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PHONE 48185.
29th June, 1943.
Very Rev. Father Senan, O.F.M. Cap.,
Capuchin Publications Office,
Capel Street,
DUBLIN.
My dear Father Senan,
It was most kind of you, in the midst of all your editorial worries, to think of sending me an advance copy of the CAPUCHIN ANNUAL. I am still engaged with Confirmations in the Country and my copy arrived just as I was on the point of departing for a distant parish. I can still look forward to the treat of reading the 1943 Annual, as I have not yet had the opportunity of settling down to it; but I have already had a delightful surprise in discovering that you have refused to let emergency conditions lower your artistic standards: I have been truly amazed at the quality of the paper, the beautiful printing and photographure and the excellent taste with which the whole matter has been presented.
I need scarcely tell you that I have a very special interest in this issue of the CAPUCHIN ANNUAL and for what you have done in this regard I could not even begin to thank you. It is with the most selfish motives that I wish you record sales!
With kindest regards,
I am, very sincerely yours,
th. M. ageean.

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THE NEW
Telephone - Central 6264/5
Telegrams - Catherhald, London
CATHOLIC HERALDLIMITED
LIVERPOOL
LEEDS
Directors -
E. VERNOR MILES
(Chairman and Managing
Director)
J. F. FIELDING
M. H. MILES
E. C. M. SHEPHERD
Editor - MICHAEL de la BEDOYERE.
Head Office -
67 FLEET STREET
(Entrance Whitefriars Street)
LONDON E.C. 4
EDITORIAL DEPT.
MB/CG.
8th July 1943.
Dear Father Senan,
Many thanks for the copy of the Capuchin Annual which seems to me a magnificent production. I cannot think how you do it these days. I am including in the current issue a note and comment which refers to the Partition question as treated in the Annual. The Annual itself will, however, be more generally reviewed by Grace Conway in a future issue.
Many congratulations.
Yours sincerely,
EDITOR.
Father Senan.O.F.M.Cap.
Capuchin Periodicals.
P.O.Box.105. Church St.Dublin.

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Reverend. Dear Father Sue and
the heat way I am thank you for
reading me an advocate copy of
the Annound, is to rend greet a
copy of what I have written after
several days of reading the Annound
& thinking about the great work
you are doing & others Grand are doing.
If you like it, I will buy
& get it published some where
though I find it harder & harder to
to get though published, saw that I
can no longer get about & interview
editors.
To day I am feeling it is depressed
after a sleepless night thinking about
the pressures now 41 days in hunger
strike in the coverage. 2 of them are
men from the north who escaped and of
British joint there only to find themselves
in a pressure horse — they are motived
& are hunger striking for jestice
& poorly they think their daughter
may — like the Annound call
attunkon of people to the cruel
previously in going on in the thiff
occupied portion of our country.
Though you may think the policy
of three men in wise, no one can
question their sensibly & concerned.
Death is not deadful in their
but its irrevocablely is worse for
the jackers than for the pressures.
Once gone thank you for
the magnificent gold of the Annound
& let me know of a hour I can
help in the first more.
I remain
Reverend. Dear Father
my sensing greens
Yours Gorne MacBride
3rd gal 43.

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16
The 2 last volumes of the Caprichin Armand, for which I thought a contact must come each with the finest literary publications of the world, & shed glory on Ireland.
Father Simon the Pather had been on our committee material depicting such as paper shortage & Canonship & as ever greatly difficulty, the confusion of thought in direction of the Divine advocacy of most parts of the Continuing Mirror of St Paul is that enables his sore & sharers of the case of the Lady Powerly, to bring gifts of amazing either than 2 prohibits and indeed regal gifts last - "before the guest feet," of Bathelen the Daughter of Hamilton.
And who can hatre to receive copies of both these materials when continuing to receive a guard under conflict as fairly houses for their interests explicitly with out but his generalness.
The 1942 Annual Calibration Ireland Easter Peace action & the heroic race of which rattled over the Stone from the Calibrator all represented a strong response to the time of break of Father's Convention and one Lord's deception. Clear of the his glorious Rememberance is right that the 1943 Annual received with the next step that who have retired must have to consider the Victory. Parties must be ended before Father can fulfill the promise of his cent name the bill of Dicting with it is her voice consisting and clear & true in the choice of the nations, staying in harmony to make Penns believe the case for freedom (Calibrator few) remote nations which trees are progess by their points & now are a nation which field to adhere true Continuing in the choice of her hand, point the way of salvation to others without in curing the continuation which much hypocrisis.
Evidently a man of peace Father Simon knows what he wants & is an earlier than his own argument ways of doing things. What he wants is to spend the ear of the fresh people or the fresh Race & to call them & face Realities. Chief of which is that there can be no real peace or economic property or a clear conscience for any business that Father is ended
How guest the need for such a call, was demonstrated in the reports of the first meeting of the Daily after the chickens.
Our legislators, progressed of the dignity of their years seem to have attended their return to demelhis house by limiting men at each other with the exalterant in consequence of a bit of school begs into pit each other with harsher recipients of read leaves, when they have nothing thing to occupy their time.
But one would appear to have been out alive by underdual members or by parties about the most what of all questions for Father & Parties.
Father Simon is right in calling on all to pace realities. His method of doing this in the 1943 Annual was to choose a representative of material received from public applications having in the still occupied portion of Ireland & and him to discriminate exactly the conditions of life there as he has expressed & to suggest a remedy.
That which he then sent round the group of 20 more or less representative people work is South men & women Calibrator prolutants & took their comments for problematic.
These comments are naturally diverse but all agree on one point which must be ended from some of these comments, thank useful points could be taken for the presentation & a fast national Policy to end parties on which I believe as Father Simon's main objective.
The policy of dip cannot be allowed to critical. If must be an active policy.
Generant acceptance of the creed personality of 40000 fresh Calibrator armand continue without bringing the grace in the whole fresh race,
Yours Jonnel Has Bride P.S. Father Simon has thought out a way in which any fresh man & woman can help & believe it of no.

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Ápur Capuríneas,
Sain bónabenzún,
Corcais.
ST BONAVENTURE'S,
CAPUCHIN HOSTEL,
CORK.
July 2 1943
My Dear Seanan,
Congratulations on
the Annual. It was worth
waiting for. The concentration
on the North is bound to
have effect. The Capachu
Annual, by doing so, may
be defined to enjoy
great historical significance.
P.S.
You will be glad to hear that in the
The Paris is soring in the
within the year - 4.
3. Puring
I feel very proud to
have an article in it &
also that, without
meaning it, the article
his in with the general
theme : "mely it is
the House of Light
which, long away from all o's,
makes the difference.
Writhing you
every success in
your great work
yours & sincerely
H. James

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14 Vincent St
Berkeley Rd.
30th June / 43
Dear Father Senan.
Many thanks to you and Father Gerald
for all the trouble you have gone to over me
your book is a splendid one and your
articles read very well.
I wonder did J. P. Neary of the Irish association
for the blind & North Ct Georges St give you
an advertisement if so we cannot find it
in the book (would it have been overlooked)
With liest wishes and very many
thanks from Many and myself.
Yours very Seniorly
Carl G. Herdebeck.

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Run Wic Zilla Ruaid
Connde andin.
Molam iu o choide. Ta an
z Ipur leabar zo héaczaé. Déamfaid ré
maicar món don Cúr. Ta na piczúin
níor féara iona piain noine. ze deamfaid beaz wgz an 1. a 3 - Calughn
Wadenghng Fan 3 piangnaf.
Wadenghng Fan 3 piangnaf.
So néipizid leir zo yeod.
5. VII. 4 3
Uord.

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The Aaterford
News
Friday, June 25, 1943
LAST EDITION
"A HELLISH
THING"
A fund to fight Partition! Subscriptions would pour into such a fund from all over the country, and from outside the country, if people were convinced that it would be effectively spent. We are convinced, and readers of the 1943 edition of "The Capuchin Annual" (just ready) will all be convinced that there is one way in which money can be spent, with very great effect for very little outlay, towards the unity of Ireland—and that without opening a fund, but with every Irish man and woman taking a personal active part in the work.
A section—a very large section—of the 1943 "Annual" deals with the North. It tells a terrible story—of the abandonment of 430,000 Catholics to Orange terrorism and repression; of almost unparalleled persecution of a religious minority; of responsible leaders and Government officials glorying in their evil tactics, boasting of them, inciting others to them; of the abrogation of common law, of imprisonment without charge, without crime, without redress; of democracy flouted, of elections gerrymandered, of all lawful protest proclaimed and frustrated; of juries packed, of evidence ignored, of perjury rampant, of a thousand and one injustices and wrongs; and it is all fully corroborated. You will not read it without a burning desire to end the hellish thing. —Father Senan, in "The Father Mathew Record" for July.

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NORTHERN
CRUSADE
"Capuchin Annual"
Attacks Partition
in Current Issue
We have already referred to the noble crusade commenced in the "Capuchin Annual" to bring relief to the beleaguered Gaels of the wantonly partitioned northern six counties of Eire. To-day we propose to summarise the programme of this crusade as laid down in the great and historic Capuchin periodical, which has already done yeoman service for both the universal Faith and our own harassed Fatherland.
The two most important items on this epoch-making programme are the article entitled "The Real Case Against Partition," written by a master hand using the nomme de guerre of "Ultach"; and the statement by An Taoiseach.
"Ultach's" contribution is followed by comments from prominent people, not confined to citizens of this country. These "comments" are tremendously important: some suggest solutions of the problem even better than "Ultach's," notably the novelist, Mr. Maurice Walsh. The comments are by the Bishop of Down and Connor, Lady Yarrow, Mr. John Nugent, Count Plunkett, Madame Maud Gonne MacBride, Mr. D. L. Kelleher, Count Michael de la Bedoyere, Capt. Denis Ireland, Eamon Donnelly, Father Gerald, Father Senan, etc.
After these main items in the partition annihilation programme comes the general tone of the whole 1943 annual. Scattered through its pages are articles and poems on the North and its nightmare, chronicles since the plantation of Ulster after the defeat of Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell at Kinsale. Among these poems are one by D. L. Kelleher entitled "After the Battle of Kinsale" and "The Prisoner of London" by Alan Downey, editor of the "Waterford News," and author of "Forty-One," based on the last "rising out" of the northern princes in 1641. The prisoner of London is Conn O'Neill, the schoolboy son of the great O'Neill, "the child who by accident was left behind" at the time of the flight of the Earls. Among the prose contributions is one by Dr. Hugh Mac Cartan, under the heading "Belfast, Some Backward Glances." Benedict Kiely writes impressively and piquantly about "Long After O'Neill," holding a mirror up to history for a commentary on moderns.

