Assorted clippings, mostly relating to the life and work of Fr. Richard Henebry. The file includes: • Clippings of an article titled ‘Irish Music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. A manuscript annotation indicates it was published in ‘The Irish Year Book / Leabhar na hÉireann’ (1908). • Advertisement for Thomas Hennebry, wholesale grocer, 16 George’s Street, Waterford. ‘The Waterford Star’, 24 Feb. 1906. • An artifice referring to the publication of ‘Duanaire Dáibhid Uí Bhruadair/Poems of David O’Bruadair’ (edited by Fr. J. C. McErlean SJ and published by the Irish Texts Society in 1910). • An article re an address by Fr. Richard Henebry re the summer school in Ring College in County Waterford (c.1908). • Off-print drafts of an article titled ‘On the tonality of music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. (Published in ‘The Leader’, 20 Feb. 1904). • Clipping of an article titled ‘Some Gaelic Scholars by F.D.T.’. The article includes photographic prints of Rev. Patrick O’Donnell, Rev. Eugene O’Growney, Douglas Hyde, Fr. Michael O’Hickey, and Fr. Richard Henebry (Catholic University, Washington). (c.1900). • A clipping of an article publicizing the posthumous publication of ‘A handbook of Irish Music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. ‘The Father Mathew Record’, Vol. 17, No. 8 (Aug. 1924), pp 131-4. • A clipping of an article titled ‘Stáir-cuimhne ar Reistéird de Hendeberg’ published in ‘St. Ursula’s Annual’. • An appreciation article re Fr. Richard Henebry published in ‘The Collegian’ (1918). Includes photographic print of Henebry.
Programme for the literary sessions organised by the Cork Young Men’s Society for November 1903 to April 1904. The speakers included Fr. Richard Henebry on ‘Irish Music’ (1 December 1903) and Fr. John Butler OSFC on ‘The work and homes of the early Irish Franciscans’ (23 February 1904).
A copy of Seán Ó Currín, ‘Scríbhne Risteird de Hindeberg’ (Baile Atha Cliath: Brun agus Nualan). An edited collection of Fr. Richard Henebry’s writings and speeches published in 1924. Includes a photographic print of Henebry. With a manuscript dedication from the author to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Several clippings, mostly of reviews of the book (in English), are inserted into the volume. One of the clippings is of an article on the funeral of Nóra Ní Fhoghluda (d. Dec. 1925), the wife of Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’). Several Capuchin friars attended the funeral in the Church of Immaculate Conception in Cork.
The subseries comprises a small collection of papers relating to the Irish scholar and writer An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire (Peter O’Leary). Ó Laoghaire was a prominent Irish language activist and member of Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League). He published numerous books and articles on a range of topics, including an autobiography (‘Mo Sgéal Féin’), the first drama in Irish (‘Tadhg saor’), original prose, Irish translations of the Gospels, and translations of medieval Irish texts. The collection includes his letters to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., two Capuchin friars who shared Ó Laoghaire’s enthusiasm for the promotion of the Irish language. This collection also includes some material relating to Ó Laoghaire’s published work, particularly clippings of his transcriptions and translations of Irish texts, and a manuscript draft of ‘An Craos-Deamhan’. Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. was interested in Ó Laoghaire’s career and sought to promote his contribution to the Irish language. He seemingly acquired most of this material for personal research. The Ó Laoghaire collection was later preserved among Moynihan’s personal papers.
A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. referring to the Munster Feis. Ó Laoghaire wrote ‘I used to be mad when I used to see the citizens of Cork profiting by the Feis and contributing next to nothing to the cost of the Feis’. He adds 'The people of Cork would actually let a few earnest men work themselves to death and then pay the cost of their own funerals'.
