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Dublin Opinion
February, 1942
"THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL, 1942," can claim to be the finest Annual ever produced.
We shall set down simply, in higgledy-piggledy wise, the things which have made the most vivid impression on our memory.
"St. Francis of Assisi," the reproduction in colour of Richard King's design for a stained-glass window.
The great photograph of the doorway in Cormac's chapel, Cashel. We have a personal reason for remembering this doorway. We fancy many of the photographs in this Annual will awaken jealously-guarded memories here and overseas.
The facsimile of Patrick Pearse's last letter to his mother, surely one of the most moving letters ever written. Eamonn Ceannt's last letter. Sean MacDermott's last letter. Then he moved by the splendour of simplicity.
Thomas McGreevy's poem "Aodh
Ruadh O'Domhnaill," which, in spite of its queer structure, has a great appeal to us.
Catriona Mac Leod's article on "Our Lady of Dublin," the history of the strange old wooden statue which is over Our Lady's altar in Whitefriars Street.
Father F. M. Browne's fifty wonderfully good photographs of key places all over Ireland, almost a pictorial history of Ireland.
M. J. Labern's poem "To Mrs. Maurice Walsh (who knows better)". The section on "Easter Week" with old photographs and reproductions of old documents bringing back the time so vividly. We liked particularly Fr. Aloysius's quietly-written Diary and Dr. Jim Ryan's restrained and factual account of the fighting in the G.P.O. Terence MacSwiney's 1916 Diary.
Rev. Dr. Patrick Browne's poem "In Memoriam" which so many of us found so moving when it was published
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The immensely valuable "Three Historical Paintings" by Jack B. Yeats, reproduced in colour on art paper. The article on Canon Sheehan which has sent us back to "My New Curate." The Kountess Markievicz looking out at us from the pages in evening dress.
Some phrases of D. L. Kellesher's poems "Loreto is a lovely name," "There is a vat in Stresa—" Some of the fine characteristic phrases in Maurice
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Alderman Tom Kelly's memories that are so like Alderman Tom. And Mairin Allen's appreciation of Jack Yeats as a painter, a clear and happy exposition of this artist's work.
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The Irish Catholic Front
The Capuchin Annual for 1942
BY PATRICK KAVANAGH
FATHER SENAN, EDITOR OF "THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL, 1942."
The Capuchin Annual, 1942. Edited by Father Senan. Capuchin Periodicals. 10/6 net.
HERE is my review of the "Capuchin Annual," which "pressure on space" kept out last week. It is substantially the same as the one seen what I to be thought of this revival of interest in art and letters which has been taking place in Irish Catholic circles during recent years. Is it a good or bad thing for religion pure and simple? Can the beauty that is truth come out of cruelty and lust? If we accept a work of art, as good, if it subscribes to the Machiavellian doctrine that the means is justified by the end. Can it why must so many of the poor and simple be prostituted on the altar of Apollo if Art is not inimical to charity. And it is not only Christianity. Plato saw the argument and he abandoned the poet.
The Hangers-on
What has all this to do with the "Capuchin Annual?" you may ask. I can answer: plenty. See the wonderful "Virgin And Child" by some great master. How many damned souls (in either the Platonic or Christian sense) brought forth its magical colours? If we are to have a renaissance in art, literature and music it is essential that we realise what we are letting ourselves in for. I am not to be taking as response to this particular magazine if I suggest here that all new things like artistic revivals and arrivals are at last new shops in the district: they attract all the bad pays, all the disreputable. Yet even allowing for that, there is still a margin of doubt as to whether art is not the devil's brew. I don't believe it is, and I believe that this name has never been earned for it by the greatest men like Shakespeare or Dante. It is only the hangers-on, the dirty tail that has given rise to the legend.
For the good are always the clever Save by an evil chance.
The Mouthpieces of Piety
The fiction that a man could never be a good Catholic and a true nerver or poet at the same time was given additional credibility by certain groups and newspapers in this country who made anti-literature a plank in their platforms. Whenever an Irish writer wrote a book that was not in slavish yes-man agreement with their illiterate ideas of Catholicism he scribble to who damned by some writer who had failed to make the grade among the pagans. Who are as a rule the mouthpieces of piety here? The washed-up, the female-emotional who washed die of the exhaustion on the cold, high ledges of real creative
thought. Little girls who should be at home nursing babies or cooking the dinner, and shadowy journalists from the Continent of Europe, are to be found within the covers of every Catholic paper you take up. In England I recovere the case. Of course I recognize that the female debaucher of culture and society is not an Irish or Catholic development.
Acceptions of mind are the very essence of religion. I will say that for the work in proper perspective it is to father Senan and his associates of Capuchin Periodicals that the greater praise must belong. For many years he has been the most enthusiastic and generous patron of writers and artists. If he has sometimes patronised the wrong sort it is to be regretted. True patronage consists as much—if not more—in keeping the right kind up. You can form a better opinion of the merits of an institution by the people who are excluded than by the ones included. Just like our Irish Radio which boasts having all the best people on its programmes. It has all the worst, too, and the lowest mentality sets the metronome. So why wonder at the metronome. So why wonder at the metronome.
Mediæval Anti-Clericalism
In the Capuchin Annual, 1942, there are many excellent items—for example, the fifty pages of delightful photographs of Irish scenery by the Rev. F. M. Browne, S.J., and three reproductions of the colour of Jack Years pictures. These two items justify the magazine.
There is an article on mediæval literature by the Rev. Stephen J. Browne, S.J., which, though it is a sort of catalogue, has a few original ideas that are pertinent to our clericalism. In discussing mediæval anti-clericalism he says: "This anti-clericalism for the most part differed wholly from modern anti-clericalism."
Awowed anti-clericals of our time are nearly always anti-Catholic in reality. They hate the Church expects them to be. The mediæval anti-clerical satirised them for not being such." There is a good deal of truth in that. None the less, there is some of the mediæval sort of anti-clericalism, especially in the rural parts of Ireland. And this anti-clericalism has been the cause of much foolish hope among anti-Catholics, who see in the near future an Ireland won over to the new paganism.
This anti-clericalism of the plain people is not without its dangers; for, from being a constructive criticism, it is capable of changing into something vicious, as we have seen in one European country recently. And this danger arises chiefly through the sense of injustice that can be born of the abuse of clerical privilege. The danger is small, but it is there.
The Irish Writer
To what extent enthusiast, for a religious or national cause can lead a man is to be seen in an article called "Twilight And Dawn." Here the writer has put on so much emotional steam that the engine has run off the tracks into a bog. Some of the tracks, which is mainly about Canon Shechan and Patrick Pearse, is worthy of Mrs. Amanda Ross: The spawn of Protestantism has fouled the pools of the world with the croaking from the ugly mouths of all the isms of evil. O Padraig Mac Fiarias, immortal
English Irishman, would to God your words were read. Would to God we were not afraid of our shadows to force the chalice of limpid Gaelic into the arteries of our young.
In another article the Irish writer is described as a man who portrays his people as accountrels and everything evil for the purpose of making money in the English and American markets. In fact, the boot is very much on the other foot. One doesn't need to be an admirer of the last two books of James (spiritual) honesty that brought him to poverty and a grave in a foreign land. "Woe to the man with projecting unfathomables in his being," wrote Amiel. Joyce said he would fight the world with "silence, exile and cunning." If he had been really cunning he would have stayed at home and written for the Saturday Evening Post.
Writers are jeered at who complain that they are unable to get a living in this country. Is it not a downright fact? I myself have been writing verse for many years, but do you think
I'd get a job in preference to a fly-boy from London—or even better—Central Europe?
Poems
On the less controversial side of the "Capuchin Annual" there is a twenty-page sequence of poems by M. J. Labern. These poems are about as good as any religious verse that has past ten years. Some of the other verse is so bad that I shouldn't be surprised to hear of a few more "poets" approaching a Dublin printer with this form of vapity, I brought out. This form of vapity, I am told, can be indulged in for as little as forty pounds.
Other items worth noting are an article on the secret cipher of Dublin Castle by P. J. Little, a whimsical cartoon by C. E. Kelly, a sentimental play by the gentle and witty editor of "Dublin Opinion," Tom Collins. This is largely the quarter-century commemoration number of 1916 and after. There are seventy or more pages of political photographs, with the emphasis heavily anti-Treaty.
How I blame my father for not doing one day's fighting for Ireland instead of fifty years' hard work. If he had, he would have a "good national record," and so contem

