A bound volume with a manuscript annotation on spine which reads ‘Literature in Ireland’. The volume contains original letters from several prominent authors, artists and public figures. Includes correspondence from Francis MacManus, Seán Ó Faoláin, Mary MacSwiney, Maurice Walsh, Daniel Corkery, Patrick Kavanagh, William Magennis, Seosamh Mac Grianna, Michael McLaverty, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Helena Concannon, John Desmond Sheridan, and Kathleen O’Brennan. The volume also contains newspaper and magazine clippings, printed ephemera, review material, and photographs relating to prominent Irish artists and writers. There are many clippings in the volume which assess and critique the writings of James Joyce. The material is extant in an ‘Walker’s Century Scrap & Newscutting’ volume.
A clipping of a review article on Daniel Corkery’s ‘Synge and Irish Literature’. The review was published in the ‘Dublin Magazine’ (Oct.-Dec. 1931).
A letter from Mary MacSwiney to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to some writings of Terence MacSwiney which may be suitable for publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She refers to the ‘short sketch of O’Donovan Ross’ or ‘some extracts from the “Music of Freedom”, the first book he published in 1907’. She adds that the Terence’s papers were ‘badly scattered’ as a result of ‘enemy action from time to time’.
A clipping of a report on court case in London considering the question of the domicile of the late James Joyce. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (2 November 1942).
A letter from Mary MacSwiney to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. seeking the return of some Terence MacSwiney material which they had sent him.
A clipping of an article of an article reviewing the literary work of Canon Patrick Sheehan. The article is taken from ‘The Advocate’ (Melbourne, Australia), published on 6 September 1928.
Letter from Arthur O’Shaughnessy to Miss Compton apologizing for not writing sooner and affirming that his time has been ‘wholly taken up visiting my friends the brotherhood of poets in Paris’.
An autographed print of Nellie Melba, a celebrated Australian soprano and operatic singer of the late Victorian era and the early twentieth century.
A file of letters from Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, a senior official in the Roman Curia. All the letters are written from Rome. One letter is dated 6 September 1801 with the remaining four seemingly dating from May to August 1817. The letters are unsigned and a few may be incomplete. With a covering envelope annotated ‘Consalvi’.
A letter from Compton MacKenzie to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his hope that his article will be sufficient for publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’.