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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Finbar Ryan, Aodh de Blacam (enclosing a manuscript article titled ‘Talks with Æ (George William Russell) / and unpublished writing’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), and Robert Monteith.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 collection of Zambian missionary photographs assembled by Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap. (1938-2010) for historical research purposes. Some of the prints are copies but the file does include some original prints. Many of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The collection includes images of:
• Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. outside the Rectory in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, in 1932.
• Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia in c.1935. The annotation on the reverse notes that the original image was taken from an album belonging to Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. On the reverse was written: ‘I think this is not a bad piece of architecture for a school master’s son’.
• Capuchin friars receiving their missionary crosses in Church Street before their departure for the African mission in 1943. The friars are Br. Xavier Cox OFM Cap., Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap., Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap., Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. and Br. Fergus Buckley OFM Cap.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. with a First Communion group in Livingstone in 1952.
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Fr. Patrick Peyton outside St. Theresa’s Cathedral in Livingstone in 1955.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. with religious sisters.
• Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. in Livingstone.
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with local religious sisters.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. during his visitation to Northern Rhodesia in 1957. The friars include Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. on the occasion of his silver jubilee in 1959.
• Br. Maurice Buckley OFM Cap. (1918-2003) and Fr. Agnellus O’Neill OFM Cap. at a missionary exhibition in Dublin, c.1960.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, in Sesheke, Zambia, in 1968.
• Capuchin friars with Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. during his visitation to Zambia in 1968. The friars include Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Kenneth Reynolds OFM Cap., Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap., Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap., and Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. with Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in 1968.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. with Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. and Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. and religious sisters (Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood) in Sesheke in 1968.
• Various scenes of friars at Malengwa during the visitation of Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. in 1968.
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. boarding an aircraft in Mongu, Zambia, in 1968.
• Fr. Dermot Lynch OFM Cap. and Fr. Bede Dolly OFM Cap. at the grave of Fr. Connor Brady OFM Cap. (d. 20 Apr. 1993) in Kaoma, in c.2001. It is noted that Fr. Bede Dolly OFM Cap. died on 18 Oct. 2004.

Photographic album of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. The album contains un-captioned black and white photographic prints. Fr. Jarlath was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1936-49. The collection includes some views of local worshipers and parishioners (in Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa). Includes prints of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister from 1931-7) with Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and others, a group of young friars at St. Bonaventure’s Friary, the voyage of the Union Castle Line ship, RMMV 'Cape Town Castle', in December 1947.

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 letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D2’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Tomás Ó Riain, Adolf Morath (photographer), John English & Co. (printers), Fr. J. McShane (Parochial House, St. Oran’s Road, Buncrana, County Donegal), H. Martin Hamilton, Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Seumas MacManus, Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Otto Richter, Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Nuala Ní Riain, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Eilish M. Sharkey, F. O’Reilly (Secretary, Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950), Hugh P. Allen (Catholic Truth Society of Ireland), Joceyln Harcourt, Fr. Tom Ryan (Vatican Secretariat of State), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap, Fr. W.B. Ryan OP, Elizabeth Corr, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Maud Gonne MacBride (enclosing letters from Vincent Crompton, an Irish republican), Patrick John Little, Michael McLaverty, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, and Canon Patrick Rogers. Enclosures include minutes a meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (6 Dec. 1950) and printed lists and other documentation re the Chester Beatty collection in the Gallery; Manuscript notes re the cartoonist (probably Charles E. Kelly) of the ‘Dublin Opinion’ and his denial that his work constitutes an ‘active participation in politics’.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘Angelic Shepherd’ and contains letters offering congratulations for this publication and requesting copies of the book which was published by the Capuchin Annual Office in 1950. Includes letters from various Catholic clergymen including Bishop Eugene O’Doherty, Bishop James Fergus, Archbishop John D’Alton, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Bishop William MacNeely, Rev. Owen Noel Snedden, and Fr. Denis Fahy CSSp. The volume also includes letters from Doran Hurley, Margaret Hennessy, Peadar O’Curry (editor of ‘An t-Iolar: The Standard’), Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Lily McCormack, Frank Duff, the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, ‘Catholic Times’ (London), Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Douglas Newton, Seán Mac Eoin, Maud Gonne MacBride, Pádraig De Brún, John English & Co. (printers), and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.