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PRIEST JOURNALIST'S FINE
ACHIEVEMENT.
In the midst of war's alarms, paper shortage and divers other afflictions, the Rev. Father Senan, O.M., Cap., who must be one of the best known and best liked priests in Ireland, has refused to be diverted from his yearly effort to make the "Capuchin Annual" the most remarkable and worth-while periodical ever published here. This year he has done more magnificently than ever with a bulky volume of some seven hundred pages brimful of rare photographs and unique articles to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Rising of Easter Week; scores of pictures illustrating the beauties and historical associations of the Irish countryside and many other features of unusual interest and high literary merit. A mere recapitulation of the contents would occupy far more space than we can possibly afford at the moment, though there never has been an Irish magazine more deserving of a lengthy notice.
The issue of the "Capuchin Annual" for 1936—twenty years after—was such a valuable illustrated record of the Rising that copies were gladly bought up in subsequent years for five and even ten times the published price. The present issue, which deals much more fully with the stormy prelude to our political independence, may be regarded, therefore, a sworth a great deal more than the published price of half-a-guinea. It is a volume to treasure, not only for the very artistic manner in which it was produced, but for its importance as a historical record. Once again Father Senan is to be warmly congratulated on a remarkable journalistic achievement.
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Capuchin Annual
The Capuchin Annual, 1942. Edited
by Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap.
(Dublin: Capuchin Periodicals
10/6).
An annual which grows fatter in
these lean times is rare indeed.
The Capuchin Annual, now in its
thirteenth year, is bigger than ever
before, over 700 pages on magnifi-
cent paper. Two words describe the
matter—gorgeous and racy; gorgeous
in its profusion of illustrations of
Irish landscape, historic buildings,
scenes and photographs; racy in its
prose and poetry with an Irish and
a Catholic background. This year
a great part of the Annual is de-
voted to memoirs, pictures, and
records of the events of 1916 and
subsequent years. Some readers
may, perhaps, think that giving 38
different photographs of the same
person, even in a 700-page book,
errs on the side of excess. But
the whole work is so artistic and
so fine a literary and historical
feast that such a criticism appears
almost captious.
R. J.

