File 9 - Letter Book

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IE CA CP/3/1/1/9

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Letter Book

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  • 1933-1947 (Creation)

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124 pp; 30 cm x 24 cm; Bound volume, manuscript, and typescript

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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)

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A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘II’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Fr. Philip John Adamson (Secretary to the Archbishop of Liverpool), Fr. Cuthbert Hess OFM Cap., Jack Donnelly (Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast), Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap., Leo O’Brien, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (Cathedral, Simla, India), John English & Co. (printers), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Charles L. Wagner, D.L. Kelleher, Wilfrid Cantwell (architect), Mary Hardebeck, Maurice Lavanoux (Liturgical Arts Society, New York), Patrick Lawlor (Catholic Writers’ Movement), Mary O’Connell (Beckett Street, Melbourne), Archbishop Joseph Walsh, Seamus de Faoite, Michael A. Bowles, Aodh de Blacam, John Desmond Sheridan, Alan Macauley (Irish American Film Corp.), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (Boston College, Massachusetts), Peter F. Anson, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Tomás S. Cuffe, Oliver Saint-George Hawksley (Isle of Gigha, Argyll, Scotland), Fr. A.J. Cleary (Saints Peter and Paul Presbytery, South Melbourne, Australia), Séamus Campbell (editor, ‘Irish Bookman’), Fr. John Crowe (Saints Peter and Paul Church, Athlone, County Westmeath), Fr. Piaras de Hindeberg SJ, P.A. MacMahon (Secretary, The Thomas Moore Society), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joesph Connolly (Melford, Westfield Road, Dublin), Sister M. Patrick (Convent of St. Columban, Chinese Mission Convent, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Major General Hugo MacNeill, Dr. J. Vincent Carroll, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. M.P. O’Sullivan, (Oak Park Lane, Monrovia, California), Seán Moylan, Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Jack B. Yeats, Fr. Victor Sheppard OFM (Franciscan Friary, 4 Merchants’ Quay, Dublin), Fr. Emil A. Heiring (Mount Saint Mary of the West, Norwood, Ohio), Maud Gonne MacBride, R.R. Figgis (Secretary, The Friends of the National Collections of Ireland), Francis McCullagh, Patrick John Little, Margaret Mary Pearse, G.P. Daly, (Palmerston Road, Rathmines, Dublin), Maureen McManus (Secretary, The Legion of Mary, Belfast), Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Frieda Le Pla, Micheál Ó Ceanáinn, Seán Ó Baoighill, J.J. O’Connor (National College of Art, Dublin), Sydney Gifford Czira (‘John Brennan’), J.P. O’Brien (Manager, Irish Tourist Association), Fr. Peter L. Danner SJ, Mervyn Wall, Secretary, Office of the Higher Commissioner for the Irish Free State, London, Mary O’Doherty (Carlisle Street, Dublin), Fr. M.J. Dalton (Mount Alvernia, Mallow, County Cork), Jarlath A. O’Connell (solicitor, Dame Street, Dublin), Nuala Costello (Tuam Art Club), Joseph Patrick Walshe (re the fate of Seán Russell), Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Philip Rooney, Seán O’Sullivan, Máirín Allen, Benedict Kiely, and J.A. Power (Knock Villa, Salthill, County Galway). Enclosures include letters from Brian Furey (The Parsons Arms, Flushing, Long Island, New York) to Benedict Kiely (1946); Typescript list of ‘IRA Prisoners at present serving sentences in British Gaols’ (1945).

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  • English
  • French
  • Irish

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Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents

Fr. Philip John Adamson: https://stjosephandstalban.com/history/st-albans-founded-1841/assistant-priests/philip-john-adamson-1925-1933/
Leo O’Brien: https://www.irishcatholic.com/fighting-for-irelands-freedom-drove-me-mad-claimed-convicted-murderer/
John Hennig: https://www.goethe.de/ins/ie/en/kul/sup/dsi/20733408.html
Wilfrid Cantwell: https://www.archiseek.com/tag/wilfrid-cantwell/
Aodh de Blacam: https://www.dib.ie/biography/de-blacam-aodh-hugh-saunders-blackham-aodh-sandrach-de-blacam-a2455
D.L. Kelleher: http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/k/Kelleher_DL/life.htm
Seamus de Faoite: https://kerrywritersmuseum.com/online-exhibitions/kerrys-amateur-dramatic-heritage/seamus-de-faoite-a-forgotten-kerry-writer/
Maud Gonne MacBride: Maud Gonne MacBride: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macbride-edith-maud-gonne-a5110
Michael A. Bowles: https://www.dib.ie/biography/bowles-michael-andrew-a0820
John Desmond Sheridan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/sheridan-john-desmond-a8038
Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow): https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19530316&id=STA1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HKYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=5225,1577481
Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien: https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-sophie-raffalovich-a6495
Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=5011
Fr. Piaras de Hindeberg SJ: https://www.jesuitarchives.ie/henebry-pierce-1912-1982-jesuit-priest
Joseph Connolly: https://www.dib.ie/biography/connolly-joseph-a1955
Major General Hugo MacNeill: https://www.dib.ie/biography/mcneill-hugh-hyacinth-hugo-a5750
Seán Moylan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/moylan-sean-a6011
Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bodont.html
Jack B. Yeats: https://www.dib.ie/biography/yeats-jack-butler-a9157
Francis McCullagh: https://www.dib.ie/biography/mccullagh-francis-a5634
Patrick John Little: https://www.dib.ie/biography/little-patrick-john-p-j-a4851
Margaret Mary Pearse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mary_Pearse
Frieda Le Pla: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2017/05/05/i-took-to-going-off-for-long-tramps-by-myself-over-the-fields-and-the-beech-clad-hills-frieda-le-pla-deaf-blind-author/
Sydney Gifford Czira (‘John Brennan’): https://www.dib.ie/biography/czira-gifford-sydney-madge-john-brennan-a2356
Mervyn Wall: https://www.dib.ie/biography/wall-mervyn-eugene-welply-a8856
Joseph Walshe: https://www.dib.ie/biography/walshe-joseph-patrick-a8908
Philip Rooney: https://www.dib.ie/biography/rooney-philip-a7796
Seán O'Sullivan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/osullivan-sean-a7072
Máirín Allen: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1842
Benedict Kiely: https://www.dib.ie/biography/kiely-benedict-ben-a9533
Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ: https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=bcheights19610414.2.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------

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