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A bound volume of letters to Fr. Henry Rope from Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852-1941), 3 Killowen Villas, Isleworth, Middlesex. The volume is annotated on spine ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / II’. The letters refer mainly to literary matters, Catholic publications, and contemporary politics in Britain and in the Irish Free State. Some of the Atteridge’s letters suggest a degree of hostility to the leadership of Cumann na nGaedheal and a sympathy for the republican opposition. The file also includes letters from Fr. Andrew Macardle SJ (St. Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin), and Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’ Office, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin).

A mall pouch annotated on spine with ‘Letters to Father H.E.G. Rope / X’. The pouch contains letters to Father Rope from Fr. Joseph Keating SJ, editor of ‘The Month’ from 1912 to 1939. ‘The Month’ was a Catholic review magazine published by the English Province of the Society of Jesus. The letters refer to literary matters and contributions by Father Rope to the periodical.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume is annotated in gilt on the spine ‘Letters to Dr. Henebry / Vol. II’. The volume contains many letters from Heinrich Bewerunge, a German-born musicologist, and a Professor at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare. The letters from Bewerunge (1903-11) refer primarily to scholarship on church music. Many of the remaining letters relate to Henebry’s interactions with individuals connected with Conradh na Gaeilge and other organisations promoting the Gaelic Revival. The file includes letters from C. MacCarthy (Rob Roy Hotel, Queenstown, County Cork), Fr. Patrick Lynch (St. Wilfrid’s Church, Hulme, Manchester), P. Lonergan (County Waterford), Fr. Paul Kehoe (Mulrankin, Bridgetown, County Wexford), M. Crotty (9 Parnell Street, Waterford), J. Lennon (Dumore East, County Waterford), Fr. Thomas F. Furlong (Administrator, Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford), Seámus O Féihille (Riverquarter, County Kilkenny), Fr. James K. Fielding (Mooncoin, County Kilkenny), Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO, Canon John O’Mahony (Glenville, Crookstown, County Cork), John O’Meara (Barrack Hill, Clonakilty, County Cork), Fr. R. Little (Pairc-An-Tobair, Quin, County Clare), Tomás de Róiste (Conradh na Gaeilge, County Tipperary), Lillian Smiddy (Hampshire House, Adelaide Road, Kingstown), Michael Beary (Bridge Cottage, Mount Melleray, Cappoquin, County Waterford), M. J. Byrne (11 Princes’ Street, Tralee, County Kerry), E. Riordan (Isca Villa, Rushbrooke, County Cork), P.W. Kenny (Kingsmeadow House, Waterford), Dáithí Ó Dubháin, R.J. Brennan (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, County Kilkenny), James Walsh (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Eleanor Hull (Irish Texts Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Sister Benignus McGrath (Monastère du Bon Pasteur, Angers, France), Pádraig Ó Dálaigh (Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin), Margaret O’Reilly (The Irish Book Company, 4 D’Olier Street, Dublin), Vicar A. Suppiger (Lucerne, Switzerland), Patrick Delaney (Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Fr. M.F. Callanan (St. Columba’s Church, Durango, Colorado), Charlotte Milligan Fox (Irish Literary Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Patrick Healy, and Fr. John Doody (President, St. Kiernan’s College, Kilkenny). The file includes a letter (26 Apr. 1907) from Fr. Richard Henebry to his brother John Henebry, and letters to the latter conveying sympathies on the former’s death. A letter (in Irish) from Séamus Breathnach (Lismore, County Waterford) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the friar’s research on Henebry’s work is also extant in the volume (12 Sept. 1924).

