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A letter from Joseph Walsh, Archbishop of Tuam, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for his loan of paintings for the recent exhibition at the Tuam Art Club.

A photographic print of Jack Bilbo at work on a sculpture titled ‘Life’. A typescript caption notes that the sculpture is his new creation for the World Fair. The caption also states that Bilbo is ‘well known as an artist, author, and manger of the Modern Art Gallery’. The image is credited to the Keystone Photo Agency.

A clipping of an article referring to the imminent opening of a new gallery for Irish art in Limerick. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (4 September 1946).

A clipping of an article on street life in Dublin written by the Belfast-based artist George Campbell. The article was published in the ‘Irish Travel’ magazine in February 1945. Campbell’s article includes a description of the stalls and markets on Horseman’s Row which formed part of the old Anglesea Market site near Moore Street. Reference is also made to Campbell's visit to the office of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ on nearby Capel Street, occupied by the editors of the periodical, Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.

An invitation card to a private viewing of Evie Hone paintings of the Stations of the Cross (commissioned for the parish church in Kiltulla in County Galway).

A clipping of the front cover of the ‘Extension Magazine’ (March 1947). The cover illustration shows Saint Patrick. The magazine was a monthly periodical published by the Extension Society, a Catholic charitable organisation founded in 1905 with the aim of promoting missionary work in rural and impoverished regions of the United States.

A clipping of an article on an exhibition in the Victor Waddington Galleries on South Anne Street in Dublin which included works by Jacob Epstein, Feliks Topolski, Dora Gordine and Matthew Smith. The article was published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ (6 April 1947).

A letter from Sir Shane Leslie, 18 Knightsbridge Court, Sloane Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFMCap. re a painting titled ‘The Eviction’ by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson, 1846-1933).

A clipping of an article reporting on the reception of the sculptor Clare Sheridan into the Catholic Church. The article notes that she is a cousin of both Winston Churchill and Sir Shane Leslie.

A list of paintings on loan from ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office on Capel Street in Dublin. The paintings were loaned for the Tuam Art Club exhibition and include work by Jack B. Yeats, Richard King, Seán Keating, and Harry Kernoff.