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Press photographs (mainly of Capuchin friars and Observant Franciscan friars) compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Some of the photographs are annotated. The file includes the following images:

• The Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. at celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchins in Kilkenny in 1948.
• The celebration of Mass at St. Adam and St. Eve’s Church in Dublin.
• Gabriel Fallon (1898-1980) with rosary beads blessed by the Pope for presentation to the actress, Margaret O’Brien.
• The consecration of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 Sept. 1950.
• The arrival of President Seán T. O’Kelly and Archbishop John Charles McQuaid at St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, for a Mass commemorating the 1798 Rebellion.
• Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. preaching in St. Francis Church, Kilkenny, in 1948.
• Fr. Ephrem O’Sullivan OFM Cap. (1904-1958).
• The funeral of Chief Superintendent Sean Gantly at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Merchants' Quay, Dublin, in January 1948. With images of his funeral procession along O’Connell Street.
• Presentation by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. to Captain Robert Monteith.
• Rev. H. Canon Murray speaking at a Pioneer Total Abstinence Association meeting. Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. is also in attendance.
• Fr. Virgilius Murtagh OFM Cap. (1896-1972) speaking at a sale of work in aid of the Capuchin Foreign Missions.

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)

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘A XII’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from James Mason (English actor, 1909-1984), Georgie Yeats, Michael A. Bowles, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Germaine Stockley, Adolf Morath (photographer), Sister Mary Stella Phelan (Novitiate, Medical Missionaries of Mary, Drogheda, County Louth), Edward Ardizzone (English painter, 1900-1979), and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘X’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Seumas MacManus, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seamus de Faoite, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Piaras Ó hOisín (‘c/o McClory’, Pax House, Fr. Griffin Road, Galway), Pearse Hutchinson (‘Findrum’, Rathgar Road, Dublin), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Bishop John Dignan, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Sir Shane Leslie, Stanley B. James, Tomás S. Cuffe, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Vivian O’Connell OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork), L.V. Mill Arden (Main Street, Killarney, County Kerry), Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Canon Patrick Rogers, Thomas MacGreevy, Myles Farrell, Br. Laserian O’Connor OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Friary, Cork), Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Peter F. Anson, Germaine Stockley, Máire de Blacam, Br. Fergus Buckley OFM Cap. (Sichili Catholic Mission, Northern Rhodesia), Pádraig Ua Duinnín, Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Moira O’Scannlain (Red Forest Hills, New York), Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. (Capuchin Franciscan College, Rochestown, County Cork), Maud Gonne MacBride, Séamus Campbell, Benedict Kiely, Joseph Colligan (37 Lower Buckingham Street, Dublin), Elsie Crichton-Stuart, Mary Hardebeck, Sister M. Christopher (Assumption Convent, Cork), K. Murphy (Honorary Secretary, NUI Club, Shaftesbury Avenue, London), Marion King (3 Eaton Square, Monkstown, Dublin), David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Colin Johnston Robb, Máire Ní Shúilleabháin (Rodeen, Castletownbere, County Cork), Pat Lawlor (Nathans Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand), Francis McCullagh, Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh), Máirín Allen, Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Friary, Cork), Sr. Mary Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Richard King, C.P. Curran, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., and Dr A.T. Schofield (Inglewood, Melksham, Wiltshire).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Hermes Kreilkamp OFM Cap. (St. Felix Friary, Huntington, Indiana), Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (re a Richard King exhibition in Boston College, Massachusetts), Fr. A. J. Molyneux (Presbytery, Glenflesk, Killarney, County Kerry), Adolf Morath (photographer), Tomás S. Cuffe, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Liam Andrews (Springfield Road, Belfast), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), C.J. Woollen, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Albert Dryer (11 Kenyon Stret, Fairfield, Sydney), Doran Hurley, Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Johanna Coakley (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Frieda Le Pla, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Colonel John L. Throckmorton (Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Washington, United States), Thomas MacGreevy, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Mannix Joyce, Hamish Fraser, Jennie Dowdall, Sister M. Patrick (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Liam Brophy (Roebuck Road, Dundrum, County Dublin), James D.B. O’Toole, James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Sister Mary Berchmans (Medical Missionaries of Mary, Rosemount, Booterstown, County Dublin), Maurice J. Moriarty (Muckross, Killarney, County Kerry), Mary Purcell (32 Gardiner Place, Dublin), Sister Mary de Pazzi (Presentation Convent, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister Angela (St. Joseph’s Convent, Upper Lindum Street, Lincoln), Alison King (Vico Terrace, Dalkey, County Dublin), Séamus Campbell, Winfred Ford (43a Albany Street, Leith, Scotland), Joseph Szövérffy (Irish Folklore Commission), Rev. H. Stoneley (Ince Vicarage, Westwood Lane, Wigan), Winfred M. Letts (Verschoyle), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), James McGurrin (President, American Irish Historical Society, New York), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Robert Monteith, Merrill Proctor Ball (Williamsburg, Virginia, United States), John Bennett Shaw, Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Dr. J. Vincent Carroll, Sister Mary Joseph SL (Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, refers to Kate O’Brien, 1897-1974), Michael A. Bowles, Marie J. McGee Hynes, Fr. J.A. Shiel SJ (St. Joseph’s Church, Bihar, India), Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Críostóir Ó Floinn, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Seán Lemass, Fr. Denis McEnery (Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Virginia, Minnesota), Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. J.C. Morgan (Redemptorist Fathers, Bangalore, India), Archbishop William Godfrey, Seán P. O’Reilly (Instituto Mangold, Madrid, Spain), Peter F. Anson, Pádraig De Brún, John English & Co. (printers), Canon T. Gunnigan (St. Mary’s Church, Ballinrobe, County Mayo), C.E. O’Gorman (De Villiers Street, Johannesburg, South Africa), William D. Ryan (North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois), John J. Kelly, Lillie Le Pla (St. Enda’s, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), David Marcus, Quintin Montgomery Wright, Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, John Jordan, James D.B. O’Toole (41 Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin), William F. Shaughnessy (The Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., R.T. House (‘Books Abroad, An International Literary Quarterly’), Susan Hughes Goetz, Willie Fitzpatrick (Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB (St. Mary’s Abbey, High Street, Newark, New Jersey), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Daniel J. O’Donovan (Sacred Heart Church, Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, San Diego, California), Bishop William MacNeely, James M.B. Wright, Móirín Chavasse, and Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ. The file also includes faculties granted to Fr. Senan by Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans (10 Jan. 1952); A list of licensed bookmakers in Dublin (26 Feb. 1952).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the title page reads ‘Private Letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / 11 March 1949’. Includes references to the Captain Robert Monteith fund and contemporary politics. Other letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required lengthy periods of hospitalization in 1949 and in 1953) and to the serious debts accumulated by the Publications Office. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair,), Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, John J. O’Kelly (‘Sceilg’), Aodh de Blacam, Charles E. Kelly, Br. Colmcille Ó Conbhuidhe (Mellifont Abbey, Collon, County Louth), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., John Desmond Sheridan, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, H. Martin Hamilton, Bishop John Dignan, Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Doran Hurley, Adolf Morath (photographer), Thomas Francis O’Sullivan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Lennox Robinson, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Christopher T. Rooney, Frank E. Benner (Fruithill Park, Andersonstown, Belfast), Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Frank Gallagher (Glór Na Mara, Sutton, County Dublin), Ernest Newman, Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Bernard T. Hart (Brooklyn, New York), Monsignor Denis McDaid (Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Pádraig De Brún, Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), John MacCourt (Manitoba, Canada), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), John English & Co. (printers), Sister Augustine Murray (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Monsignor Hugh Finnegan (Saint Joseph’s, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan), Robert Monteith, Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Judge John J. Kelly (West Washington Street, Chicago), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap. (Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans), Eileen Crean, Frieda Le Pla, Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Winefride Nolan, Fr. John Ryan SJ (35 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Fr. Patrick Gannon SJ (Miltown Park, Dublin), Lily McCormack, Tomás S. Cuffe, Philip F. Roden (11a Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), D.L. Kelleher, Archbishop John D’Alton, Archbishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Benedict Kiely, J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin), Peter F. Anson, Thomas MacGreevy, Joan Hammond (referring to her reception into the Catholic Church) and Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap.

