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A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the title page reads ‘Private Letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / 11 March 1949’. Includes references to the Captain Robert Monteith fund and contemporary politics. Other letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required lengthy periods of hospitalization in 1949 and in 1953) and to the serious debts accumulated by the Publications Office. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair,), Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, John J. O’Kelly (‘Sceilg’), Aodh de Blacam, Charles E. Kelly, Br. Colmcille Ó Conbhuidhe (Mellifont Abbey, Collon, County Louth), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., John Desmond Sheridan, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, H. Martin Hamilton, Bishop John Dignan, Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Doran Hurley, Adolf Morath (photographer), Thomas Francis O’Sullivan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Lennox Robinson, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Christopher T. Rooney, Frank E. Benner (Fruithill Park, Andersonstown, Belfast), Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Frank Gallagher (Glór Na Mara, Sutton, County Dublin), Ernest Newman, Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Bernard T. Hart (Brooklyn, New York), Monsignor Denis McDaid (Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Pádraig De Brún, Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), John MacCourt (Manitoba, Canada), Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), John English & Co. (printers), Sister Augustine Murray (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Monsignor Hugh Finnegan (Saint Joseph’s, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan), Robert Monteith, Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Judge John J. Kelly (West Washington Street, Chicago), Dr. Colm A. McDonnell, Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap. (Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans), Eileen Crean, Frieda Le Pla, Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Winefride Nolan, Fr. John Ryan SJ (35 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Fr. Patrick Gannon SJ (Miltown Park, Dublin), Lily McCormack, Tomás S. Cuffe, Philip F. Roden (11a Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), D.L. Kelleher, Archbishop John D’Alton, Archbishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Benedict Kiely, J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin), Peter F. Anson, Thomas MacGreevy, Joan Hammond (referring to her reception into the Catholic Church) and Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap.

Includes: A long draft letter to Joseph O’Connor provides a description of Fr. Senan’s interview with Páraig ‘Paudeen’ Ó Caoimh, deputy military governor of Mountjoy prison in Dublin during the Civil War (1949); A letter to O’Connor affirms that Seán O’Casey ‘abominates everything a Catholic Irishman holds sacred’ (22 Nov. 1952); A letter to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, refers to the crippling amount of debt accumulated by the Capuchin Publications Office over the past twenty-five years. Fr. Senan wrote ‘for a good few years the yearly income amounts to £22,000 but unfortunately the outgoings in any given year amount to £24,000 or so’. He also confirms that the profits from the ‘Angelic Shepherd’ publication has failed to clear the office’s debt and asks for a new letter of authorization for the bank. He asks for Fr. Colman’s forgiveness and refers to his hope that assistance from ‘two wealthy American friends’ will help clear the debt (22 Apr. 1953); A letter to Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. refers the death of Maud Gonne MacBride. Fr. Senan wrote ‘She was terrific character. God rest her. I used to love to get her to tell the story of how she went to Spain, was it in 1907, to assassinate King Edward VII’ (28 Apr. 1953).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D 5’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Nicolò Falchi, Jocelyn Harcourt, John MacCourt, Adolf Morath (photographer), Patrick John Little, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., John English & Co. (printers), Bishop John Dignan, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Rita McGoldrick, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Victor Waddington, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., the Catholic Stage Guild, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Kathleen Bowles, Aodh de Blacam, and Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959). Enclosures include agenda of meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (Feb. 1951) and a print of St. Augustine’s Abbey Church, Fox Hill, Nassau, Bahamas.

Photographic album of Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005). The album contains un-captioned black and white photographic prints. Fr. Albert was resident in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) from 1945-67. The volume contains captioned prints relating to Fr. Albert’s ministry in the country including:
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with first communicants in Livingstone.
• Interior views of the High Altar and Sanctuary of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone.
• An aerial view of St. Theresa’s Church and the surrounding suburbs of Livingstone.
• Views of Victoria Falls, Northern Rhodesia.
• Altar servers.
• Excursion trips for Altar servers.
• First Holy Communion Day in Livingstone in 1948 and 1952. The names of the parents and children are given in captions.
• The wedding of Mr and Mrs Butcher in Livingstone.
• Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (1915-2005) with African religious sisters at an air-strip in Northern Rhodesia.

Report and minutes of meeting between Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior. The meeting was held at the Sancta Maria mission station, Lukulu, Northern Rhodesia. The minutes refer to various decrees, appointments and recommendations made in relation to missionary work in Barotseland, and in South Africa.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘II’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Edward Joseph Little (Cliftonville, Bray, County Wicklow), Germaine Stockley, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. P.J. Brophy, F. O’Reilly (Secretary, Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Susan Hughes Goetz, Redmond Corbett, Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, Holywell, North Wales), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Albert Dryer (11 Kenyon Street, Fairfield, Sydney), Seumas MacManus, John English & Co. (printers), Charles Travers (Secretary, Owen Roe O’Neill Memorial Committee), Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Patrick John Little, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Margaret Devlin, Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia), Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Mary Hardebeck, Gerald Pyne (Harehills, Leeds), Adolf Morath (photographer), Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, Matthew Feehan (editor of the ‘Sunday Press’), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Zoltan Lewinter-Frankl, Patrick J. Doyle (Columbia Avenue, Hammond, Indiana), Denis MacDaid, Benedict Kiely, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, George Francis Troup Horne (Birbeck College, London), Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Séamus Campbell, and Max Gluckman.

Detail of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. giving his blessing to the laity following his consecration as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.