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A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘IV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Canon Patrick Rogers, David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Rita McGoldrick, D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Archbishop Anselm Edward John Kenealy OFM Cap., Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Francis McCullagh, Fr. Francis Moynihan (‘The Advocate’, Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Australia), Frank Ryan (‘An Reult’, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath), Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr, Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., William Frederick Paul Stockley, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Peter F. Anson, Alison King, Val Vousden (Bill MacNevin), Thomas MacGreevy, Seán O’Sullivan (Headford Cottage, Avoca Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin), Fr Dermot MacIvor (Ardee, County Louth), Mary Wren, Sister M. Agnes (Poor Clare Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Dorothy Day, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Brian Walsh (optician, Mount Southwell, Letterkenny, County Donegal), Germaine Stockley, William Magennis, Maud Gonne MacBride, Jack B. Yeats, John Desmond Sheridan, Fr. Henry S. Glendon OP, Seán Moylan, Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Pearse Hutchinson, Germaine Stockley, Bishop John Dignan, Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), and Una O’Connor (Santa Monica, California).

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘VI’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Seumas MacManus, Páraig Ó Caoimh (Patrick O’Keeffe), Jarlath A. O’Connell (solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin), Fr. J.S. Sheehy CM (St. Joseph’s, Blackrock, County Dublin), Mairin Healy (Ballsbridge, Dublin), Germaine Stockley, Seán Ó Baoighill, Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, David Robinson (Glendalough House, Annamore, County Wicklow), Desmond Ryan, Canon Patrick Rogers, C.P. Curran, James P. Comyn (15 Waterloo Road, Dublin), Joseph A. McCarthy (6 Trafalgar Terrace, Monkstown, County Dublin), Fr. Edward Dodsworth Kirby (Saint John’s Road, Knutsford), Fr. John Moloney (Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin), An t-Athair Pádraig Ó Duinnín, Arthur de Tivoli, D.L. Kelleher, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Sister Mary (Good Shepherd Convent, Sunday’s Well, Cork), Emily Hughes, León Ó Broin, Sir John Loader Maffey, Daivd Gray, Gabriel Fallon, Máirín Allen, Mary O’Connell (‘The Advocate’, Beckett Street, Melbourne), Cormac Ó Cuillenáin (University College Cork), Seán O’Sullivan, Tomás S. Cuffe, Eugene F. Collins (Temple Chambers, Eustace Street, Dublin), Seamus Murphy (Dillon’s Cross, Cork), Fr. E. Versmissen SJ (Résidence Jésuite Saint Claude La Colombière, Paray-le-Monial, France), Sr. Mary Bernadette (St. Clare’s Convent, Harold’s Cross, Dublin), Seán Nesson, J.J. Kiely (‘Independent’ Newspapers Ltd., Belfast), Sister Francesca MacDonagh (St. Mary’s Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, County Dublin), Mervyn Wall, Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Pearse Hutchinson (‘Findrum’, Rathgar Road, Dublin), Peter F. Anson, Helena Concannon, E.E. Barton, Patrick John Little, Gabriel Murphy (147 Sunday’s Well, Cork), Michael McLaverty, Anne Hansen (West Ocean View, Norfolk, Virginia), Aodh de Blacam, Fr. William O'Neill CSSp., Edith M. Scott Mason, Diarmuid Seosamh Ó Conchubhair (Diarmuid Joseph O’Connor), Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Aloys Georg Fleischmann, Colin Johnston Robb, Sister M. Philomena (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Mary Hardebeck, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Paddy Donohoe (24th Infantry Battalion, Ceannt Barracks, Curragh Camp, County Kildare), Frank E. Benner, Thomas MacGreevy, Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Sister M. Patrick (Presentation Convent, George’s Hill, Dublin), Benedict Kiely, Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand), Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap. (Father Mathew Hall, Queen Street, Cork), John O’Gorman, Sir Shane Leslie, Fr. Stephen Brown SJ (Central Catholic Library Association, Dublin), Pádraig De Brún, Bishop William MacNeely, Patrick C. O’Grady, Joan Campbell (Shore Road, Stevenson, Ayrshire), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Francis McCullagh, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Séamus Campbell (St. Malachy’s College, Belfast), Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Cormac Mac Cárthaigh, and T.J. Kiernan (Hotel Canberra, Canberra, Australia).