Includes: A long draft letter to Joseph O’Connor provides a description of Fr. Senan’s interview with Páraig ‘Paudeen’ Ó Caoimh, deputy military governor of Mountjoy prison in Dublin during the Civil War (1949); A letter to O’Connor affirms that Seán O’Casey ‘abominates everything a Catholic Irishman holds sacred’ (22 Nov. 1952); A letter to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, refers to the crippling amount of debt accumulated by the Capuchin Publications Office over the past twenty-five years. Fr. Senan wrote ‘for a good few years the yearly income amounts to £22,000 but unfortunately the outgoings in any given year amount to £24,000 or so’. He also confirms that the profits from the ‘Angelic Shepherd’ publication has failed to clear the office’s debt and asks for a new letter of authorization for the bank. He asks for Fr. Colman’s forgiveness and refers to his hope that assistance from ‘two wealthy American friends’ will help clear the debt (22 Apr. 1953); A letter to Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. refers the death of Maud Gonne MacBride. Fr. Senan wrote ‘She was terrific character. God rest her. I used to love to get her to tell the story of how she went to Spain, was it in 1907, to assassinate King Edward VII’ (28 Apr. 1953).

Photographic print of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. with five other Capuchin friars and a young girl. The photograph was taken at Doe Castle, County Donegal. One of the other friars is Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.
Note: A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads: ‘Taken at Doe Castle, July 12th, 1930’.