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A postcard print of North Street in New Ross in County Wexford.

Letter from Seán O'Sullivan to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to a cover design mostly likely for 'The Capuchin Annual'.

Copy letter from Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Yeats refers to a 'loan exhibition' which Fr. Senan wants to organize for the artist. Yeats writes 'I am afraid that such an exhibition would be against the sale of my paintings. The suggestion might come to people that I had retired'. A later letter from Yeats in the volume states that he would be in favour of such an exhibition to be held in 1945.

A letter from ‘Rutherford Mayne’ (Samuel John Waddell, 1878-1967) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A letter from Robert Monteith (1879-1956) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Monteith refers to a revised edition of his work 'Casement's last adventure' and to additions and emendations he would like to make to the same. Reference is made to the assistance given to Monteith by the Capuchin Franciscans at Rochestown in County Cork and to the role played by Austin Stack in the 'Tralee happenings' in 1916.

A letter from Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (1850-1939), Oblate House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. Dawson includes a description of the events of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park on 21 November 1920. He writes 'sixteen young students, from a different house, were among those who escaped when they saw the armed forces coming. As they clambered over the embankments, the bullets were hopping about them, but the only hit among our youngsters was when one of them had the top of one finger shot off'. He also refers to a raid on the Oblate house of studies (most likely Belmont House in Stillorgan) and to the rough treatment meted out by the soldiers.

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. enclosing a prayer. Ó Laoghaire adds 'How I as detest the note of presumption which often pervades English prayers!' He later affirms that 'The English mind does not seem to know how to conduct itself even in the presence of the Divinity. I have often read English players which actually patronise God'.

Note from Pádraig Ó Máille possibly to Patrick Pearse re the formation of a Gaelic League branch in Moycullen, County Galway.

Newspaper clippings of reviews of various editions of 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes articles from the 'Cork Examiner', 'Irish Catholic', 'Dublin Opinion', 'Evening Mail', 'Irish News', 'Irish Press', 'The Advocate', 'The Leader', 'Irish Independent', 'Sunday Independent', 'The Corkman', 'The Kerryman', 'Catholic Standard', 'Limerick Leader', 'Connaught Tribune', 'Wexford People', and 'The Electrical Mail; (a publication issued by ESB). The file also includes typescript reviews of the 'Annual' in broadcasts by Radio Éireann in 1961-2. Specific topics and reviews include features on the 1916 Rising (the 1966 edition of the 'Annual'), the Gaelic Athletic Association, Francis Ledwidge, Archbishop Daniel Mannix, and various photographic features in the 'Annuals'. An article by Desmond Rushe in the 'Irish Independent' (6 Jan. 1977) expresses regret that the 'Annual' will cease publication.

Total Abstinence Society of Ireland Medal
c.1840-1850
Diameter: 4.5 cm
Pewter Medal in Glass
Physical Description:
• Face (front): In relief, Fr. Mathew addresses kneeling crowd. Outer rim inscription reads: ‘May God bless you and grant you grace and strength to keep your promise’.
Obverse: Cruciform formula of pledge: ‘I / Promise / by the / Help of / God/ to abstain from all / intoxicating drinks / except used medicinally / and to discountenance the / cause and practice / of / intemperance’. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘The Very Rev. T. Mathew, President / The Total Abstinence Society of Ireland’.
The medal has fragments of a green ribbon and pin attached.

Total Abstinence Society of Ireland Medal
c.1840-1850
Diameter: 4.5 cm
Pewter Medal in Glass
Physical Description:
• Face (front): In relief, Fr. Mathew addresses kneeling crowd. Outer rim inscription reads: ‘May God bless you and grant you grace and strength to keep your promise’.
Obverse: Cruciform formula of pledge: ‘I / Promise / by the / Help of / God/ to abstain from all / intoxicating drinks / except used medicinally / and to discountenance the / cause and practice / of / intemperance’. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘The Very Rev. T. Mathew, President / The Total Abstinence Society of Ireland’.
The medal has fragments of a green ribbon and pin attached.

Total Abstinence Society of Ireland Medals
c.1840-1850
Diameter: 4.3 cm
Thirteen Pewter Medals
Physical Description:
• Face (front): Centre: Man and woman on pedestal on which two children are seated. The adults carry a shield surmounted by a cross, with an angel (or in some cases two angels) above. The upper part of the shield has a lamb bearing a banner. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. Outer-edge inscription reads: ‘Total Abstinence Society of Ireland’.
Obverse: Cruciform text of pledge: ‘I / Promise / by the / Help of / God/ to abstain from all / intoxicating drinks / except used medicinally / and to discountenance the / cause and practice / of / intemperance’. Outer edge inscription reads: ‘The Very Rev. Mathew, President, Total Abstinence Society’.
One of the medals was found in an envelope from John O’Neill, Musical Instrument Manufacturer, 140 Capel Street, Dublin. An annotation on the envelope reads ‘Fr. Mathew Temperance Medal / given to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. / by an old woman in Kells, County Meath’.