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LISBERT
DELPAST
3rd January 1942.
Very Rev. Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap.,
Capuchin Franciscan Friary,
Church Street,
DUBLIN.
My dear Father Senan,
Thank you very much for your great
kindness in sending me a copy of the Capuchin Annual for
1942. So far, I have only had time to glance through
the pages but I have seen enough to realise that there
is a treat in store when I settle down to it in earnest.
In publishing the record of the events of Easter Week you
have accomplished a work of real national importance: I
note that many of the records are now appearing in print
for the first time. The 1942 Capuchin Annual is a truly
creditable achievement and I offer you my most cordial
congratulations upon it.
With kindest regards,
I am, very sincerely yours,
D. Mageean.

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OIFIG AN AIRE CÓIMHRIARTHA COSANTAIS
(Office of the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures)
BAILE ÁTHA CLIATH
(Dublin)
30adh Mí na Nodlag, 1941.
Dear Father Senan,
I am deeply grateful for your kindness in sending me the "Capuchin Annual". It is one of the most interesting histories of modern Ireland that I know, and the whole production is very beautiful indeed.
Congratulations, and best thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Frank Aipen
Rev. Father Senan, O.M.Cap.,
Church Street,
Dublin.

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BRAGANZA HOUSE,
CARLOW.
1. Jan. 1942
Dear Dr. Deman
Law deeply dealful
for Copy of Capuchin Annual
which you to kindly send
me. Allows me to offer you
my truenest Angrouseland
and, it is from every view
point, a spreaded production
I have been reading it with
interest invited me to get
it - to the determinant, I
refuse to say, of duty.
With respect to the state
that wishes for every blessing
in the New Year.
Your minimally
T. Kent.

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ON THIS AND THAT
(BY THE RAMBLER)
THE IRISH CAPUCHINS.
Many readers of this column who can remember events of 35 years ago will recall the very successful temperance crusade carried out in every parish in Ireland by the Capuchin Fathers. During that crusade we made the acquaintance of Fathers Malachi, Angelus, Augustine, Francis, and other Capuchin Fathers. Since then some phases of our work has brought us into touch with schools and colleges conducted by Capuchins in Cork and elsewhere. We have established in that way much valued friendships with a number of members of the Order.
On our bookshelves we have a complete set of the "Capuchin Annual"—the only one among all the "Annals" that came our way to which we have given space later than a month or two following its publication. We have frequently gone back upon the contents of the Capuchin Annuals and have much enjoyed and benefited by their highly interesting, cultural and informative contents. The number for 1942 excels all its predecessors in its literary and artistic attractions.
An item that interested us very much and will interest those of our readers who have had any associations with Ring Irish College, Co. Waterford, and its teaching staff, was a statement re the four figure sales of the translation into Irish by Canon Sheehan's novel, "Glenanaar," by Tomas De Veale, one of the most capable and popular members of the College teachers.
The official returns from "An Gum" show that 2,099 copies of Tomas De Veale's Irish translation of "Glenanaar" had been sold down to 1941. Other works by Canon Sheehan that have been translated into Irish are: "My New Curate" (1175 copies sold); "Lisheen" (150 copies sold); "The Queen's Fillet" (110 copies). The figures quoted above are given in an article on Canon Sheehan in "The Capuchin Annual" for 1942 by Rev. Father Michael, O.M.Cap. Fr. Michael's article is by far the best we have ever read on Canon Sheehan as a priest-novelist and scholar, essayist and poet, and of his contribution to Catholic literature and an interpreter of Catholic humanism and Catholic philosophy in his varied writings. I would willingly pay the 10/6 this Capuchin Annual costs for Father Michael's article Ald. Tom Kelly's "I Remember," and the varied contributions on the 1916 Rising—to say nothing of the scores of pages of beautiful illustrations, facsimile reproductions of historic documents and other features.
By the way there is a geographical error re the birthplace of Rev. Dr. Patrick Brown, M.A., Maynooth College, one of the most patriotic and scholarly priests this diocese has produced for a long period. It stated (page 635) that Dr. Brown was born in Co. Waterford. He was born at Grangemockler, six miles from Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, on the main road from Carrick to Mullinahone. Mention of page 635 reveals the fact that the Capuchin Annual for 1942 runs to 720 pages of high quality paper with over 100 illustrations—a great feat in a year of paper famine—a feat well worth the 10/6 the Annual costs.
PAGE WAS AN IM-

