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- 1946-1953 (Creation)
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c.300 pp; 32.5 cm x 20 cm; Bound volume, newspaper clipping, printed, and manuscript
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A bound volume containing original letters and newspaper clippings offering mostly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ published between 1947 and 1952. The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers. Correspondents include Fr. Stephen Brown SJ, Maurice Lavanoux, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. James A. Brennan (St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny), Kathleen O’Brennan, Fr. Arthur Haydn Ryan (Queen's University Belfast), Fr. John Power (Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Saltley, Birmingham), Pearse Hutchinson, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector of All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Benedict Kiely, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Patrick John Little, P.C. O’Mahony, Bishop Daniel Mageean, Fr. Gino Paro (Apostolic Nunciature, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Archbishop John D’Alton, Sir Shane Leslie, Kathleen M. Murphy, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap., Denis Gwynn, Peadar O’Curry, J. Vincent Carroll, Áine Ceannt, Tomás S. Cuffe, Alan Downey (‘Waterford News’, 49-51 O’Connell Street, Waterford), C.P. Curran, Ian Stuart (Laragh, Glendalough, County Wicklow), Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, Jack B. Yeats, Mary E. Hardebeck, Richard Hayes, Aodh de Blacam, D.L. Kelleher, Adolf Morath, Richard King, ‘Jocandus’ (Joseph O’Connor), Sybil Thorndike (Lady Casson), Germaine Stockley, David Sears, Lady Eleanor Yarrow, Elizabeth Corr, Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Seamus Kelly, Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Fr. Donal Herlihy, Nuala Ní Riain, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Patricia Lavelle, Fr. Benignus Hickey OCSO, Doran Hurley, Lieutenant Christopher Rooney, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Peter F. Anson, Francis McCullagh, Frieda Le Pla, Michael J. Molloy, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (Cathedral House, New Delhi), Walter McGrath (‘The Cork Examiner’), Mannix Joyce, Liam Brophy, and Archbishop Alfred A. Sinnott.
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- English
- Irish
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The volume covers are torn and badly frayed at the edges. The spine binding is also broken. Careful manual handling is required.