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Alphabetical register of members of the Sacred Heart Sodality, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. Entries are listed under name, residence, guild number, date of enrolment (sometimes given as the Saint’s day for the day of enrolment), and remarks. Occasionally, details are given in relation to the dates of death of members. The title page is annotated: ‘Miss M. Kendrick appointed Secretary, June 1924. (Fr. Canice Bourke, OSFC, Director)’. The following list of directors of the Sodality is given:
Fr. Ferdinand Glenny OFM Cap., January 1929.
Fr. Macartan McGirr OFM Cap., August 1931.
Fr. Ferdinand Glenny OFM Cap., September 1937.
Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., October 1943.

A volume containing copy correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Most of the letters are manuscript copies of Fr. Senan’s outgoing letters but the volume also includes some copies of letters received by the friar. A partial alphabetical and page index of correspondents is included at the start of volume. The spine is gilt-titled ‘Minute Book’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes correspondence with Peter F. Anson, Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Séamus Ó Braonáin, Aodh de Blacam, Michael A. Bowles, Frank E. Benner, Captain Charles Brennan, Séamus Campbell (James J. Campbell), Maire Comerford, C.P. Curran, Eugene Collins, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Alice Curtayne, Joseph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Fr. Terence Connolly SJ, Archbishop John D’Alton, Bishop John Dignan, Fr. James Enright (Castleisland, County Kerry), Kevin R. Egan, Seán Feehan (Mercier Press), John English & Co. (printers), Patrick Gallagher, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Carl Hardebeck, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Seán Keating, Fr. Edward J. Kissane (President, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Delia Murphy, T.J. Kiernan, Richard J. King, D.L. Kelleher, Benedict Kiely, Charles E. Kelly, Frieda Le Pla, Sir Shane Leslie, Dr. George Little, Patrick John Little, Fr. Frank Moynihan, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., An tAthair Micheál Ó Sé OFM Cap. (Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap.), Fr. Christopher Mangan (Archbishop’s House, Dublin), Francis McCullagh, Herbert Mackey, Bishop William MacNeely, John McCormack, Lily McCormack, Maud Gonne MacBride, Cardinal Joseph MacRory, Major General Hugo MacNeill, Seumas MacManus, Br. Brendan Neary (Salesian Missionary College, Ballinakill, County Laois), Fr. James T. Nolan, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), May O’Connell (Melbourne, Australia), Seán T. O’Kelly (President of Ireland), Art O’Brien, Vincent O’Brien, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, Jarlath A. O’Connell, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM (Papal Nuncio to Ireland), Canon Patrick Rogers, Colin Johnston Robb, Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (Cathedral, Simla, India), William Frederick Paul Stockley, Germaine Stockley, Iseult Gonne (‘Mrs Francis Stuart’), Oscar Traynor, Éamon de Valera, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Mrs F.L. Vickerman, Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Victor Waddington, Mervyn Wall, Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Joseph B. Whelehan, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), and Jack B. Yeats.

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Minute Book’. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the letters relate to contemporary political events while others refer to financial difficulties with the continued operation of the office (1953). Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Áine Ceannt, John Alvin Feltis (Toledo, Ohio), James M.B. Wright, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Maurice D. Blunden (Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, County Wicklow), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair, includes references to conversations with Éamon de Valera), Máirín Cregan (‘Mrs James Ryan’), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association), Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. John Quinlan (Killorglin, County Kerry), John English & Co. (printers), Cormac Breathnach, Margaret Mary Pearse, Hugh O’Hagan, Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Eric Boden, Robert Monteith, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Seámus Ó Mathúna (Youghal, County Cork), Helena Concannon, Br. Charles A. Lynam (Saint Patrick’s, Montgomery Place, New Rochelle, New York), Adolf Morath (photographer), Paul Hutton (Rochestown, County Cork), Joseph J. Carroll (Whitestone School, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia), Frank Fahy, Doran Hurley, Michael P. Albert (73rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio), Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Mildred McTiernan (1741 Newhall Street, San Francisco), John Desmond Sheridan, Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), Sister. M. Dolorine (Webster College, Missouri, United States), Michael A. Bowles, Seán MacBride (Roebuck House, Clonskea, Dublin), Sister M. Teresa Dymphna (Prioress, Mount Carmel Convent, Nairobi, Kenya), Johanna Coakley, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister Joseph Patrick (Sisters of Charity, St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, County Dublin), Sister M. Vincenzo (Dominican Convent, Muckross Park, Donnybrook, Dublin), Aileen O’Reilly, Patrick Duffy (Clonfert Avenue, Portumna, County Galway), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Cathal O’Byrne, Fr. Robert Mageean CSSr, Diarmuid Breathnach, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Robert Brennan, Seamus Murphy, Tom Evans (Evans’ Towers Hotel, Glenbeigh, County Kerry), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Sister M. Benignus (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Fr. George Macarius Korb (Nagoya, Japan), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB, Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Kevin MacGrath (Mespil Road, Dublin), D.L. Kelleher, Leonard J. Schweitzer, Denis Gywnn, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Pádraig De Brún, Michael O’Higgins, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Seumas MacManus, Liam Brophy, Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Vincent O’Connor (231 South Taylor Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois), Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Mannix Joyce, C.J. Woollen, James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), and J.J. O’Connor (Manager, National Bank, 33 Arran Quay, Dublin).

