A slip with the signature of Maud Gonne MacBride.
A collection of autograph slips and ephemera seemingly collected by Dr. James McCausland. The file includes a letter from George McVeagh, solicitor, to McCausland (11 March 1947) referring to autograph collections. The file also includes envelopes addressed to McCausland containing numerous autograph slips. The autographs are mostly of government officials, politicians, and representatives of the landed gentry. Includes the autographs of Lady Megan Arvon Lloyd George (1902-1966), Michael Foot (1913-2010) the Labour MP for Devonport, and Eamonn O’Neill (1882-1954), Leas-Cheann Comhairle from 1939 to 1943. The file also includes a letter to James McCausland from a Mr. Stanley, enclosing ‘autographs of the 1947 Triple Crown Team’ (15 April 1947).
Letter from Fr. Patrick Stephen Dinneen SJ to a Mr. Warren, Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare. The letter refers to Dinneen’s research for a forthcoming publication on the poetry of Aodhagán Ó Rathaille (Egan O’Rahilly).
A case and legal opinion regarding a query re a settlement involving the widow of John Williams (a deceased farmer) and her child residing in the parish of Llangyfelach near Swansea in Glamorganshire in Wales. The document notes that following her husband’s death, the woman lived in a neighbouring parish and worked as a servant for some time. No indication is given as to the provenance of this document and how it came into Fr. Senan Moynihan’s possession.
The subseries comprises a small collection of papers relating to Patrick Gallagher, better known by his sobriquet Patrick ‘the Cope’ Gallagher (‘cope’ being the popular Donegal version of ‘cooperative’). Gallagher was a cooperative organiser, businessman, and a campaigner for his native County Donegal. He is best remembered for founding the Templecrone Agricultural Co-operative Society in 1906, popularly known as ‘the Cope’, a co-operative association based in The Rosses area of West County Donegal. The file includes articles, clippings, and a letter from Gallagher to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (21 August 1947). Also includes a copy of ‘The Irish Homestead’ (11 Nov. 1916) which has content on Gallagher’s campaigning work in Donegal.
A clipping of an article by J.D. Callaghan titled ‘Paddy founded a Co-operative’ referring to Patrick Gallagher’s Templecrone Agricultural Co-operative Society. The article was published in the ‘Detroit Free Press’.
The subseries comprises five letters written by Charles M. Lynch (29 Antrobus Street, London), a former British Army soldier who was involved in the fighting during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. The original letters were apparently sent by Lynch to an acquaintance, likely a fellow soldier named ‘Willie’. The extant letters in the subseries are typescript copies which Lynch later sent to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. with a view to potential publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Includes a cover letter from Lynch to Father Moynihan dated 4 October 1947. Lynch’s 1916 letters were seemingly never published in the ‘Annual’.
A copy of a letter from Charles Lynch to ‘Willie’ describing his company’s march from the Phoenix Park to Dublin city centre and to skirmishes with rebels occupying the Four Courts which resulted in the deaths of several fellow soldiers. He also refers to the incompetence of his commanding officer. He affirms that he is currently guarding the approaches to Dublin Castle. The letter is titled ‘Letters from Dublin. Easter 1916. 3rd Letter’.
A collection of original notes sent to Éamon de Valera and Patrick Pearse during the 1916 Rising. At least two of the notes appear to have been written by Commandant Thomas Cornelius Hunter (1883-1932) who served as an adjutant in the 2nd Battalion of the Irish Volunteers during the Rising. The notes appear to relate to orders emanating from and given to the Jacob’s factory garrison during the insurrection. Reference is also made in the notes to another senior Volunteer, Adjunct Thomas Slater. The notes were extant with a cover letter from Tomás S. Cuffe to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. apparently referring to his retrieval of 1916 material (4 December 1947).
A letter from Tomás S. Cuffe, 225 Harold’s Cross Road, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to his retrieval ‘after considerable trouble’ of some revolutionary-era material. Cuffe refers to Joe Magrath and Richard ‘Dick’ Hayes.