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Letter from M.J. Crotty & Son, solicitors, 45 Parliament Street, Kilkenny, to Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., guardian, regarding a bequest of $200.

A volume containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Letters – private and confidential / 1953’. Many of the letters refer to Fr. Senan’s ill-health (which required a lengthy period of hospitalization in 1953) and to the need to acquire additional members of the Association of Patrons of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Liam Brophy (Roebuck Road, Dundrum, County Dublin), Kevin MacManus, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), Br. Colman O’Neill OP (Saint Mary’s, Tallaght, County Dublin), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Sister M. Conception (Presentation Convent, Doneraile, County Cork, refers to the souvenirs of Canon Patrick Sheehan which he obtained from the Presentation Convent in Doneraile which he promises to return, 22 June 1953), Ethel Mannin, John Henning (Sutton, County Dublin), Sister Mary Joseph SL (Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, Webster Groves, Missouri), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Ellen Murnane (41 East Main Street, Portland, Connecticut), Diarmuid Breathnach, Doran Hurley, Denis Gywnn, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Fr. Dominic Meyer OFM Cap., Michael A. Bowles, Fr. Patrick Kennedy (St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada), Sister Gabriel (Maryknoll Sisters, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii), John Alvin Feltis (1503 Lincoln Avenue, Toledo, Ohio), Fr. William F. Labadie OSA, Sister Leonarda (St. Joseph’s, Toronto, Canada), Paul Martin Dillon (‘The Evening Times’, Cumberland, Maryland), Alfred White (162 Crumlin Road, Dublin), Joan Hammond, Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Fr. Henry McHenry (45 Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin), Kathleen O’Toole (Kiltegan, County Wicklow), Fr. William J. Fletcher (Sacred Heart Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut), Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap. (Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin, refers to the ‘new statues’ on the façade of St. Mary of the Angels, 5 Sept. 1953, p. 126. Fr. Senan writes ‘Leo Broe has exaggerated some aspects of the figures but that is necessary, I’m afraid, when you consider how high up they will be sited’), Thomas MacGreevy, Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Richard King (refers to permissions sought to reproduce the Irish Saints’ postcard series published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’, 10 Sept. 1953, pp 131-2; another letter to King refers to his resignation as chief illustrator for the ‘Annual’, 14 Sept. 1953) and Fr. John Challis (Saint Joachim’s Presbytery, 122. Shepperton Road, Victoria Park, Western Australia).
The volume includes the text of a talk titled ‘Seventh Centenary of the death of Saint Clare’ (Aug. 1953, pp 53-5); a letter to the editor questioning the appointment of Milan Horvat as chief conductor of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra in 1953 (pp 68-70).

• Souvenir programme for the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association Father Mathew Centenary Celebrations in Cork on Sunday, 24 June 1956. Printed, 25 pp.
• Souvenir programme for centenary celebrations for the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The events took place in City Hall in Cork on 9 Dec. 1956 and included an address by the Most Rev. David Mathew, Titular Bishop of Apamea. Printed, 3 pp. 2 copies.
• Newspaper clippings relating to the centenary of Fr. Mathew’s death. The file includes:
Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., ‘The mighty moral miracle wrought by Father Theobald Mathew’, 6 Dec. 1956.
‘Cork Centenary Celebrations’.
Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., ‘The secret of Father Theobald Mathew – Capuchin / What his Franciscianism meant to him’, 'Evening Echo', 7 Dec. 1956.
‘Fr. Mathew: One of the great men of history’, 'Cork Examiner', 10 Dec. 1956.
‘Ireland’s Great Tribute to the Apostle of Temperance’, 'Cork Examiner', 25 June 1956. A pictorial supplement.
’60,000 Pioneers pay tribute to Fr. Mathew’, Cork Examiner, 25 June 1956. Clippings, 12 pp.
• Letter from Rev. Patrick J. Hamell, Honorary Secretary of the Father Mathew Union, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., re preparations for the celebration of the Father Mathew Centenary. 15 Sept. 1956. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Offprint of an article by Fr. Matthew Flynn OFM Cap., ‘Theobald Mathew OFM Cap. / A Centenary Tribute’, published in the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (1956). Printed, 13 pp.

