18 - Loose Pamphlet Collection

18

Loose Pamphlet Collection

168 items and files; Printed

The subseries comprises a large collection of loose pamphlets, magazines, periodicals, and booklets assembled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., the editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The collection focuses heavily on the Irish revolutionary period (1912-1923), including the Home Rule crisis, World War I, the War of Independence, and the Civil War. It also reflects Moynihan’s eclectic interests in Irish Church and Franciscan history, Irish literature and art, Gaelic culture, and economic and political conditions in twentieth-century Ireland.

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Political Tracts: Includes works by Erskine Childers (CA CP/3/18/4) and Robert Barton (CA CP/3/18/3) regarding the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and the text of speeches by Éamon de Valera (CA CP/3/18/12).

Literature and Drama: A copy of Seán O’Casey’s ‘The Shadow of a Gunman’ (CA CP/3/18/15) and a file of ‘The Irish Book Lover’ periodical (CA CP/3/18/19).

Social and Religious Issues: Pamphlets on rural depopulation by Stephen Rynne (CA CP/3/18/6) and the ‘Workers’ Charter’ by Pope Leo XIII (CA CP/3/18/13).

History: A 1952 account of Mount Melleray Abbey (CA CP/3/18/16) and Isaac Butt’s 1870 treatise on Irish federalism (CA CP/3/18/17).

Many items listed below contain links to digital copies held by external repositories such as the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, the Internet Archive, and HathiTrust Digital Library.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition