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A bound volume containing original letters and newspaper clippings offering mostly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ published between 1947 and 1952. The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers. Correspondents include Fr. Stephen Brown SJ, Maurice Lavanoux, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. James A. Brennan (St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny), Kathleen O’Brennan, Fr. Arthur Haydn Ryan (Queen's University Belfast), Fr. John Power (Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Saltley, Birmingham), Pearse Hutchinson, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector of All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Benedict Kiely, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Patrick John Little, P.C. O’Mahony, Bishop Daniel Mageean, Fr. Gino Paro (Apostolic Nunciature, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Archbishop John D’Alton, Sir Shane Leslie, Kathleen M. Murphy, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap., Denis Gwynn, Peadar O’Curry, J. Vincent Carroll, Áine Ceannt, Tomás S. Cuffe, Alan Downey (‘Waterford News’, 49-51 O’Connell Street, Waterford), C.P. Curran, Ian Stuart (Laragh, Glendalough, County Wicklow), Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, Jack B. Yeats, Mary E. Hardebeck, Richard Hayes, Aodh de Blacam, D.L. Kelleher, Adolf Morath, Richard King, ‘Jocandus’ (Joseph O’Connor), Sybil Thorndike (Lady Casson), Germaine Stockley, David Sears, Lady Eleanor Yarrow, Elizabeth Corr, Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Seamus Kelly, Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Fr. Donal Herlihy, Nuala Ní Riain, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Patricia Lavelle, Fr. Benignus Hickey OCSO, Doran Hurley, Lieutenant Christopher Rooney, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Peter F. Anson, Francis McCullagh, Frieda Le Pla, Michael J. Molloy, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (Cathedral House, New Delhi), Walter McGrath (‘The Cork Examiner’), Mannix Joyce, Liam Brophy, and Archbishop Alfred A. Sinnott.