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42 BLGIN ROAD,
DUBLIN.
December 22nd 1941
My Dear Father Senan,
Many Thanks
indeed for the Caprehin Bunnal
for 1942 — an amazing work,
and a splendid record of lessons
that were (and are) the life of
Ireland, and a fine Record of
your active Order.
I should be glad to have
another copy of this great book,
to give to a friend who will
appreciate its value.
(I enclose a Fostal Order.)
With every good wish to you
and your Company frame
our family.
Yours very sincerely
G. M. Mouth Dunkit

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13 Lea Rd
S. Mant
25.12.41.
Dear Mr Senan,
All the best & thanks
for the "Annual" sent tome.
At first slance it is a
pageant-book. There are
lots of "best" things in
it so it will set the most
varied paises. I think.
Richard King's pictures are
fresh rank except that one
illustrating T. C. Splany.
In time people will quote
the 1942 annual as an
extraordinary production in
the present "darkest ages" of man
so proud!

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Capuchin Annual, 1942.
Periodicials, 2 Capel Street, Dub-
lin. Price 10/6.
THE "Capuchin Annual" for 1942 does not merely attain the high standard set by its predecessors in less difficult years; it greatly surpasses it. In size, in interest, in quality of writing, art, photography and historical worth it is quite the best yet.
It is this last point that is most evident to even the cursory reader—the historical value of the many pages of narrative, poetry and illustrations devoted to the 1916-1922 period. Not only are there several first-hand accounts by actual participants in the stirring events of those fateful years, but there is a wealth of photographic material depicting many aspects of the national struggle. When it is remembered that the full history of the period has yet to be written, and that appeals have already been made to collect all the material still available lest it perish before full use can be made of it, the national importance of Father Senan's work will readily be understood. Future research workers will bless his foresight as they quarry deep in this mine of contemporary history.
A link is provided with the significant days we are now living through in the series of vivid pictures of the 1941 Remembrance ceremonies. Further, something of the beauty of that Ireland for which the men of 1916 fought and those of 1942 prepare to defend is conveyed in the choice selection of views taken in the course of a "ramble through Erin." And there is a note of poignant regnet, too, in those lines written by "A Belfastman at the G.P.O., Dublin," on Easter Sunday, 1941:—
There is no word can tell
My loneliness.
Our dead too fought and fell
Now you have won your peace
And liberty,
Pray God for our release.
It is natural to turn from this Belfastman's poem to the striking article of that militant Belfast Catholic, Mr. J. J. Campbell, who challengingly writes of "Catholic Ireland and her Poor," and sums up in these words:—
I personally have been chastened and filled with awe at the thought of what is being done, with few to know it, for the poor in Ireland, by Catholics as such. I can show anyone who cares to study the matter, that it is not enough; that it is in many ways far from perfect; that it suffers from the indifference of Catholics generally; that in so far, often, as it aims at an improvement of the circumstances in which it works it is obstructed by strong interests; that the works of mercy, spiritual and corporal, are for many a dead letter, an "answer" in the catechism class at school; that there are fields of charitable endeavour hardly touched—but, I repeat, what is being done is amazing in its extent and its spirit.
In "Twilight and Dawn" Father Michael, O.F.M.Cap., has given us a remarkable analysis of the work of Canon Sheehan and a no less striking study of Pearse as an educationist. Mediaeval Literature is surveyed in his usual thorough manner by Father Stephen Brown, S.J. "Animal Experiment and the History of Science" forms the basis of a symposium on vivisction, while Dr. G. A. Little discusses "The Picture of Patrick," with special reference to his recent discovery.
It would be impossible in a short review fully to do justice to the magnificent production this year's "Capuchin Annual" unquestionably is. Enough has been said, though, to give some idea of its general excellence. We advise readers to buy, beg or borrow a copy of it right away; it is far too good to miss.

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From
Fintan Murphy,
8, Greenpark,
Orwell Road, Rathgar,
Dublin, Ireland.
3-ao Esaur, 1942
Dear Father Senan.
Although so far I have only had a chance to glance through the Capuchin Annual I cannot wait to tell you what a wonderful historical record you have assembled of the "Five Glorious Years". Many of the photographs I had not seen before a what memories they bring back of those days the like of which we shall never see again.
You will the more appreciate my feelings when I tell you I was one of Pears's "boys" & was through it all.
With every good wish for the New Years and the years to come.
Deir Onas is Geannair
Fromtain O Muriada

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AT HOME 3530. P.M.
SATURDAYS BY APPOINTMENT.
DR. GEORGE A. LITTLE.
28, RATHGAR ROAD,
DUBLIN.
22nd December, '41.
My dear Father Senan,
It is again my prililege as it is my pleasure to, in one breath, thank you for, and congratulate you on this year's Capucin Annual. It is a monumental work, splendidly done. Everything from its arrangement to its illustrations and from its illustrations to its printing is above praise. Indeed I think so highly of it that I have just issued instructions to my secretary to have it bound in more enduring form so that it can take its place on my shelves amongst my most treasured books.
You have succeeded in recapturing something of the spirit of the setting and glorious times of Ireland's reserection. Indeed this number of the Capuchin Annual is, in my view, one of the two or three most important works on the War of Independance. From these articles many people whom I knew and referenced walk again and indeed have become companions of the flesh as they have always been friends of the spirit. Ireland owes you her thanks. You will be remembered.
May I take this opportunity of wishing you and indeed your splendid Order all the blessings which this Season pours forth so lavishly and which I feel reaches a height in our country not excelled in any place on earth.
I am, my dear Father Senan,
Very sincerely yours,
G. G. Little