A notebook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters. The notebook was compiled while Fr. Senan was visiting England and receiving medical treatment in a clinic on Wimpole Street in London. Dr. Colm A. McDonnell accompanied him for a portion of his trip. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Private letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / June 1954 – September 1954’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Church Street Friary, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, Independent House, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, Rev. John O. Buchmann, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (refers to his sorrow on hearing that O’Hara will be leaving Ireland to take up a new diplomatic appointment in England. Fr. Senan also wrote ‘twenty-six years in an editor’s chair should be a stretch long enough for anyone’, 14/15 June 1954, pp 13-15), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Leo Smith (Dawson Gallery, Dublin), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Thomas MacGreevy, Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Bernard Sheppard, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. The volume includes pasted-in newspaper clippings and postcard prints mainly acquired while Fr. Senan was in England. The postcards include images of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Royal Family, and some views of Stoke-on-Trent.

A volume containing copy correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / 27 July 1951’. However, the copy correspondence covers dates from 1953 to 1954. The file contains copies of his personal letters, correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office with references to acute financial difficulties in the office, and Fr. Senan’s prolonged ill-health. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), James A. Glennon (116 East 92nd Street, New York), Albert Dryer, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Richard King, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Sister M. Joseph (Presentation Convent, Clondalkin, County Dublin), Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Joan Hammond, Frieda Le Pla, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), James D.B. O’Toole, Archbishop John D’Alton, Doran Hurley, Daphne Pochin Mould, Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Br. Laserian O’Connor OFM Cap. (Capuchin College, Rochestown, County Cork), Fr. Vianney Cashell OFM Cap., Kathleen O’Connell (Government Buildings, Dublin), Josephine Moynihan (Dominican College, Eccles Street, Dublin), Edward A. Beatty (114 Rathgar Road, Dublin), and Fr. Daniel R. Conway OFM Cap. (Saint Fidelis College, Herman, Pennsylvania). A copy letter from Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (but in the hand of Fr. Senan) to J.J. O’Conor, Manager, National Bank, Smithfield, Arran Quay, Dublin, refers to the ‘terrifying dimensions’ of the Capuchin Publication Office’s debt (18 Jan. 1954), pp 41-3; A copy letter from Fr. Senan of Joseph O’Connor reads ‘I have been here for twenty-six years now and my dearest wish for many months is to get out of the place! Some of the staff naturally enough of course are taking it rather badly – Mollie Baxter, for instance, who has been secretary to the office for twenty-five years; Jo Crean who has been a most devoted and efficient member for many years …’. (7 May 1954), pp 141-3.

Photoengraving plates produced for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The printing plates are not captioned but include the following images:
• Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (1900-1977)
• Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (1910-1977)
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (1902-1979)
• Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968)
• Br. Aidan Byrne OFM Cap. (1887-1963)
• Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (1899-1986)
• Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap.
• Fr. Gerald Barron OFM Cap.
• Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Michael Duffy OFM Cap.
• Fr. Dan Joe O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap.
• Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Kenneth Reynolds OFM Cap.
• Fr. Ronald Grace OFM Cap.
• Br. Lawrence Speight OFM Cap.
• Fr. Flavian Welstead OFM Cap. (1939-2017)
• St. Kevin’s Church (otherwise St. Kevin’s Kitchen) by Peter F. Anson
• Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)