A volume containing copy correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Most of the letters are manuscript copies of Fr. Senan’s outgoing letters but the volume also includes some copies of letters received by the friar. A partial alphabetical and page index of correspondents is included at the start of volume. The spine is gilt-titled ‘Minute Book’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes correspondence with Peter F. Anson, Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Séamus Ó Braonáin, Aodh de Blacam, Michael A. Bowles, Frank E. Benner, Captain Charles Brennan, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Maire Comerford, C.P. Curran, Eugene Collins, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Alice Curtayne, Joseph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Fr. Terence Connolly SJ, Archbishop John D’Alton, Bishop John Dignan, Fr. James Enright (Castleisland, County Kerry), Kevin R. Egan, Seán Feehan (Mercier Press), John English & Co. (printers), Patrick Gallagher, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Carl Hardebeck, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Seán Keating, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Delia Murphy, T.J. Kiernan, Richard J. King, D.L. Kelleher, Benedict Kiely, Charles E. Kelly, Frieda Le Pla, Sir Shane Leslie, Dr. George Little, Patrick John Little, Fr. Frank Moynihan, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., An tAthair Micheál Ó Sé OFM Cap. (Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap.), Fr. Christopher Mangan (Archbishop’s House, Dublin), Francis McCullagh, Herbert Mackey, Bishop William MacNeely, John McCormack, Lily McCormack, Maud Gonne MacBride, Cardinal Joseph MacRory, Major General Hugo MacNeill, Seumas MacManus, Br. Brendan Neary (Salesian Missionary College, Ballinakill, County Laois), Fr. James T. Nolan, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), May O’Connell (Melbourne, Australia), Seán T. O’Kelly (President of Ireland), Art O’Brien, Vincent O’Brien, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Jarlath A. O’Connell, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM (Papal Nuncio to Ireland), Canon Patrick Rogers, Colin Johnston Robb, Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (Cathedral, Simla, India), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Germaine Stockley, Iseult Gonne (‘Mrs Francis Stuart’), Oscar Traynor, Éamon de Valera, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Mrs F.L. Vickerman, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Victor Waddington, Mervyn Wall, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Joseph B. Whelehan, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), and Jack B. Yeats.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘II’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Fr. Philip John Adamson (Secretary to the Archbishop of Liverpool), Fr. Cuthbert Hess OFM Cap., Jack Donnelly (Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast), Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap., Leo O’Brien, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (Cathedral, Simla, India), John English & Co. (printers), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Charles L. Wagner, D.L. Kelleher, Wilfrid Cantwell (architect), Mary Hardebeck, Maurice Lavanoux (Liturgical Arts Society, New York), Patrick Lawlor (Catholic Writers’ Movement), Mary O’Connell (Beckett Street, Melbourne), Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Seamus de Faoite, Michael A. Bowles, Aodh de Blacam, John Desmond Sheridan, Alan Macauley (Irish American Film Corp.), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (Boston College, Massachusetts), Peter F. Anson, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Tomás S. Cuffe, Oliver Saint-George Hawksley (Isle of Gigha, Argyll, Scotland), Fr. A.J. Cleary (Saints Peter and Paul Presbytery, South Melbourne, Australia), Séamus Campbell (editor, ‘Irish Bookman’), Fr. John Crowe (Saints Peter and Paul Church, Athlone, County Westmeath), Fr. Piaras de Hindeberg SJ, P.A. MacMahon (Secretary, The Thomas Moore Society), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joesph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Sister M. Patrick (Convent of St. Columban, Chinese Mission Convent, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Major General Hugo MacNeill, Dr. J. Vincent Carroll, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. M.P. O’Sullivan, (Oak Park Lane, Monrovia, California), Seán Moylan, Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Jack B. Yeats, Fr. Victor Sheppard OFM (Franciscan Friary, 4 Merchants’ Quay, Dublin), Fr. Emil A. Heiring (Mount Saint Mary of the West, Norwood, Ohio), Maud Gonne MacBride, R.R. Figgis (Secretary, The Friends of the National Collections of Ireland), Francis McCullagh, Patrick John Little, Margaret Mary Pearse, G.P. Daly, (Palmerston Road, Rathmines, Dublin), Maureen McManus (Secretary, The Legion of Mary, Belfast), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Frieda Le Pla, Micheál Ó Ceanáinn, Seán Ó Baoighill, J.J. O’Connor (National College of Art, Dublin), Sydney Gifford Czira (‘John Brennan’), J.P. O’Brien (Manager, Irish Tourist Association), Fr. Peter L. Danner SJ, Mervyn Wall, Secretary, Office of the Higher Commissioner for the Irish Free State, London, Mary O’Doherty (Carlisle Street, Dublin), Fr. M.J. Dalton (Mount Alvernia, Mallow, County Cork), Jarlath A. O’Connell (solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin), Nuala Costello (Tuam Art Club), Joseph Patrick Walshe (re the fate of Seán Russell), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Philip Rooney, Seán O’Sullivan, Máirín Allen, Benedict Kiely, and J.A. Power (Knock Villa, Salthill, County Galway). Enclosures include letters from Brian Furey (The Parsons Arms, Flushing, Long Island, New York) to Benedict Kiely (1946); Typescript list of ‘IRA Prisoners at present serving sentences in British Gaols’ (1945).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘I’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Gwynfor Evans (Wernellyn, Llangadog, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Wales), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Cathal O’Byrne, Pádraig De Brún, Aodh de Blacam, James Roberts (Boulevard of Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), David Marcus, Adolf Morath (photographer), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Vincent Evans (Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Monsignor Edward R. Gaffney, (Vicar General of the Archdiocese of New York), Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, D.L. Kelleher, John Pike (editor, ‘Renascene’, Marquette University, Wisconsin), John Desmond Sheridan, Denis MacDaid (Dun Laoighaire, County Dublin), Major General Hugo MacNeill, Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Bernadette Mary O’Byrne, Fr. P.J. Brophy, Séamus Campbell, John Rohan (Irish Cottage Imports, Palo Alto, California), Germaine Stockley, Fr. John Baptist Weldon OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Matthew Feehan (editor of the ‘Sunday Press’), Seumas MacManus, Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Charles E. Kelly, Sister Francis (Poor Clare Convent, College Road, Cork), Eoin O’Mahony, Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Desmond Hickey (41 Dufferin Avenue, Dublin), Máirín Allen, Séamus Ó hEocha (‘An Fear Mór’, Coláiste na Rinne, County Waterford), Maud Gonne MacBride, The Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), John English & Co. (printers), Peter F. Anson, Maureen McManus, Stanley Donald Nisbet, James Joseph Campbell, Hugh Greer, Fr. John Power (Our Lady of the Rosary and St. Therese of Lisieux, Saltely, Birmingham), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Douglas Newton (Aubery House, Paddington, London), Arthur Campbell (11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast), J.C. Coleman (Whitehall, Dublin), M.A. Keating (photographer, Nelson Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary), Patrick Power (photographer, Point Road, Dundalk, County Louth), Lily McCormack, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap., Max Gluckman, and Gerald Boland. Enclosures include a typescript list of the officers and council members of the Military History Society of Ireland (1949).

Letters and memoranda regarding alterations and refurbishment work on Holy Trinity Church in the early 1980s. The file includes an outline of the ‘preparatory steps’ taken by the Provincial Minister and Definitory (Council) in the lead up to the renovation and remodelling of the Church; Copy letter from Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (22 Sept. 1981) expressing concerns about the liturgical aspects of the refashioning of the Church and Fr. Brendan O’Mahony’s reply; newspaper cuttings reporting on the renovation work and fundraising for the same. With a printed booklet and a newspaper clipping ('Cork Examiner') referring to a Mass celebrating the official re-opening of Holy Trinity Church on 28 Nov. 1982.

Photoengraving plates produced for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The printing plates are not captioned but include the following images:
• Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (1900-1977)
• Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (1910-1977)
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (1902-1979)
• Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968)
• Br. Aidan Byrne OFM Cap. (1887-1963)
• Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (1899-1986)
• Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap.
• Fr. Gerald Barron OFM Cap.
• Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Michael Duffy OFM Cap.
• Fr. Dan Joe O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap.
• Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Kenneth Reynolds OFM Cap.
• Fr. Ronald Grace OFM Cap.
• Br. Lawrence Speight OFM Cap.
• Fr. Flavian Welstead OFM Cap. (1939-2017)
• St. Kevin’s Church (otherwise St. Kevin’s Kitchen) by Peter F. Anson
• Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)