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OIFIG AN TÁNAISTE
(Office of the Tánaiste)
TIGHTHE AN RIAGHALTAIS
(Government Buildings)
BAILE ÁTHA CLIATH
(Dublin)
New Years Eve 1941
A Capa dit,
Many thanks for your
kindness in sending me a copy of this
years Father Matthew Annual.
It is a magnificent achieve-
ment on which I wish to offer to
you and your collectorators my
sincere congratulations.
Every good wishe for your
health, happiness and progressif in the
New Year.
Do capa
Lean 7. 8 (calling)
P.S. Please send me back these
Mrs. R. at your convenience. S.?

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18 FITZWILLIAM SQUARE, DUBLIN.
December 27 1941
Dear Father Senan
Many thanks for your good wishes
and for "The Capachin Annual" which
is a truly grand book. The arrangement
of all the matter should be a model
for other publishers. I like very much
The articles of Miss Mainten Allen and
McGreevy. They have both been both thoughtful
at kind; and the reproductions of my peintings
in colour, in black and white, and of the three
little sketches are wordfully successful
I would like to thank whoever was so good natured
as to put in a plot of me in my youth.
and with all good wishes for a 1942 far happier
than 1941 ever even looked like being
your sincerely James J. Talk. B. Edds

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CAPUCHINS RECALL
EASTER RISING
The publication of the Capuchin Annual (10s. 6d.) in Dublin is always an event. This year's issue, the 13th, is a marvel. The UNIVERSE editorial envy the annual for its weight, both spiritual and material. In the one case it is beyond our measure, in the other it scales nearly 6\frac{1}{2} lbs.
Impossible to sum up all the merits of its prose, verse, and photographs. But the number is above all notable for its commemoration of the Easter Rising of 1916, which had its silver jubilee last year. The story, told simply, but with passionate devotion, must thrill Irishmen with pride. The homage to the dead offered by the present English reviewer is not unmixed with a feeling of shame.
W. R. T.

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Rochester .
30th Dec. 1941
Dear Mr. Senair,
Many thanks for Christmas greetings and especially for the Annual. It is indeed a wonderful production and will greatly inhaul the reputation the Annual has already won. Last weening I was looking for a copy in Con O'Keefe's and he was already sold out and he said he would have sold an additional half thozen copies if he had them on Christmas Evel.
Gratefully and all good wishes for the new year.
Internalley in Ch. 1, St Francis
M. Justin.

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Warenpoint,
Co-Down.
La Modaz Beau na ulsan
1942.
Dear Father Senan,
Just a line to congratulate you on this year's Annual, which is a prodigy. Every issue has contained something of unique and permanent value, yet I think this issue excels the test — a thing that I thought impossible.
I feel it unfair to tax you for these invaluable volumes, so I enclose first annual subscription in accordance with the plan that you and Fr. Grald's purpose.
Liam Gogan's article on the vexed problem of Golii origins interested me in a particular way, because I have been trying to find the answer (if there be one) to Or O'Rahilly's theory, & diligent inquiry for three years; and I still feel O'Rahilly to be convincing. The article invites long, close steady.
②
The faster Week features, of course, are of incomparable value. They will do more than can be measured to stir, the and instruct, the new generation. That Black-and-white drawing, the Phoenix rising from the Q.P.O., & the way, appeals to my notion of the ideal postage-stamp; I wish it had been submitted and adopted; it has a momentual excellence, — not that I wish to fault the dragon that was adopted.
I hope you are well. I am nearly strong again, after very long illness, and will be thankful if I remain no worse; but I beg you for a a prayer, which I need greatly in things of most conspicuous — I mean peace of mind.
One dod biannaizam zo deo
Dod de Blacam

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Great Commemoration of
The Fight For Freedom
The 1942 "Capuchin Annual" is a magnificent production. Fraise for those responsible both for the material it contains and the way in which it is turned out cannot be too high. The reviewer is faced with the difficulty that, in the present newsprint shortage, he has not adequate space at his disposal to do full justice to his subject.
This year's "Annual" is much larger than formerly. There are over 700 pages featured by excellent photographs of Irish beauty spors and places of historical interest. Add to these delights to the eye a number of stories and articles and even a beautifully poignant play—"Tenement Nocturne," which recalls the erstwhile splendour of many a Dublin tenement, and one might think that there is ample material to please the most fastidious reader. But, in fact, all the aforementioned are merely subsidiary for the "Annual" is, in the main, a commemoration named on the 1916 rebellion and the fight for freedom.
The articles dealing with this immortal period of Irish history are very finely written; many of them reveal facts which are not widely known. Illustrating the written word, and, indeed, often telling their own stories, are a wonderful collection of photographs—the finest dealing with the period the reviewer has ever seen reproduced in print. The trouble gone to in getting them together must have been immense. There are facsimiles of the last letter of P. H. Pearse to his mother, of a number of extracts from the diary of Terence MacSwiney, of documents which are of great national and historical interest. The photographs of actual events in Ireland, England and America will awaken the memories of many.
As already indicated pressure on space is a dictator which does not permit of further details. We will conclude by congratulating Rev. Father Senan, O.F.M., Cap., Editor of the "Annual," and his co-workers and by recommending that as many Irish families as possibly can should purchase a copy of the "Capuchin Annual." Its cost, and it is cheap at the price, is 10/6 (Two dollars and fifty cents in U.S.A.)