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19. 7. 43
A Chara,
I read with special interest the announcement in the current issue of the
RECORD of the issue of "The Orange Terror" in separate form.
I could not discover, however, at what price it was to be published nor when it would be ready.
Perhaps you will make this known as soon as the work is ready so that North of Ireland people interested may be able to order copies for their friends in Britain and elsewhere. I take it that they must be dispatched by you.?
Do chara Dil,
Yours truly, Cahri Healy
Rev Father Senan, O.F.M., Cap.,
2, Capel St.,
Dublin, N.W. 8.

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Spectator of Leader Page Parade in the Irish Independent
Cúil Áluinn, Killiney, Co. Dublin
Telephone 84353
19th July 1943.
Rev. Father Senat,
Capuchin Periodicals,
2 Capel Street,
DUBLIN.
Dear Fr. Senat,
The enclosed cutting is from a German refugee paper in London, "Die Zeitung", obviously inspired by a line in Schiller where in some particular drama he asks who are those Spanish Monks who look like conspirators. I am sending it on since I thought it might amuse you and your confreres to see two famous people in so distinguished a garb without of course, taking any side myself as to the political interpretation of Schiller's classical lines.
Believe me, with respectful regards,
Yours sincerely,
Keenan Wock
P.S. As soon as you have the reprints ready of your compendium on Partition from this year's Annual, I would like to procure a dozen to distribute amongst such useful foreigners as my work as a columnist brings me in contact with.
Please let me have till with copies.
M.

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Dun Caom
20 ais d'Iúl 43
'Aiara dílis Seanán
Ba ineasta uair 30 deimin Eagla den Ainnial
a leithir cuigam roim ré. Is theán an ceann aca é;
molam 30 ceann ab na theán in agus nár laithir
dha do láin! Is mó a bíon sé a leitheam ag
muintir an thir agus ag daoine a cuigam isteac
ná agam péin, sin ainnaca dur !
Bí leithe agam ó tomás mac 3. agus dubair
sé mir ná rabí theard bóiz ró-mair na
slóinte le deánaithe. Tá siúl agam ná pul ann
ac seal laithireaca tar éis na horbre móire,
agus sé mó thir 30 mbeid an luitheacan airea
dó agal sara mbeid an leanb cin phádaith.
Abair leis 30 mbin ag cuinneam le luin Aireann
air.
Tá an ainste 30 haobhin ainste pé láiair.
Ba mór an peabas ar an mbeir agab é dá
bpeádpaid sé an oirith d'pájaint amac agus dul
na leireid d'air cirs paraige agus na cuiraimí
stair 30 leir a capieam d'uir nthailne.
Tá sé 1 n'an agam dul cin dup, agus tudim
sean oreab 1 rit an tsaintaid 30 bpeirpead airis sé.
Is mé dó cara Páireaith de brún

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The Capuchin Annual
Latest Issue Of A Great Publication
(By "Christopher Penn")
Although we may not send printed matter to Eire, there is no prohibition against our receiving books and papers from there. Thank God for this, for it meant that a few days ago I was able to receive my 1943 Capuchin Annual. What a grand thing for Eire to be able to produce, in spite of war conditions, one of its finest issues. The editor, Rev. Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap., merits the grateful thanks of all lovers of art and literature for achieving the seemingly impossible—an assurance in prose, poetry and picture, that Celtic culture is greater and grander than ever in spite of the Black Plague of carnage that is sweeping the world. What a glorious issue! Nearly six hundred pages of noble letterpress and splendid illustrations.
A large section of the issue deals with the North, presenting a clear-cut picture of tremendous interest to Irish
people in this country. Twenty people from all walks of life, Protestant and Catholic, North and South, English and Irish have contributed comments on the problem of partition and its solution. It is the most complete survey of the question yet made. As paper shortage limits the printing of the Annual, the demand for the partition section has been met by publishing a separate book. Copies are available from the editor for approximately 3/3 (N.Z. money). The address is Rev. Father Senan, 2 Capel Street, Dublin, Eire. Incidentally an Association has been formed of patrons of "The Capuchin Annual," the subscription being foundation life members £25, life members £10 and annual membership £1. One of the first of the foundation life members was Archbishop Mannix, who registered by cable.
Those above facts are stated in the hope of practical help for the "Capuchin Annual" and all it holds most dear. To attempt to review the latest issue would take columns. So with due regard for wartime space considerations, I will close with a note of admiration for the inspiring work of the Annual's artist, Richard J. King, who is proving himself a worthy pupil of the late Harry Clarke, that master of the craft of stained glass.
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THE WARDEN POINT
CO. DOWN
Dear Father Senan,
I am so glad that my C.H. notes, though inadequate, pleased you.
This is just a line to say that the proof copy (for which I was so grateful) is enough. When paper is so short, I don't want to deprive you of another subscriber & taxing you with another copy. Allot mine to someone else: the proof copy will do for my file. I would hate to stick you for the other copy unnecessarily.
Ever sincerely yours
Fdel B.
22.vii.43

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27, OLD CAPELLA ROAD.
BELMAN.
2 Aug 1943
Dear Father Serran,
Congratulations
wholehearted on your 1943
Annual! It is a grand
number. To Korthern folk
it makes a most direct
expect and you have earned
this very real pratice. In its
scholarship has reason to be
proud of your work. Thanks
for my which I treasure. Kindly
send me a second copy for
which I mention 1056 and To postage
I am not sure if the postage is acquited.
With every gratitude,
Yours very sincerely,
J. J. Campbell.

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4 Gilford Annual,
Scandy mount
Bullin'
5/8/43
Dear Father Sander,
Many hands to the way of the "Lapuchin Annual" you so kindly sent to me,
I have read it from way to way, and hasten to congratulate you on a very great achievement, carried to success under difficulties which I can only guess at. It is the most telling piece of protogenda we done in connection with the brotherhood, I believe the publication of the 1943 Annual will in future be seen as an inset, a turning point. It administers a much much shorter to our southern complainery, and gives our people in the brotherhood a much much stimulus. I don't know who "Ullah" is but I'd like to have the privilege of starting his hand. I like the "Annual" will get deeply into the United States, which will hold a common and ingression after the war, with remainder congratulations,
Yours sincerely
H. C. A. Harbort an

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The Mourne Press
Editor : RICHARD ROWLEY
Printer : A. W. EMERSON
Telephone : NEWCASTLE 2275
3rd Aug. 43.
Newcastle, Co. Boton
Dean Father Senaw.
Many thanks for rending me a copy of your Annunct, which is a superb production. It reflects the greatest credit on both Editors + printers, and from my own experience, I know against what difficulties you must have contended in these evil times.
The literary + artistic contents is of a high order, and I enjoyed that part of the volume.
As to the political side — well, I am not a politician nor a partisan. Most of your writers on the subject seem to find a difficulty in proposing a solution. It seems to me that one solution has never been attempted, and that is the power of love. No nation can be built up on mutual hate and suspicion between different parties and creed. Shall we never learn to forget.
to forgive, and to love our neighbours ourselves?
With renewed thanks, and hearty found wishes yours most sincerely,
Richard Rowley
P.S. I shall shortly be publishing a collection of short stories from the pen of your contributor, Michael de Chaverty. Some of the tales have already appeared in your columns, + I think it is the best bound of short stories that has appeared in Incloud for money a year. I shall send you a copy when it is ready.
P.S.

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Annual
Art, Literature—and Partition
The Capuchin Annual, 1943. (10s. 6d.)
Reviewed by GRACE CONWAY
WHEN you get your copy of the Capuchin Annual I suggest you turn to the section in photogravure, "Foreign Representatives in Ireland," and being very strict with yourself not to look at the name of the country printed at the right-hand side of the page or the name underneath the photographs, guess the nationality of each representative by studying his physiogonomy. I tried this on myself and on some friends. The only one any guessed correctly was the German. (I don't count the Japanese—that was too easy!)
I ought, of course, to have known Sir John Maffey's wise, humorous face but didn't!
A most interesting section, this, in over five hundred pages of good reading matter, beautiful reproductions of Ireland's art treasures, pictures of Ireland's landscape treasures and the strong, strict patterns of Richard King.
THOMAS MacGreevy contributes a valuable article on "Pictures in the National Gallery"—a collection of which Dublin may justifiably be as proud as a peacock — Fra Angelico, Verrochio, Mantegna, Baldassare, Castiglione, Gheerhardt David, Jan de Cock, Rubens, Rembrandt, Jan Steen,
El Greco, Goya, del Mazo, Poussin, Chardin, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough—all periods and countries are represented with the Irish artists, James Barry, James Butler, Yeats and Walter Osborne striking a brave note for the Irish school. The excellent reproductions whet the appetite for the originals! The Annual's own artist, Richard King, is the subject of a special article by Mairin Allen.
BY far the lion's share of the Annual, however, is given to the subject that is uppermost in all Irish people's minds—Partition. Every aspect of the problem is analysed and discussed (grim reading some of the facts make) and commented upon by a company of responsible writers.
Whether the tackling of this problem is to be part of England's post-war policy remains to be seen. Meanwhile all but those who wish to remain culpably ignorant might study this considerable section of the Capuchin Annual and at least be ready with an informed opinion in place of the unintelligent and customary English habit of waving away anything that touches Ireland. (It is published separately under the title Orange Terror.)
After all, it is that very habit applied to international affairs generally that played a large share in the present world fracas.

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THE SIX COUNTIES,
Case Against Partition
A profoundly interesting exposition of conditions in the Six Counties is the reprint from the Capuchin Annual, 1943, of "Orange Terror," by "Ultach." The writer, a native of Belfast, has in this significant pamphlet given a complete and unblassed description of the political and religious conditions in the North in such an eminently concise manner that the reader is ever dubious as to its sincerity and integrity. The case against Partition is put with such force and clarity that this must be regarded as one of the most important pieces of anti-Partition propaganda yet published in Ireland. Vivid descriptions of the religious discrimination, accompanied by significant statistics showing the many disabilities inflicted on "non-loyalists" in relation to voting, education and employment, help to give a sweeping panorama of the conditions in the Six Counties. "Ultach" has spared no pains to drive home the force of his arguments against a perpetuation of the boundary. Much of his material makes painful reading for all who love justice and charity. The ostensible object of the pamphlet is clearly summarised by Most Rev. Dr. Mageen, Bishop of Down and Connor, one of the twenty distinguished commentators whose views add considerably to the value of this document. "Our principal object," he states, "must be to compel every lost Irish ostrich to lift its head out of the sand of complacency to look squarely at the unpleasant situation that exists in the North, and, with true Irish courage, face up to it."
Eleanor Lady Yarrow, another commentator, is equally incisive: "This article, so patently authentic and unexaggerated, is a statement of terrible atrocity, repression and persecution. I am unable to reason about it, and can only utter ejaculations of horror."
George Noble Count Plunkett, Mr. Ernest Blythe, Mr. Denis Ireland, Mr. John Carson Tozer, the late Senator Robinson, and Mr. Maurice Walsh are only a few of those who comment vividly and with firsthand knowledge on "Ultach's" subject.
Members of the Capuchin Order have in the past contributed much to the cause of Irish independence. The publication of "Orange Terror" adds yet another stone to the monument of their work and to the debt owed to them by the Irish people. "Orange Terror." Published by the Capuchin Annual Office, 2 Capel Street, Dublin. Price 2/6.

