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A file of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The file includes personal letters while some of the correspondence contains references to the activities of the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) and to Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. The correspondents include W.A. Leyden (Conradh na Gaeilge, 8 Loretto Terrace, Belfast), Thomas McGrath (Ballinaclash, Clashmore, County Waterford), Maurice Davin (Deerpark, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), F.M. Gallagher (The Mullins, Donegal Town), Richard O’Brien (3 Church Street, Tipperary Town), Joseph O’Neill (Shantalla, Galway), Robert Hilliard (Fern Ville, Lismore, County Waterford), Diarmuid (Jeremiah) Fawsitt (South Mall, Cork), Christopher Tuite (12 Temple Street, Dublin), William Keyes McDonnell (Bandon, County Cork), Éamonn O’Neill (Kinsale, County Cork), George Unthank Macnamara (Bankyle, Corofin, County Clare), W.B. Morris (37 Lady Lane, Waterford), W.H. Howard (South Street, New Ross, County Wexford), John C. Mulvihill (38 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio), Alice Stopford Green (36 Grosvenor Road, Westminster), Liam Ó Míodhacháin (Conradh na Gaelige, Dungarvan, County Waterford), Domhnall Ó Fearachair (Dan Fraher), (Dungarvan, County Waterford), D. Dwane (Kilmallock, County Limerick), Aloysius MacMahon (1 Grace Park Gardens, Drumcondra, Dublin), Julie M. Murphy (Banard, Ballymacarberry, County Waterford), Brother Thomas Kane (Principal, De La Salle Training College, Waterford), T.F. O’Higgins (Conradh na Gaelige, Dungarvan, County Waterford), Fr. Patrick MacSwiney, Sir Bertram Windle, Sister M. Aloysius (Presentation Convent, Waterford), Sir Alan Henry Bellingham (Castlebellingham, County Louth), H. Parlin (Catholic Church, Tredegar, Monmouthshire), Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Vicar A. Suppiger (Berne, Switzerland), B. O’Donovan (President, Gaelic League, Philadelphia), William Joseph Adderley (Muirghéis Opera Committee, Dublin), Mac Giolla Bhríde (William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne). Canon William Walsh (President, St. John’s College, Waterford), R.E. Sheehan (Port Said, Egypt), Fr. Morrissey (49 Beresford Street, Waterford), Michael Beary (Bridge Cottage, Mount Melleray, Cappoquin, County Waterford), Christopher J. Dunn (Watercourse, Cork), John Millar (2 The Glen, Limestone Road, Belfast), Séamus Ó Cathasaigh (Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin), M.S. [Mac Gabhann?] (Manulla, Castlebar, County Mayo), P. Power (Dungarvan, County Waterford), and Mrs Martin (Woodview, Portlaw, County Waterford), Padraig Ó Catháin (Conradh na Gaeilge, Mitchelstown, County Cork), Myles Quinlan (Cullen, County Tipperary), P.W. Kenny (Kingsmeadow House, Waterford), J.H. Nelson (Manager, The Munster & Leinster Bank Limited, Cork), and Ellen McGrath (Clogheen, County Tipperary). Includes a copy letter from Fr. Richard Henebry (National President of the Gaelic League in America) to a Mr Wilson (5 Dec. 1910).

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume is annotated in gilt on the spine ‘Letters to Dr. Henebry / Vol. II’. The volume contains many letters from Heinrich Bewerunge, a German-born musicologist, and a Professor at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare. The letters from Bewerunge (1903-11) refer primarily to scholarship on church music. Many of the remaining letters relate to Henebry’s interactions with individuals connected with Conradh na Gaeilge and other organisations promoting the Gaelic Revival. The file includes letters from C. MacCarthy (Rob Roy Hotel, Queenstown, County Cork), Fr. Patrick Lynch (St. Wilfrid’s Church, Hulme, Manchester), P. Lonergan (County Waterford), Fr. Paul Kehoe (Mulrankin, Bridgetown, County Wexford), M. Crotty (9 Parnell Street, Waterford), J. Lennon (Dumore East, County Waterford), Fr. Thomas F. Furlong (Administrator, Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford), Seámus O Féihille (Riverquarter, County Kilkenny), Fr. James K. Fielding (Mooncoin, County Kilkenny), Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO, Canon John O’Mahony (Glenville, Crookstown, County Cork), John O’Meara (Barrack Hill, Clonakilty, County Cork), Fr. R. Little (Pairc-An-Tobair, Quin, County Clare), Tomás de Róiste (Conradh na Gaeilge, County Tipperary), Lillian Smiddy (Hampshire House, Adelaide Road, Kingstown), Michael Beary (Bridge Cottage, Mount Melleray, Cappoquin, County Waterford), M. J. Byrne (11 Princes’ Street, Tralee, County Kerry), E. Riordan (Isca Villa, Rushbrooke, County Cork), P.W. Kenny (Kingsmeadow House, Waterford), Dáithí Ó Dubháin, R.J. Brennan (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, County Kilkenny), James Walsh (Secretary, Conradh na Gaeilge, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Eleanor Hull (Irish Texts Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Sister Benignus McGrath (Monastère du Bon Pasteur, Angers, France), Pádraig Ó Dálaigh (Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin), Margaret O’Reilly (The Irish Book Company, 4 D’Olier Street, Dublin), Vicar A. Suppiger (Lucerne, Switzerland), Patrick Delaney (Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), Fr. M.F. Callanan (St. Columba’s Church, Durango, Colorado), Charlotte Milligan Fox (Irish Literary Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Patrick Healy, and Fr. John Doody (President, St. Kiernan’s College, Kilkenny). The file includes a letter (26 Apr. 1907) from Fr. Richard Henebry to his brother John Henebry, and letters to the latter conveying sympathies on the former’s death. A letter (in Irish) from Séamus Breathnach (Lismore, County Waterford) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the friar’s research on Henebry’s work is also extant in the volume (12 Sept. 1924).

