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File containing printed (and galley proofs) of biographies of contributors to 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes biographies of Conor Maguire, Eamon de Barra, Fintan Brennan, William J. Stapleton, Kevin Faller, Fr. Diarmuid Ó Laoghaire, Breandán Ó Ríordáin, Professor James Carney, Professor Michael Hayes, Professor John Ryan SJ, Seán Kavanagh, John Kirby, Cecil Paul Hurwitz, Fr. James Good, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Edward MacLysaght, General Richard Mulcahy, James W. Kelly, and Mannix Joyce. The biographies are accompanied by copy prints of the individuals.

Draft articles submitted for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record' (later 'Eirigh'). The file includes articles written by the following authors: Christine Crowley, E.M. Stacey, Dr. Ivor Browne, Aloys Fleischmann (interview transcript), Frank Aiken TD, Deirdre McGarry, Fr. Simon O’Byrne OFM (1928-2011), Anne Elizabeth O’Neill, Edith M. Geoghegan, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Richard Kehoe, Gerald Malone, Cecily Lambert, Desmond Cryan, F.N. O’Neill, John Cahill, Breda Owens, Fr. Francis MacNamara OP, John Turpin, and Joseph O’Connor.

Two bound volumes containing tables of contents for issues of 'The Father Mathew Record' from October 1928 to July 1948 (Vol. 42, No. 7) and from August 1948 (Vol. 42, No. 8) to December 1967 (Vol. 59, No. 12). The second volume also contains an index for 'Eirigh' from January (Vol. 60, No. 1) to May 1969 (Vol. 61, No. 4). The indexes were possibly compiled by Fr. Benedict Cullen OFM Cap.

Conveyance from George Chapman, Kilkenny City, smith, to Richard Empson, Kilkenny City, merchant, of a lease of a house on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, ‘commonly called and known by the name of the Munster Arms’, for three lives (renewable forever) at the yearly rent of £14 10s, and in consideration of £140. A recital of an earlier lease (dated 8 Apr. 1769) by William Colles to George Chapman of the said house for three lives at the yearly rent of £14 10s is given. The reverse of the lease is endorsed with a rental of the said premises (Head rent: £35 3s 10½d; Profit rent: £20 13s 10½d). With a manuscript copy of the said conveyance.

The letters relate to the purchase of the ground rent of a property known as ‘Morrissey’s, 17 Friary Street’, from AIB Bank by the FMC Trust for £1,000 and to the proposed purchase of the said premises by Kilkenny Corporation. Correspondents include John Lanigan & Nolan, Abbey Bridge, Dean Street, Kilkenny, Fr. Leo Cullen OFM Cap., the Town Clerk’s Office, Kilkenny Corporation, and the Charitable Commissioners Office. A letter from John Lanigan & Nolan refers to the property as being let to tenants called ‘the Floods … [comprising] two Alms Houses i.e. the old “Munster Arms” at an annual rent of £11.50 due half yearly’.

Correspondence (including draft replies) with the Capuchin Procurator General in Rome mainly re indulgences for the temperance campaign. The letters also refer to permissions to establish confraternities and total abstinence sodalities in Cork and in Dublin.

Newspaper clippings assembled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC relating primarily to temperance missions given by the Irish Capuchin friars. A manuscript index compiled by Fr. Angelus is inserted into the front of the volume giving the title of the newspaper, the event referred to in the article, and the date. Other clippings refer to anniversary commemorations of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, lectures, sermons and retreats given by Fr. Angelus and other friars (some refer to the death of Michael Davitt and commemorations of the Manchester Martyrs), ordinations, the Croagh Patrick pilgrimage, the mission to Ireland of the Most Rev. Ignatius Perisco OSFC (1823-1896), the jubilee of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, and items of topographical and local history interest.