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The One Outstanding Problem
ORANGE TERROR. By "Ultach"
Reprinted from the Capuchin
Annual. 2/6.
IT was a happy thought on the part of the editors of the 1943 Capuchin Annual to reprint in booklet form the Partition symposium which formed its most striking feature. Much has already been written on the subject of Partition and much will continue to be written until that evil piece of work has been undone, but it is doubtful if anything so moving, so authentic and so extraordinarily convincing as the essay by "Ultach" will a p p e a r. "Ultach" lives in the midst of the Terror about which he writes (that is why he is obliged to remain pseudonymous); he has experienced it at first hand in its every aspect of calculated purpose and intermittent violence as he has progressed from boyhood to manhood. Yet he is not bitter or furiously partisan. On the contrary, he is restrained, objective, realistic; careful to avoid anything and everything that would tend to inflame passion; concerned with one purpose only—to bring justice and deliverance to the persecuted minority in the Partitioned counties of Ireland.
The first section of his essay ("I Live There") provides the picture—a picture of day by day life in the city of Belfast, with the grim shadow of repression forever brooding over the streets, with its raids, its detentions, its questionings, its black-mail system, its poisoning of all the wells of truth and justice. It would be incredible if it were not documented. As it is, the facts are beyond dispute. The second section describes the machinery by which the system of repression works and the third provides suggestions towards a solution. "Ultach" is under no delusion as to where the responsibility lies and he makes short work of the pretence, so sedulously fostered by successive British Governments, that the whole matter at issue is one which is the concern of the majority and minority sections in Ireland, and theirs only.
"Who," he asks, "is ultimately responsible and who can undo the position? England. . . When the British Government is questioned about the North and the problem of Partition it is usual for their spokesman to wash his hands and say the whole question is one for the two Irish Governments to decide between them. And this with the British taxpayer paying
through the nose for the maintenance of the position in the North, with British troops in the North all through peacetime, with the regime established by a British Act of Parliament for which no Irish member voted, with persecution of a religious minority expressly mentioned in the Act and forbidden by it, with services in which there is patent discrimination against Catholics reserved and controlled by Britain, with the area sending representatives to Britain and itself being an integral part of the United Kingdom, not a separate Dominion."
"Ultach" believes that only by a sustained, intensive compaign of publicity and propaganda—a campaign of which the echoes will be heard far beyond Ireland's shores—can the edifice of Partition be finally brought to its downfall. His own contribution to the campaign is of the first importance, and one would like to see it extracted from this booklet, in the same way that the entire symposium was extracted from the larger publication, and copies circulated in thousands at the price of a few pence each.
The twenty commentaries which follow "Ultach's" essay provide an admirable appendix, for the majority of them are by writers who either
live in the North or who have given the subject of Partition specialised study. The Bishop of Down and Connor does well to stress the magnitude of the task involved in bringing the facts across the Irish Channel. "Politics," he writes, "are at the root of it all. England has a bridgehead in Northern Ireland, and English statesmen, for all their pious cant from mid-Atlantic, are determined to maintain it whether the Irish people are willing or not. If the maintenance of this garrison in Ireland involves persecution of the Catholics of Northern Ireland, that is just too bad for the Catholics in Northern Ireland. English statesmen have a vested interest in Partition; the Northern junta have a vested interest in Partition. Are not the plums of office rich and plentiful? Let us cease to wonder that we cannot get even a hearing for our case."
But great as the task is, it will have to be accomplished. Britain had a vested interest in Dublin Castle, but it fell, buttressed and bastioned as it was. The rotten foundations on which Partition is built are no less assailable.
M. J. MacM.

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DER DEUTSCHE GESANDTE
DUBLIN
4. 9. 43.
Reverend Father Senau,
please accept the expression of meet
cordial thanks for boring so generously
presented me with the Capeaden
Annual 1943 and at the same time
my best congratulations on the great
success represented in this excellent
new publication!
Yours sincerely
Edward Henryel.

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IMPERIAL JAPANESE CONSULATE, GENERAL
DUBLIN.
8th September, 1943,
Dear Father Senan,
I write to thank
you for the Captichin Annual for
1943, which you kindly sent me, and
which I find is very interesting
and inspiring.
With my best wishes,
Yours faithfully,
Consul General.
Father Senan,
O.F.M.Cap.

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LÉGATION DE FRANCE
EN IRLANDE
DUBLIN, LE
53, AILESBURY ROAD.
The French Minister presents his compliments
to the Very Reverend Father Senan and begs to tender
to him his sincere thanks for the copy of the "Old
Capuchin Annual", in which M. de Laforcade was most
interested.
DUBLIN, 9th September 1943.

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ST. MARY'S
THE CLADACH
GALWAY 14. 18. 1943
Teampall Muire
An Cladac
Sallim
My Dear Father Senner, Sincere, warm, and grateful congratulations on your valued overlanger in the Northern Tyranny. May God strengthen your already strong editorial elbow! You have done greater work than all the lond holities. 6 Mar 6 Sin MR in abuse! Although I am far away, I keep a benign eye on all your magnificent work. Congratulations, also, on the Record. It is a credit to the Rapachins both artistically and for its literary content. Remember me to Mr. Conner. Very Encouraged, H. Garry or.

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September 11, 1943
THE LEADER
107
A BIT OF GAELIC LEAGUE HISTORY
The Capuchin Annual for the year 1943 is a very fine production, artistically sumptuous and remarkable, and with regard to its literary content valuable and interesting. Because of its uniqueness and prestige its articles carry a certain weight. It is important therefore that they should be just and balanced. They are no doubt never intentionally unjust or unbalanced. But slips will occur. There is one article in the present Annual which calls for a little rectifying comment, not indeed for what its author says himself but for what is conveyed by a long quotation embodied in it. The article is by Father Michael, O.F.M.Cap., and is entitled "The Golden Jubilee of the Gaelic League—1893-1943." The long quotation is from a little book "Mise agus an Connradh" written in 1931 by Douglas Hyde. President of the Gaelic League from its foundation for twenty-two years, and now President of Ireland. With due respect to the distinguished author it must be stated that there are a few points in this quotation which require correction. Historic truth and the memory of the Founder and first Editor of The Leader require that much. The quotation has to do with politics in the Gaelic League, then as now an important though ticklish question. It begins: "It was not possible to keep politics out of the League, but it did not do much harm to us for a long time. A row and a little bad blood began in the League in the year 1901. It began with an article in The Leader. "Wanted a Man" the article was entitled and it was the editor of The Leader that wrote it. People were incensed against him because they thought the article was against me, which I do not believe, and that he wanted to say I was not sufficiently a man to be at the head of the League." It is good to know that Douglas Hyde did not believe what people thought at that time, but it is necessary to state that no article entitled "Wanted a Man" appeared in The Leader in the year 1901. An article so entitled did appear in the Claidheamh Soluis, the official organ of the Gaelic Le
manager as well as a capable editor, the Gaelic League is waiting for its business head." There was the head and front of The Leader's offending that made people think things. Not to-day nor yesterday did 'wishful thinking' come to be a feature of Irish public life. Can anyone see a 'plot' in these notes in The Leader? Yet on their foundation the charge was made, in the weekly journal whose policy was the restoration of the "King, Lords and Commons of Ireland," that Douglas Hyde was being betrayed and undermined and that it was The Leader was the cause of the treason! Again, it is good to know that Douglas Hyde did not believe that. The quotation in Father Michael's article from Douglas Hyde's book continues: "At any rate when the procession was held in Dublin on Irish Day four or five strong men seized the coach of the editor of The Leader and hauled it aside out of the procession!" Reading this as it comes in the article in the Capuchin Annual one is led to believe that this incident followed as a consequence of the 'Wanted a Man' affair. But that 'treason' happened in 1901 and the procession incident took place in 1905. Now even 'intellectuals' would not require four years to reply to fair and above-board criticism by an 'argument' of the coach kind. Physical force people would think it out in far less time. There was absolutely no connection between the 'Wanted a Man' proposal and the highly intellectual and freedom-loving censorship of the procession incident. That incident was a reply to the current criticism by The Leader of the conduct of the business end of the Gaelic League Organisation and of the soaping-up of the Gaelic League official organ to the organ of the then political extremists. The Leader's criticism had nothing whatever to do with the position of Douglas Hyde. Nor was the fine procession criticism of that criticism in any way related to Douglas Hyde and his position as President of the Gaelic League. He seems to think it was. Father Michael seems to think so also. Further on in this quotat
RAMROD.

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OFFICE OF THE
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR CANADA
DUBLIN
September 14, 1943
Reverend Father Senan, O.F.M. Cap.,
Capuchin Periodicals,
2 Capel Street,
Dublin.
Dear Father Senan, -
Please accept my
thanks for the complimentary issue
of the Capuchin Annual which you
kindly sent to me.
The photographic artistry
displayed in the Annual is exceeding-
ly good, especially when one considers
the difficulties that must beset you
and your associates in endeavouring
in these difficult times to bring out
such an elaborate publication.
Reciprocating your kind wishes,
I remain,
Yours sincerely,
John D. Kearney,
High Commissioner for Canada in
Ireland.

