Art and Artists / Bound Photographic and Document Volume

A bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Art and Artists’. The volume contains newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence (particularly re reproductions of paintings), printed ephemera (exhibition catalogues), and photographic content relating to prominent Irish artists, and exhibitions of their work. Many of these artists were associated with Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The file also includes colour and black and white reproductions

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Level of description
File
Date
1853-1949
Reference
14
Extent and medium
250 pp; 37 cm x 26 cm; Bound volume, photographic print, newspaper clipping and printed
Scope and content
A bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Art and Artists’. The volume contains newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence (particularly re reproductions of paintings), printed ephemera (exhibition catalogues), and photographic content relating to prominent Irish artists, and exhibitions of their work. Many of these artists were associated with Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The file also includes colour and black and white reproductions of work by old masters and various continental artists. Includes assorted clippings and some original letters from Jack B. Yeats, and documents re Seán O’Sullivan RHA, Patrick Joseph Tuohy, James Humbert Craig, and the sculptors John Hogan, and Jerome Connor. Also includes some original letters from George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948). With a typescript list of paintings loaned by ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office to the Tuam Art Club exhibition in 1945.
Physical characteristics
The volume is fragile. The binding is slightly cracked and detached from the text block. Careful manual handling is required.
Repository
Irish Capuchin Archives
Context
Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Bound Photographic and Document Volumes

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  • SIR JOHN LAVERY'S FUNERAL
  • CAPTAIN S. BRENNAN (right), who represented the Premier, Mr. de Valera, at Sir John Lavery's funeral, arriving at the cemetery with the Rev. Father Senan, O.M. Cap.
  • MOURNERS at the funeral of Sir John Lavery, R.A., at Mount Jerome Cemetery yesterday.
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SIR JOHN LAVERY'S FUNERAL CAPTAIN S. BRENNAN (right), who represented the Premier, Mr. de Valera, at Sir John Lavery's funeral, arriving at the cemetery with the Rev. Father Senan, O.M. Cap. MOURNERS at the funeral of Sir John Lavery, R.A., at Mount Jerome Cemetery yesterday. FUNERALS SIR JOHN LAVERY The remains of Sir John Lavery were interviewed yesterday in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. They had been removed from Rossenarra House, Kilkenny, and brought by train to Kingsbridge, whence the funeral took place to the cemetery. When the coffin had been placed in the vault the final prayers were said by the Mort Rev. Dr. Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe. The chief mourners were—Mrs. J. McEnery (step-daughter), Mr. J. McEnery (son-in-law); Mrs. K. Clenaghan (Belfast), Miss Patricia Clenaghan; Messrs. Edward and Scams Clenaghan (relatives); and Miss Fitzgerald (secretary to the late Sir John). In deference to the wishes of the family, the funeral was private, but among the sympathisers and friends were the Rev. J. Leonard, C.M., All Hallows; Captain Sean Brennan, representing An Taoiseach; Mr. W. T. Cograve, T.D.; Mr. Justice O'Byrne, Mr. Dermod O'Brien, President of the Royal Hibernian Academy; Mr. Leo Whelan, R.H.A. Mr. James Sleator, R.H.A.; the Rev. Fr. Senan, O.F.M. Cap.; the Rev. Fr. Frederick, C.P.; the Rev. Fr. Coleman, C.P.; the Rev. Fr. Edmund, C.P., Mount Argus; the Rev. P. Cahill, C.C., Ennis; Senator D. Fitzgerald, Alderman A. Byrne, T.D.; Alderman P. S. Doyle, T.D.; Mr. A. Byrne, Jun., T.D.; Mr. Joseph Brennan, Chairman, Currency Commission; Mr. Ernest C. Hayes, Mr. Donal O'Cahill, Colonel C. F. Russell, Mr. T. F. Bacon, Mr. J. P. O'Reilly, Dr. J. Boyd Barrett, Captain H. St. George Harpor, P. Beeves Smyth, and John P. Kelly, Curator, Municipal Gallery of Art.

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Issued standing on a high eminence with all Erinn in my sight, and from every point of it were issuing bright flames that joined above and filled the atmosphere. I looked again and behold fires were still burning on mountains and hills but the sight was poor compared to the former wide brilliance. The third time I cast my eyes abroad nothing brighter than the waning flames of torches and candles met my saze. This was sad enough but when I looked again the land was covered with ashes save where a solicary torches burned in caverns and shadows of rocks. I shut my eyes and wept comforted on again them to Few In the but was opening Eriu banba Inis-Fáil. Ire Inis-Fáil Foðla Scota lerne hibernia moira juverna OR an on te do rinne - i Art ó Mórnacáin, 1922 See a steady bright flame blazing in the north and which spread scattering itself from its focus till the whole island was once more brilliantly lighted up. the vision of brigad

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