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Alan Downey
THE WATERFORD NEWS, LTD
OFFICES OF THE "WATERFORD NEWS"
AND "THE EVENING NEWS,"
49, 50 & 51, O'CONNELL STREET,
EDMUND ALAN DOWNEY
Telephone : 43 Waterford.
Telegrams : News, Waterford
WATERFORD, ..... 1942
Dear Father Senan,
Running a daily
newspaper leaves me little time to
writing. Replying to you can also
review of the "Annual" I have
published a review in two parts,
altogether from references, as scheduled
as possible. There is a clear pretendence
with us that ye forward ye copies ye
review to me then & anthony : let
us he lay the scale he is sometimes
forgetful. I will a Wednesday my reel,
(I am writing this at home - Sunday)
not ye copies ye all the references

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Father Senan, that gifted Capuchin friar from Kerry, does a good turn once a year for Irish book-lovers by issuing his "Capuchin Annual" of stories, articles, poems, plays, pictures, biographies and all the rest towards the end of December—in time for a Christmas present for yourself and as a St Patrick's Day greeting for friends in the U.S.A. For this "Annual" is Ireland from cover to cover. Here are expert glances at religious Ireland, the politics of Ireland, the beauty of Ireland, and here, best of all are first-hand accounts of the making of the new Eire, by some of those who took part in the building.
Dr Ryan, Minister for Agriculture, writes the in 1942 Edition about Easter Week; Mr P. J. Little, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, reveals the secrets of the captured Dublin Castle code; a Fianna veteran relates how the Magazine Fort was captured and partly destroyed by a group of Boy-Scouts pretending to play football in the Phoenix Park on that historic Easter Monday morning twenty-five years ago, and even Mr de Valera himself has an exclusive article in the book.
The contributors include, as well as the three Cabinet Ministers (was ever Editor so lucky and influential?) poets, artists (two of them Royal Hibernian Academicians), and authors young and old, well known (like Maurice Walsh) and at the start of their pen career (like the N.U.I. student, 22-years'-old Benedict Keily, who is given three pages for a poem about 1916 and after).
Like many other things in this emergency period, the "Capuchin Annual, 1942" is somewhat more expensive than in former years: Dublin, 10s. 6d. But the few shillings' jump in price is almost balanced by an increase in size and quality (as far as that latter was possible in view of the excellence "Annuals"). There are almost 100 pages of pictures in the 700 pages printed on good art paper. R. J. King's fronti spiece coloured, of St. Francis ensures that you are getting value for your money from the start.
Born -

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ROINN AN TAOISIGH
DEPARTMENT OF THE TAOISEACH
BAILE ÁTHA CLIATH
DUBLIN
February 12th, 1942
Dear Father Senan,
I send you the attached from the Taoiseach. He would like to be registered as a member of the new Foundation. You will be interested to know that he has heard from several quarters remarks of high appreciation of the Annual.
With all good wishes, and hoping Father Gerald is gaining strength every day.
Sincerely yours,
Rev. Father Senan,
Editor,
CAPUCHIN ANNUAL.

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EL MINISTRO PLENIPOTENCIARIO DE ESPAÑA
Dublin 18th March, 1942.
Rev. Father,
Please accept my most express thanks for having favoured me with a copy of the Father Matthew Record, and particularly for the magnificient volume of the Capuchin Annual for 1942.
This latter is a work worthy of the highest praise which my family and I, really delighted, are passing from hand to hand.
The text is exceedingly interesting; some of the illustrations are of a delightful humour and others form a compendium of the beauties of Ireland; and finally the historic part, given over to the beginnings of the long struggle which ended with the emancipation of this Catholic Nation, is well documented and full of interest.
I intend sending a copy of this work to Spain so that it may become known there, and I shall accordingly be very grateful if you will kindly send me another. I am enclosing the due amount as well as the annual subscription for the "Record".
P.T.C.
Very grateful for your kindness towards me,
I hereby express the testimony of my most
respectful sentiments.
Rev Fr Senan, C.F.M.CAP.,
Caple Street,
DUBLIN.