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A little later in publication date this year than formerly, perhaps, but still as successful, still as substantial comes "The Capuchin Annual" (Dublin, 1943: 10s. 6d.). Year after year one wonders how Editor Father Senan, O.F.M. Cap, manages to collect so many important contributions, how offer the result at such a reasonable price. There are almost 650 pages in this year's "Annual," and the 10s. 6d. could well be charged for the 80 pages of illustrations—coloured reproductions of paintings by Sir John Lavery and Richard King, photographs of Irish life and scenery (the Galway section of which is well supplied by cameramen Malachy Hynes and T. J. Molloy), portraits of prominent personalities and contributors (with thumb nail sketches) and a photogravure supplement covering all the diplomatic and consular representatives in Dublin. We repeat: how does Father Senan manage it at the price?
Key-note of most of the articles in this new "Annual" is Ulster. The Border problem, Belfast pogroms, the northeast in song and story, northern Presbyterianism in Irish politics, and D. L. Kelleber's first impressions of Armagh—those are some of the contributions. But really outstanding is an anonymous survey of "The Case Against Partition," and appended are commen's by over a score of Irish and English publicists and others ranging from Bishop Mageean of Down and Connor to Madam McBride and the late Senator David L. Robinson. It is a stirring indictment of the "Orange Terror" and we are glad to read this statement at the end of the "Annual":—
"A very large section of this 'Annual' deals with the North. It tells a terrible story—of the abandonment of 430,000 Catholics to Orange terrorism and repression; of a most unparalleled persecution of a religious minority; of responsible leaders and Government officials glorying in their evil tactics, boasting of them, inciting others to them; of the abrogation of common law, of imprisonment without charge, without crime, without redress; of democracy flouted, of elections gerrymandered, of all lawful protest proclaimed and fruistrated; of perjury rampant, of a thousand and injustices and wrongs; and it is all corroborated. . . . The whole is, we are convinced, the most complete and
valuable survey of the Partition question yet prepared . . . . . We are going to reprint 'Orange Terror' . . . . . It will cost half a crown. . . . ."
It is hoped that tens of thousands of the reprint will circulate all over the English-speaking world, and the pity is that sufficient numbers of the complete "Annual" cannot be printed owing to the paper shortage, for the "Annual" is the best Irish propaganda there could possibly be—evidence of our Catholic way of living, our Gaelic ideals, the literary ability of our young men and women.
Other countries—notably Britain and Germany—subsidize the foreign sales of similar publications as a means of telling the world and keeping exiles in touch with the home country.
One could go on praising the "1943 Annual" for a day and more; one would like to quote extensively, but there is room for just a few final references: Senator Miss Pearse reveals that the only boy ever expelled from St. Enda's College in her brother's time was a lad animal-lover Patrick Pearse found ill-treating a cat! Mairin Cregan, wife of the Minister for Agriculture, recalls that Jules Verne's French novels include a story based on the adventures of a Galway orphan who made good; and Hardebeck once declared that Denis Delaney of Ballinasloe was the best piper he ever heard.
Musicians will especially appreciate the graceful tribute to Carl Gilbert Hardebeck, the blind Belfast composer of German-English origin who has done so much for our folk tunes. No less than twelve writers tell of the handicapped composer's career, his period as Professor of Irish Music at University College, Cork, and his lifelong work collecting, annotating and publishing our traditional songs; and there is a page drawing of the veteran by Sean O'Sullivan, R.H.A.
If we say that the short stories this year are not first class and that most of the poetry has previously been published we have said almost all that can he said by way of criticism of a publication the Rev. Editor can well be proud of, though we must reluctantly add a memo that the proof-reading appeared to be careless at times (on one page two different dates being given in connection with a speech by Mr. Winston Churchill, for instance). But those are very minor blemishes, and all interested in Irish history or culture, all who love good printing and fine prose, and all who appreciate more than value for money should spend 10s 6d. on a complete "Annual" whilst the necessarily limited edition is available.
S.P.

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Dear Father Senan,
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I waited till I could get to a piano
before writing to you, and now I
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I have also had great
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To Secretary
Copies in Annual
2 Capital St.
Dublin
Sept 14 -
Brunswick Belfast,
Belfast.
Rev Six or Six,
The third copies of your reportment '43
arrived at above institution some 10 days ago. I was informed
that they were not permitted in to me. I enclosed to
home them sent out through the visits to selectives of the
Interness who obtained them. Even that was disallowed. On
making further inquiries I was interrupted by an official
that they could be sitted sent back to publishers or heart
in the secondary or others until such times as we were selected.
No explanation was forthcoming for stoppage. The Annual
itself was subsequently banned. I have sent it however &
we have no intention of settling the books but denie
to relay to you the hereby laction of this junta as a
further justification for publishing "Orange Tesses." You
may use this letter and my name as you think sit.
Is mase
Thanks P Barrowell
Republican Interness
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MADAM'S WOOD,
PAINSWICK,
STROUD, GLOS.
15th. September, 1943.
The Secretary, A.P.C.A.
Capuchin Annual Office,
2, Capel Street,
Dublin.
Dear Reverend Father,
For such I presume you to be. I have read Ultach's book with much care and attention. Sections I and II are excellent. I have learnt nothing that I did not know before, and much that I know has wisely not been included. To have included such examples would have made the book a little sensational and would have ruined the restraint in which lies its Christ-like appeal.
I do not think that the book will interest many people here simply because ordinary people are just not interested in the subject with which it deals. You see, the ordinary Englishman knows so little about Ireland. We all know that it is an extremely beautiful country, that Irish butter is the best in the world, that the Irish people are extremely charming, that Northern Ireland is ultra loyal, though no one seems to know why, while the South, well, we do not quite know what to make of the South. We have an idea, that the people of the South are not so fond of us as they might be, and as we should like them to be, and we can't think why they are not. We have heard of differences of opinion in Ireland which sometimes has come to blows, but it is in Ireland, and between Irishmen, and therefore their own affair. After all, they are a lively people, and a little lively people seems to be proper to their national character. We like you, and we would very gladly proper to much more of you would allow us to do so, but we do not understand your differences, and we are not at all inclined to take any part in them. That, I think represents the attitude of the ordinary Englishman. Not very many of us have visited your delightful country, indeed, surprisingly few of us have done so, and we have to form our opinion of you by what we know of Irishmen who come here. Most of us have Irish friends to whom we are deeply attached, but most of these may be said to be English-Irish from around Dublin, or who made their studies at O.C.D. I do not speak of my own experiences, but rather as I believe an ordinary Englishman feels in a general way.
With regard to section III. I believe that one must overcome a spiritual evil by means of spiritual instruments. I would suggest a universal Mass with that intention say, once a month, with a daily or weekly Rosary, by everyone everywhere who would be willing to co-operate, of which I would willingly make one, until the Good God sees fit to grant the prayer of His faithful people. I am sure that the offering of Holy Mass and the Rosary are methods which could not be improved upon, as every good Irishman well knows.
I am, dear Reverend Father, with much respect,
Your servant in God,
Reverend M. Williams.

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81 BÓTHAR AN TUIR
ÁTH CLIATH
Oct. 16, 1943
Dear Fr. Nenan :-
I must send you a line
of warm angratulation on a splendid
piece of work. The herts
expressions was particularly
interesting and the Jules verse
story a real find.
Yours vincently,
Gang Gram Duff.
Mr. Phon accept enclosed note from Mrs. Mr.
Gram Duff, same address.

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August, 1943. !
My dear Fr. Senan,
Many thanks for your card, & for your generous packet containing two copies of the Capuchin Annual. It is a treasure, & mcCall gave a very full & competent review on Radio Stream; I heard it all, but part of his broadcast faded out on some sets I was told.
You have surely put the "North" on the map, & I was amused at one reviewer who discovered that the Annual had omitted two or three places in "Ulster." God bless you!
I enclose on a separate sheet a list of addresses to which I wd. ask you to send a copy of 'Orange Terror'; & to myself a dozen copies for distribution. Cheque £5 herewith. All best wishes,
Yours very sincerely,
& D. Mageer

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coláiste
ollssole,
CORCAIŞ.
University College,
Cork.
August 9th, '43.
Dear Father Senan,
Just a line to thank you for your
generosity in sending me a copy of the
Annual, and to congratulate you most heartily
on a production hailed everywhere as the most
impressive yet - an astonishing achievement
in these difficult times. Ad multos annos !
With renewed thanks,
yours sincerely,

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ORANGE TERROR. By "Ultach." Reprint from the Capuchin Annual, 1943. Dublin. Price 2s. 6d.; 10 copies for £1 0s. 0d., postage paid.
THE variety of reflections to which this work is bound to give rise precludes satisfactory treatment in a short review. Within its seventy-two pages we get a review of the fact of partition with its consequence of ceaseless, official persecution and unjust discrimination against the Catholic minority, which constitutes a good third of the population of the area. To this exposé are added the author's suggestions for the righting of the wrong. Next we get the reflections and criticisms of a number of representative Irishmen who are often in sharp disagreement as to the aspect under which the case against partition should be presented to the world, or as to the most effective remedies for the removal of the evil. The topic should be of special interest to every Irishman, but the manner of its presentation here gives an added interest to the problem. This moderate statement of a great national wrong should awaken dormant consciences and remind many an Irishman of neglected responsibilities.
The facts cannot be disputed. The inflammatory speeches of the ruling class square too closely with the character of the official persecution to be explained away as mere election oratory. The persecution has been too thorough to be concealed. One reservation must be made, however. The author has the Belfast area, where bigoted riots have always been a regular feature of social life, too much before his mind. Naturally in areas such as Newry, South Armagh and South Down, official repression cannot call the provoked riot to its aid against a solid Catholic phalanx. But in every district the ruling junta has consolidated its power by whatever means are available, and the final result has been to leave the minority under the heel of a bigoted, self-seeking, unscrupulous group.
Whether the grievance should be pleaded before the world-court as an instance of the persecution of Catholics, subsidized by the English Parliament, or as an outrage on the Irish nation, is argued out by the various disputants. This is of lesser importance than the question of the means to be adopted to destroy the persecution. So long as one section pins its faith to armed resistance there will be a division of ranks among the victims themselves. Perhaps there has been a want of realism in the policies hitherto adopted. Political divisions still represent an organization of forces designed against obstacles of a different kind. The highest patriotism would seem to call for a voluntary dissolution of the older bodies, so that more effective instruments may be forged. This calls for severe renunciations, but the power to make sacrifices is an essential element in patriotism.
From the point of view of the rest of Ireland, it would be a false step to attempt to win the Orangemen by any watering down of our Catholic life. A vigorous Catholicism would bring justice to all and would inspire a policy of social reform that would prove a strong barrier against prejudice. Compromise on our part can only forfeit the world's respect. Consequently, Mr. Maurice Walsh's sneering reference (p. 40) to "ultramontanism" is particularly inept.
A last word must suffice where many words are suggested. The evil cannot be remedied in any atmosphere of defeatism. The difficulties are no greater than those which confronted O'Connell in his time. Careful discussion, the formulation of a plan of campaign, disciplined unity in support of an agreed policy, patience and persistence in following up the agreed plan—all these are necessary for victory. The difficulties must not be allowed breed discouragement. World opinion must be wooed so that this injustice may end and that Britain may not escape responsibility for the persecution. And the Capuchins deserve special credit for initiating this campaign of enlightenment by giving us this stimulating exposition of the evil.
P. McK.

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REVIEWS.
"Orange Terror," an article, with comments by a number of prominent people, on the Partition of Ireland (reprinted at 2/6 from the Capuchin Annual) is now on sale. The article is by a resident of the Six Counties, and is written for obvious reasons, under a pseudonym "Ultach." In straightforward, simple language, he gives an objective description of what has been happening in the Six Northern Counties since it was taken over and governed, in the name of Britain, by the Orange Order. Fully documented, it describes the disabilities under which 400,000 Catholic continually labour, the active persecution, the discrimination against them in employment and education, and the periodic pogroms instigated by the Orange leaders, when the rank and file show signs of tolerance towards their Catholic neighbours.
As a first step towards the ending of Partition, he suggests that the facts should be brought home to the people of England, the country primarily responsible, who have been kept in ignorance of the undemocratic and unchristian persecution of Catholics in the North.
Comments on the article by Most Rev. Dr. McGeean, Bishop of Down and Connor, Count Plunkett, Count Michael de la Bedoyere, Editor of the "Catholic Herald," Mr. Maurice Walsh, Miss Gertrude Gaffney, the late Senator D. L. Robinson, Capt. Denis Ireland, Mr. D. L. Kelleher, Mr. Ernest Blythe, Madame Maude Gonne McBride, Mr. Eamon Donnelly, M.P., Mr. T. J. Campbell, K.C., M.P., and many others are also included.

