A letter from Richard Valentine Williams (‘Richard Rowley’) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the inclusion of his Columcille poems in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and supplying some brief biographical information. He writes ‘the name I write over is a pseudonym, Richard Rowley is only a ghost who lives in his poems and plays, and his happy enough to have no history’.
Manuscript annotation on reverse reads: ‘Gen. Richard Mulcahy T.D., Minister for Education, speaking on the occasion of the opening of Feis Maitiú, Easter Sunday, 1955’. Pasted onto annotated card: ‘Independent Newspapers Ltd.’
File of tributes to Richard King compiled for 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975). Includes contributions by M.L. Dunne, Monsignor T.J. McMahon, Patrick Heney, Ernest Keegan, Richard Corcoran, John McKenna, Canon R. Carroll, Kevin C. McCourt and Louis C. Peppard. The file also includes a copy letter from Angela O’Brien, Irish Society for Design and Craftwork, to Alison King conveying the Society’s sympathies on the death of her husband (15 Apr. 1974).
A collection of photoengraving plates of liturgical artwork produced by Richard King for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'.
A studio photographic print of the artist Richard King.
... from St. Patricks college, Thurles
This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.
A clipping of an article on the ruins of Rheban Castle in County Kildare. The article includes an illustration of the ruins.
Photographic prints by Rex Roberts Studios Ltd., Wilton House, 8 Appian Way, Dublin. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:
• The Lakes of Killarney, County Kerry.
• CIE locomotive train pulling into a station.
• Winter scenery around Enniskerry, County Wicklow.
• The Italian Navy tall ship, Amerigo Vespucci.
• The Custom House, Dublin.
• The Round tower at Glendalough, County Wicklow
• The Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook, Dublin.
• Mrs McNie, hand-weaver, near Newport, County Mayo.
• On the road above Bantry Bay, County Cork.
• Knightstown Harbour, Valentia Island, County Kerry.
• Lough Gill, County Sligo.
• Valentia Harbour, County Kerry.
• River Lee, Cork.
• On the Blasket Islands looking from Great Blasket towards the mainland.
• The Abbot’s Cross, St. Michael’s Oratory, Skellig Michael.
• Launching a currach off the Blasket Islands.
• Scenes at the Puck Fair, Killorglin, County Kerry.
• Mulranny, County Mayo.
• A craftsman dressing a mill stone.
A clipping of short reviews of ‘Memories of the dead’ by Martin Daly and ‘A chronicle of jails’ by Darrell Figgis. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (18 June 1917).