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A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters / London October 1954’. However, the volume includes copy letters from 1944 to 1955 and transcribed letters from Canon Patrick Sheehan (1852-1913). Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Sr. Mary Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, R.F. Browne (Chairman, Electricity Supply Board), Sister Frances Moynihan (Convent of Mercy, Blackrock, County Dublin), Tomás Ó Riain, Margaret McDonnell (Dalguise, Monkstown, County Dublin), Thomas J. Collins (‘Dublin Opinion’, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Hamish Fraser, T.J. Molloy, Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Sister M. Ligouri (Booterstown, County Dublin), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Fr. Kieran Collins (Union Hall, County Cork), Doran Hurley, John Alvin Feltis, James P. Murphy (13 Montgomerie Road, Prestwick, Aryshire, Scotland), Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Rev. Martin Brenan (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare), Dr. Regina Madden (The Eire Society of Boston), Fr. W.O. O’Neill (Catholic Mission, Kilungo, Kenya), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Arthur Campbell (11 Magdala Street, University Street, Belfast), Eugene F. Collins (Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin), Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Seán Lemass, Fr. Peter J. O’Leary (Saint John’s Church, Greenfield, Iowa), and Michael A. Bowles. The volume includes several pages of transcriptions by Fr. Senan of letters written by Canon Patrick Sheehan to a Sister of Mercy. A note suggests that these letters were written while he was receiving treatment for a terminal illness in the South Infirmary in Cork (1912-3).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Minute Book’. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private / 1954’. However, the volume includes copy letters from 1944 to 1957. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., (4 Sept. 1957, refers to Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Alfred Chester Beatty and Éamon de Valera), Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland, United States), Doran Hurley, Fr. Peter Keane OMI, Seán Neeson, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Bishop Denis J. Moynihan, Fr. Donal O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister M. Dolorine, Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap., Kevin MacManus, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., John Joseph Hearne (Irish Ambassador to the United States), Thomas MacGreevy, R.F. Browne (Chairman, Electricity Supply Board), Joan Hammond, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford, County Kerry), John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), Pádraig De Brún, John English & Co. (printers), Willem Sassen (Pedro Lagrave, Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Michael A. Bowles, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Maud Gonne MacBride, C.P. Curran, ‘The Irish Weekly’, Peter F. Anson, Fr. Percy Jones (Saint John’s, Clifton, Melbourne, Australia), Fr. Emil Heiring (Norwood, California), John J. Sheehy (25 Castle Street, Tralee, County Kerry), Seán Moylan, Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Myles Farrell, A.J. Connolly (Principal Officer, Department of Industry and Commerce, Dublin), Fr. Louis A. Gales (Catechetical Guild, 128 East Tenth Street, St. Paul, Minnesota), Sister M. Leonard (Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin), Frank Saurin (Hospitals’ Trust Ltd., Merrion Road, Dublin), Barry Fitzgerald, James Mason, Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Brinsley McNamara, Maurice Walsh, Fr. Marius McAuliffe OFM (Franciscan Friary, Maryfield, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia, refers to the death of his brother, Fr. Frank Moynihan, p. 63), Michael O’Higgins, Clyde Twelvetrees, Máirín Ní Chatháin, Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), Joseph McGrath (Cabinteely House, County Dublin), Seán O’Duffy (50 Cashmir Road, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Germaine Stockley, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Seumas MacManus, Denis MacDonald (Irish Embassy to the Holy See, Rome), John Hennig, Máirín Allen, Denis Gywnn, John Ford, Frank Fahy, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Frieda Le Pla, Seán MacBride (Roebuck House, Clonskea, Dublin), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Jack Horgan (8 Ballymun Road, Glasnevin, Dublin), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap., Fr. Francis J. Tucker (Prince Rainer’s Palace, Monaco), Molllie Baxter (43 Seapoint Avenue, Monkestown, County Dublin), Robert Brennan, Fr. William Purcell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Sister Mary de Pazzi (Rosemount, Booterstown, County Dublin), Sister M. Agnes (The Convent, Larne, County