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LABOUR PROGRESS
INCORPORATING "THE TORCH."
Vol. 3, No. 4
November, 1943
Articles, letters, notes, news and advertisements must reach The Editor, "Labour Progress," 105 Royal Avenue, Belfast, by 20th November for inclusion in the December issue.
Postal subscriptions, 2/6 for a year, should be sent to The Secretary, Northern Ireland Labour Party, 105 Royal Avenue, Belfast, Telephone 22767.
" THE ORANGE TERROR "
The 1948 edition of the Capuchin Annual carries articles on Partition and the persecution of Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. "Ultach" (J. J. Campbell), the writer of the main article, proposes as an immediate step concentration on the position of Catholics as such in Northern Ireland. Propaganda is to be carried on in England purely "on the basis of the position of Catholics in the Six Counties." These articles have been issued as a twopenny pamphlet called "The Orange Terror."
PERSECUTION POLITICAL.
The horrible sectarian speeches, riots and persecution that have been a feature of life in the Six Counties are known to every member of the working-class movement here. We wish to put an end to them. Will "Ultach's" proposal help us to do so? We do not think so, for the following reasons.
In spite of what "Ultach" says, persecution is primarily political, not religious, witness the raids on Protestant Ulster Union Club members. Again, your well-to-do Catholic Unionist is free from persecution. The sectarian speeches of Unionist leaders are made for political ends, to maintain their power, even if their misguided followers imagine they are acting on behalf of their religious faith.
The proposal to direct attention to the position of Catholics as such will tend to cut off the Northern Catholic from his fellow countryman and will perpetuate the division between them, thus playing into the hands of Tories and bigots.
POLITICAL IGNORANCE.
Only a passing reference is made to the coming together of the working-class, both Protestant and Catholic, for a period in 1932 onwards. Yet here is a clear proof of the political design behind the Unionist fostering, of sectarianism, for, alarmed at the growing unity, Unionist and Orange leaders split the working-class by preaching religious bigotry.
"Ultach" gives a handle to his opponents when he over-states his case by describing the Six Counties as a totalitarian state (this does not mean that there are not semi-Fascist features such as the Special Powers Act), while his gross political ignorance is shown by his saying, relying on a book by a notorious anti-Socialist, Gurian, that the administrations of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are essentially similar. No doubt "Ultach" is happy in the knowledge that here he and Dr. James Little are in complete agreement.
THE SOLUTION.
Sectarianism will only be banished here by a united working-class movement taking power. The Labour Party has members of all creeds; unlike the capitalist parties, whether Nationalist or Unionist, it seeks the support of the people as a whole. Jack Beattie received this support in West Belfast. Free from sectarianism itself, the Labour Party goes forward to banish it from the community for ever by the creation of a Socialist country.

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Dear Father Senan,
It was a great pleasure to get your letter this morning, forwarded here from our London office. My daughter Rosemary has been playing the music you so generously gave me for her, and has obviously found Gaelic music a real revelation. She and I are both doing our best to whistle Spailpin Arun and The Red-Haired Man's Wife.
I was at first much attracted by your suggestion that I should write something for your symposium on Northern Ireland, because, like all other men, I take pleasure in laying down the law upon any subject whatever. But second thoughts were better.
I have never written on political questions, not because I do not think them important or feel strongly about them, but because I have not made any close study of them; and all my experience as a publisher goes to convince me of the time that is wasted and the harm that is done by people who will write on things they do not sufficiently know. The strongest feelings are no substitute for knowledge as equipment for writing. On this particular subject I feel very strongly indeed; but I rather need knowledge than know how to impart it.
As you know, I write very little. Practically all that I write is in the field of theology, because this is practically all that I study. Every five years or so I feel that I have learnt a little more, and I write that.
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Irish Terror 11/1/44.
" Orange Terror "
Ban in North
Circulation in Northern Ireland of " Orange Terror, " a book published in Dublin, is prohibited under an order issued yesterday by Mr. W. Lowry, Northern Minister for Home Affairs. The order says that publication of the book is prejudicial to, or likely to be prejudicial to, preservation of the peace in Northern Ireland. It operates to December 31st next. Such orders are renewable annually. " Orange Terror " is a reproduction in book form of an article by " Ultach " in the Capuchin Annual.
Irish Terror 11/1/44.
" Orange Terror "
Is " Prejudicial To
Peace "
" Orange Terror, " a review of the sectarian background of the Six-County Regime and in which Partition is discussed by prominent writers, published by the Capuchin Annual, Dublin, has been banned by the Six-Co. Home Affairs Minister, Mr. Wm. Lowry, K.C., as being " prejudicial to, or likely to be prejudicial to, the preservation of peace and maintenance of order. "
The order is made under the Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act, 1922-'43.
Detectives yesterday visited Belfast newsagents seeking unsold copies of the publication.

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18.1.1944
Dear Father Senan,
Tom
I am asking Senator McLaughlin to raise the matter of the suppression of The Orange Terror in the first sitting of the Northern Senate.
I am inferring that nearly all the facts and figures which it contains are copied from official documents or photographed from public papers issued.
It is sure to be reported in all the press, so that it may insure the sale of any copies left among in the six counties and send people inquiring for it in the twenty six counties and Great Britain.
I have given McL some few facts to add to his query, which is permissible in the Senate, and if you have any others which you think ought to be brought out, you can write him direct to Grianan, Armagh.
With best wishes, yours truly,
Cahir Healy
Very Rev Father Senan,

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Erich Independent
26/1/44.
NORTHERN SENATE
ON BANNED
PUBLICATION
THE banning of the publication, "Orange Terror," was the subject of debate in the Northern Ireland Senate yesterday.
Rev. Prof. Corkey, Leader of the House, replying to Mr. T. McLaughlin (N.), said the book was banned under an Order fully set out by the Ministry of Home Affairs on January 7, and which was widely circulated in the Press. Some of the statements in the book, he said, might have been gleaned from Government or official sources, but, nevertheless, the publication in its entirety was definitely considered to be prejudicial to the preservation of the peace in Northern Ireland.
"WITHOUT PROOF."
Sir Joseph Davison, Parliamentary Secretary to the Northern Prime Minister, and County Grand Master of Belfast Orangemen, said the book was full of statements without proof. He asked if any of the Nationalist members could give information as to how a document issued by the County Grand Orange Lodge in Belfast, and under his own signature, came to be published in the book.
Mr. T. McAllister (N.)—What does this document refer to?
Sir J. Davison said that the document stated that the Orange Lodges objected to any of their members supporting Catholic publicans and threatened expulsion for a breach of that order. He was not ashamed of that document.
The publication, he continued, also gave speeches made by himself and other politicians, especially one made by him in Armagh in 1933 in which he advocated that Protestants should employ only Protestants. He still stood by that statement.

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October 14, 1943
THE ADVOCATE 9
Advocate Magazine
BOOKS & BOOKMEN
THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL, 1943
Faith Flows in the Art of Richard King
"HE who runs may read" of puppet Governments set up by the Nazis and the Nipponese. For the matter of that, it is not necessary even to "run." For, sitting in front of the radio, one may almost at any time tyranny. One, however, looks vainly in the daily newspapers, listens not less bootlessly to the wireless for mention of the puppet Government enthroned at Stormont in Northern Ireland against the will of an overwhelming majority of an ancient and honourable nation. This nation has been politically dismembered. The dismemberment is called Partition.
"THE GRIM STORY"
In the Capuchin Annual for 1943, which is, in quality and pictorial fare, excellently in keeping with its yearly forerunners, the question of Partition is discussed in a symposium of embracing interest and importance. The term "question" is scarcely one to be used in this relation. There is, indeed, something almost satirical, or comic, about its question. For Partition never was a question. The answer was too obvious for that.
However, as we all know from experience, it is the obvious that frequently demands the most enforced emphasis. This has prompted the editor of the Capuchin Annual to publish an exhaustive statement on Partition to which a round score of representative men and women from all walks in life, Protestant and Catholic, Northern and Southern, English and Irish, have contributed.
TIME, the well-known Irish journalist, Miss Gertrude Gaffney, says in her contribution to the symposium: "The most extraordinary part of the whole business is that it has gone on in crescendo for twenty years without the British public being
aware of it. When it is explained to the average Englishman, who is a fair-minded being, he is assonised and appealed. The reports it sent out from Belfast to most of the English newspapers preserve a calculated bias on the side of the ruling junta. They take care not to mention anything in its disfavour, or, if touched upon, carefully to explain it away, and to give full prominence to anything that may reflect on the Nationalist minority. When this sort of thing has been continued consistently over a generation there is not much chance of overtaking it."
Time and influence, some of which may not be apparent on the surface to-day, are working for the wiping out of Partition and the bringing of undivided and undefied nationhood to Eire.
In its own way, the Capuchin Annual symposium will hasten the speed of currents flowing to this end. It composes a united document as unanswerable in its conclusions as it is. Alike in its contributors as it is. It is usefulness is not lessened by the fact that a masterly speech by Mr. de Valera on the unity of Ireland immediately follows it in these pages of rich reading and profuse illustration.
NOTABLE YOUNG ARTIST
Fr. Senan, O.F.M., Cap., the editor of the Capuchin Annual, and "Father Mathew Record," has always been the friend and patron of Irish (as well as other) writers and artists. He has, in a special way, aided the development of that king, whose striking imaginative work in black-and-white, and in other mediums, has had attention directed to it here before.
Regards in the mass, Mr. King's work is seen to be extraordinarily good and consistent. The critic might find here and there, an attempt not wholly achieved, a stregation of the bizarre, or the strained. Notwithstanding this, the range and level of this remarkable young Irish artist are altogether unusually wide and high alike in conception and achievement.
I have been a grateful admirer of his easily distinguishable work since I first saw an example of it. Each of recent numbers of the Capuchin Annual has increased that admiration and gratitude. In the present issue of this unmatched magazine are reproductions, not only of his work in black and white, but of his paintings and his stained glass window work. They prove his mastery of subject, means and material.
Further, and this is an important point in evaluating an artist's ability and standard—they indicate the fertility of his powers. He produces his work in profusion and plenty. It appears to flow from him inexhaustibly.
WINDOWS AND PIETY
Mairin Allen, in an article of the Annual: "The Art of Richard King," relates that he was a student of the craft of stained glass under the late Harry Clarke. He is thus no dilettante, but a practiced craftman, with a wreathed craft, and with them, piety," says Claudel. There are windows and piety in almost every line of King's.
It is not difficult to see that the ordained simplification and symboly inextricably a conjunction in stained glass work are prime marks of his work.
Miss Allen speaks of "... his (King's) avoidance (and this is notable even in his illustrations) of any effort to be three-dimensional. . . " She seems to me to think that this is something to be approved. It is not. For it surely makes for flatness—that
distressing mark of Sam Wells's "Herald" caricatures. But do King's drawings avoid the three-dimensional? And the drawings on page 73 of The Capuchin Annual suggest it? My eyes play me false if it does.
A COMPOSER AND A POET
Two inclusions in this magazine that especially interested me was that in reference to Carl Hardebeck, the blind composer, who has done so much for Gaelic music, and some poems by that
This reproduction of one of his drawings is a fine example of Richard King's mastery of line and use of symbol
strangely neglected writer, the late Philip Francis Little, to whose genius Fr. George O'Neill, S.J., has, more than once, drawn attention. It is proposed to set up a Hardebeck Testimonial Committee. May it meet with every possible success. How sane is Hardebeck's outlook:
A poem he (Hardebeck) continued to illustrate, which may have been full language, but in which the ideas are confused or nil, is no mere word-spinning for its own soke. The futurist painting, which is a glare of colour without design, is mere spleash for its own soke. We have therefore, to ask ourselves the question—What is music?
And he went on to answer—before there was harmony there was counterpoint, and before counterpoint there was melody, so that melody is the essence of all true music and the melodic influences in the hands of all the great musicians have created for them beauty and immortality.
Philip Francis Little (Nettie Palmer. I remember, has written of him) is neglected in Eire. The editor of the Capuchin Annual is to be commended for republishing some of his poems here, and for his purpose to publish a substantial number in a later issue of the magazine. (Readers' attention is drawn to a poem reprinted on page 12 of this issue.)
IRELAND'S NATIONAL GALLERY
Eire has cause to be proud of its National Gallery. It would have increased the reason were which in all justice belong to it, handed over by those now holding them whose title to these masterpieces is as unsubstantial as the foam at Land's End. Mr. Thomas McGreevy, in an article genuinely and illuminatingly illustrated, not only discourses of these treasures—some are notable treasures—but contributes also a helpful survey of the rise of
modern painting and the characteristics of the great artists whose names start its story. This is very fully equipped to do his services.
Now that Sir Keith Murdoch has become an amateur in the original sense, and is officially associated with our own National Gallery, he might provide space and blocks in the "herald" for a series of articles on lines similar in spiri

