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A copybook containing Latin translations, extracts, and exercises. The front cover has a manuscript annotation ‘Lain Exercises / Richard Henebry / St. John’s College, Waterford’.

Research notes compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. re the life of Fr. Richard Henebry. The file includes two small notebooks containing headings for a biographical treatment of Henebry’s life. One of the manuscripts is titled ‘Brogue’ and refers to ‘Celtic scholarship’ and the ‘dialect of English spoken in Ireland, or Anglo-Irish is usually called the “brogue”. The text is signed by Fr. Senan and is dated 21 Sept. 1924.

Manuscript drafts by Fr. Richard Henebry titled ‘Dinnseanchas gearr nDéise’ referring to the origins of placenames, traditions, and historical events associated with the Déise Gaeltacht (County Waterford).

Draft sermon titled ‘On the necessity of and utility of penance’ by Fr. Richard Henebry.

Manuscript draft by Fr. Richard Henebry referring to the subjects of Irish music and literature. The headings include ‘Of the Keltic note’ and ‘Of Irish literature’. It reads ‘One should think that the first requisite for a neo-Keltist would be a thorough knowledge of the language and literature about to be manipulated. But strange to say it is never so. There is no one of the school that enjoys the faculty of being able to read a book in any Keltic dialect whatsoever. They depend entirely on translation …’. A two-page musical score is included. Rough pen and ink illustrations (including some of a piper and a fiddle player) by Henebry are extant on the covers.

A copybook containing transcriptions of Gaelic texts compiled by Fr. Richard Henebry. The text appears to be a transcription from the British Library Additional Manuscript (15,403) titled ‘Treatise on the virtues of herbs and medals in alphabetical order’. The original text is a vellum MS and was dated by Standish O’Grady to the sixteenth century.

A draft article titled ‘The Fair Host of the Books of Erin’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. A letter from Eoin Henebry to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. refers to this manuscript which he suggests has already been published. (27 Aug. 1924). Evidently, Eoin Henebry gave this manuscript to Fr. Senan. (See CA CP/3/3/1/15).

A draft text by Fr. Richard Henebry on a vellum manuscript held in the Royal Irish Academy. The text appears to be an astronomical and medical text (catalogued as MS B ii 1) dating to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Henebry refers to the frontispiece of this text which contains an ‘astronomical rotula with a moveable index, containing [the] names of the Signs of the Zodiac and the planets in Latin; also the names of the months and the numeral figures’.

A draft article and notes on traditional Irish music compiled by Fr. Richard Henebry. The manuscript is incomplete and is numbered pp 12-23.

Draft notes compiled by Fr. Richard Henebry on Irish language texts. The notes are signed ‘Risteard de Hindeberg’ and include a reference to the year 1913.