A bound volume containing mainly pasted-in Christmas and New Years’ greeting cards, notes, and letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The volume includes cards from Robert Monteith, Seumas O’Brien (1880-1959), Major General Hugo MacNeill, Clare Sheridan, Eduard Hempel, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap., Margaret Mary Pearse, Tadhg Mac Firbishigh, Bishop John Dignan, Fr. Donal Herlihy, and Archbishop Ettore Felici. Includes sketches by Seán O’Connor (1909-1992). With a portrait sketch (in ink) of Fr. Senan by ‘Jocandus’ Joseph O’Connor (1877-1957).
A Christmas card with a printed greeting from Éamon de Valera. The card has a woodcut illustration of Jerpoint Abbey in County Kilkenny by the artist Seán O’Sullivan (1906-1964). The caption refers to the foundation of the abbey following a donation made by the King of Ossory, Domnall Mac Gilla Pátraic, in the twelfth century.
A Christmas greeting card from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain). The card dates to December 1937 and was probably sent to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The Spanish text translates as ‘Forward to victory over fascism in 1938!’. The greeting in Irish reads ‘Happy Christmas and New Year / from / the Irish Republican Army / “Connolly Battalion” / XV International Brigade / Army of the Republic of Spain / Christmas 1937’. (Volume page 107).
Draft article by Constance M. Vickerman titled ‘Christmas Crib for the Home’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1967).
A colour group photograph of the Cashel Presentation Sisters taken on Christmas Day 1980.
Back row: Srs. Catherine McGuire, Eilis Moloney, Anna Dineen, Frances Murphy, de Lourdes Hedigan, Maureen McGrath, Paula Buckley, Bernard McCormack, Miriam O’Byrne.
Middle row: Srs. Bosco O’Leary, Frances Teresa O’Brien, Rosarii O’Dwyer, Claude Meagher, Eucharia O’Gorman, Mairéad Mulcahy, Emmanuel Harty, Margaret Mary McCarthy, Kathleen McCarthy, Dolores O’Doherty, Oliver Sheehy, Loreto O’Dwyer, Brigid O’Connor, Josephine Dunne.
Seated: Srs. Albert Marshall, Aquin O’Grady, Ignatius Laffan, Perpetua O’Dwyer, Camillus Ryan, Agatha Farrell, Bonaventure Ahearne, Patrick Bugler, Camilla Farrell.
Presentation SistersA Christmas greeting card signed by Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde). The card is signed ‘An Craoibhín’, an abbreviated form of ‘An Craoibhín Aoibhinn’ (meaning the ‘pleasant little branch’), a pen name frequently used by Hyde. As the head of state, Hyde was the supreme commander of the Irish Defence Forces. The card shows the cap badge design of the Irish Defence forces which was itself derived from the badge of the Irish Volunteers.
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Mother Mary Martin (Auth rec)Programmes for Christmas Pantomime programmes at Father Mathew Hall. The file comprises programmes for 'Dick Whittington and his Cat' (1964-65); 'Babes in the Wood' (1966-67); 'Robinson Crusoe' (1968-69).
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Chronology (probably compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.) of important events associated with the Capuchin presence in Kilkenny dating from 1643 to 1876. Many of the later entries are references from local newspapers.
Healy, Angelus, 1875-1953, Capuchin priest