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BISHOP'S HOUSE.
MULLINGAR.
Jan 30th from
Dear Mr. Seneck, Sincerely thanks
for the Copy of 'Orange Jerry',
which you were good enough to
send me. I has near it in
the 'Capuchu' Annually but
I needed to have the report.
I hope that in Spots of the bar,
strovel rack quarters, where
Enlightenment is Sorely Needed.
I wish - you are your work every
believing.
1/8 Sunny
+ John A. Alton

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This publication, sent to us from your office without request on our part, is herewith returned.
We are not Irish; have no connection whatever with the I. R. A.; and do not wish to receive Irish political pamphlets.
We suggest that you now publish a complete and fully documented account of the callous murders and other crimes committed by the I. R. A. in England in 1939 against innocent civilians; men, women and children; - and that you distribute it free to the Irish.
As a 'text' for this second pamphlet, you might well employ the quotation you have cited on p.33 of this present publication:
"It is all so wanton, so meaningless, so certain that no good of any kind can be achieved by it, and it makes one wonder that any section of our citizens in an age of education and civilisation such as we live in, should become so savage, destructive and heartless."

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Glena,
Booterstown,
Dublin.
Sept 285 44
My alien Gata Senan
" Thank a thousand
time for the Annual."
Gand and worthy of O.F.N. Cap.
in the Photographs are
Glena'd almost I could not
help they the just a position of 2
Pitor and Paul to the Pod flick in
Athlone way not tenibly, artistic
and certainly nothing to "Crowe"
about. " There it would have
been more inciting to have had
a good photo of the house where
the "freas M O'mack" way barn which
has a Player over the door to "point
thant again and for lone
folk. Could we omack."

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CAPUCHIN ANNUAL, 1944
THE aim of the editors of the Capuchin Annual has always been "to provide a complete and worthy survey of everything worth while in the life of resurgent Ireland." In pursuance of that aim, they have produced this year an edition that is quite up to the high standard they have set themselves from the outset of their labours, and indeed excels its predecessors in some respects.
There is the same high standard of literary excellence in the many well-chosen articles, stories and poems, the same undoubted artistic merit in drawings, water-colours and decorations, and in addition there are pages upon pages of well-taken photographs illustrating new aspects of Irish scenic beauty and quiet personal dignity.
In a word, the Annual is a feast of good things. It is hard to choose between so many excellences, but there is at least one article which is well worth reproduction in pamphlet form later on. It is Thomas MacGreevy's "Historical Background of Irish Art," a discerning essay which surveys our history rapidly but penetratingly. It is well that Most Rev. Dr. MacNeely's graceful address on Michael O'Clery has found permanent record in the Annual, for it is one of the most noteworthy of the many tributes to the great historian that have been evoked by the current centenary celebrations. Important, too, is the survey of "Fifty Years in the Irish Woollen Trade" made by the late Willie Cronin and to a lesser extent, James J. Kelly's "Journalist's Diary" of fairly recent happenings in Belfast.
Much of Ireland is represented, if not among the articles, at least by a well-chosen photograph. "Our Lady of Galway," by Catriona MacLeod, worthily represents the West;
"Holy Thursdy in Cork City" tells of a glorious day in the southern capital, while in "Armagh Days" John Nugent recalls incidents of life in the ecclesiastical capital.
The poets are allowed generous space—a rare feature in popular periodicals. But then they are more than ordinary poets; there is a touch of class about most of them. Quite a large proportion of the Annual is given over to the poems of Philip Francis Little, and a reading of even a few of them will show how justified is the decision to have it so. Here is a real poet who has been too long neglected. If it were only for such poems as "The Fisher" and "Valedictory" a new edition of his poetry would be sure of a welcome by the discerning. "Tale of Our Lost One" though it is not remarkable for its historical accuracy is nevertheless of Dantesque nobility in its conception.
Of the stories, "The Hogskin Gloves" is a splendid example of delicate satire, while Annie M. P. Smithson's "In the Garden of the Lupins" captures all the charm of the Dublin hills. "The Long Dusk" is a tale in the Francis MacManus manner by Seamus de Faoite. Three Gaelic stories are all written by Micheal O Siochfhradha, author of "An Ball Dubh."
There are so many good things to be mentioned yet—Dr. James's essay on Tolerance, Art O Briain's recollections of the early days of the Gaelic League in London, Benedict Kiely's musings on a holiday in Donegal, to say nothing of two fine contributions from distinguished Capuchin missionaries in Africa.
But the best way of convincing yourself of the worth of this yearly treat is to procure a copy for yourself!

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Honorary Members: Douglas Hyde, Stephen Gwynn
President: Rutherford Mayne
Vice-Presidents: Denis Ireland, Maurice Walsh
Past Presidents: The Earl of Longford, Maurice Walsh, Austin Clarke
Irish P. C. P.
in association with International P.C.P.
PLAYWRIGHTS EDITORS NOVELISTS
OETS ESSAYISTS
DUBLIN CENTRE
90 Oct 1944
DUBLIN CENTRE
Chairman: Rutherford Mayne
Vice-Chairman: Maurice Walsh
Hon. Secretary: Kathleen O'Brennan
Hon. Treasurer: Mervyn Wall
BELFAST CENTRE
Chairman: Denis Ireland
Vice-Chairman: Dr. D. A. Chart
Hon. Secretary: May Morton
Hon. Treasurer: Elsie Patton
my dear frather Servan
I have you so much for
to annual which as usual is so
uncellable done. I am looking forward
to a real enjoyment, as I have been 'up
to my eyes in wools for its past two days
Very many thanks
Sincerely yours
Kaluters Co Boemann.

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DER DEUTSCHE GESANDTE
DUBLIN
The German Minister begs to thank the Editor of the Capuchin Annual cordially for having presented him with the new edition of the year-book. He wishes to re-affirm once more how much he appreciates and likes this always particularly interesting work.
Dublin, October 16th, 1944.

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CONNAUGHT HOUSE,
53, PEMBROKE ROAD.
DUBLIN.
29. IX. 1944
A dizar Sanain a cara
Molain zo mor zu
a zuy an t- kuyleabar
pata tar. Ey curza annai
a zaz.
Pionn na Tazaia
a z cur yzaia orn zo mor
Foy, a zuy naa zall ar
na bpanzala a lionn
i'm lainala, nil ye i'm
cunay yeriola aiz Fior-
boazann. Taim lazonai
"incapaitatad".
bannaiz ye orz a zuy
ar to end yaoiar.
Anz Obmany

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11 Magdala Street
University Street
BELFAST 5.11.44
Dear Father Senan,
You may remember that, in addition to the copy of THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL that you so kindly sent me, I ordered a annual copy for myself.
This second ANNUAL I sent to Mr. Edgar N. Duffield, who is the editor of THE FORD TIMES magazine. You will find his reply enclosed. As I know that he is not a man given to eulogies without reason, I think his letter is too good for me to keep. You may care to have it for your files.
I am gradually getting together a collection of really good pictures with a view to submitting them to you next year. My friend James McCay has some very good photographs and I intend to include them with mine, if that is in order. He was, before the war, well known as a free lance photographer and won several important competitions. Nowadays his business as a chartered accountant keeps him busy and he has not so much time for photography.
I hope to send you within the next two or three weeks a copy of our book NOW IN ULSTER. We have been held up in various ways, otherwise we should have had it on sale ere this. On the strength of our dummy books, however, we have sold more than twelve hundred copies with very little effort, so we seem to have been successful before even the book is printed.
I am,
Yours sincerely,
Arthur M. Campbell.