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 bound volume containing clippings of newspapers and articles (and some correspondence) compiled by Fr. Henry Rope. Some of the content relates to the Irish political situation (1919-22) while there are also articles and ephemera relating to religious subjects with extensive annotations and notes by Father Rope. Typescript annotation on first page reads ‘The Rev. H.E.G. Rope, Plowden, Lydbury North, Shropshire’. The volume was previously a printed publication titled on the spine ‘Empyrean Building’. The contents include:
• Typescript titled ‘The defender of small nations at Millstreet’ with manuscript additions by William Frederick Paul Stockley. (Aug. 1918).
• Typescript titled ‘Statement of Charles Kenny, of No. 1, Ulster Terrace, North Strand, Dublin, taken at the Mansion House, Dublin’. (19 July 1918).
• Letter from Fr. Joseph Darlington SJ, editor of ‘The Irish Monthly’, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, to Father Rope referring to ‘Irish Affairs’. (15 Mar. 1922).
• Copies of the ‘Irish Bulletin (London Edition)’. 1922.
• Clippings from the ‘Universe’ and the ‘Catholic Times’ re sectarian riots in Ulster.
• Louis J. McQuilland, ‘The image in the mirror’, ‘The New Witness’ (3 Jan. 1919).
• ‘The death of Right Rev. William Bernard Kelly, Bishop of Geraldton’, ‘The West Australian Record’ (31 Dec. 1921).
• Manuscript copy of a poem titled ‘Inaugural Ode’ by Aodh de Blacam (1935).
• Letters from Fr. Albino, League of International Peace, 22 Ainger Road, London, to Father Rope referring to the Anglo-Irish Treaty and his efforts to promote wider peace and conciliation (1922).
• A clipping of an article titled ‘University Extension / Meeting at Cambridge’, ‘East Anglian Daily Times’ (Aug. 1902).
• ‘Abbey Rebuilt by Monks / Labour of love on the Buckfast Pile / War Memories / Retreat were “enemies” worked in peace’, ‘Daily News’ (3 Mar. 1922).
• Clipping of an article reporting on a sermon on the dangers of proselytism by Fr. Francis M. Browne SJ at St. Francis Xavier Church on Gardiner Street in Dublin (‘Irish Catholic’, 18 Feb. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (14 January 1922). Includes large format advertisement for the Irish White Cross.
• Letter from W.B. O’Dowd, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, Texas, to Fr. Rope. (10 Mar. 1920).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (15 Apr. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (22 Apr. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘The Catholic Gazette’, Vol. V, No. 3 (Mar. 1922).
• Clipping of an article by Shane Leslie titled ‘Impression of Rome’, ‘Catholic Times’ (1922).
• Articles reporting the death of Pope Benedict XV (d. 22 Jan. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘The Far East / Organ of Ireland’s Mission to China’, Vol. V, No. 2 (Feb. 1922).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘Extermination Plan in Belfast’, ‘Irish Independent’ (22 Apr. 1922).
• Clipping of a letter article by Maud Gonne MacBride titled ‘The Women of Donegal / How other women may help’ (‘Irish Independent’, 22 Apr. 1922); Clipping of a photograph showing ‘Mrs O’Callaghan and Mary MacSwiney, women members of the Dáil’ (‘Daily Mirror’, 28 Apr. 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (29 Apr. 1922).
• Clipping of an article titled ‘The Jews’ by Shane Leslie, ‘Catholic Times’ (29 Apr. 1922).
• Colourized postcard print of Saint Brendan’s Catholic Church in Birr, County Offaly.
• Clipping re Jack B. Yeats’s paintings published in ‘The Leader’ (6 May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (6 May 1922).
• Letter from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge to Fr. Henry Rope (7 May 1922).
• Letter from Lennox Robinson, 1 Clare Street, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. He writes ‘Things are very dark and distracted over here but not more than elsewhere I suppose. Perhaps, somehow, good may come but one often despairs of it’. (3 Apr. 1919).
• Letter from Seumas MacManus, 264 West 94th Street, New York City, to Fr. Henry Rope. (1 May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (13 May 1922).
• Letter from C.E. Chesterton, ‘The New Witness’, 20 & 21 Essex Street, London, to Fr. Henry Rope. Refers to the ‘Irish affairs’ and the Anglo-Irish Treaty. (1 May 1922).
• Letter from Fr. Herbert Vaughan, ‘The Catholic Gazette’, to Fr. Henry Rope. (19 May 1922).
• Copies of the ‘Irish Bulletin (London Edition)’ (May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, (20 May 1922).
• Complete copy of ‘The Far East / Organ of Ireland’s Mission to China’, Vol. V, No. 6 (June 1922).
• Letter from Aodh de Blacam, Falcarragh, County Donegal, to Fr. Henry Rope. (1 June 1922).

Letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Irish correspondents. The file includes letters from Fr. Patrick Nolan OSB (Erdington Abbey, Birmingham), Fr. John O’Brien SJ (19 July 1916, writes ‘I know how much you sympathize with Ireland. Many Englishmen of the ruling class seem hopelessly unable to understand Ireland.’), Hugh A. McCartan (4 Gifford Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin. Refers to the contemporary political situation in Ireland and to the Sinn Féin movement, 26 Aug. 1917), Barry M. Egan (32 Patrick Street, Cork. Refers to the murder of Tomás Mac Curtain and the independence struggle, 10 Dec. 1920), Daniel Corkery, Joseph Robinson (‘Poblacht na hEireann / (Scottish Edition’, Glasgow), Violet O’Connor, Domhnall Óg Ó Ceallacháin (Donal Óg O’Callaghan), Fr. P.J. Connolly SJ (editor, ‘Studies / An Irish Quarterly Review’, 35 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin, includes a description of the events of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park on 21 Nov. 1920), Thomas Kelly (67 King Street, New York), Shane Leslie, Fr. Martin Branagan, ‘The Herald / The National Labour Weekly’), J.R. Carey (St. Patrick’s Guild, 46 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Mairead O’Connell (Derrynane Abbey, Caherdaniel, County Derry), Fr. Patrick MacSwiney (Presbytery, Kinsale, County Cork), Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin), M.H. Gill & Son Ltd. (50 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin), Fr. Augustine O’Neill OFM (‘Assisi’, 4 Merchants’ Quay, Dublin. Refers to potential publications of articles by Father Rope in the periodical, 24 Jan. 1933). The file also includes two letters from Fr. Henry Rope to Canon Moriarty (1917).