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‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) / Review and Correspondence Volume

A bound volume with a gilt title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942). The volume contains content from many prominent politicians (Seán T. O’Kelly), clergymen, artists (Jack B. Yeats), writers (Patrick Kavanagh), and diplomats (John loader Maffey, David Gray, and Eduard Hempel). Includes letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. from Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Daniel Corkery, Bishop Patrick Lyons, Canon Patrick Rogers, Bishop Thomas Keogh, Seán MacEntee, Oscar Traynor, George Noble Plunkett, Bishop Edward Doorly, Gerald Boland, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Bishop James Staunton SJ, Gerturde Parry, Thomas McEllistrim, Bishop James Joseph MacNamee, Robert Maire Smyllie, Art O’Brien (Art Ó Briain), Fr. Nicholas O’Brien OFM Cap. (refers to T.J. Kiernan’s arrival as Irish ambassador to the Holy See), and Eamonn Cooney.

‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) / Review and Correspondence Volume

A bound volume with a gilt title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936). The volume contains content from various politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers.

‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1934-5) / Review and Correspondence Volume

A bound volume with a title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ published in 1934 and 1935. The volume contains content from various prominent politicians, religious figures, artists, and writers including Peter F. Anson, Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM, Sophie Raffalovich O’Brien, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Archbishop William Hayden, D.L. Kelleher, Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell, Eamon Broy, John Whelan Dulanty (High Commissioner for the Irish Free State in London), Marion King, Frank Duff, Somhairle Mac Cana, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Bishop Patrick Finegan, Bishop Robert Browne, Eamonn O’Neill, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., and Bishop James Roche.

‘Seanchas’, Aran Islands

An image of two inhabitants of the Aran Islands in about 1940. The title of the print is ‘seanchas’, an old Irish word referring to the act of storytelling and conveying an ancient tale handed down by oral tradition. A ‘seanchaí’ was a storyteller or a custodian of this tradition.

‘Republicans are We’ to the air of ‘The Soldiers Song’

Manuscript transcript of song ‘Republicans are We’ to the air of ‘The Soldiers’ Song’. The first verse reads:
‘When bravely we’d fought our land to free
Our Tricolour flying o’ar us,
The ancient foe for peace did seek,
From I.R.A. victorious
Our envoys went to London town
And there, let our Republic down;
But still, till Freedom battle’s won
Republicans are We’.

‘My experiences in the 1916 Rising by Father Columbus OSFC’

A record by Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. of events between 30 April and 4 May 1916. Most of the memoir refers to his interaction with British military officers and his efforts to minister to the rebel leaders prior to their executions in Kilmainham Jail. The memoir begins: ‘I have been asked repeatedly to write out a detailed and connected account of my personal experiences, what I actually saw and did during the Rising. At length I have decided to comply with the request. I do so however not with the intention of ever publishing this report. … As I sit then at my desk here in the silence and solitude of my monastic cell in Dublin, fourteen weeks have elapsed since those eventful days. I take up my pen. …’.

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