A bound volume containing letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The spine is titled with the names of the correspondents in the volume. These are Sir Bertram Windle, Fr. Michael Sheehan, and Kuno Meyer (41 Huskission Street, Liverpool). Most of the letters in the volume are from Fr. Michael Sheehan and relate to Gaelic scholarship and Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. One of the letters from Kuno Meyer refers to Henebry’s tribute to the late Heinrich Zimmer (1851-1910), the German-born Irish language scholar (20 Feb. 1911). The volume also contains a copy of Henebry’s lengthy reply to Meyer. Henebry wrote ‘Now I will stand for no man to say which is untrue in order to vilify my religion and the religion of my people. Why import theological discussions into Keltics? The Grammatica Celtica was written by a Catholic. Read it through and you will fail to find a single reference to ‘Der relige Dr Martin Luther in it’ (28 Feb. 1911). The letters from Windle refer to matters relating to Henebry’s Professorship of Irish in University College Cork and to the latter’s declining health.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume is annotated in gilt on the spine ‘Letters to Dr. Henebry / Vol. I’. Many of the letters refer to the Gaelic League and general Irish language activism. The volume contains letters from Norma Borthwick (47 Haddington Road, Dublin), Madeline O’Connor (Simmonstown, Celbridge, County Kildare), Fr. P. Feeney (St. Patrick’s Home, Hennessy’s Road, Waterford), Fr. Thomas F. Furlong (Administrator, Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford), Fr. T.A. Pembroke (President, Rockwell College, Cashel, County Tipperary), Thomas McGrath (Ballinaclash, Clashmore, Youghal), Charlotte Dease (‘Searloit Ní Déisighe’, Rath House, Ballybrittas, Queen’s County), Fr. M.F. Callanan (Presbytery, Killimore, Ballinasloe), Patrick Riordan (42 St. John’s Road, Boxmoor, Hertfordshire), F. O’Byrne (St. John’s Presbytery, Fountains Road, Liverpool), Fr. Pendergast (St. Nicholas Presbytery, Kilmeaden, County Waterford), Canon James O’Meara (Church of St. Oswald, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Manchester), Padraig Ó Gormáin (Collège des Irlandais, Paris), Fr. Kelleher (St. John’s College, Waterford), John Heffernan (St. Patrick’s College, Thurles, County Tipperary), Máire de Paor (Henry Street, Dublin), M.J. Crowe (Cumberland Street, Birr, County Offaly), Sr. M. Assumption (Lynton, Devon), Tess O’Donnell (South Mall, Lismore, County Waterford), Alice Stopford Green (36 Grosvenor Road, Westminster), Margaret O’Reilly (Macroom, County Cork), Charlotte Milligan Fox (Irish Literary Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Eleanor Hull (Irish Texts Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), and C. MacCarthy (Rob Roy Hotel, Queenstown, County Cork).

A soft-bound volume containing the the following pamphlets referring to the Irish Question:
• Report of the Labour commission to Ireland. A pamphlet publishing the findings of British Labour Party-sponsored commission on the Irish troubles. The chairman of the commission was Arthur Henderson, MP (1863-1935). Physical description: iv, 119, [1] pp : illus. (incl. plan, facsims.) ; 25 cm.
• The American Commission on conditions in Ireland: interim report. A pamphlet reporting the findings of an American Commission investigating the Irish troubles. The commission held public hearings in Washington, D.C., on 19-20 November, 9-23 December 1920 and on 13,14,19 and 21 January 1921. The chairman was noted as L. Hollingsworth. Published in London by Harding and Moore in 1921. Physical description: 72 pp.
• Who burnt Cork City? a tale of arson, loot, and murder; the evidence of over seventy witnesses. 1921. A pamphlet published by the Irish Labour Party and Trades Union Congress in January 1921. The work drew upon eye-witness evidence assembled by Seamus Fitzgerald which argued that the fires which had devastated Cork city on the night of 11 December 1920 had been deliberately set by British forces. Members of the fire service testified that their attempts to contain the blaze were hampered by soldiers who fired on them and cut their hoses with bayonets. Physical description: 68 p. illus.

This section comprises volumes of copy letters and correspondence written and compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

This section comprises volumes containing original letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Most of the volumes have serial numbers, shelf marks, and titles on the spine.

Declaration by Arthur Henry Kelly that he has no claim at all to a boundary wall between the land he occupies at Sweetman’s Avenue, Blackrock, and the Vincentian property. The wall belongs to the Vincentians.It is addressed to Thomas Morrissey CM, Superior of Saint Joseph's College, Blackrock.

This section includes deeds, leases and legal documents relating to title to properties on Bow Street now part of the present-day Capuchin Friary on Church Street. The deeds mainly refer to nos. 20-23 Bow Street and to properties held from Jameson & Sons, distillers. The section also includes correspondence from John Jameson regarding rights of passage from Church Street to Bow Street.