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DAIL ÉIREANN
TIGH LAIGHEAN
(Leinster House)
BAILE ATHA CLIATH
(Dublin)
Dear Dallas Sonn
12th Nov 1912
Very many thanks for 1912 (speckled documents), and a splendid work fearfully produced on / written on / what Photography: many of the incidents mentioned are still puph in my memory as I was present at the reading of the document at the Corporation meeting on April 19th 1916. I was also on Barkelon Walk on the famous Sunday of the Houlth Sun running only as a sight seen.?
Dr Dallas Sonn O 2n. cit Church St
Again, many thanks.
Sincerely yours, [Signature]

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Iny Ealza,
Zaillin.
9. 3. 1942
a dz. Seanáin, a Cape
do Gionnaner - an Capuchin
Annel - 1942 - ypáinne. Sonerayl
Sian 80 maib. nir - erv fud
saozal.
Silein 8yr imper nóra imper
ranall maiz Gion á deanáin
Coinzáipdeiciair leaz ap uminip ne
bhaine reo! Ir imizance an
piora nope é erv 4 bpeiz,
Talunn an ainneacan é.
Jo bfáza dia do saozal ?
do sitinze agaz -
uainnipe.
do Cape.
lam To buacalla.

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Dublin, March 18, 1942.
Dear Father Senan,
I was very much touched yesterday to receive the very interesting and beautiful Capuchin Annual of 1942 sent to me with your compliments.
It was most kind of you to introduce me to this most distinguished publication issued by your Order. I expect to have many interesting hours with it.
Yours very sincerely,
Smith
—
Father Senan, O.F.M. Cap.,
Capuchin Friary,
Church Street,
Dublin.

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Dublin 19th March, 1942.
SWEDISH CONSULATE
DUBLIN.
Dear Father Senan,
Please accept my very best thanks for sending me The Capuchin Annual for 1942. It is of absorbing interest and a most magnificent publication. I am deriving great pleasure and fresh knowledge about Ireland from reading it.
When peace returns and communications become normal I hope to be able to reciprocate by sending you some literature on Sweden.
Yours sincerely,
(NILS LEON JAENSON)
Consul General.
Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap.,
c/o Capuchin Periodicals,
2, Capel Street,
Dublin.

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THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL, 1942. Edited by Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap.
Dublin : Capuchin Periodicals, 2 Capel Street. Price 10s. 6d. In
U.S.A., $2.50.
THIS is the thirteenth year of publication of the Capuchin Annual, and to say that the present number attains to the excellence of previous ones would be high praise indeed, but would hardly do justice to the 1942 volume. For this has been considerably enlarged and special efforts have been made to make it a fitting record of events in Irish national development during the twenty-five years that have passed since the 1916 Rising.
In an artistically produced volume of some seven hundred pages we are lead through many of the beauty spots of Ireland, which the skill of the photographer has admirably caught and faithfully reproduced. A series of fifty photographs taken in all parts of Ireland is contributed by Father F. M. Browne, S.J. The struggle for Irish Independence is vividly recalled by articles, poems, documents and pictures of the men and women who figured in that moving drama. It would not be possible to mention, much less to discuss, in a brief space all the authors and the subjects that find a place in these pages, but perhaps we may single out a few names for special mention without in any way reflecting on the excellent work of the other contributors. Father Aloysius, O.F.M. Cap., has given notes from his interesting diary jotted down shortly after the tragic happenings of Easter Week. There is a study of Canon Sheehan, the priest-novelist, and of Patrick Pearse, the standard-bearer, from the pen of Father Michael, O.F.M. Cap. The speech delivered by the late Dr. O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick, on the occasion of his receiving the freedom of Limerick City in September, 1916, makes one realize the oratorical power and incisive utterance of that great pastor. The value of the volume is further enhanced by an impressive gallery of portraits of the Heads of Religious Institutes of men in Ireland.
The Editor and his numerous collaborators deserve the highest commendation for this artistic Record of a remarkable quarter century in the history of the Irish nation.
J. D.

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OFFICE OF THE
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR CANADA
DUBLIN
March 27th, 1942.
Reverend Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap.,
Capuchin Periodicals,
2 Capel Street,
Dublin.
Dear Father Senan,
I have had an opportunity of glancing
through the copy of the Capuchin Annual 1942 which
you so kindly sent to the High Commissioner. It is
so very well compiled and illustrated that I felt
I would like to have a copy for myself. I therefore
enclose 10/6d to cover the cost.
Yours very truly
E.J. Garland, Secretary
Office of the High Commissioner for Canada.

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GORTLEITRAGH,
SLOPERTON ROAD,
DUN LAOGHAIRE,
EE DUBLIN.
April 2nd, 1942.
Reverend Father Senan,
I beg to thank you very much
for your great friendliness in having
presented me with the Capucin Annual
1942. I think that it is a particularly
valuable and interesting work. It gives
me much pleasure indeed.
Returning your good wishes
cordially I am
Sincerely yours
S. Henryel

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St. Inda's
Phatfamham
14/1/'42
Dear Father Senan
Thank you sincerely for the copy
of the "Capuchin Annual". I will
treasure it as a beautiful creation,
& a wonderful souvenir of 1916.
It really is a marnellous production.
Everything about it is perfect. As
for the pictures, one would wish to
frame them all! I am sure that
you & all those who work with you
are justly proud of this, your latest
achievement. All kind wishes for 1942
sincerely & gratefully
Margaret M. Pearse

