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This section comprises volumes containing original letters to Fr. Henry Rope. Most of the volumes have serial numbers, shelf marks, and/or titles on the spine. Several scrapbook volumes containing newspaper clippings, correspondence and printed ephemera of Irish interest compiled by Father Rope are also listed in this section.

Bound volume containing newspaper clippings providing accounts of the tenement collapse and the subsequent funeral and burial of the seven victims. The clippings also give lists of subscribers to the relief fund established after the disaster. The volume also contains a manuscript list of twenty-seven Capuchin friars at St. Marys of the Angels, Church Street, at Rochestown College, and at Father Mathew’s (Holy Trinity) Church in Cork. The list is headed by Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, ‘the Lord Mayor’s Chaplain’. The list also includes Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, ‘superior of Fr. Mathew’s Church, Cork’, and Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OSFC, President, Rochestown College, Cork. The volume also contains a manuscript list of people with private addresses in the environs of Church Street and North King Street. The list also notes ‘Father Mathew Hall’ for all the signatories. This may be a list of members of a religious sodality or, alternatively, a list of subscribers to the Tenement Disaster fund.

The subseries comprises a large collection of bound pamphlets, leaflets, and booklets assembled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., the editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Much of the material is directly related to and largely produced during the Irish revolutionary period in the early twentieth century. The broad subjects include the Home Rule crisis (1912-14), World War I (1914-18), the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence (1919-21), and the Civil War (1922-23).

Included are some official government publications and items from private organizations such as patriotic and volunteer societies, religious associations, and various republican affiliates and organisations. Other content in the bound pamphlet collection is indicative of Moynihan’s eclectic interest in Irish church history, Franciscan history, antiquities, Irish literature and art, Gaelic culture, historiography, and the contemporary political and economic situation in Ireland. It appears that Moynihan bound the original pamphlets together to form a reference library for the Capuchin Publications Office.

A bound volume of pamphlets. A manuscript index gives the pamphlet titles on the first page. The volume includes several typescript (English-language) pamphlets seemingly published in Italy during the Second World War. The titles include ‘The Roman Question’, ‘Letters to visitors in Italy’ (Giovani Papini), and ‘Land reclamation in Italy’ (Cesare Longobardi). Some of these pamphlets include pro-fascist and pro-Benito Mussolini statements. Also includes a typescript copy of Nicola Turchi’s ‘Irish Medieval Culture’. The volume also includes several unrelated Irish pamphlets.

The subseries comprises a large collection of bound volumes containing photographic material, newspaper and magazine clippings, original historical records, and ephemera compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., the editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The content of the volumes is extremely varied and, in many instances, includes rare original records reflecting Moynihan’s interest in Irish history, and particularly the revolutionary period. Some of the material listed here complements content published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ with several original photographs extant in the volumes reproduced in various editions of the periodical.

Other content (especially the clippings) is suggestive of Moynihan’s eclectic interest in Irish church history, Irish Capuchin history, antiquities, Irish literature and art, Gaelic culture, historiography, and the contemporary political and economic situation in Ireland especially during the Second World War.

A bound volume with black and white photographs and colour postcard prints. Gilt title on the front cover reads ‘Photographs’. The volume includes images of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., with other Capuchin friars including Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. Several photographs of unidentified religious sisters are also extant in the volume. The volume includes images associated with pilgrimages to Rome and to the monastic site on the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland. Several colour postcard images of the stained-glass windows in Chartres Cathedral in France are also present in the volume.

A bound volume containing colour postcard images of scenic locations around Ireland, mostly in County Kerry. Includes various scenes around Killarney. The volume also includes postcards of Croagh Patrick in Mayo and an image of the control tower at Shannon Airport in County Clare. All the postcards have manuscript notes on the reverse by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The notes appear to be draft letters written by Fr. Senan to his secretary Mollie Baxter in circa 1953. There are duplicate postcards, and some are loose within the volume.