File 8 - Loose Letters File

Letter from Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn Letter from Albert Dryer Letter from Winfred M. Letts Letter from Thomas MacGreevy Letter from Jennie Dowdall Letter from Alice Rynne Letter from Mary Purcell Letter from 'The Irish Press'

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IE CA CP/3/1/2/8

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Loose Letters File

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  • 1952 (Creation)

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367 items; Manuscript, typescript, printed, and newspaper clipping

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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)

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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, Fr. Hermes Kreilkamp OFM Cap. (St. Felix Friary, Huntington, Indiana), Ada P. McCormick (editor of the ‘Letter’, Tucson, Arizona), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ (re a Richard King exhibition in Boston College, Massachusetts), Fr. A. J. Molyneux (Presbytery, Glenflesk, Killarney, County Kerry), Adolf Morath (photographer), Tomás S. Cuffe, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Liam Andrews (Springfield Road, Belfast), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Fr. Francis Regis (Bishop’s House, Kumbakonam, India), C.J. Woollen, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Albert Dryer (11 Kenyon Stret, Fairfield, Sydney), Doran Hurley, Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork), Johanna Coakley (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Frieda Le Pla, Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Sister M. Magdalena (Convent of Mercy, Carlow), Colonel John L. Throckmorton (Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Washington, United States), Thomas MacGreevy, Gerald Boland (Minister of Justice), Mannix Joyce, Hamish Fraser, Jennie Dowdall, Sister M. Patrick (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Liam Brophy (Roebuck Road, Dundrum, County Dublin), James D.B. O’Toole, James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, Sister Mary Berchmans (Medical Missionaries of Mary, Rosemount, Booterstown, County Dublin), Maurice J. Moriarty (Muckross, Killarney, County Kerry), Mary Purcell (32 Gardiner Place, Dublin), Sister Mary de Pazzi (Presentation Convent, Killarney, County Kerry), Sister Angela (St. Joseph’s Convent, Upper Lindum Street, Lincoln), Alison King (Vico Terrace, Dalkey, County Dublin), Séamus Campbell, Winfred Ford (43a Albany Street, Leith, Scotland), Joseph Szövérffy (Irish Folklore Commission), Rev. H. Stoneley (Ince Vicarage, Westwood Lane, Wigan), Winfred M. Letts (Verschoyle), Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), James McGurrin (President, American Irish Historical Society, New York), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Michael J. Kennedy (‘Manresa’, Trimlestown Park, Booterstown, Dublin), Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Ana O’Reilly (Botanic Road, Dublin), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Robert Monteith, Merrill Proctor Ball (Williamsburg, Virginia, United States), John Bennett Shaw, Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), Dr. J. Vincent Carroll, Sister Mary Joseph SL (Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, refers to Kate O’Brien, 1897-1974), Michael A. Bowles, Marie J. McGee Hynes, Fr. J.A. Shiel SJ (St. Joseph’s Church, Bihar, India), Mona de Cruz (3 Westlands Road, Penang, Malaysia), Helen Walker Homan (205 East 70th Street, New York), Críostóir Ó Floinn, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959), Seán Lemass, Fr. Denis McEnery (Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Virginia, Minnesota), Michael Tierney (President, University College Dublin), Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. J.C. Morgan (Redemptorist Fathers, Bangalore, India), Archbishop William Godfrey, Seán P. O’Reilly (Instituto Mangold, Madrid, Spain), Peter F. Anson, Pádraig De Brún, John English & Co. (printers), Canon T. Gunnigan (St. Mary’s Church, Ballinrobe, County Mayo), C.E. O’Gorman (De Villiers Street, Johannesburg, South Africa), William D. Ryan (North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois), John J. Kelly, Lillie Le Pla (St. Enda’s, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), David Marcus, Quintin Montgomery Wright, Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, John Jordan, James D.B. O’Toole (41 Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin), William F. Shaughnessy (The Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Fr. Peter Keane OMI (Immaculate Conception Church, Brownsville, Texas), Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., R.T. House (‘Books Abroad, An International Literary Quarterly’), Susan Hughes Goetz, Willie Fitzpatrick (Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks), John Hennig (Walmer, Sutton, County Dublin), Fr. Thomas McLaughlin OSB (Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland), Fr. Matthew Hoehn OSB (St. Mary’s Abbey, High Street, Newark, New Jersey), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Fr. Daniel J. O’Donovan (Sacred Heart Church, Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, San Diego, California), Bishop William MacNeely, James M.B. Wright, Móirín Chavasse, and Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes SJ. The file also includes faculties granted to Fr. Senan by Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscans (10 Jan. 1952); A list of licensed bookmakers in Dublin (26 Feb. 1952).

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  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Irish

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D.L. Kelleher: http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/k/Kelleher_DL/life.htm
Ada P. McCormick: http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/uoa/UAMS327.xml
Joseph O'Connor: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=188
Liam Andrews: https://www.rosss.ie/artist/liam-andrews/10058/
Eddie Doherty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Doherty
Máirín Cregan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/cregan-mairin-a9572
Albert Dryer: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/irish_national_association
Doran Hurley: https://bethlehembooks.com/person/doran-hurley/
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/
Thomas MacGreevy: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macgreevy-thomas-a5218
Gerald Boland: https://www.dib.ie/biography/boland-gerald-a0762
Mannix Joyce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannix_Joyce
Hamish Frazer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Fraser
Jennie Dowdall: https://www.dib.ie/biography/dowdall-jane-jennie-a2725
Alice Rynne (née Curtayne): https://www.dib.ie/biography/curtayne-alice-a2328
James Comyn: https://www.dib.ie/biography/comyn-sir-james-peter-a1906
Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=5011
Adolf Morath: http://www.odonohoearchive.com/a-camera-for-a-brush-portrait-of-adolf-morath-20th-century-celebrity-photographer/
Mary Purcell: https://www.dib.ie/biography/purcell-mary-a7521
Winfred M. Letts (Verschoyle): https://www.dib.ie/biography/letts-winifred-mabel-a4813
James McGurrin: https://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/home/621987/leitrim-man-james-mcgurrin-was-a-champion-of-irish-american-life.html
Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien: https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-sophie-raffalovich-a6495
Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF: https://citydesert.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/jerome-hawes-priest-hermit-architect/
Robert Monteith: https://www.dib.ie/biography/monteith-robert-a5892
John Bennett Shaw: https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6zk5q2v
Michael A. Bowles: https://www.dib.ie/biography/bowles-michael-andrew-a0820
Críostóir Ó Floinn: http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/members/ofloinn/
Seán Lemass: https://www.dib.ie/biography/lemass-sean-a4787
Michael Tierney: https://www.dib.ie/biography/tierney-michael-a8556
Archbishop William Godfrey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Godfrey
Pádraig De Brún: https://www.dib.ie/biography/de-brun-padraig-browne-patrick-a2457
David Marcus: https://www.dib.ie/biography/marcus-david-a9856
Fr. Henry Edward George Rope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Edward_George_Rope
John Jordan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/jordan-john-edward-a4349
John Hennig: https://www.goethe.de/ins/ie/en/kul/sup/dsi/20733408.html
Archbishop James Thomas Gibbons Hayes, S.J.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hayes_(bishop)

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