A file containing postcards sent to Fr. Richard Henebry. The correspondents include Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Vicar A. Suppiger (Solothurn, Switzerland). Some of the cards seemingly relate to the cause of the sixteenth and seventeenth century Irish martyrs presented to the ecclesiastical authorities in Rome. Most of the images on the postcards depict scenes from the continent (including various sites in Rome). One of the postcards shows the Father Nicholas Sheehy Demonstration in Clogheen, County Tipperary, 1898. The card from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. shows the interior of the Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny (May 1905). The cards are extant in an elaborate leather pouch.
A postcard print of a demonstration in Clogheen in County Tipperary in 1898. The demonstration commemorated Father Nicholas Sheehy (c.1728-1766), a local priest who was executed following what were widely believed to be false charges of involvement in agrarian unrest during the Penal Law era.
A file of letters from William Frederick Paul Stockley and his wife Germaine Stockley to Fr. Richard Henebry. Includes two letters to Henebry from Germaine Stockley. A letter (12 December 1915) from William Stockley reads ‘My wife has a trouble upon her. Her good father is dead. He was old in age, 87, but I used to see him out early at Mass last year. … After Bavaria, I think he loved France, where he lived … and where he married. I never heard him speak against a foe. His daughter never heard him say a gross-ish word. Are they all Celts in Bavaria?’
Correspondence and papers assembled by John (Seán) Henebry (also known as Eoin de Hindeberg), a younger brother of Fr. Richard Henebry. John Henebry died in 1937. The file includes several postcards written (in Irish) by Fr. Richard Henebry to his brother while on the continent in 1913. The photographic print shows an unidentified coastal location. The file also includes a letter from Patrick J. Merriman (Registrar, University College Cork) to John Henebry on his regret that Fr. Richard’s ‘manuscript on Irish music cannot be found’, adding ‘it is a loss to the country’ (25 Apr. 1916). Other letters (Fr. Patrick Power and Joseph Downey, Secretary, University College Cork) express condolences on the death of Fr. Richard on 17 March 1916. A note from Sir Bertram Windle encloses two clippings from the ‘Manchester Guardian’ (28-9 March 1916) containing tributes to the late priest. The file also includes a letter (in Irish) to John Henebry from Seán Ó Currín (28 May 1921).
A letter from Carl Gilbert Hardebeck, 16 Limestone Road, Belfast, to Sir Bertram Windle. Hardebeck refers to the the value of Henebry’s manuscript on Irish music. Hardebeck writes 'Father Henebry, I understand played the Irish pipes and the violin in an inimitable manner, he had also excellent Gaelic, and surely, nothing could fit him better for writing Traditional music'.
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).
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.
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.
A postcard print captioned 'Presbyterian Church & the Bridge, Portlaw, County Waterford'. The church dates to about 1845. The two-storey building adjacent to the church is the manse (a name given to a house inhabited by a minister, typically from the Presbyterian, Methodist or other Reformed Protestant religions). The manse in Portlaw was occupied by the Reverend David Ferguson, Presbyterian minister in Portlaw, from about 1843 to 1887. The Presbyterian church in Portlaw was closed in 1931.