A file of letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from D.L. Kelleher, Alison King (Vico Terrace, Dalkey, County Dublin), Joseph A. McCarthy (6 Trafalgar Terrace, Monkstown, County Dublin), Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Ethel Mannin, Sister Mary de Pazzi (Rosemount, Booterstown, County Dublin), Pat Lawlor (Wellington, New Zealand, enclosing a photograph of Michael A. Bowles), Margaret Mary Pearse, Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Pádraig De Brún, Séamus Campbell, Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Peter F. Anson, Ernest Keegan, Fr. Hugh Morely OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, John Alvin Feltis, Doran Hurley, Adolf Morath (photographer), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Seán T. O’Kelly (President of Ireland), Thomas MacGreevy, Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’), Fr. J. O’Connell (St. Columban’s Seminary, Essendon, Victoria, Australia), Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Alan C. Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Sister Gabriel (Maryknoll Sisters, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii), Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Michael A. Bowles, Donald Attwater (Saint Ives, Cornwall), Alfred White (15 Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Chester Beatty Library, Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Elisabeth Dubreuil-Chambardel, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Maire Ó Brolcháin (Lenaboy Park, Galway), Nancy Leonard (Carrollstown, Trim, County Meath), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Jack B. Yeats, Fr. Jack Hanlon, Sister Bernarda (St. Antony’s Convent, Pavaratty, India), Fr. Colman O’Neill OP, An tAthair Micheál Ó Sé OFM Cap. (Fr. Michael O’Shea), Archbishop John Colburn Garner, Sister M. Liguori (Booterstown, County Dublin), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Winefride Nolan (Aughrim, County Wicklow), and Major A.F. Joslin (Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine, Germany).

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.

• 'The Father Mathew “Sacred Thirst” Sodality and Father Mathew Hall Rules' (Dublin: Published by the General Committee, Father Mathew Hall, 1937). The President was Fr. Micheál Ó Se OFM Cap. and the Vice-President was Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Printed, 14 pp. 3 copies.
• Publicity material associated with temperance sodalities established by the Capuchin Franciscan friars. Includes:
'Indulgences granted to Temperance Sodalities'.
'Father Theobald Mathew Total Abstinence Association / Explanatory Leaflet'.
'Membership card of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association'.
'What is the Sacred Heart Sodality?'
'Rules of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association'.
c.1915-50. Printed, 38 pp.
• Blank pledge certificates of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association. c.1930-1940. Printed, 2 pp.
• Blank diplomas of affiliation with the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association, St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, and Holy Trinity Church, Father Mathew Quay, Cork. c.1930-1940. 3 copies.
• 'The Young Irish Crusaders / A League of Prayer and Good Works, to aid the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association / Object and Rules'. c.1930. Printed, 2 pp.
• 'The Young Irish Crusaders Prayer Book / St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin' (Dublin: Browne & Nolan Ltd., 1954), 128 pp. 3 copies.

The volume records the monthly meetings of the committee of Father Mathew Temperance Hall, Church Street. The first page contains a list of the names and terms of offices of the Capuchin friars who acted as president and vice-president of Father Mathew Hall (1893-1943). The minutes refer to routine matters of administration of the Hall’s operation including the elections of officers, financial accounts and applications for the hiring and use of the Hall by various groups. The meeting of 3 July 1935 considered the proposal for the showing of ‘talkies’ (sound pictures) in the Hall. A typescript memorandum to Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., President, about procuring films for the Hall is pasted into the volume.

Minute book of the ‘Father Mathew Players’. The title page contains an annotation: ‘Daniel McCarthy, Honorary Secretary’. The volume contains a record of the monthly meetings of the committee of the Players’ group. Inserts include a typescript copy of the Rules of the Father Mathew Players adopted at the General Meeting on 23 Aug. 1936. The rules note that ‘membership shall be confined to members of the Sacred Thirst Sodality attached to the Church of St. Mary of the Angels’. The minutes are signed by successive Presidents of Father Mathew Hall, Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. and Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap.

Correspondence with the Performing Right Society Ltd., Chatham House, 13 George Street, Hanover Square, London. The correspondence relates to the granting of licences to perform and make use of music controlled by the members of the aforementioned Society at entertainments held in Father Mathew Hall. The correspondents include the Presidents of Father Mathew Hall, Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. Responding to the claims of infringement of copyright, Fr. Columbus referred to the amateur status of the performers in the musicals and the philanthropic nature of the Association which ran the Hall (21 Nov. 1927). The file includes printed literature from the Society and newspaper clippings reporting a judgement made in a court case taken by the Society against Bray Urban District Council for infringement of copyright ('Irish Independent', 16 Nov. 1927). The dispute was eventually settled when the Father Mathew Hall Committee agreed to pay £3 3s for performing rights’ fees at the Hall. A letter of 12 Oct. 1943 referred to the intention of the Hall Committee to apply to the Metropolitan District Court for a licence to stage dances in St. Brigid’s Hall