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Letters from Archbishops Arthur Hinsley, Antonio Riberi, David Mathew and James Robert Knox, successive Apostolic Delegates in Mombasa, Kenya, to Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The letters refer to the work of the Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. Archbishop David Mathew also refers to his hope that the Irish Capuchins may be prevailed upon to take charge of the College of St. Louis in the Seychelles (23 Apr. 1947). Archbishop Knox expresses his hope that an assistant will be appointed for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. to assist in his work with the Conference of Northern Rhodesian Bishops (24 May 1957).

Letter from Bishop Francis Costantin Mazzieri OFM Conv., Ndola, Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Northern Rhodesia, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking an assistant for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., education secretary for the Vicariates of Northern Rhodesia.

A photographic print of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. with four African Little Sisters of St. Francis. The photograph may have been taken during Fr. O’Mahony’s visitation of the Livingstone mission in 1957.

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Minute Book’. 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 / 1954’. However, the volume includes copy letters from 1944 to 1957. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., (4 Sept. 1957, refers to Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Alfred Chester Beatty and Éamon de Valera), Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland, United States), Doran Hurley, Fr. Peter Keane OMI, Seán Neeson, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Bishop Denis J. Moynihan, Fr. Donal O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister M. Dolorine, Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap., Kevin MacManus, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., John Joseph Hearne (Irish Ambassador to the United States), Thomas MacGreevy, R.F. Browne (Chairman, Electricity Supply Board), Joan Hammond, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford, County Kerry), John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), Pádraig De Brún, John English & Co. (printers), Willem Sassen (Pedro Lagrave, Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Michael A. Bowles, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Maud Gonne MacBride, C.P. Curran, ‘The Irish Weekly’, Peter F. Anson, Fr. Percy Jones (Saint John’s, Clifton, Melbourne, Australia), Fr. Emil Heiring (Norwood, California), John J. Sheehy (25 Castle Street, Tralee, County Kerry), Seán Moylan, Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Myles Farrell, A.J. Connolly (Principal Officer, Department of Industry and Commerce, Dublin), Fr. Louis A. Gales (Catechetical Guild, 128 East Tenth Street, St. Paul, Minnesota), Sister M. Leonard (Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin), Frank Saurin (Hospitals’ Trust Ltd., Merrion Road, Dublin), Barry Fitzgerald, James Mason, Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Brinsley McNamara, Maurice Walsh, Fr. Marius McAuliffe OFM (Franciscan Friary, Maryfield, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia, refers to the death of his brother, Fr. Frank Moynihan, p. 63), Michael O’Higgins, Clyde Twelvetrees, Máirín Ní Chatháin, Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), Joseph McGrath (Cabinteely House, County Dublin), Seán O’Duffy (50 Cashmir Road, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Germaine Stockley, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Seumas MacManus, Denis MacDonald (Irish Embassy to the Holy See, Rome), John Hennig, Máirín Allen, Denis Gywnn, John Ford, Frank Fahy, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Frieda Le Pla, Seán MacBride (Roebuck House, Clonskea, Dublin), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Jack Horgan (8 Ballymun Road, Glasnevin, Dublin), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap., Fr. Francis J. Tucker (Prince Rainer’s Palace, Monaco), Molllie Baxter (43 Seapoint Avenue, Monkestown, County Dublin), Robert Brennan, Fr. William Purcell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Sister Mary de Pazzi (Rosemount, Booterstown, County Dublin), Sister M. Agnes (The Convent, Larne, County Antrim), Bríd Breathnach (384 Clontarf Road, Dublin), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Bishop Daniel Mageean, D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Stephen J. Moloney O.Cist. (Mounty Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Vianney Cashell OFM Cap., Marie Kelly (67 Poodle Park, Kimmage, Dublin), Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Jack Dempsey (61 Tolka Park, Finglas, Dublin), Archdeacon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Michael F. Moynihan (2 Capel Street, Dublin), E. Nally (37 Terenure Road North, Dublin), Hector Legge, Fr. Anslem Moynihan OP (Dominican Priory, Cork), Teresa Cahillane (Duagh, Camp, County Kerry), Bernard Sheppard (Saint Conleth’s, Clyde Road, Dublin), Reginald Lawless (27 Arklow Street, NCR, Dublin), Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Ida Monahan, Mariano de Yturralde (Spanish Ambassador to Ireland), Liam MacGabhann (Beaumont Estate, Churchtown, Dublin), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara, Paddy Reynolds, Peter F. Anson, Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Bartholomew Murphy (57 Booterstown Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin), Francis McCullagh, Donal O’Cahill (27 High Street, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister M. Pius (Bon Secours Hospital, Glasnevin, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, ‘Independent’ Newspapers, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Ann Connor (384 Clontarf Road, Dublin), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., J.J. O’Leary (Gneeveguilla, Rathmore, County Kerry), C.J. Scarffe-Cody, Fr. J.J. O’Connor (Presbytery, Castlegregory, County Kerry), Seumas Rourke (Saint Aidan’s, Roebuck, Dundrum, County Dublin), Dr. George A. Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Kevin P. MacManus (art department, ‘Independent’ Newspapers, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Captain Eoin de Blacam, Michael J. Lennon, Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Tadhg Gahan, Margaret McDonnell (Dalguise, Monkstown, County Dublin), Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), and Josephine Moynihan (Meenascarthy, Camp, County Kerry). Includes the draft a speech made by Fr. Senan for the Na Fianna hurling and football club in Dublin (20 Apr. 1956, p. 114-6), and a draft article titled ‘Tertiary Activities’ (3 May 1956, pp 121-4).

