Correspondence re the Publication of Fr. Richard Henebry’s ‘A Handbook of Irish Music’

A file including correspondence and related papers re the publication of Fr. Richard Henebry’s ‘A Handbook of Irish Music’. This work was eventually published posthumously by Henebry’s colleagues in University College Cork in 1928. The book was based on a surviving Henebry manuscript which Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. had acquired. Portions of the text were published by Fr. Senan in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. The 1928 publication was edited by Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Henebry’s successor as

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Level of description: File
Date: 1914-1925
Reference: 15
Extent and medium: 104 items; Manuscript, typescript, printed and newspaper clipping
Scope and content: A file including correspondence and related papers re the publication of Fr. Richard Henebry’s ‘A Handbook of Irish Music’. This work was eventually published posthumously by Henebry’s colleagues in University College Cork in 1928. The book was based on a surviving Henebry manuscript which Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. had acquired. Portions of the text were published by Fr. Senan in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. The 1928 publication was edited by Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Henebry’s successor as Professor of Irish in UCC. The file includes correspondence between Sir Bertram Windle and Carl Gilbert Hardebeck on the value of Henebry’s manuscript (1914-16). Windle later affirmed that he did not publish the book at this time (1916) due to the financial cost of such an undertaking (see Windle’s letter to Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. on 4 July 1924). The correspondence from 1924 onward includes letters between Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., John English & Co., and several other printing and publishing companies, re the publication of Henebry’s manuscript. The file also includes letters from Seán Ó Currín, Eoin (John) Henebry, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Tomás de Faoite (Clonlisk, County Offaly), Edmund Downey, Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. (re the publication of extracts of the Henebry manuscript in the ‘The Father Mathew Record’), Fr. Michael Sheehan, Frank Ryan (the file includes several letters from Ryan written in Irish), Mac Giolla Bhríde (William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne), Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO, William O’Brien (Bellevue, Mallow), Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Joseph B. Whelehan, Liam de Róiste, Fr. Richard Aylward (President, St. Kiernan’s College, Kilkenny), Patrick F. Rooney (71 West 95th Street, New York City), William Henry Grattan Flood, Maureen MacLysaght (Hazelwood, Mallow, County Cork), Fr. William Carrigan, (Durrow, County Laois), Douglas Hyde, Fr. Patrick MacSwiney, Fr. Patrick Power, Seán Ó Floinn, Patrick J. Merriman, and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. Includes letters to Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’) forwarding subscriptions for Henebry’s ‘A Handbook of Irish Music’ along with advertisement notices, lists of subscribers, order forms, and newspaper clippings. A letter in this file from Eoin Henebry to Fr. Senan refers to a manuscript titled ‘The Fair Hosts of the Books of Erin’ written by Fr. Richard Henebry which his brother suggests has already been published. He mentions that all the ‘old stuff has been gone over by Seán Ó Currín, Seán Ó Floinn, and by Phil O’Neill’. (27 Aug. 1924).
General note: Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’): https://www.dib.ie/biography/o-donnchadha-tadhg-torna-a6347 Sir Bertram Windle: https://www.dib.ie/biography/windle-sir-bertram-alan-coghill-a9086 Carl Gilbert Hardebeck: https://www.dib.ie/biography/hardebeck-carl-gilbert-a3795 William Frederick Paul Stockley: https://www.dib.ie/biography/stockley-william-frederick-paul-a8321 Edmund Downey: https://www.dib.ie/biography/downey-edmund-a2741 Fr. Michael Sheehan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/sheehan-michael-a8021 Frank Ryan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/ryan-francis-richard-frank-a7865 Mac Giolla Bhríde (William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne): https://www.dib.ie/biography/gibson-william-mac-giolla-bhride-liam-a3461 Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO: https://www.isos.dias.ie/MMA/maurus_o_faolain.html William O’Brien: https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-william-a6503 Seán Ó Ciarghusa: https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-william-a6503 Joseph B. Whelehan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Whelehan Liam de Róiste: https://www.dib.ie/biography/de-roiste-liam-a2470 William Henry Grattan Flood: https://www.dib.ie/biography/flood-william-henry-grattan-a3300 Fr. William Carrigan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/carrigan-william-a1500 Douglas Hyde: https://www.dib.ie/biography/hyde-douglas-de-hide-dubhghlas-a4185 Fr. Patrick MacSwiney: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macswiney-patrick-john-a9955 Fr. Patrick Power: https://www.dib.ie/biography/power-patrick-a7462 Seán Ó Floinn: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=949 Patrick J. Merriman: https://www.ucc.ie/en/heritage/history/people/ucc-presidents/president-patrick-j-merriman/
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 and Papers of Fr. Richard Henebry > Correspondence of Fr. Richard Henebry

