Loose Letters File

Letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Irish correspondents. The file includes letters from Fr. Patrick Nolan OSB (Erdington Abbey, Birmingham), Fr. John O’Brien SJ (19 July 1916, writes ‘I know how much you sympathize with Ireland. Many Englishmen of the ruling class seem hopelessly unable to understand Ireland.’), Hugh A. McCartan (4 Gifford Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin. Refers to the contemporary political situation in Ireland and to the Sinn Féin movement, 26 Aug. 1917), Barry M. Egan (32 Patri

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Date
1912-1938
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51 items; Manuscript, typescript and printed
Scope and content
Letters to Fr. Henry Rope mainly from Irish correspondents. The file includes letters from Fr. Patrick Nolan OSB (Erdington Abbey, Birmingham), Fr. John O’Brien SJ (19 July 1916, writes ‘I know how much you sympathize with Ireland. Many Englishmen of the ruling class seem hopelessly unable to understand Ireland.’), Hugh A. McCartan (4 Gifford Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin. Refers to the contemporary political situation in Ireland and to the Sinn Féin movement, 26 Aug. 1917), Barry M. Egan (32 Patrick Street, Cork. Refers to the murder of Tomás Mac Curtain and the independence struggle, 10 Dec. 1920), Daniel Corkery, Joseph Robinson (‘Poblacht na hEireann / (Scottish Edition’, Glasgow), Violet O’Connor, Domhnall Óg Ó Ceallacháin (Donal Óg O’Callaghan), Fr. P.J. Connolly SJ (editor, ‘Studies / An Irish Quarterly Review’, 35 Lower Lesson Street, Dublin), Fr. Thomas Dawson OMI (House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin, includes a description of the events of Bloody Sunday in Croke Park on 21 Nov. 1920), Thomas Kelly (67 King Street, New York), Shane Leslie, Fr. Martin Branagan, ‘The Herald / The National Labour Weekly’), J.R. Carey (St. Patrick’s Guild, 46 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin), Mairead O’Connell (Derrynane Abbey, Caherdaniel, County Derry), Fr. Patrick MacSwiney (Presbytery, Kinsale, County Cork), Nuala Moran (‘The Leader’, 205 Pearse Street, Dublin), M.H. Gill & Son Ltd. (50 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin), Fr. Augustine O’Neill OFM (‘Assisi’, 4 Merchants’ Quay, Dublin. Refers to potential publications of articles by Father Rope in the periodical, 24 Jan. 1933). The file also includes two letters from Fr. Henry Rope to Canon Moriarty (1917).
General note
Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents Daniel Corkery: https://www.dib.ie/biography/corkery-daniel-a2049 Barry M. Egan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/egan-barry-m-a2891 Domhnall Óg Ó Ceallacháin: https://www.dib.ie/biography/ocallaghan-donal-a10256 Hugh A. McCartan: http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/Mc/McCartan_H/life.htm Shane Leslie: https://www.dib.ie/biography/leslie-john-randolph-shane-a4805 Fr. Patrick MacSwiney: https://www.dib.ie/biography/macswiney-patrick-john-a9955
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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. Henry Edward George Rope > Loose Correspondence Files

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Seompa an Áino-Méine, halla na Catriac, Corcaig. Lord Mayor's Room, City Ball, Cork. Mi na Noolag, 1920. A Chara, Tan ceann muinein áino-Méine Corcaige (Cointealbac Mac Suibne, C.O., acá mant) agur tan ceann luct Comainle Catriac ro Corcaige, beinim buiteacar quic an rceul c'aitneacair i ocaob a túnthanta agur an rceul oo teithéine an Saoinre na héineann an an tug ré anam. Mire, le món-méar, Dóinnall Theallaian AIRO-MÉIRE. December, 1920. A Chara, On behalf of the bereaved relatives of the late Lord Mayor (Councillor Torence MacSwiney, T.D.) and on behalf of the Municipality of Cork, I wish to thank you for your condolence on his murder and your sympathy with the cause of Irish Freedom which claimed his life. Yours faithfully, Dóinnall Theallaian. LORD MAYOR.

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The Pherbytan Hinsche In testoffauntiones My Dear H. Rope The arrival Some days You & your interleaved Language & Nationality by Mr Hickey has reminded me that I seve you a letter for ever so long. So I now hasten at the Elevants house to write you in the first place my thanks. I knew poor Dr H. I was present at the before which copt him his chair fantastically his life. We students at the time thought that lecture was subsequently de quite insinterpreted by the then Present & the College (Dr Hamming) & by the Drish Hearthy. They changed him, it seems with ineithing in to insult divination therey are of us, his actual auditors, monelled: we were all on the side of the plain immount house south Drish priest whose living mother had always been: victors praevalent! But then, also Dr the house delay in the Ethnic city: his find Defeat was this good priest's first disillusion Really Dr H. was himself too unworthy of pright & a man, too warm worldly unwise to give or defend himself. Still of such is the kingdom of Heaven. So, at last I promise to think. Are you coming to Ireland this year? I shall be here from the 2nd week of week (exhb.) & I would be very happy to welcome You. Tomorrow or star I so to Galway for a week or so to then for a week's Petroch in Mill Corn Cork, Dullin S.I. I would would you be in or around Dullin that time? At all events if I when you come south to tark, I shall be hoping to see you in Hinsche: it is mild here in the Autumn. You have heard, I am sine, that our mutual friend Madame Stackley was run down by a motor Aylish? She sustained some bad fractures which have been slow to mend. I have been reading you op. late in the Catholic Lagethe & in Assisi I wish for the pleasure of meeting you some time. Hand & have this hasty Senawl. With thanks they good wish Always yours Paddag trac Subbie Sager

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