Letters to Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. responding to invitations to attend the blessing and opening of the Capuchin House of Studies and the new Ard Mhuire Friary on 13 Nov. 1966. The attendees included many local parish priests, Capuchin friars, members of other religious congregations and various lay people involved in the construction of the buildings. The file also includes a copy of the official declaration of the blessing of the foundation (in Latin) signed by Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, a list of donations to the building fund, an invitation card to the solemn blessing and opening and a menu card for the celebratory dinner.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D1’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), D.L. Kelleher, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Sister Stella Phelan MMM, Frank Gallagher, John Englis & Co. (printers), Aodh de Blacam, Sister M. Bernard (Fribourg, Switzerland), Fr. J.G. McGarry (‘The Furrow’, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth), Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap. (Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary, County Donegal), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny), Francis MacManus, Pádraig De Brún, Fr. P.J. Dunning CM (All Hallows College, Dublin), Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., Michael O’Higgins, Br. Colman Butler OFM Cap., Michael Walsh (Lower Patrick Street, Kilkenny), Fr. Patrick Boland TOR (Catholic Mission, Bhagalpur, India), Eleanor Barnes (Lady Yarrow), Monsignor John S. Randall (Secretary, Catholic Press Association of the United States), Fr. Patrick O’Carroll CSSp., Fr. Cyril Kelleher OFM Cap., Fr. D.B. Kennedy, Fr. Otto Richter (Jablonec, Czechoslovakia), Adolf Morath (photographer), Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap. (Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia), Fr. Stephen J. Moloney O.Cist. (Mounty Melleray Abbey, County Waterford), Kevin Egan (The Holy Well, Cairns, County Sligo), Helena Concannon, C.J. Woollen, Clement O. Bradley (Manager, ‘The Tablet’), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Bishop Daniel Cohalan (John’s Hill, Waterford), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Gerald Pyne (Harehills, Leeds), Seamus Murphy (Wellington Road, Cork), Séamus Ó Braonáin, Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap. (Holy Trinity Capuchin Friary, Cork), Gunning & Son (Ecclesiastical Art Manufacturers, Fleet Street, Dublin), Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Fr. T.F. Duggan (President, St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, Cork), Johanna Coakley (508 Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee), Rita McGoldrick, Sister M. Emmanuel (Mater Misericordiae Nursing Home, Eccles Street, Dublin), Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Cathal O’Byrne, Michael Lennon (Healthfield Road, Terenure, Dublin), and Sister M. Kevin (Convent of Mercy, Ardee, County Louth). Enclosures include a typescript article titled ‘an open letter to Risteárd Ó Maolchatha [Richard Mulcahy], Éamon de Valera, and Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (An Seabhac)’ by Joseph O’Connor, and a typescript titled ‘Dublin, The Octopus / Draft Commentary by the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor [Cormac Breathnach] on Mr. Peterson’s script’ (1950).

Correspondence regarding the sale of properties in Kilkenny city formerly held in trust by the late Fr. Thomas (Hilary) McDonagh OFM Cap. and subsequently held by the FMC Trust. The file specifically relates to the sale to Thomas J. Barrett of a three-storey building over a ground floor shop located at No. 19 Rose Inn Street, The Parade, Kilkenny, and to a house situated at No. 1 Castlecomer Road. The correspondents include Fr. Daniel (Nicholas) O’Brien OFM Cap., secretary of the FMC Trust, John Lanigan & Nolan, solicitors, Donal O’Buachalla, valuers and estate agents, and John Stanton & Sons, solicitors. With manuscript notes regarding title to the said properties which John Lanigan affirms is ‘rather “messy” as most of the deeds appear to have been lost’ (5 Jan. 1972).