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Draft and copy letters of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. relating to the Irish Capuchin missions in Africa. The file includes copy letters to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., General Definitor, and Fr. Maurice Dowd OFM Cap., and a letter from Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. On 21 May 1948, Fr. James wrote ‘We feel that there is great future for the Irish Province in South Africa where the Irish Capuchins were the first, and still stand alone, in their mission to pure natives in the Langa Compound’.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘IV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Canon Patrick Rogers, David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Rita McGoldrick, D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Archbishop Anselm Edward John Kenealy OFM Cap., Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Francis McCullagh, Fr. Francis Moynihan (‘The Advocate’, Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Australia), Frank Ryan (‘An Reult’, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath), Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr, Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., William Frederick Paul Stockley, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Peter F. Anson, Alison King, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Thomas MacGreevy, Seán O’Sullivan (Headford Cottage, Avoca Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin), Fr Dermot MacIvor (Ardee, County Louth), Mary Wren, Sister M. Agnes (Poor Clare Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Dorothy Day, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Brian Walsh (optician, Mount Southwell, Letterkenny, County Donegal), Germaine Stockley, William Magennis, Maud Gonne MacBride, Jack B. Yeats, John Desmond Sheridan, Fr. Henry S. Glendon OP, Seán Moylan, Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Pearse Hutchinson, Germaine Stockley, Bishop John Dignan, Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), and Una O’Connor (Santa Monica, California).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘III’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Fr. John Moloney (Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin), William Tisdall (Charlesfort, Kells, County Meath), Fr. Henry S. Glendon OP (Holy Cross Church, Tralee, County Kerry), Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Pearse Hutchinson, Germaine Stockley, Thomas MacGreevy (24 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin), John James Nee (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts), Patrick John Little, J. Patrick Byrne (Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada), Benedict Kiely, M.C. McEllistrim (Ahane, Ballymacelligott, County Kerry), Nellie M. Lennon, Séamus Campbell, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM (Papal Nuncio to Ireland), Herbert Mackey (The Thomas Moore Society of Ireland), Julester Shrady Post, C.P. Curran, Maud Gonne MacBride, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Dr. Albert Dryer (Fairfield, Sydney, Australia), Fr. Thomas J. Martin SJ (Catholic Chaplain’s Office, Palace Barracks, Holywood, Northern Ireland), Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Fr. J.S. Sheehy CM (St. Joseph’s, Blackrock, County Dublin), Bishop Patrick Collier, Ian Stuart (Laragh, Glendalough, County Wicklow), D.L. Kelleher, Eoin O’Mahony, Bishop John Dignan, Canon Patrick Rogers, Bishop William MacNeely, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Archbishop Anselm Edward John Kenealy OFM Cap., Mary O’Connell (Beckett Street, Melbourne), Anne Hansen (West Ocean View, Norfolk, Virginia), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Seán Lemass (Minister of Supplies), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Frederick May, Vincent O’Brien, Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (Prefecture Apostolic of the Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia), Cahir Healy, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Mary Hardebeck, Seán Ó Baoighill, Leo O’Brien, Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Fr. Juan José Barahona Martín (Salamanca, Spain), Francis McCullagh, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Sister M. Gerald (Convent of Mercy, Portlaw, County Waterford), Michael Tobin, Rev. John L. Robinson (Glenowen, Delgany, County Wicklow), Helena Concannon, and Joesph Connolly (Office of Public Works), Enclosures include a printed programme for a recital by Michael O’Higgins at Marymount College, New York, on 28 October 1946; an original letter dated ‘the 30th, Stonyhurst, 1848’. The signature may read [D. de Arambury?].

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘AIV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Aodh de Blacam, Sir Shane Leslie, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. T.J. Walsh, Tomás Ó Riain, Flor Crowley, Fr. George J. Waring, Monsignor Denis McDaid (Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Bishop William MacNeely, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Frederick May, Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Jack B. Yeats, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, enclosing an appeal for funds for the College), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Maureen MacManus, Alan Macauley, Fr. Robert J. McGoran, D.L. Kelleher, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Bishop John Dignan, Charles E. Kelly, Michael A. Bowles, H.I. McCourt, Seán Moylan, Dr. Thomas Joseph Walsh, Adolf Morath (photographer), Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Doran Hurley, Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. William Ferris, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Robert Monteith, and Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap.