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CAPUCHIN ANNUAL
To the Editor "Irish Independent."
Sir—I have seen the letter of Dev. Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap., in your issue of July 7th. Father Senan secured paper for the Capuchin Annual at a time when the Minister for Supplies was offering, as one of many excuses for not introducing rationing, the plea that there was a scarcity of paper. I have no doubt that Messrs. John English and Co., the printers, secured the paper legally, i.e., with the Department of Supplies' consent (it was in the Department of Supplies' power to forbid the use of paper for this purpose if they thought it to the public interest to do so). Thus far my reference to the Capuchin Annual was a plain statement of fact, the implication, however, of my reference was that this issue of the Capuchin Annual, which reaches its apotheosis in the article entitled "Only for Dev." was blatant, if incongruous, Fianna Fall propaganda, and I have no doubt that Father Senan will be the last to deny this.
JAMES M. DILLON.
Leinster House, Dublin.

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Sent Mc,
Cordeau.
29. 4. 42.
Dear Reverend Father,
I trust you will not thank
me very much not to have thanked
you at once for long sent me
the Fr Matheo Record.
If you knew how crowded
long minute of my day is, you
would understand the delay.
Thank you very much for
letting me see Art O'Brien's letter
to the Record itself.
Would you be so kind to
send me a copy of the
Annual, for what I enclose
a p. o. for 10/6.?
About three times I asked someone
to order it, but it was overlooked - and
then come, shortly after three, my
brother unexpected death - then my
sisters - my third rest in Peccard
on several occasions I spoke
of the annual, but always some
merchance prevented it coming -
but you let me have a copy? I
enclose also 6 d for postage.
I have not seen it, but heard
it was very fine. My sister was
anxious to see it, too, & now -
I cannot realize that she &
my brother are forced - & life is
irretrievably changed for me.
It is found that meanwhile, unevenly
work is my lot.
myself,
Cordeau
Copy me Subject

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P. Legarione d'Italia
Dublin 7th October 1941-XIX
Dear Father Senan,
I have received your kind gift of the two volumes of the Capuchin Annual and wish to express my most sincere thanks for these lovely publications.
I have looked through them carefully reading part of each volume and I want to tell you how full of interest I have found the matter which they contain.
Hoping that I will have the pleasure of visiting the Capuchin Friary of Dublin some day soon, and thanking you again for the gift, I beg you to accept the enclosed publications of my Legation.
Believe me,
Yours sincerely
Italian Minister

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A wealth of reading in these 700
VIVID PAGES
CONTENTS
Saint Francis of Assisi (frontispiece), Richard J. King; The Way-farer, P. H. Pearse; The Curtain Rises, D. L. Kelleher; Patrick Pearse's Last Letter; Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill, Thomas McGreevy; Da Pacem, Domine, Drawn by Richard J. King; After 1916, Benedict Kiely; The Master, Andres Coombes; Mediæval Literature, The Rev. Stephen J. Brown, S.J.; Our Lady of Dublin Catriona Mac Leod; The Writer, James Delahan; Cuaird na hEireann (fifty photographs), The Rev. F. M. Browne, S.J.; Donnchadh O hAirt, An Seabhac; Tenement Nocturne, Thomas Collins; The Poems of M. J. Labern; New Hope and Remembrance, Denis Barry; Riatas na hEireann; Silver Jubilee, Donal O'Cahill; The 25th Anniversary of Easter, 1916; A Belfastman at the G.P.O., Dublin; Easter Week; Personal Recollections, The Very Rev. Father Aloysius, O.F.M.Cap.; The G.P.O., Dr. James Ryan, T.D., Minister for Agriculture; Saint Enda's, Senator Margaret M. Pearse, Immortal: In Memory of Pádraic Pearse, Theodore Maynard; The Four Courts Area, Commandant Paddy Holanan; Three Historical Paintings, by Jack B. Yeats, Thomas McGreevy; Easter Christening: A Radio Masque, Donagh MacDonagh; A Memory of P. H. Pearse, Alfred Dennis; Twilight and Dawn; The Rev. Father Michael, O.F.M.Cap.; Years of Resurgence, Frank Gallagher; Sean MacDermott's Letter; I See His Blood upon the Rose, Joseph Mary Plunkett; Extracts from Terence MacSwiney's Diary; Margaret Pearse, Desmond Ryan; Conscription; Resolutions of the Irish Hierarchy; Statement issued by the Cardinal Primate; Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XV.; Statement of the Irish Hierarchy: Na Mairbh, P. I. O'Leary; Speech of the Most Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer; Margaret Pearse, Eamon de Valera; Terence MacSwiney, The Late Father Dominic, O.F.M.Cap.; How Seán Heuston Died, The Late Father Albert, O.F.M.Cap.; Four Poems, The Rev. Dr. Patrick Browne; O'Donovan Rossa, P. H. Pearse; The Struggle for Irish Independence: 96 pages of pictures; The Drop o' Brandy, Beatrice, Carroll; Con Colbert, The Very Rev. Father Augustine, O.F.M.Cap.; Joseph Mary Plu
1942
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