review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1945-6) published in the ‘America’ magazine published by the Jesuits in New York (2 February 1946). O’Brennan refers to Fr. Senan as an ‘astute editor’ who has ‘launched many of the promising young authors of today’.
A clipping of a letter from James J. Campbell regarding the meaning of the symbolism in Richard King’s depiction of Saint Ita which was published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1945-6). The letter was published in ‘The Leader’ (2 March 1946).
A captioned image which reads (from left) Captain John McEnery and his wife Alice McEnery (Sir John Lavery’s stepdaughter), and Father Joseph Leonard CM at the funeral of the painter Sir John Lavery in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin in January 1941. The print is credited to Charles C. Fennell.
A production still from Delia Murphy Kiernan’s film ‘The Island Man’. The volume contains several production images from the film which was set on the Blasket Islands off the coast of County Kerry. The prints were assembled for a promotional article on the film published in ‘The Father Mathew Record’.