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List of Capuchin friars buried in Foulkstown Cemetery in Kilkenny. The list was compiled by Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap. The list includes names, dates of death and other details (including age) in respect of:
Br. Urban Beirne, Cleric Student
Fr. Chrysostom Sutton, Master of Novices
Fr. Matthew O’Connor, former Provincial Minister
Br. Laserian O’Connor
Br. Angelus Moore
Br. Colman Butler
Br. James Kennedy
Fr. Bonaventure Murphy
Br. Benedict Curran
Fr. Seraphin Nesdale
Fr. Robert Ratigan
References is also made to a monument erected to the memory of Fr. Thomas Murphy OSFC (died 13 June 1817 aged 73 years) and Fr. William Berry OSFC (died 20 Oct. 1822 aged 80 years) and to Fr. Patrick Joseph Mulligan OSFC (died 4 Dec. 1853 aged 74 years), Fr. J.E. Tommins OSFC (died 29 July 1889 aged 78 years) and Br. Edward Foley OSFC, Cleric Novice (died 24 Sept. 1889 aged 16 years).

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).

Letter to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. from Fr. Valentine OFM, Franciscan Convent, St. Laurence Street, Drogheda, enclosing a statement regarding Teresa Bradley’s (formerly Gilmartin) membership of the local congregation of the Third Order of St. Francis.

Bills of costs from W.K. Cleere & Son, 8 Ormonde Road, Kilkenny, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. for contract work on St. Anne’s Shrine and for the extension of the floor in the Third Order Chapel.

Letter to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, from the Home Rule Club, John’s Quay, Kilkenny, conveying the organisation’s sympathy on the loss sustained by the Order following the death of Fr. Raphael Quinn OFM Cap. in California.

Letter from John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, 81 High Street, Kilkenny, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the will of Margaret Carthy (d. 6 Mar. 1940) in which she leaves the sum of £5 for masses to be said for the repose of her soul. The solicitors assert that ‘there are not sufficient assets to meet any of the legacies contained in the will of deceased, as all available monies will go towards paying her funeral expenses …’.

Letter from Thomas W. Franks, solicitor, agent for the Harty Estate, to John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, regarding the sale by John Slater of premises on Pennyfeather Lane to the Capuchin Friary. Franks refers to the Capuchins’ intention to ‘buy this property in order that they may have room for building at a future date … and to their intention to demolish the existing buildings on this holding which are more less derelict’. With a letter from John Lanigan & Nolan to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. confirming that the purchase of John Slater’s premises has been completed. The file also includes an acknowledgment from John Slater, a rent receipt and a certificate of rateable valuation for the said holding (30 Jan. 1939).

Letter from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church Street, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the mission list and querying an item in the accounts furnished from Capuchin General Curia in Rome.

Letter from Fr. Kevin Moynihan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, referring to a request from Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. for some items which he requires for the missions.