A postcard from Kathleen M. Murphy wishing Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. a happy Christmas. The picture side of the card shows Iona Cathedral and St. Martin’s Cross in Scotland.
A Christmas greeting card from Peadar Seán Doyle, a Fine Gael Teachta Dála. The card shows the then recently unveiled eighteen-meter-high granite obelisk on Leinster Lawn on the Merrion Square side of Leinster House, the seat of the Oireachtas or parliament of Ireland. The obelisk (designed by the OPW architect Raymond McGrath) commemorated Arthur Griffith, the President of Dáil Éireann, Michael Collins, the revolutionary leader, and Kevin O’Higgins, a leading Irish Free State minister who was assassinated in 1927.
A card conveying Christmas blessings from Archbishop Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.
A New Year card (‘Herzliche Neujahrsgrüße’ translates as New Year’s greetings) from Eduard Hempel, a diplomat who served as Germany’s minister to Ireland (his official title was ‘envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary’) from 1937 to 1945.
A Christmas spiritual bouquet card from Margaret Mary Pearse to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
A Christmas greeting card from Archbishop Joseph Walsh.
A bound volume with a manuscript annotation on spine which reads ‘Literature in Ireland’. The volume contains original letters from several prominent authors, artists and public figures. Includes correspondence from Francis MacManus, Seán Ó Faoláin, Mary MacSwiney, Maurice Walsh, Daniel Corkery, Patrick Kavanagh, William Magennis, Seosamh Mac Grianna, Michael McLaverty, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Helena Concannon, John Desmond Sheridan, and Kathleen O’Brennan. The volume also contains newspaper and magazine clippings, printed ephemera, review material, and photographs relating to prominent Irish artists and writers. There are many clippings in the volume which assess and critique the writings of James Joyce. The material is extant in an ‘Walker’s Century Scrap & Newscutting’ volume.
A clipping of a review article on Daniel Corkery’s ‘Synge and Irish Literature’. The review was published in the ‘Dublin Magazine’ (Oct.-Dec. 1931).
A letter from Mary MacSwiney to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to some writings of Terence MacSwiney which may be suitable for publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She refers to the ‘short sketch of O’Donovan Ross’ or ‘some extracts from the “Music of Freedom”, the first book he published in 1907’. She adds that the Terence’s papers were ‘badly scattered’ as a result of ‘enemy action from time to time’.
A clipping of a report on court case in London considering the question of the domicile of the late James Joyce. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (2 November 1942).