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A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Letters from Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters’. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes many references to the financial difficulties experienced by the office. A partial alphabetical index of correspondents is provided at the beginning of the volume. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Aodh de Blacam, Frank E. Benner (Fruithill Park, Andersonstown, Belfast), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister, refers to efforts to alleviate the deteriorating financial situation in the Capuchin Publications Office, 3 Apr. 1951), Frank E. Dubrey, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., John English & Co. (refers to the use of the ‘Annual’ printing blocks for ‘The Father Mathew Record’, his wish to return the ‘Record’ to its former size, and a print for the ‘Record’ of between 12,000 to 15,000 a month, 20 May 1951), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., John Lloyd, Gertrude O’Brien (Adams Street, Chicago), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Hugh O’Hagan, Michael O’Leary (Sutton, County Dublin), James M.B. Wright, Albert Dryer (Kenyon Street, Fairfield, Sydney), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Denis O’Shea (Evergreen Street, Cork), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Adolf Morath (photographer), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Diarmuid Breathnach, Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, John J. Kelly, Doran Hurley, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Thomas MacGreevy, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India),Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Sister M. Patrick, (The Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahircon, Ennis, County Clare), Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Mannix Joyce, Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Eileen Crean, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (refers to his intention to publish a lengthy article in the next edition of the ‘Annual’ on Tom Cream, the Antarctic explorer ‘who was a neighbour of mine in Kerry in the old days’, 20 Feb. 1952), Richard King, Seumas MacManus, Mother Mary Martin (Our Lady of Lourdes Convent, Drogheda, County Louth), Fr. Jack Hanlon, Kathleen O’Connell (Government Buildings, Dublin), Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Kevin MacGrath (Mespil Road, Dublin), Hamish Fraser, Aileen O’Reilly, Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin, claiming that ‘all our financial difficulties would be resolved if we could succeed in getting a few thousand new life-members for the Association of Patrons’, 5 Apr. 1952), Rev. John O. Buchmann (St. Leo’s Rectory, Irvington, New Jersey), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne) (Downings House, Prosperous, Naas, County Kildare), Fr. Andrew Carew OFM Cap. (Guardian, Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Michael P. Reynolds (Abbey Terrace, Ballymote, County Sligo), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Margaret Mary Pearse, Owen McCabe (Clones, County Monaghan), Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ, Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, seeking permission to read and retain ‘books and periodicals treating of communism and periodicals written or edited by communists’, 22 June 1952), Frieda Le Pla, Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. (refers to Matt Talbot’s prayer book which he lent to Fr. Canice some fifteen years ago and which he would now like returned, 4 July 1952), Séamus Campbell, Winefride Nolan (Aughrim, County Wicklow), and Bishop Daniel Mageean.

Includes a list of subscribers for a charity concert and benefit held in aid of the missionary work of Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. in India (Oct. 1946), pp 45-54; A letter to Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap. reads ‘For almost twenty-five years I have been intimately associated with printing in this dear country of ours but never have I found conditions worse than they are at present, fantastic is the only adequate word to describe the increase in the cost of production of both the ‘Annual’ and the ‘Record’. And my only hope of survival is to enrol a few thousand good Americans as members … of the Association of Patrons’. (11 Feb. 1952, pp 93-5); a biographical note and reflection on Bishop William MacNeely (pp 166-8).

Letter, invitations, notes re agenda and itinerary for the Third Order Regional Congress (Franciscan Tertiary Congress) held in Kilkenny in October 1939. Correspondents include Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. and Fr. Leo Rowlands OFM Cap. (British Capuchin Province). It was noted that Aodh De Blácam (1890-1951), the well-known journalist and author, was one of scheduled speakers. With a photographic print of congress participants in Kilkenny on 15 Oct. 1939 ('Irish Press').

• Notes re the provenance of temperance medals held in the Irish Capuchin Archives. The text refers to a large gold medal (CA FM RES/9/3/6) with the following engraving on the rim: ‘P.P. Daly took the Total Abstinence Pledge, May 20th 1840’. It is affirmed that this medal was ‘bought from a jeweller, who was going to melt it, for £7’. Reference is also made to a large silver medal presented to the Capuchins by a Miss Gibson from Ballyglass in County Mayo. A cross, also gifted to the Capuchins by Miss Gibson, belonged to the Youghal Roman Catholic Total Abstinence and Religious Society founded on 19 May 1839. Another silver medal has a large green ribbon attached to it and was presented by a Miss Tobin, 13 Killarney Street, Dublin. A smaller silver medal is engraved on the rim: ‘Presented to L.S. Gore Jones by the Rev. T. Mathew’. It was given to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. by Fr. Laurence Kelly, Catholic Curate, St. Michan’s Church, Halston Street, Dublin. [c.1915]. Manuscript and typescript, 8 pp.
• Letters and notes re the provenance of temperance medals sent to the Capuchin friars. One of the letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. refers to a medal gifted by a Mrs Lyons of 29 Clarence Street North. The letter states that ‘it belonged to her father-in-law Maurice Lyons who is dead over 40 years’. The letter is dated 10 Apr. 1938. Another note states that a medal given to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. by a Dr O’Mahony on 30 Aug. 1930 and was found ‘in a secret drawer belonging to his uncle the late Dr Shanahan’. Manuscript, 7 pp.
• Newspaper cutting of an article by Michael Kenny titled ‘Discovering the National Museum’, 'Irish Times', 5 April 1981. The article refers to the National Museum’s collection of temperance medals and dies from which the medals were struck. The article reads ‘Given the great numbers enrolled it is hardly surprising that a huge number of medals were struck of widely varying design and legend. A few were struck in gold and silver, but the vast majority in bronze and white metal, particularly the latter. Many contemporary medallists were involved in their production … particularly Isaac Parkes of Dublin …’. With letters to the editor responding to Michael Kenny’s article. 5 Apr. 1981-19 Apr. 1981. Clipping, 5 pp.

Register (reception book) of the female members of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny. The entries are listed under date of reception, name, name in religion, address and by whom professed. Occasional remarks such as ‘deceased’ or ‘gone to Dublin’ are included for some individuals. The final page of the register contains a note by Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. indicating that the book has been closed and a new register opened (11 Apr. 1940).

Register (reception book) of female members of the Third Order of St. Francis attached to the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny. The title page notes that this register excludes names from ‘the old reception book’. The entries are listed under name, address, date of reception, name of sister, by whom received, and married or single status. Occasional remarks such as ‘deceased’, departed for Dublin, America etc. are also listed for some individuals. Enclosure: A manuscript list of names of sisters of the Third Order in Kilkenny who presented a silver gilt monstrance (at a cost of £107) to the friary (19 Nov. 1909). The names and addresses of the benefactors are given. The final page of the register contains a note by Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. indicating that the book has been closed and a new register opened (11 Apr. 1940).

Alphabetical register of members of the Sacred Heart Sodality, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Entries are listed under name, residence, guild number, date of enrolment (sometimes given as the Saint’s day for the day of enrolment), and remarks. Occasionally, details are given in relation to the dates of death of members. The title page is annotated: ‘Miss M. Kendrick appointed Secretary, June 1924. (Fr. Canice Bourke, OSFC, Director)’. The following list of directors of the Sodality is given:
Fr. Ferdinand Glenny OFM Cap., January 1929.
Fr. Macartan McGirr OFM Cap., August 1931.
Fr. Ferdinand Glenny OFM Cap., September 1937.
Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., October 1943.