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The entrance to the Mardyke, an extensive area of parkland in Cork city.

A view of the shoreline along Lough Conn in County Mayo. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'By the shores of Lough Conn'.

A scene near the village of Ballyliffin on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal.

A view of the Cathedral of St. Eunan and St. Columba in Letterkenny, County Donegal.

A postcard print of North Street in New Ross in County Wexford.

Letter from Seán O'Sullivan to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to a cover design mostly likely for 'The Capuchin Annual'.

Copy letter from Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Yeats refers to a 'loan exhibition' which Fr. Senan wants to organize for the artist. Yeats writes 'I am afraid that such an exhibition would be against the sale of my paintings. The suggestion might come to people that I had retired'. A later letter from Yeats in the volume states that he would be in favour of such an exhibition to be held in 1945.

A letter from ‘Rutherford Mayne’ (Samuel John Waddell, 1878-1967) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A letter from Robert Monteith (1879-1956) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Monteith refers to a revised edition of his work 'Casement's last adventure' and to additions and emendations he would like to make to the same. Reference is made to the assistance given to Monteith by the Capuchin Franciscans at Rochestown in County Cork and to the role played by Austin Stack in the 'Tralee happenings' in 1916.

A letter from Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (1850-1939), Oblate House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. Dawson includes a description of the events of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park on 21 November 1920. He writes 'sixteen young students, from a different house, were among those who escaped when they saw the armed forces coming. As they clambered over the embankments, the bullets were hopping about them, but the only hit among our youngsters was when one of them had the top of one finger shot off'. He also refers to a raid on the Oblate house of studies (most likely Belmont House in Stillorgan) and to the rough treatment meted out by the soldiers.