A clipping of an article referencing Christopher Penn’s praise for ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1941). Penn’s article was published in the ‘New Zealand Tablet’. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Catholic’ (21 November 1941). It is possible that Christopher Penn is a pseudonym.
A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) by Patrick Kavanagh published in the ‘Irish Times’ (10 January 1942).
A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) published in the ‘Waterford Star’ (30 April 1942). Reference is made in the article to work of the Capuchin friars during the temperance crusade, to Ring College in County Waterford, and to Canon Patrick Sheehan.
A letter from D.L. Kelleher to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) and describing it as ‘an extraordinary production in the present “darkest ages” of war’.
A letter from George A. Little, 28 Rathgar Road, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., congratulating him on the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Little suggests that the publication is ‘one of the two or three most important works on the War of Independence’.
A letter from Jack B. Yeats, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his admiration for ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942). Yeats refers to the reproductions of his work in the publication which he describes as ‘wonderfully successful’. He adds ‘I would like to thank whoever was so good natured as to put in a photograph of me in my youth’.
A clipping of a positive review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) published in the ‘Galway Observer’ (18 April 1942).
A letter from Margaret Mary Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. praising the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
A clipping of a letter from James M. Dillon referring to Fr. Senan Moynihan’s ability to secure paper to print ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Dillon suggests that some of the articles in the ‘Annual’ could be described as ‘blatant, if incongruous Fianna Fáil propaganda’. The letter was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (10 July 1942).
A letter from Eithne (Annie) MacSwiney to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. asking him for a copy of the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She added ‘My sister [Mary MacSwiney] was anxious to see it too, and now – I cannot realise that she and my brother are gone & life is irretrievably changed for me. It is good that incessant, unending work is my lot’.