‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1947-52) / Review and Correspondence Volume

A bound volume containing original letters and newspaper clippings offering mostly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ published between 1947 and 1952. The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers. Correspondents include Fr. Stephen Brown SJ, Maurice Lavanoux, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. James A. Brennan (St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny), Kathleen O’Brennan, Fr. Arthur Haydn Ryan (Queen's University Belfast), Fr. John Power

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File
Date
1946-1953
Reference
41
Extent and medium
c.300 pp; 32.5 cm x 20 cm; Bound volume, newspaper clipping, printed, and manuscript
Scope and content
A bound volume containing original letters and newspaper clippings offering mostly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ published between 1947 and 1952. The volume contains content from politicians, clergymen and religious, artists, and writers. Correspondents include Fr. Stephen Brown SJ, Maurice Lavanoux, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. James A. Brennan (St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny), Kathleen O’Brennan, Fr. Arthur Haydn Ryan (Queen's University Belfast), Fr. John Power (Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Saltley, Birmingham), Pearse Hutchinson, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell CM (Rector of All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Benedict Kiely, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Patrick John Little, P.C. O’Mahony, Bishop Daniel Mageean, Fr. Gino Paro (Apostolic Nunciature, Dublin), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Archbishop John D’Alton, Sir Shane Leslie, Kathleen M. Murphy, Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap., Denis Gwynn, Peadar O’Curry, J. Vincent Carroll, Áine Ceannt, Tomás S. Cuffe, Alan Downey (‘Waterford News’, 49-51 O’Connell Street, Waterford), C.P. Curran, Ian Stuart (Laragh, Glendalough, County Wicklow), Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, Jack B. Yeats, Mary E. Hardebeck, Richard Hayes, Aodh de Blacam, D.L. Kelleher, Adolf Morath, Richard King, ‘Jocandus’ (Joseph O’Connor), Sybil Thorndike (Lady Casson), Germaine Stockley, David Sears, Lady Eleanor Yarrow, Elizabeth Corr, Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Seamus Kelly, Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., Fr. Donal Herlihy, Nuala Ní Riain, Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Patricia Lavelle, Fr. Benignus Hickey OCSO, Doran Hurley, Lieutenant Christopher Rooney, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Peter F. Anson, Francis McCullagh, Frieda Le Pla, Michael J. Molloy, Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (Cathedral House, New Delhi), Walter McGrath (‘The Cork Examiner’), Mannix Joyce, Liam Brophy, and Archbishop Alfred A. Sinnott.
Physical characteristics
The volume covers are torn and badly frayed at the edges. The spine binding is also broken. 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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  • I have just received the Capuchin Annual for 1946-47 and it certainly lives up to its past reputation. We have nothing like it in the United States. I will either write a short rev…
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The Capuchin Annual The Capuchin Annual, 1946-7. Published at Church street, Dublin. 10s. 6d. net. Once again Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap., has organised and edited (the organising of this 600-page volume must have been just as great a job as the editing) an excellent annual. The principal feature this year is a series of tributes to the late Count John McCormack by 25 friends or admirers of the singer, and a collection of photographs of the McCormack family and of incidents in the career of the Count. First-class photographs, well printed on good quality paper, and a number of colour plates of Irish saints, by Richard J. King, make the volume as interesting on the pictorial side as it is from the letterpress aspect. Merely to leaf through the book, reading the headings and the picture captions, is an hour's work. The contents are both gay and serious. The underlying note is both religious and nationalistic, so that the annual is bound to give many evenings of pleasant reading to the members of all ages of almost any Irish Catholic family. To a printer or journalist the principal impression that it leaves is of skilful production. While the opening article, by Sean Moylan, T.D., on "Irish America," is by no means the best in the book, the interest of the reader is aroused and maintained throughout the 600 pages. A large number of the first and final pages are taken up with advertisements, but these, too, will be read; for, very clearly, a series of amusing drawings by Father Gerald of Capuchins at work and play runs through the early advertising pages, while those at the end of the book are brightened by photographs and biographies of the contributors.

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