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An image of Jack B. Yeats paintings on display at the National Loan Exhibition. The paintings are captioned with clippings taken from a printed catalogue.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. returning a copy of an article by Thomas MacGreevy which has ‘given him great pleasure to read’ as it ‘treats my paintings handsomely’. Yeats also promises to send some ‘mental notes about the scenes of the three pictures’.

A letter from Victor Waddington to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. agreeing to anonymously support the National Loan Exhibition for Jack B. Yeats. Waddington writes ‘I have already enough bitter experience of being branded as an opportunist Jew because I saw fit to help in what I thought I was right to help in. Apart from this, I and my people, are so rapidly, day by day, being reminded that we are non-Gaelic (this term becoming the same as Aryan or non-Aryan except that Gaelic is another word) so I have no inclination to take part in anything …’.

A letter from Séamus Ó Braonáin to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding the potential of radio broadcasts devoted to Jack B. Yeats and the National Loan Exhibition of his paintings.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding a list of owners who purchased his paintings. Yeats writes ‘I felt bound to put in everyone who believed in my painting, and had judgement in their belief’.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. forwarding a list of titles of some of his early paintings and the names of individuals who purchased them.

A clipping of an article reporting on incidents of the ‘Red terror in Catalonia’ during the Spanish Civil War. The article extract is a reprint from the ‘Catholic Herald’ (17 February 1939).

A clipping of an article reporting on a lecture by Rev. R.J. Dalton, Curate of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Cork, dealing with the issue of poverty in Ireland. The clipping is taken from the ‘Cork Examiner’ (24 November 1941).

A clipping of a poem titled ‘Erin’s Call to St. Patrick’ by the poet and journalist Thomas D’Arcy McGee. The newspaper from which the clipping was taken is not stated.

A clipping of an article reporting on the beatification of Pope Pius X published in ‘The Standard’ (8 June 1951).