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 D.L. Kelleher, Canon Patrick Rogers, George Aloysius Little, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., William Frederick Paul Stockley, Michael Knightly (Chief Press Censor, Dublin Castle), Peter F. Anson, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Canon Patrick Lyons (Parochial House, Ardee, County Louth), Fr. John Charles McQuaid CSSp. (Blackrock College, County Dublin), Charles E. Kelly, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Francis McCullagh, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), S.W. Bourke, Canon Edward Gallen (National Council, Pontifical work of the Propagation of the Faith), Maud Gonne MacBride, T.J. Kiernan, Stanley B. James, Hugh A. MacCartan, Maurice Leahy (Secretary, Catholic Poetry Society), Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap., Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Aodh de Blacam, L.F. Doyle (Sarsfield Barracks, Limerick), Máirín Allen, Austin Crean (Sheriff’s Office, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo), Bishop William MacNeely, C.P. Curran, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), L.G. Redmond-Howard, D. Barry (Secretary, Irish Tourist Association), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), The Catholic Study Centre for Animal Welfare, Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Cahir Healy, Thomas R. Lynch (attorney, 357 South Hill Street, Los Angeles), Art Ó Briain, James Joseph Campbell, Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Gertrude O’Reilly (‘The Western People’), Alison King, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, lP.W. Assmann, Michael de la Bédoyère (editor of ‘The Catholic Herald’), Michael A. Bowles, Fr. P. O’Neill SMA (St. Augustine’s College, Cape Cape Coast, Ghana), Arthur de Tivoli, Alan Macauley, Michael L. Kelly (Cowell, South Australia), and Seán MacBride. Enclosures include a typescript article titled ‘Septcentenary Study of Saint Anthony of Padua’ by Alice Curtayne and a typescript titled ‘ON P.S. O’Hegarty’s Easter Thoughts’.

A volume containing copy letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine has a gilt title ‘Minute Book’. Contains copy of personal letters to Fr. Senan (with some replies) relating to the Capuchin Publications Office and contemporary political matters. The volume has a partial alphabetical index of correspondents. Most of the correspondence dates from 1943 to 1945. Includes copy letters from Peter F. Anson, Professor Leonard Abrahamson, Aodh de Blacam, Fr. John Brosnan, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), David Barry, Pádraig De Brún, Michael A. Bowles, Helena Concannon, Nuala Costello (Tuam Art Club), C.P. Curran, Joseph Connolly (Office of Public Works), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, James Joseph Campbell, Sidney Carroll, Seán Crawford (The Square, Warrenpoint, County Down), Fr. William Dargan SJ, George Gavan Duffy, Eamon Donnelly, St. John Greer Ervine, John English & Co. (printers), Seán Feehan (Mercier Press), Charles Robert ffrench, 6th Baron ffrench, Joseph H. Fowler, Seamus de Faoite, Fr. Louis A. Gales, Gertrude Gaffney, Tadhg Gahan, Senator Denis Healy, Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ, Carl Hardebeck, Cahir Healy, Bulmer Hobson, Douglas Hyde, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Denis Ireland, D.L. Kelleher, T.J. Kiernan, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Seán Keating, Sir Shane Leslie, Frieda Le Pla, George A. Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Seán Lemass, Bishop Daniel Mageean, Dom Aubert Merten OSB, Fr. Frank Moynihan (editor of ‘The Advocate’, Melbourne, Australia), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Edith M. Scott Mason, Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Dr. Regina Madden, Seán Nesson, Maud Gonne MacBride, Michael McLaverty, Francis McCullagh, Dr. Colm McDonnell, Thomas MacGreevy, Bishop William MacNeely, John McCormack (Moore Abbey, Monasterevin, County Kildare), George Noble Plunkett, Séamus Ó Braonáin, Vincent O’Brien, Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Moira Ó Scannláin, Eoin O’Mahony, Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Máire Ní Shúilleabháin, Seán T. O’Kelly, Kathleen O’Brennan, Terence O’Hanlon, P.C. O’Mahony, David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Canon Patrick Rogers, Philip Rooney, Dr. James Ryan, Colin Johnston Robb, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Germaine Stockley, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Archbishop Bernard Mary Williams, Alfred White, Victor Waddington, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), and Jack B. Yeats.
The volume includes a copy of a letter from David Gray, United States Minister in Ireland, to Cardinal Joseph MacRory re partition and the presence of American troops stationed in Northern Ireland (7 Oct. 1942, pp 19-25).

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 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.