Antrim), Bríd Breathnach (384 Clontarf Road, Dublin), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Bishop Daniel Mageean, D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Stephen J. Moloney O.Cist. (Mounty Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Vianney Cashell OFM Cap., Marie Kelly (67 Poodle Park, Kimmage, Dublin), Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Jack Dempsey (61 Tolka Park, Finglas, Dublin), Archdeacon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Michael F. Moynihan (2 Capel Street, Dublin), E. Nally (37 Terenure Road North, Dublin), Hector Legge, Fr. Anslem Moynihan OP (Dominican Priory, Cork), Teresa Cahillane (Duagh, Camp, County Kerry), Bernard Sheppard (Saint Conleth’s, Clyde Road, Dublin), Reginald Lawless (27 Arklow Street, NCR, Dublin), Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Ida Monahan, Mariano de Yturralde (Spanish Ambassador to Ireland), Liam MacGabhann (Beaumont Estate, Churchtown, Dublin), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara, Paddy Reynolds, Peter F. Anson, Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Bartholomew Murphy (57 Booterstown Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin), Francis McCullagh, Donal O’Cahill (27 High Street, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister M. Pius (Bon Secours Hospital, Glasnevin, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, ‘Independent’ Newspapers, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Ann Connor (384 Clontarf Road, Dublin), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., J.J. O’Leary (Gneeveguilla, Rathmore, County Kerry), C.J. Scarffe-Cody, Fr. J.J. O’Connor (Presbytery, Castlegregory, County Kerry), Seumas Rourke (Saint Aidan’s, Roebuck, Dundrum, County Dublin), Dr. George A. Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Kevin P. MacManus (art department, ‘Independent’ Newspapers, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Captain Eoin de Blacam, Michael J. Lennon, Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Tadhg Gahan, Margaret McDonnell (Dalguise, Monkstown, County Dublin), Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), and Josephine Moynihan (Meenascarthy, Camp, County Kerry). Includes the draft a speech made by Fr. Senan for the Na Fianna hurling and football club in Dublin (20 Apr. 1956, p. 114-6), and a draft article titled ‘Tertiary Activities’ (3 May 1956, pp 121-4).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office from Charles E. Kelly (enclosing a humorous cartoon of Fr. Senan), Eugene F. Collins (Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Sister Mary Gertrude Cain RSHM (President, Marymount College, New York), Tomás S. Cuffe (225 Harold’s Cross Road, Dublin), Sister Teresa Dymphna (Carmelite Sisters, Mount Carmel Convent, Nairobi, Kenya), Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Claude Vogel OFM Cap. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Christopher T. Rooney, John Hennig, Fr. Peter Dempsey OFM Cap. (St. Bonaventure’s Hostel, Cork), Fr. Francis OFM Cap. (former Vicar-General of the Diocese of Allahabad, India), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Hospitals’ Trust Limited (20 Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Germaine Stockley, Thomas J. Carroll (Ballycolman Avenue, Strabane, County Tyrone), J.F. Reynolds, Patrick Duffy (Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Gary Mac Eoin, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad), Fr. P. O’Donnell (The Presbytery, Tilbury, London), Peter F. Anson, Art O’Brien (Connaught House, 53 Pembroke Road, Dublin), Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Charles G. O’Connell (St. Anthony’s Road, Cork), T.J. Kiernan (Via San Martino Della Battaglia, Rome), Percy Jones (St. John’s, Queen’s Parade, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Australia), D.L. Kelleher, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Patrick Begley (Radio Éireann announcer), Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Myers & Co. (80 New Bond Street, London, antiquarian booksellers), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa), Georgie Yeats, Tadhg Ó Séaghdha (Ros a’ Mhíl, County Galway), Maud Gonne MacBride, Peter F. Anson (enclosing a typescript article titled ‘Notre-Dame du Grand Retour’), Archbishop Finbar Ryan, Aodh de Blacam (enclosing a manuscript article titled ‘Talks with Æ (George William Russell) / and unpublished writing’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), and Robert Monteith. The file also includes some copy letters from Fr. Senan to Jarlath O’Connell, Eileen F. Quinn, Edward A. Harrigan, Phyllis Thompson, Rev. A.J. Cleary, Aodh de Blacam, John P. Moynihan, and David A. Garrity. The file has some copy letters re the Carl Hardebeck Fund (1946). Enclosures include a copy of the faculties granted to Fr. Senan for his appointment as Extraordinary Confessor to the Convent of Mercy, Gardiner Street, Dublin (1 Feb. 1945).

