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Fr. Richard Henebry Scrapbook

Bound volume; 32 cm x 20 cm; Manuscript, printed, and clipping; 31 pp

A scrapbook containing clippings, printed ephemera, and some letters associated with Fr. Richard Henebry. The volume includes:
• Declaration of Fr. Richard Henebry for citizenship of the United States. (Washington, 6 June 1897).
• ‘Facts for Brother Hibernians / save the Gaelic chair and the honor of Ireland / extract from the letter of instructions addressed by the university to Dr. Henebry, August 26, 1898, on the occasion of his first coming to America to take up the work of the Gaelic chair’. (1902)
• Clipping of an article titled ‘The collecting of Irish music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry (‘Waterford News’, 12 May 1911).
• Review of Captain Francis O’Neill (ed.), ‘Music of Ireland / Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Melodies’ (Chicago, 1903) by Fr. Richard Henebry (‘An Claidheamh Soluis’, 26 Sept. 1903).
• Review of Henebry’s ‘A contribution to the phonology of Desi-Irish’ (‘Catholic University Bulletin’, Jan. 1899).
• An article titled ‘Dr. Henebry on Irish music’ (‘The Leader’, 19 Dec. 1903).
• An article by Henebry titled ‘Of race tradition’ (31 Jan. 1903).
• ‘On the tonality of music’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. (‘The Leader’, 20 Feb. 1904).
• ‘Professor Zimmer gives his views on the Irish Language movement … Duty of Irishmen to save the Irish language / Rev. Richard Henebry, PhD, Catholic University of America, Washington’ (‘Irish World’, 1 Apr. 1899).
• D.J. Llewellyn ‘The Stradbally Portrait’ (‘Little Flower Monthly’, Sept. 1950). The article refers to recollections of Fr. Henebry.
• ‘How a fortune was missed / finding of long-lost masterpiece in Clogheen’ (‘The Nationalist’, 16 Sept. 1950). The article refers to Henebry’s role in discovering a long-lost portrait of Saint Thomas Moore.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition