Letter Book

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘XIV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, Holywell, North Wales), Eoin O’Mahony, Fr. James A. Brennan (St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny), Mary Hardebeck, Gwynfor Evans (Wernellyn, Llangadog, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Wales)

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Level of description
File
Date
1931-1947; 1916-1947
Reference
6
Extent and medium
152 pp; 22.5 cm x 15 cm; Bound volume, manuscript, and typescript
Scope and content
A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘XIV’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, Holywell, North Wales), Eoin O’Mahony, Fr. James A. Brennan (St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny), Mary Hardebeck, Gwynfor Evans (Wernellyn, Llangadog, Sir Gaerfyrddin, Wales), Constance Strickland, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Fr. J.S. Sheehy CM (St. Joseph’s, Blackrock, County Dublin), Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector, All Hallows College, Dublin), Hubert Rooney (Kilross, Dalkey, County Dublin), Joseph P. Sandes (‘Sunday Independent’), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), Sister Marie-Pierre (Maison des Soeurs Blanches, Baudouinville, Albertville, Belgian Congo), Máirín Allen, John McCormack (Moore Abbey, Monasterevin, County Kildare), Fr. James Enright (The Presbytery, Ardfert, County Kerry), James Joseph Campbell, Christina Dwyer (52 New Street, Dublin), Patrick John Little, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Alice Rynne (née Curtayne) (Downings House, Prosperous, Naas, County Kildare), Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap. (St. Bonaventure’s Capuchin Hostel, Cork), Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Eugene Watters) (Cappagh, Finglas, Dublin), Fr. Peter Dempsey OFM Cap. (St. Bonaventure’s Capuchin Hostel, Cork), Cormac Ó Cuillenáin (University College Cork), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. William Burns (Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Madeline McCauley (Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Elizabeth Curran (42 Garville Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin), Brian O’Higgins junior (Hollybrook Road, Clontarf, Dublin), Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (St. Joseph’s Mission, Mankoya, Northern Rhodesia), Benedict Kiely, Irene Haugh (31 Northumberland Road, Dublin), Nancy Buckley, Fr. P.J. Dunning CM (All Hallows College, Dublin), Helena Concannon, Joseph B. Whelehan, and Ellen McCann (15 Tower Hill, Armagh).
Physical characteristics
Many of the letter pages within the volume are loose. Careful manual handling is required.
General note
Several letters have become detached from the volume and have been transferred to a separate folder. These include an original letter from Annie O’Higgins giving details of her activities following the 1916 Rising and her arrest at Kingscourt in County Cavan. She also transcribes a copy of Patrick Pearse’s poem ‘A Mother Speaks’ which she describes as ‘a poem written … at his mother’s request shortly before his murder’. The letter is dated 22 June 1916. The detached items also include letters from William Frederick Paul Stockley, Fr. James Enright (The Presbytery, Ardfert, County Kerry), Francis Joseph Little, and Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow).
General note
Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents Joseph O'Connor: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=188 Daniel Corkery: https://www.dib.ie/biography/corkery-daniel-a2049 Gwynfor Evans: https://biography.wales/article/s10-EVAN-RIC-1912 William Frederick Paul Stockley: https://www.dib.ie/biography/stockley-william-frederick-paul-a8321 Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow): https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19530316&id=STA1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HKYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=5225,1577481 Máirín Allen: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1842 John McCormack: https://www.dib.ie/biography/mccormack-john-francis-a5617 James Joseph Campbell: https://www.dib.ie/biography/campbell-james-joseph-a1423 Patrick John Little: https://www.dib.ie/biography/little-patrick-john-p-j-a4851 Alice Rynne (née Curtayne): https://www.dib.ie/biography/curtayne-alice-a2328 Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Eugene Watters): https://www.dib.ie/biography/o-tuairisc-eoghan-a6445 Brian O’Higgins junior: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641405/ Benedict Kiely: https://www.dib.ie/biography/kiely-benedict-ben-a9533 D.L. Kelleher: http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/k/Kelleher_DL/life.htm Irene Haugh: https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/irene-haugh-irish-woman-poet/ Helena Concannon: https://www.dib.ie/biography/concannon-helena-a1918 Joseph Whelehan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Whelehan
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 Letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

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SEANAD ÉIREANN TIGH LAIGHEAN (Leinster House) BAILE ÁTHA CLIATH (Dublin) Linna Maro, Valley, Sobrey. 15/12/47 My dear Fello Senan, Just a long learning for Delhi last week, the postman handed me your most bund and welcome letter, enclosing that very favorable clayer for £6.6.0 for articles on Lady Jargiana Felleston. I sent to write to you from Leinster House, when I spent the first part of the reminder of the week, but between one thing and another I was kept to walk "on the gold that I told secured the necessary learner when I returned home on Saturday night. I am so glad Fello Serdl has accepted the articles for the Record. I think Lady Jargiana's life has a special lesson for many of our own women whose influence will be involved if they could only reach this responsibilities. Toma's works to reserve our attention for the Annual and the Record, and I enclose here clayer for Lady, for that purpose. I take the opportunity of making you at the next the Fello's a very happy X ma, at a New Year pall of blessed, fruitful work. The times are anxious, and we must rely on your paceful and the strength to obtain Sorb's blessing and prevent an the choice our people have to make in the New Year. Again thanks you most cordially and each yr to envoy the ex-pressure of friendship to Fello Serdl. I am, dear Senan, No discourse or friendly yes. Helena Somerson.

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