Letters, memoranda, and printed matter re Fr. Richard Henebry’s appointment to the chair of Irish at the Catholic University in Washington DC. The file includes letters from Fr. Thomas Joseph Shahan, University Rector, re Henebry’s appointment. Shahan wrote ‘The students of your courses are likely, both for Gaelic and Sanskrit, to be persons of considerable culture, graduates of colleges, or people of leisure from the city, which has a population of about ¼ million, mostly government officials and their families’ (21 May 1895). A letter from Fr. Thomas James Conaty, Rector, refers to Henebry’s ill-health (27 Aug. 1900) while a later letter (5 July 1901) informs him that his contract would not be renewed. The file also includes a typescript copy of a statement from Henebry to the board of trustees of the Catholic University stating his educational attainments and stating his case for reappointment to the Chair of Irish. With three copies of a printed leaflet titled ‘Facts for Brother Hibernians / Save the Gaelic Chair and the Honor of Ireland’ (1902).

A bound volume containing letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The spine is titled with the names of the correspondents in the volume. These are Sir Bertram Windle, Fr. Michael Sheehan, and Kuno Meyer (41 Huskission Street, Liverpool). Most of the letters in the volume are from Fr. Michael Sheehan and relate to Gaelic scholarship and Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. One of the letters from Kuno Meyer refers to Henebry’s tribute to the late Heinrich Zimmer (1851-1910), the German-born Irish language scholar (20 Feb. 1911). The volume also contains a copy of Henebry’s lengthy reply to Meyer. Henebry wrote ‘Now I will stand for no man to say which is untrue in order to vilify my religion and the religion of my people. Why import theological discussions into Keltics? The Grammatica Celtica was written by a Catholic. Read it through and you will fail to find a single reference to ‘Der relige Dr Martin Luther in it’ (28 Feb. 1911). The letters from Windle refer to matters relating to Henebry’s Professorship of Irish in University College Cork and to the latter’s declining health.

A bound volume of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume is annotated in gilt on the spine ‘Letters to Dr. Henebry / Vol. I’. Many of the letters refer to the Gaelic League and general Irish language activism. The volume contains letters from Norma Borthwick (47 Haddington Road, Dublin), Madeline O’Connor (Simmonstown, Celbridge, County Kildare), Fr. P. Feeney (St. Patrick’s Home, Hennessy’s Road, Waterford), Fr. Thomas F. Furlong (Administrator, Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford), Fr. T.A. Pembroke (President, Rockwell College, Cashel, County Tipperary), Thomas McGrath (Ballinaclash, Clashmore, Youghal), Charlotte Dease (‘Searloit Ní Déisighe’, Rath House, Ballybrittas, Queen’s County), Fr. M.F. Callanan (Presbytery, Killimore, Ballinasloe), Patrick Riordan (42 St. John’s Road, Boxmoor, Hertfordshire), F. O’Byrne (St. John’s Presbytery, Fountains Road, Liverpool), Fr. Pendergast (St. Nicholas Presbytery, Kilmeaden, County Waterford), Canon James O’Meara (Church of St. Oswald, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Manchester), Padraig Ó Gormáin (Collège des Irlandais, Paris), Fr. Kelleher (St. John’s College, Waterford), John Heffernan (St. Patrick’s College, Thurles, County Tipperary), Máire de Paor (Henry Street, Dublin), M.J. Crowe (Cumberland Street, Birr, County Offaly), Sr. M. Assumption (Lynton, Devon), Tess O’Donnell (South Mall, Lismore, County Waterford), Alice Stopford Green (36 Grosvenor Road, Westminster), Margaret O’Reilly (Macroom, County Cork), Charlotte Milligan Fox (Irish Literary Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), Eleanor Hull (Irish Texts Society, 20 Hanover Square, London), and C. MacCarthy (Rob Roy Hotel, Queenstown, County Cork).

Manuscript drafts by Fr. Richard Henebry titled ‘Dinnseanchas gearr nDéise’ referring to the origins of placenames, traditions, and historical events associated with the Déise Gaeltacht (County Waterford).

Draft sermon titled ‘On the necessity of and utility of penance’ by Fr. Richard Henebry.