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THE TOWER OF TRUTH
SUNDAY—10:30 A.M.—K S T P
CATECHISM COMES TO LIFE
Catechetical Guild
128 EAST TENTH STREET ST. PAUL 1, MINNESOTA
December 12, 1944
The Capuchin Annual
Two Capel Street
Dublin
Dear Father Senan:
Your very beautiful Annual was admired by all of us at the Catholic Digest office. Outstanding, of course, was the excellent series of Rosary pictures. Would it be possible for us to make some arrangements with the owner of these pictures. I should like so much to include them in our plans for future publication. You will note that we had an artist do a series for our booklet; but yours are so much better and deserve to be printed in color. If arrangements can be made to pay some fair amount for the reproduction rights in the U.S.A. (say about $25 each, or $375 for the set) would it be possible to get photostatic copies of the original drawings. It might be best to send only one reproduction so that we can be advised by our engraver as to the best size for his color execution.
Under separate cover I am sending you some copies of TOPIX. I'm wondering if your alert organization might not be in a position to make use of this idea. I shall be glad to co-operate in any way.
The November issue of the St. Anthony Messenger has a story about our radio program. You will probably see it. We have been on the air weekly since March 5 and much good seems to be coming out of the experiment. Priests in various parts of the U.S.A. are planning to follow this plan. We are mimeographing our notes and suggestions. If you know anyone who is interested, we'll be glad to give such help as we can .
Best wishes for a blessed Christmas season.
Faithfully yours,
Luis A. Lales
PUBLISHERS OF RELIGION TEACHING AIDS

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P. O. Box 105
COPY
Telephone : 74121
THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL OFFICE
Editors : Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap.
Father Gerald, O.F.M.Cap.
TWO CAPEL STREET
DUBLIN
January 22nd, 1945.
The Capuchin Annual
Bonaventura
The Father Mathew Record
The Rev. Louis A. Gales,
The Catechetical Guild,
128 East Tenth Street,
St. Paul 1,
Minnesota, U. S. A.
My dear Father Gales,
Many thanks for your kind letter of December 12.
I am glad you liked the Annual and an particularly pleased by your interest in Richard King's Mysteries of the Rosary. And so is Richard King himself — he is our chief staff artist. I wish you could see his work in all its variety, stained glass, oil pictures, watercolours etc. as well as illustration. Perhaps the war will be over soon and you'll be over. We should be glad to welcome you.
You may have the U.S.A. rights in the Mysteries at the figure (8375) you suggest. The originals are executed in a mono-
THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL OFFICE
Editors : Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap.
Father Gerald, O.F.M.Cap.
TWO CAPEL STREET
DUBLIN
The Capuchin Annual
Bonaventura
The Father Mathew Record
chrome — airbrush medium and I imagine your engraver could work equally well from the reproductions in the Annual. These are in photogravure, and consequently easily reproduced, particularly if reduced in size. The alternative would be to have photographic copies made for you — photostats would not give the delicate tones of the drawings. Will you let me know what you think.
I should be interested to hear more about Topix. I have been admiring it in Catholic Youth of Toronto. It would be a completed new feature in Ireland. I'd be glad to have further details of your experience and also your ideas on how best we might co-operate.
With every good wish for 1945,
Yours very sincerely,
FS/RD.

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Daragh Castle
Glendalough
Dec 2nd '04
Dear Father Serran,
Ever so many
thanks for your kind
letters and cheque and
for the Capachia Annual
invited, as always, in
the greatest forgetful
interest for us during
the Yrras holiday.
My son, Lau, who is doing
sculpture at the Cort School
was fascinated by the
D. Campbell pictures. He is
nearly grand.
Wishing you and
Father Serran the best
of all these years
Yours very
sincerely
Gerald Steart

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FARM LODGE,
BALLYBRACK,
CO. DUBLIN.
PHONE: 83462.
28th Dec. 1945.
Dear Father Senan
My wife and I were
very touched in seed at your
kind thought in sending us
the Capuchin Annual and
beautiful Christmas card.
Con Curran's article on
the Exhibition is excellent
and it and the photographs
recall a very happy time.
with all good wishes to
you & Father Senan.
Jrs. Friendly RR Joggis

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IRISH PRESS
24. 1. 46
The Capuchin Annual
THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL, 1945-46.
Edited by Father Senan, O.F.M.
Cap. (Dublin: Capuchin Annual
Office. 10/6.)
THERE is so much crying out insistently for notice in the Capuchin Annual for 1945-46 that one has to be selective. A comprehensive survey of the contents would unloose the Book Page from its moorings.
The pictures demand first attention, for they are the first thing that will be looked at. One section of them is devoted to the recent Jack B. Yeats Loan Exhibition and provides a worthy memorial of a great artistic occasion; another reproduces scenes in the O'Rahilly country, illustrative of three fine articles: "Brightness of Brightness," by Aodh de Blacam; "Land With-
out Stars," by Benedict Kiely, and "Gael of the Gaels," by Rev. Fr. Michael, O.F.M. Cap.; and there is a fine photogravure supplement by David Kennedy showing Laurence Campbell at work on his statue of Sean Heuston.
As for the letterpress—what is one to choose? There is, in a symposium, a notable tribute to Dr. Vincent O'Brien, to which Mr. P. J. Little, Dr. T. J. Kiernan, Mr. Thomas MacGreevy and the late John McCormack have contributed; the Yeats Exhibition is given a critical interpretation by Mr. C. P. Curran; Lady Yarrow writes "On Learning Irish," and Mr. Sean O Boyle on "The Rediscovery of Irish Music"; Mr. Thomas MacGreevy assesses the place of Count McCormack in Opera; there are short stories by Philip Rooney, Mervyn Wall, D. L. Kelleher, C. P. Daly and Seamus de Faoite; and poems by Monsignor John O'Connor (the original of Chesterton's Father Brown), Francis Stuart, M. J. Labern, Pearse Hutchinson, Myles O'Farrell.
All these and scores of other features, of which space precludes mention, make the 1945-46 Capuchin Annual a treasure for the Irish bookshelf. It is at once a survey, pictorial and documentary of contemporary Irish life; a record of the year's movements in Irish art, and an anthology of new writing. M.

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Accept best thanks for your moving Prelude to wonderful tribute in the Annual also my appreciation of your major share in its inspiration
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4. 3 also
I offered
Mountain Prison.
Dublin.
2nd January 1946
Rev. dear Father.
S. 7.
I write to say that I have received your generous gift of the Annual, this beautiful open is giving me great pleasure to help to pass some benefit times.
I am exceedingly grateful for your kind thought, and the knowledge that I have your good wishes is meaningful.
Kindest regards to
yourself & Father Gerald.
Yours Very Sincerely,
Leo S. Brien.

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FROM PETER F. ANSON · HARBOUR HEAD · MACDUFF · BANFFSHIRE
Telephone: Macduff 255.
5.1.46
My dear Father.
Congratulations of the 1946 Capuchin Annual which arrived yesterday. So far I have merely glanced through the contents, but they appear to be very varied and even more interesting than usual. The photos are magnificent. If anybody asks me to give them an impression of what Ireland is like to-day I shall only have to bid them study the Annual. The whole thing; pictures, literary matter, and even the adverts, reveal the soul of the people better than anything else I know. Lest I forget, tell Fr. Gerald that I love his drawings. I have asked if I can review the Annual for the Catholic Herald.
My architect friend, Ian Lindsay, is hoping to do a motor tour of Ireland early this summer to study buildings, ancient and modern, and wants me to accompany him. He has just invested in a 2nd hand Bentley car, so we ought to make this pilgrimage in extreme comfort ! Ian (who is an Episcopalian) is responsible for the restoration of Iona Abbey for the Presbyterians and Pluscarden Priory for the Benedictines of Prinknash. At the moment he is busy compiling elaborate lists of buildings in Scotland to be scheduled by the Department of Health, to save them from destruction. He says it would be easy for me to combine my survey of the rest of the fishing ports with his own investigations into Irish architecture.

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6th June 1916
Very Son & Racemend Father.
I am been mealing every day & much
& thank you for advanced copy of
Captain Armstrong's & Cruz Shulter Yard
on having and on back of the Strand
a her infance can be found if I got a bit
knocked up by Christmas festivals.
When it is all on good, it is deficit
to push out the heart, but this I think
the little blash & white laughing
characteristics of generative over the high
lights is it. They make us all love
the order the Spirit & you order
which start express the gracity of its
founder. How St Francis cared have
loved them! & there is not glorious
in the drawing, no doubt about that.
I accept well I am certain he delighted
with her copy - thank you & make it for
reading it - I haven't seen her since,
but there is still no news of travel
great noctuity -
How you read Yours English? You should, though I know the grave in my experience for it, is not a preservation
* I admit the sometimes fogits me
& I admit the not addressing or practice
communication he is not addressing or practice
making - Best of think in the way
he has, with this back, Done & something
Freeland - He has produced a thurtler
good for boys to read, much of it were
decently bound would make a splendid
back for school payers or Christmas gifts, &
which there is a real need -
When you & Father greatly need a
with recovered from the tremendous
work of getting out the Armed & Can Yours
the time to make on an addressment,
I shall wish to see you little for
you know that making you little
is one of these things I back forward &
most.
All good wishes for 1916 &
after all & concertingly yours
Yours Garrison Martinde -
If you have done well it, well you be so kind
as to return me the memories ought of the piet
chapters of Presbyterian - & talk new what you
think of them - because my other copy
of them I had to send to a publisher & I
would the post chapters as I am working in the heart new

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK
This Annual is
Ireland's Finest
Literary Ambassador
THE Capuchin Annual is here. Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap., the editor, presents it in his usual prodigal fashion with a wealth of letterpress and pictures that give it a solidity peculiar to itself. There is no other annual—indeed no other Irish publication—to detract from its eminence. We are accustomed to open its pages with a warmth of anticipation of articles, stories and poems well worth reading, and pictures of the Irish scene to delight the eye.
This is its sixteenth year of publication and again it reflects the high endeavour of its editor and his assistant, Father Gerald, O.F.M.Cap.
There are forty pages of pictures on the beautiful and the picturesque in Ireland, representing camera work at its most perfect. But camera work is one thing: reproduction another. Long ago the Capuchin Annual set itself a high level in this respect. The lustre is undimmed.
OF the literary content, one can only list personal preferences.
I liked the excellent summing-up of the neutrality issue, and of the average Englishman's approach to the Irish question generally, by J. P. Comyn. D. L. Kelleher's "Old Ladies" I would read anyway, because of the Corkman's felicitous style.
The best of the longer essays is Aodh de Blacam's estimate of the life and poetry of Egan O'Rahilly, the Gaelic Dante of Munster, as Daniel Corkery called him. A charming butteress to de Blacam's fine writing is a series of pictures of the O'Rahilly country of Kerry and of Mucross Abbey, where the poet is buried.
Northerners will relish Terence O'Hanlon's "Wisps of Memory," a boyhood picture of life in Lower Killeavy, South Armagh, and David
Kennedy's study of Dr. James M'Donnell, the Glensman, who was a friend of M'Cracken, Neilson and Russell; but, being neither a democrat nor a revolutionary, did not follow them into the Society of the United Irishmen, but contented himself with founding the Belfast Harp Society and sponsoring the great Harp Festival in Belfast in 1792.
Peter Anson is refreshingly frank in his study of Ireland after his twelve years' absence from the country, and Alice Curtayne writes sensibly about five Irish saints: Patrick, Colmcille, Brendan, Columbanus and Ita. Richard King's drawings of the saints, in full colour, are a joy.
IF a grouch is permitted, it is that over 30 pages are given over to a dreary list of names of members of the Association of Patrons of the Annual. It reminds one too much of the equally dreary lists of clergy "present or represented" at funerals, which find their way into some of our newspapers, eating up valuable space. Father Senan might well spare us the list in next year's Annual.
This apart, one is still left wondering how Father Senan continues to produce an annual so vital, so stirring, so finely-produced—from the full colour frontispiece by Richard King of St. Brendan the Navigator on through pages of essays stories, critical judgments, poems, and photographs. Surely, the Capuchin Annual is Ireland's finest literary ambassador!
The Capuchin Annual: 1945-6.
Capuchin Publications, Dublin;
10s 6d

