A draft article titled ‘The Fair Host of the Books of Erin’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. A letter from Eoin Henebry to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. refers to this manuscript which he suggests has already been published. (27 Aug. 1924). Evidently, Eoin Henebry gave this manuscript to Fr. Senan. (See CA CP/3/3/1/15).
Draft notes compiled by Fr. Richard Henebry on Irish language texts. The notes are signed ‘Risteard de Hindeberg’ and include a reference to the year 1913.
Research notes compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. re the life of Fr. Richard Henebry. The file includes two small notebooks containing headings for a biographical treatment of Henebry’s life. One of the manuscripts is titled ‘Brogue’ and refers to ‘Celtic scholarship’ and the ‘dialect of English spoken in Ireland, or Anglo-Irish is usually called the “brogue”. The text is signed by Fr. Senan and is dated 21 Sept. 1924.
A postcard print captioned 'Presbyterian Church & the Bridge, Portlaw, County Waterford'. The church dates to about 1845. The two-storey building adjacent to the church is the manse (a name given to a house inhabited by a minister, typically from the Presbyterian, Methodist or other Reformed Protestant religions). The manse in Portlaw was occupied by the Reverend David Ferguson, Presbyterian minister in Portlaw, from about 1843 to 1887. The Presbyterian church in Portlaw was closed in 1931.
An image of the ruined Mount Bolton House near Portlaw in County Waterford. A figure in clerical garb (possibly Fr. Richard Henebry) stands at the doorway.
A clipping of an article by Fr. Richard Henebry titled ‘The Collecting of Irish music’ (‘Waterford News’, 11 May 1914). The article refers to Henebry's work on the preservation of traditional Irish tunes and to the need to establish an 'Phonogram Archive of Irish music' in University College Cork.
Letter from Fr. Mícheál Ó Flannagáin, The Gaelic League, 149 Broadway, New York, to Fr. Richard Henebry. Flannagáin refers to Hudson Maxim (1853-1927), an American military inventor and author.
An offprint of an article by Fr. Richard Henebry titled ‘An Unpublished Poem by W. English’. The article appeared in the first number of ‘Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie’, a periodical founded in 1897 by Kuno Meyer and Ludwig Christian Stern. A manuscript annotation on the first reads ‘To his brother with the writer’s compliments’.