Letter from Michael O'Riordan to the Right Rev. Monsignor Denis Hallinan, 23 October 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Michael O'Riordan

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This letter was written by Monsignor Michael O'Riordan (1857-1919), rector at the Irish College in Rome, to the Right Rev. Monsignor Denis Hallinan, D.D., P.P., Newcastle West; later bishop of Limerick, 1918-1923.. In this letter O’Riordan thanks the Monsignor for his commission, which will be put to use straight away. O’Riordan writes that he is grateful to have the information of changes in the diocese. O’Riordan then refers to the statement he has issued and is glad that it pleased the Monsignor. O'Riordan goes on to discuss the difficulties he is having with economising.

 Limerick Diocesan Archive LDA/BI/ET/I/239/2/3 https://letters1916.ie/item/2678 English Michael O'Riordan 1916-10-23 Irish College, Rome, Italy Monsignor Ireland Male 1919 Faith Faith Industry and Public Administration

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 Irish CollegeRome 23rdOct 1916 My Dear Mgr Thank you for yourCommission, which I shallhave carried out at once.I am glad to have the itemsof information you send, aboutthe T.F.S, and about thechanges in the diocese. I thinkFr Hallinan was wise to getrelieved of all responsibility.He was much crippled the lasttime I saw him. Where is he living? I am glad you are pleasedwith my statement. You haveof course missed in it some itemsof importance. But I had theRoman mind before me whilstI wrote. Things which matter toyou & me would convey no meaningto them — or worse, a wrong one.I have some strong letters from someCardinals in it. Card Maffi askedme for some more copies. I was not asked by the Bps todo anything like it. I thereforehave taken all the responsibilityof it on myself. I have madeit clear here that I only amresponsible. I have told that to thoseof them to whom I have sentcopies. Nobody therefore cancomplain: if any should not agreewith my view - in factI have no view in it: I merelyset forth facts, with chieflyviews from the other side. I am just back fromTivoli. The Vice Rector is gettingbetter. I am quite well - Ihave not time yet to get ill& go to hospital. I have been buying grapes and makingwine. I have spent 13000lire on grapes. I fear that winewill become dearer & dearer thesenext few years. Hence I have enoughwine for nearly three years.Living has so gone up that itis hard to live. The pensionsdo not at all maintain astudent since the war began.So I am trying to economise. Idon't like to raise the pension.Come out for a short time, & I'llteach you domestic economy —from buying grapes to repairing water—closets. And I can give you thebest bicchiere of wine in Rome,although I am a teetotaller! I am Yrs very truly MO'Riordan I'll be eleven years here on Nov 1st. How fast time runs, or yearsgo on and duties multiply. I have made some useful improvements inTivoli. It's in fine order now. Mr Lawperdoes well. Michael O'Riordan Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 12 May 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 27 May 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 10 June 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 23 October 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to the Right Rev. Monsignor Denis Hallinan, 23 October 1916 Irish College, Rome, Italy Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 12 May 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 27 May 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 10 June 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 23 October 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to the Right Rev. Monsignor Denis Hallinan, 23 October 1916 Ireland Letter from George A. Lyons to the Honorary Secretary of Sinn Féin, 5 April 1916Letter from Seán Mac Diarmada to Tom Clake, 5 April 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 12 May 1916Letter from Eoin McNeill to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 18 April 1916Letter from R. Barry O'Brien to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, 12 February 1916Letter from Mairín Ní Ribhógh to James Ryan, 2 August 1916Letter from ‘One of the Hard Pressed’ to Mr. Samuel, 28 July 1916Letter from Emma Duffin to her aunts, 9 January 1916, Letter from Arthur to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 14 January 1916Letter from Fr. C. F. Maher to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 16 April 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 23 October 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to the Right Rev. Monsignor Denis Hallinan, 23 October 1916Letter from Peter Mooney to his sister Katie Mooney, 4 February 1916.Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 25 January 1916Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 25 February 1916Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 31 December 1915Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Mai, 22 January 1916Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Mai, 11 February 1916Letter from MW O'Reilly to 'A Cara', 1 June 1916Letter from Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 1 March 1916Letter from Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 10 March 1916Letter from Nora Ring to Susan Daly, March 1923Letter from Douglas Campbell (later Major General Sir Douglas Campbell) to his sister Catherine Agnes Meta Campbell (later Wetherall), 28 October 1917Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell, 19 November 1919Letter from Mary McDonagh to her daughter-in-law Annie McDonagh, early 1920