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The fee you offer is satisfactory but the cause is far more satisfactory topping this will meet your briefs.
Going a Professor of Mathematics, Father Mencobry will give us some mathematical and acoustical jargon, which frightens the people but which I can make clear. I shall not therefore…
To say the least of it he was a little peculiar (cranky) yet he was thoughtful and careful, so

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102 Limestone Road. Belfast. 31. X. 16. Dear Sir. I would be glad to help any man living or dead who would say a kind word for Irish Traditional Music, so beautiful is this music that I am convinced one might as well dispute the artistic mints of Shakespeare's plays or the symphonies of Beethoven. I father Denebry I understand played the Irish pipes and the Vidlin in an inimitable manner, he had also excellent Gaelio and surely nothing could fit him better for writing a work on Traditional Music. To say the least of it he was a little peculiar (cranky) yet he was thoughtful and careful, so any work he wrote would be a most meant to a class of music which to my mind came from Heaven itself. I will do my best to look over the work and edit it for publication, and where necessary surpoin notes of my own on separate sheets which can be included in the work. Going a Professor of Mathematics, Father Mencobry will give us some mathematical and acoustical jargon, which frightens the people but which I can make clear. I shall not therefore alter his left in our syllable. The fee you offer is satisfactory but the cause is far more satisfactory topping this will meet your briefs. I am Yours talkfully and Gilbert Hard check. V. X. 16. P. S. Owing to some mistake in surname this was returned from Cork. C. G. H.

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BELLEVUE, MALLOW, CO. CORK. Apr 17th 1914 Rev. Dean, I enclose 1/6, mostly abridged to the Kentucky Village Line Museum, and as say I went up to I need. Yours truly William W. B. Rec'd Secret D. J. C. L. K.

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an cumann saodalac, coláiste na n-ollscoile, baile áta cliat. 24/7 1924 Irisleábar an Cumann: "AN REULT" To "Seanán," Peara agus sláinze! Taim zar éis léigeaiz ar "Sean-céol" na h-Eireann "ao iabairz igeaize Rannganna as na Mhinréoirí scoile annso! Miols dóib an Read doiceannai cun a inlle eoluis d'páil, 7 mólas dóib a n-ainmheaic (mar aon le sinzúisí) co cur go Tórna. Ní Ró-ólc an duine me! Taim go Ollain ó Suedband cugann airú inde. Miols sean-sgéabra geol na h-Eireann (as daoi-béapla 7 an-dpoi-Zaedig) Taim ar aioir cun i páil mar Parain dur. Tá Pádraic d'Brolcain - Príon-Oifigeai, bun-Oideais agun cun i páil geobainid sinzúisí ó Pádraic leis Seanfad mo croide-diceall dur. An zúisge a geobad scéala ó mar Brolcainai, scríobpad arís cugaz. Zoraib maiz agaz mar geall ar "Eapna". An zúisge a geobad mo inarasdal annso, ann pead sinzúis cugaib deseo go bfagad go cunze é peasza. Taim marb deidensga iomapra oibpe 7 ní Ró-inaiz a iagann lion pudaí adicanain. Denacus mo diceall dena Promiaic z'aisze ap an gCeol. Ní Raib aon cabaip agun - bí na clódóipí mall aiginiaic ineóspad dur, naireigin eile i dzuob na gconszuicí a bí imioinnib. Beannaiz leiz - zúin sa zí gpens ge codlarn adicanain mur duiapa, Promiais a Riam.