A clipping of an article reporting on the appointment of Seán Keating as President of the Royal Hibernian Academy. The article was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (16 March 1950).
A clipping of photographs from the opening of the Munster Fine Art Club Exhibition in Cork. Includes an image of Seamus Murphy with his limestone sculpture of the head of Saint Patrick (now held in Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth). The exhibition was opened by Professor Denis Gwynn. The article was published in ‘Irish Tatler & Sketch’ (November 1949).
A pamphlet and poem reflecting on John Hogan’s marble statue of the Transfiguration. The statue is held in Mount Argus Passionist Monastery in Harold’s Cross in Dublin. The poem asks the reader to remember the ‘weed-grown, cold [and] forgotten’ grave of the sculptor in the cemetery. The poetic tribute was written by John Clarke (1868-1934), a County Antrim-born nationalist and journalist who wrote numerous articles on Gaelic cultural revivalist subjects, often using the penname ‘Benmore’.
A list of paintings on loan from ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office on Capel Street in Dublin. The paintings were loaned for the Tuam Art Club exhibition and include work by Jack B. Yeats, Richard King, Seán Keating, and David Clarke.
A clipping of an article the memorial windows designed by Catharine O’Brien for Lissadell Church in County Sligo. The commission was given to O’Brien by Lady Gore-Booth. The article was published in the ‘Evening Mail’ (4 November 1950).
A flier for an exhibition of religious art by five Irish artists at the Ashley Gallery in London. The exhibition included work by Richard King, Fr. Jack Hanlon, and Daniel O’Neill.
A card publicising an exhibition of art from the Joseph Brennan Collection at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin. The exhibition included sculptures by Albert Power and Jerome Connor and paintings by Walter Osborne and Nathaniel Hone.
A clipping of an article advertising the ‘Varnishing Day’ exhibition in the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. The article includes images of Laurence Campbell’s sculptural busts of Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Bishop William MacNeely, and Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (13 April 1946).
A photographic print of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (right) with Peadar Seán Doyle, Lord Mayor of Dublin, outside St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street.
