Copy Letter Book

A notebook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters. The notebook was compiled while Fr. Senan was visiting England and receiving medical treatment in a clinic on Wimpole Street in London. Dr. Colm A. McDonnell accompanied him for a portion of his trip. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Private letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / June 1954 – September 1954’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Mauri

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Level of description: File
Date: 1954
Reference: 14
Extent and medium: 110 pp; 18 cm x 11 cm; Bound volume; manuscript; newspaper clipping; postcard print
Scope and content: A notebook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters. The notebook was compiled while Fr. Senan was visiting England and receiving medical treatment in a clinic on Wimpole Street in London. Dr. Colm A. McDonnell accompanied him for a portion of his trip. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Private letters / Father Senan OFM Cap. / June 1954 – September 1954’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Church Street Friary, Dublin), T.J. Molloy (art editor, Independent House, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Jo Crean (Baymount, Tralee, County Kerry), Fr. Donal O’Connor, Joan Hammond, Rev. John O. Buchmann, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (refers to his sorrow on hearing that O’Hara will be leaving Ireland to take up a new diplomatic appointment in England. Fr. Senan also wrote ‘twenty-six years in an editor’s chair should be a stretch long enough for anyone’, 14/15 June 1954, pp 13-15), Bishop Daniel Mageean, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Leo Smith (Dawson Gallery, Dublin), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Thomas MacGreevy, Chief Superintendent Harry O’Mara, Mary Wren, D.L. Kelleher, Bernard Sheppard, and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. The volume includes pasted-in newspaper clippings and postcard prints mainly acquired while Fr. Senan was in England. The postcards include images of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Royal Family, and some views of Stoke-on-Trent.
General note: Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents Thomas MacGreevy: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macgreevy-thomas-a5218 Joseph O'Connor: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=188 Joan Hammond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hammond Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ: https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=bcheights19610414.2.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
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. > Correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Bound Volumes of Copy Correspondence

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A quarter of a century in these times, when here and in Britain so many good periodicals have been pushed to the wall, is a long time for one man to keep one periodical alive, and…
The story of The Annual under Father Senan makes one of the most praiseworthy chapters in the whole history of Irish journalism. He has resigned the editorship but his achievement…
FOR a quarter of a century now a Capuchin friar, Father Senan, has edited "The Capuchin Annual," and under his direction it has become one of the most remarkable features of Irish…

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AY, AUGUST 21, 1954 IRISH PAGES Reviews Capuchin Annual FOR a quarter of a century now a Capuchin friar, Father Senan, has edited "The Capuchin Annual," and under his direction it has become one of the most remarkable features of Irish periodical publication. Those who know him and appreciate the extent of his achievement will read with regret his farewell note to "Annual" readers in the current issue, 1953-54, the last to appear under his editorship. He resigns the task because of prolonged illness. A quarter of a century in these times, when here and in Britain so many good periodicals have been pushed to the wall, is a long time for one man to keep one periodical alive, and to maintain in it such high standards of matter, printing, pictorial reproduction. Even the most casual glance over the Annuals of the past will show the service they have done to art and letters in this country. The net was spread very wide. But it never fished up anything that was not, at the least, of topical interest; and very frequently it brought to light first-class material and gave encouragement to the people who produced it. The story of The Annual under Father Senan makes one of the most praiseworthy chapters in the whole history of Irish journalism. He has resigned the editorship but his achievement will be an inspiration and a secure foundation for his successors. B.K.