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Art and Artists / Bound Photographic and Document Volume

A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on spine which reads ‘Art and Artists’. The volume contains newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence (particularly re loans of paintings), printed ephemera (exhibition catalogues), and photographs relating to prominent Irish artists, and exhibitions of their work. Many of these artists were associated with Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The volume includes:
• Clippings (obituaries) and photographs relating to the death of Albert Power (1881-1945). The photographs show Éamon de Valera, Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. in attendance at Power’s funeral. The clippings include an appreciation by C.P. Curran. (‘Sunday Independent’, 15 July 1945).
• Photographic copies of artwork by various old masters.
• Photographic prints of Mary Redmond (1863-1930). Includes images of her at work on the Father Mathew Statue (O’Connell Street, Dublin). One of these photographs is dated 30 June 1891. Another image shows her memorial bust for RIC District Inspector William Limbrick Martin.
• A clipping of an article by Kathleen O’Brennan, ‘Seán Keating Speaks Out’, ‘The Irish Digest’ (c.1945).
• A flier for the Tuam Art Exhibition, St. Jarlath’s College, County Galway (1-4 April 1945).
• A catalogue of the Evie Hone Exhibition, The Dawson Gallery, Dublin. (Oct.-Nov. 1945).
• A clipping of an article titled ‘Stained glass at An Tur Gloine’, ‘Irish Statesman’ (13 Mar. 1926).
• Typescript list of paintings and artworks loaned from ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office. Includes works by Jack B. Yeats, Seán O’Sullivan, Seán Keating, and Richard King. (1946). With similar lists of artworks (paintings and sketches) loaned to the Tuam Art Exhibition in 1948 and in 1950.
• Clippings with references to the Victor Waddington Galleries on South Anne Street, Dublin (1947) and exhibitions in the Royal Hibernian Academy.
• Includes a letter to Fr. Senan from Sir Shane Leslie re a painting titled ‘The Eviction’ by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson, 1846-1933). 10 May 1947.
• Catalogue for the exhibition of art by Sir Gerald Kelly RHA, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin. (11-13 Mar. 1948).
• Catalogue of art by Jacob Epstein, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin (Apr. 1948).
• Letters to Fr. Senan from Germaine Stockley and Somhairle Mac Cana (1948)
• Letters to Fr. Senan from Seamus Murphy, sculptor, enclosing a photographic print of his bust of Thomas Davis. (21 Oct. 1942-16 Mar. 1943)
• A letter to Fr. Senan from Máirín Allen (22 Oct. 1948) and a photographic card from Clare Sheridan (Dec. 1949).
• A flier advertising an exhibition by nine painters in the ‘Art in Ulster’ exhibition, Gallery, 55a Donegall Place, Belfast. (19-31 Jan. 1948)
• A catalogue of paintings by Anne Yeats (1948)
• Photographic prints of Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald at an exhibition of paintings by Max and Gladys MacCabe, Dawson Gallery, Dublin (Sept. 1950).
• A printed flier on John Hogan’s sculpture of the dead Christ in St. Teresa’s Church, Dublin. Text (poem) by ‘Benmore’. (Dec. 1924).

Other artists referred to in the volume (mainly in newspaper clippings and exhibition catalogues) include:
Dermod O’Brien
Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917)
Robert James Enraght-Moony (1879-1946)
Laurence Campbell (1911-2001) Includes images of the sculptural busts of Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
J. Humbert Craig RHA (1877-1944)
Jack Bilbo (1907-1967)
Thomas J. Cullen (1879-1947)
George Frederick Campbell (1917-1979)
Clare Sheridan
Dugald Sutherland MacColl (1859-1948)
Andrew O’Connor (1874-1941), sculptor
Seán Keating
May Power (1903-1993), sculptor
Oisín Kelly (1915-1981)
Fr. Jack Hanlon (1913-1968)
Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974)
Harry Kernoff (1900-1974)
Oliver Sheppard (1865-1941)
Charles Geoghegan (1820-1908), architect
Seán O’Connor (1909-1992)

Arranmore, County Donegal

An image of a resident of Arranmore, an island off the west coast of County Donegal. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Off to the bog, Arranmore Island, County Donegal'.

Armagh City

A snowy image of Armagh in January 1945. St. Patrick’s Cathedral is prominent in the background. Built between 1840 and 1904, it serves as the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Armagh.

Armagh

A print captioned 'General view of Armagh'. An ink stamp on the reverse of the print credits the image to 'A & C Photography, 14 Howard Street, Belfast'.

Armagh

A view over the town of Armagh. The image is taken from an elevated position on Sandy Hill, the site of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The statue in the foreground honours William Crolly (1780-1849), the Archbishop of Armagh from 1835 to 1849 who was instrumental in securing the site for the cathedral and who laid its foundation stone on St. Patrick’s Day in 1840.

Ardtully House, Kilgarvan, County Kerry

A view of the ruins of Ardtully House near Kilgarvan in County Kerry. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Grounds of Ardtully Castle / showing the turret of the Orpen Mansion'. The original castle on this site was destroyed during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century. In 1847, Sir Richard Orpen (1788-1876) demolished the remains of the castle and replaced it with a five-bay, two-storey Scottish-Baronial style house. This house was itself destroyed during the War of Independence in 1921.

Ards Retreat Centre

Clipping of an article by Pat O’Leary from the 'Irish Catholic' on the history of the Ard Mhuire Retreat Centre.

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