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).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Minute Book’. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the letters relate to contemporary political events while others refer to financial difficulties with the continued operation of the office (1953). Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Áine Ceannt, John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), James M.B. Wright, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Maurice D. Blunden (Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, County Wicklow), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair, includes references to conversations with Éamon de Valera), Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. John Quinlan (Killorglin, County Kerry), John English & Co. (printers), Cormac Breathnach, Margaret Mary Pearse, Hugh O’Hagan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Eric Boden, Robert Monteith, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Seámus Ó Mathúna (Youghal, County Cork), Helena Concannon, Br. Charles A. Lynam (Saint Patrick’s, Montgomery Place, New Rochelle, New York), Adolf Morath (photographer), Paul Hutton (Rochestown, County Cork), Joseph J. Carroll (Whitestone School, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia), Frank Fahy, Doran Hurley, Michael P. Albert (73rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Mildred McTiernan (1741 Newhall Street, San Francisco), John Desmond Sheridan, Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), Sister. M. Dolorine (Webster College, Missouri, United States), Michael A. Bowles, Seán MacBride (Roebuck House, Clonskea, Dublin), Sister M. Teresa Dymphna (Prioress, Mount Carmel Convent, Nairobi, Kenya), Johanna Coakley, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister Joseph Patrick (Sisters of Charity, St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, County Dublin), Sister M. Vincenzo (Dominican Convent, Muckross Park, Donnybrook, Dublin), Aileen O’Reilly, Patrick Duffy (Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Cathal O’Byrne, Fr. Robert Mageean CSSr, Diarmuid Breathnach, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Robert Brennan, Seamus Murphy, Tom Evans (Evans’ Towers Hotel, Glenbeigh, County Kerry), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Kevin MacGrath (Mespil Road, Dublin), D.L. Kelleher, Leonard J. Schweitzer, Denis Gywnn, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Pádraig De Brún, Michael O’Higgins, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seumas MacManus, Liam Brophy, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Vincent O’Connor (231 South Taylor Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois), Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Mannix Joyce, C.J. Woollen, James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), and J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘XXIV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Maud Gonne MacBride, Germaine Stockley, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Helena Concannon, Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Frank E. Benner, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Caitlin Hutchinson (the mother of Pearse Hutchinson, Rathgar Road, Dublin), Séamus Campbell, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Vincent Evans (Mourne Road, Crumlin, Dublin), Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Seamus Murphy, ‘Rutherford Mayne’ (Samuel John Waddell), Charles E. Kelly, Pearse Hutchinson (‘Findrum’, Rathgar Road, Dublin), Doran Hurley, An Cumann Gaelach, Trinity College Dublin, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Mary Hardebeck, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. P.J. Dunning CM (All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. John D. Sheehan (editor, ‘Our Lady’s Missionary’, Altamount, New York), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seán O’Boyle (Arthur’s Villas, Armagh), Hugh Greer, Eoin O’Mahony, Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., and Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D4’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Sister M. Patrick, (The Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahircon, Ennis, County Clare), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Ita McNally (South Mall, Cork), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Séamus de Búrca, Robert Monteith, Adolf Morath (photographer), Clare Sheridan, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), David Marcus, Helena Concannon, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, J.A. Buxton Fox (Hull Avenue, New York), John Hennig, Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, H. Martin Hamilton, Eoin O’Keeffe (Secretary, The Book Association of Ireland), John English & Co. (printers), Matthew Feehan (editor of the ‘Sunday Press’), D.L. Kelleher, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Nora Ni Chathain, Maura O’Donoghue, Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Dunne (The Presbytery, Navan, County Meath), Sister Mary Berchmans Roche (Medical Missionaries of Mary, Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda, County Louth), Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Maolmhuire McGowan (Capuchin College, 4121 Harewood Road, Washington), Patrick John Little, Frank E. Dubrey, Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Aodh de Blacam, John Duffy (‘Evening Mail’, Dublin), Fr. Gerard Fassler OFM Cap. (Mahenge Mission, Tanzania), Fr. Conor Brady OFM Cap., Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), M. Devlin (Cawnpore Street, Belfast), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Timothy J. Delaney (Barrow Street, Jersey City, United States), Jim O’Connor (National Bank House, Arran Quay, Dublin), Sister M. Dolorine Powers (Webster College, Missouri, United States), John O’Shea (James Street, Westport, County Mayo), Walter McGrath (Bellevue Park, Cork), Paul H.S. Hutton (Rochestown, County Cork), Archbishop Maurice-Louis Dubourg, Mary Hardebeck, Maud Gonne MacBride, Fr. John Baptist Weldon OFM Cap., Edward Joseph Little (Cliftonville, Bray, County Wicklow), John MacCourt (Mantioba, Canada), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Germaine Stockley, Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Dr. Alan J. Mooney (Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin), G. Ó Beoláin (Gerald Boland), and Browne & Nolan Limited (publishers, Nassau Street, Dublin).

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).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D 5’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Nicolò Falchi, Jocelyn Harcourt, John MacCourt, Adolf Morath (photographer), Patrick John Little, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., John English & Co. (printers), Bishop John Dignan, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Rita McGoldrick, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Victor Waddington, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., the Catholic Stage Guild, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Kathleen Bowles, Aodh de Blacam, and Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959). Enclosures include agenda of meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (Feb. 1951) and a print of St. Augustine’s Abbey Church, Fox Hill, Nassau, Bahamas.