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Telephone: 61264.
Leabarlann an creidim.
CENTRAL CATHOLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, INC.
74 MERRION SQUARE, S., DUBLIN.
Jan. 26. 1966
Dear Father Senan
I wish to thank you on
behalf of the Council for your kind
gift of a copy of the Capuchin Annual.
I have not been able to read all of it
yet but it certainly seems to be up to
the very high standard you have estab-
lished. I wish it a great success
Yours sincerely
Stephen J. Brown S.J

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The Capuchin
Annual
The Capuchin Annual, 1945-6
(Dublin: 2 Capel Street. 10/6.)
With some 300 pages of reading matter, 100 pages of pictures, and 150 pages of advertisements, this miscellany provides abundant reading. The format is somewhat unwieldy. One supposes that a paper cover on an annual which costs 10/6 can be excused by prevailing difficulties in the printing trade.
Terence O'Hanlon is all too brief in his "Wisps of Memory," but perhaps one feels that way because the wisps are so charming. Mr. C. P. Curran's article on Jack B. Yeats is enhanced by several reproductions from the recent Yeats exhibition. Mr. James P. Comyn writes in militant spirit on the best method of arguing Ireland's case with the Englishman. Of the short stories perhaps the most delightful is that by Donagh MacDonagh. The Kerry poets get their full share of notice, and Mr. Benedict Kiely's "Land Without Stars" paints in the background very gracefully.
Well deserved tributes to Dr. Vincent O'Brien are paid in a symposium to which many notable admirers contribute. Val Vousden's appreciation of Percy French is as generous as it is deserved. Some of the portraits and thumb-nail sketches of the contributors are spoiled by such meaningless terms as "a poet in his own right" and "stylist in his own right." Many of the illustrations, some of them in colours, are gems of art. They add greatly to a rare feast of fiction and fact, poetry, reminiscences and criticism, all strongly Catholic and sh in flavour.
R. J.

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CAPUCHIN ANNUAL
THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL, 1945-'46.
Edited by Father Senan, O.F.M.Cap.,
published at 2 Capel-street, Dublin,
10s. 6d.
This is the twelfth appearance of the Capuchin Annual, a publication which long ago carved out for itself a special niche in the world of books not only in Ireland but in many parts of the globe, where it is awaited with eagerness each year. The present number contains more than five hundred pages, many of them on high quality art paper. There is one section of no less than forty pages of delightful pictures, and many other photographs help to create an impression of Ireland in all its varied aspects. Then there are numerous black and white sketches full of originality and humour, and some more of the pictures by Richard King, the talented Mayo artist, whose work has come to be such a prominent feature of the Annual. Among the contributions is a long article on Connacht by Mairin Allen, full of word-pictures of many centres in the province, and, indeed, conveying an amazing amount of information of an interesting type about towns and villages, mountains, bogs, and glens, and above all, about people of all degrees.
Val Vousden has a fine appreciation of Percy French, in which he quotes many of that fine humourist's best gems. Anthoer notable feature of the Annual is a striking collection of tributes to Dr. Vincent O'Brien by John McCormack, Carl Hardebeck, and many others. A translation of the Stabat Mater into Irish by Very Rev. Dr. P. Browne, President of University College, Galway; a reprint of the Taoiseach's broadcast reply to Mr. Churchill; an account of ten years in Africa by Rev. Father Christopher, O.F.M.Cap.; poems in Irish and English; and a number of short stories and sketches, are among the other features of a publication even the advertisements in which are well worth reading.
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CENTRAL 2424 (TWO LINES) ; RUISLIP (Middlesex) 2424 ;
MUSEUM 2424
James A. Whelan
ERINOPA IRISH
107 FLEET STREET,
Telegrams : Whelan,
NEWS AGENCY (Established 1935)
LONDON, E. C. 4
Ludgate House, London
(PRIVATE
TELEPHONE
IN BRITISH
MINISTRY OF
INFORMATION
PRESS ROOM)
Private
Saturday, February 9,
1946.
Dear Fr Senan,
When out at G B S's on Thursday
(see I P today) I noticed your 1945-6 Annual
with a number of other books in the Main Lounge.
He also had monsignor Knox's "God and the Atom".
By the way, I am no longer doing
the Irish Times London Letter after \frac{4}{2} years, as
they sent over W J White on January 2nd. I have
therefore much more time to concentrate on my
work for the I.P. etc.
I noticed that Duckett's, the
new Catholic bookshop in the Stand, had four
of the Annuals but they were swept away in a
few hours. They have been waiting for a supply.
II rang up Burns and Oates, but they did not
stock it. Perhaps paper restrictions
have made export difficulty.
With all good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
P.S. You may have seen another story of
mine recently about How the Irish are Building
Heath Row Airport.

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Just as I am about to close my letter, an advance copy of Father Senan's Capuchin Annual arrives with a most artistic frontispiece of Saint Brendan in his craft. Father Senan, O.M.Cap., is considered one of the most astute editors in Ireland. He has launched many of the promising young authors of today, and his knowledge of and work for Irish art have placed him high up in the front rank of discriminating judges.
The Capuchin Annual (S2.50) is beautifully produced, and illustrated in colour and line by Irish artists. It contains an amount of literary criticism, essays and short stories, and is a publication that should have a place in all cultured homes interested in keeping in touch with the intellectual life of Ireland.
Kathleen O'Brennan.
from America, New York.
2.2. '46

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507 East 81st Street,
New York City,
October 24, 1946.
The Reverend Father Senan, O.F.M. Cap.,
The Capuchin Annual,
Church Street,
Dublin, Eire.
Reverend and Dear Father Senan,
One of the seven glories of modern Irish letters surely is The Capuchin Annual. Father Gerald and yourself have made it a rich and rare thing to be displayed with pride here in the United States to those who little of the real Ireland know.
I have long been wistful to be a part of it, even though it is so truly of the Irish Irish and I am several generations away. But with the 1945-46 Annual before me my boldness rises.
The American Irish Historical Society in 1947 celebrates its fiftieth year. Its purpose is to make better known the Irish part in the settlement and upbuilding of the United States and through its journals and recorders it has promulgated the research of its members into the glory of Ireland's part in America from the earliest once ignored days. In its stately building in New York City it has probably the finest Irish library in the country and a store of Irish and American Irish treasures.
Might an article on the society of which I am active member and its work for the greater glory of the Irish race find a welcome with you for the 1947 Annual? The thought arises as a possible way in which I might step across the seas and the long years ago in which my fathers left Cork and Armagh and Roscommon and know the pride of appearing in the Annual.
I am presently sending an American news letter to Radio Eirinn each week, so my name and link to Ireland may be somewhat known. And once I was very honored at a note from
you telling me you had enjoyed a book of mine. But whether or no my request is possible of granting, my admiration and pride in the Annual is great. My sincerest congratulations go to Father Gerald and yourself. Perhaps you would pass on to him my delight in his so truly Franciscan sketches pages bob up so joyously throughout its pages.
God and Mary to you both---and Francis,
Sincerely,

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MARCH 2, 1946
THE LEADER
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CORRESPONDENCE
St. Malachy's College,
Belfast,
February 23rd, 1946.
Dear Editor,
Please allow me a line or two of your valuable space : (a) to say a word of congratulation to you on your remarks about these awful war trials; and (b) to say that I, too, like your
reviewer of The Capuchin Annual, was in some doubt as to the meaning of the symbolism in Richard J. King's picture of St. Ita. I asked the artist recently and he told me that the three balls of fire, and the three shining jewels set in a triangle, symbolised the Trinity to which St. Ita had very great devotion. According to tradition, once, after the saint had been lifted up from the ground in ecstasy—as she is in the picture—the people saw the three balls of fiery light around her; and, again according to tradition, an angel in a vision once presented her with three shining jewels (which the artist has depicted in the three primary colours) symbolic of the Trinity and told her to keep them locked in her sinless heart.
I thought your readers—and your reviewer—might be interested.
Yours sincerely,
JAMES J. CAMPBELL.

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Capuchin Annual
As Good As Ever
THE Capuchin Annual has deservedly secured a high place among Irish Literary Works, and the current issue adds yet another laurel to the works of the Capuchin Fathers.
Great attention has been paid to its every detail with the result that a perfect work has been achieved, thus proving, once again, the saying of the famous Michael Angelo—"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." Simplicity is the keynote of the whole work.
Over ninety pages are given to photographs, and four pages contain Richard King's beautifully coloured paintings of Irish Saints. The frontispiece, a painting of St. Brendan the Navigator, standing on the prow of a ship holding aloft the cross, is also by Richard King.
Within the scope of its 512 pages the Annual covers a wide variety of subjects, and every taste is catered for. Many well-known writers, including the Rev. Dr. Christopher, O.F.M.; Aodh de Blacam, Philip Rooney, and Mervyn Wall, to mention but a few, have contributed articles to this issue.
David Kelly has contributed forty pages of photographs of Irish beauty spots and of architectural works in Ireland, which contribution is suitably entitled "Ailneaeht a's Aoibhneas."
This issue should be of particular interest to Kerry people as it contains many photographs of the O'Rahilly country, by T. J. Molloy as well as an article by Killarney-born Seamus de Faoite. Benedict Kiely, the well-known Dublin journalist, writes on his trip around Killarney, in his article "Land with Stars." M. J. Labern's poems also find a place in the Capuchin Annual. out
Well-known personalities of the music and diplomatic world, including the late John Count McCormack, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Lorenzo Perosi, Permanent Director of the Cappella Musicalla Pontificia; His Excellency Thomas J. Kiernan, Irish Minister to the Holy See; and P. J. Little, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, among others, join in paying a well-deserved tribute to Dr. Vincent O'Brien.
Val Vousden, the most masterly as he is the most famous Irish concert entertainer, has contributed a beautifully written appreciation of Percy French, whom he says, he took as his model. An article on the late Joseph Cardinal McRory occupies a portion of the issue, as does An Taoiseach's historic broadcast, which was delivered on May 16, 1945.
The "Capuchin Annual, 1945-'46," which is now in its sixteenth year of publication, is a great tribute to the work of its editor, Fr. Senan, O.F.M. Cap., and to the Capuchin Fathers in general.
The Annual, which costs 10/6, should find a place in every home.
—P.P.