A letter from Sir Shane Leslie, 18 Knightsbridge Court, Sloane Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFMCap. re a painting titled ‘The Eviction’ by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson, 1846-1933).
A letter from Germaine Stockley to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. giving particulars of the life of the late sculptor Joseph Higgins. She wrote ‘the great Irish sculptor died in Youghal in [the] beginning of 1925. I saw him a few days before his death. He died of consumption’. She also refers to Higgins’s son-in-law Seamus Murphy.
A clipping of a report (with photographs) on the opening of an exhibition of the work of the sculptor Clare Sheridan in the Dawson Galleries in Dublin. Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. attended the opening. The article is taken from ‘The Standard’ (28 May 1948).
An information flier on the Mainie Jellet travelling scholarship fund established to perpetuate the memory of her ‘inspiring work as a teacher and friend of the younger generation of Irish artists’.
A card publicising an exhibition of art from the Joseph Brennan Collection at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin. The exhibition included sculptures by Albert Power and Jerome Connor and paintings by Walter Osborne and Nathaniel Hone.
A photographic print of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (right) with Peadar Seán Doyle, Lord Mayor of Dublin, outside St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street.
A photographic print of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. with Judge John J. Kelly (first on the right) at Dublin Airport. Kelly was President of the Irish Fellowship Club in Chicago and Chairman of the Chicago National Bank. The individual on the left is identified as a Mr. Fitzgerald. An annotation on the reverse of the print credits the image to the ‘Irish Independent’.
A large bound volume containing documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to the 1916 Rising. The volume holds an original copy of the 'Irish War News' (25 April 1916) along with original postcard prints, memoriam cards for the Rising’s leaders and other ephemera. Some of the newspaper clippings are of articles reporting on subsequent commemorations of the insurrection. The volume also holds photographs, clippings, and printed ephemera relating to prominent Irish artists and exhibitions of their work.