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private Letters / November 1958’. Several of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s desire to expedite his move to Australia. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Kathleen M. Murphy, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Peggy Spillane (gives news of his decision to ‘retire from the Order, devote my remaining years to the writing of books, offer Mass every morning, and live wherever I choose myself’, 3 Dec. 1958), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap (refers to an offer by Archbishop Prendiville of a chaplaincy appointment at a ‘Sisters of Mercy hospital’ in Australia and communications from Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re his incardination into the Archdiocese of Perth, 16 Mar. 1959), Bríd Breathnach, L.C.1 Blennerhassett, Fr. Donal O’Connor, Ann O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Dr. Anthony Dempsey (Botley, Oxfordshire), Thomas MacGreevy, Monsignor Francis Cremin (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare, refers to his close association for many years with the late Canon Dineen, 7 Apr. 1959), Michael F. Moynihan, Sister Mary de Pazzi, Joan Hammond, Ríona O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Sister M. Ligouri (Booterstown, County Dublin), Seán O’Connor (Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. James O’Mahony (refers to Fr. Senan’s disinclination to remain in Dublin permanently, January 1959), John Shea (Annascaul, County Kerry), and Michael A. Bowles. A copy letter from Fr. Senan to Archbishop Prendiville affirms that he has ‘an enormous amount of private papers to dispose of’ (March 1959).

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers associated with 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume contains letters to: Fr. J. Doyle, James Flynn, Lieutenant-General M.J. Costello, Dr Patrick J. McLaughlin, Cahill & Co., printers, Dollard Printing House, Professor J.J. Murphy, Pauline Maguire, Patrick Cunningham, secretary of the Tuam Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Kathleen M. Murphy, James Lyons, Fr. Denis Keogh OFM Cap. J. Fairbairn, the Rank Film Organisation, John Irvine, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., Sister Joseph Xaveria, Fr. Cyril Barrett SJ, National Gallery, London, The British Museum, London, Tate Gallery, London, Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Stephen Rynne, Mannix Joyce, Sydney Z. Ehler, Charles C. O’Connell, Patrick J. Meagher, Arthur O’Callaghan, Fr. J.J. Galvin CSsR., Elizabeth Rivers, Capitola R. Guthrie, National College of Art, Dublin, David O’Mahony, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., and Doran Hurley.