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Dublin Unitarian Church Collection	Royal Irish Academy
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Collection
Identifier	RIA/DUC
Description	The Dublin Unitarian Church Collection was donated to the Royal Irish Academy by the Dublin Unitarian Church in two separate deposits. The first deposit is comprised of documents relating to the Unitarian community of Dublin and some of its predecessor congregations, located over time at premises in Wood Street, Cook Street, Eustace Street, Strand Street, and St. Stephen’s Green. Consisting of over 1700 documents, the collection includes committee minute books, cash books, collection books, subscription lists, petty cash books and other financial material, school registers and account books, correspondence, reports, sermons and lectures. These documents were created and maintained by congregation members, acting in their various official capacities e.g. Management Committee secretaries, Trustees, School Board members etc. The second deposit consists overwhelmingly of papers relating to the various Trust Funds or Properties operated by the Unitarian congregation. These papers were originally held by Hone and Falkiner, solicitors who managed the trusts on behalf of the congregation. They typically consist of title deeds, wills, deeds of conveyance, legal opinions, building and valuation reports, correspondence with tenants of properties and dealings with the Land Commission. The trusts operated principally during the later 19th and early 20th centuries but the collection also contains some original documents from the 18th century as well as copies of deeds from that period.
Strengths	Church records and registers, Unitarian Church Ireland, Strand Street congregation, St. Stephen's Green Unitarian congregation, Church schools-Ireland, Unitarian Church property - Dublin, Unitarian Church Trust Funds; Singleton Female School
Physical Characteristics	50 archival boxes, 30 bound volumes
Languages	English
Collection Temporal Date Range	18th century - 20th century
Accumulation Date Range	18th century - 20th century
Contents Date Range	18th century - 20th century
Collection Type	Collection.Archive.Text.Special
Accrual	Policy: Closed Method: Donation Periodicity: Closed
Access	The archives will be made available without restriction after one hundred years has elapsed following the final entry in the particular volume or item. Until then, requests for access will be considered on an individual basis at the descretion of the Librarian, Royal Irish Academy
Legal Status	Ownership by the Royal Irish Academy, please consult with Librarian, Royal Irish Academy as to matters of copyright and permission to publish.
Custodial History	This collection was created and maintained by the various congregations of the Dublin Unitarian Church and the collection resided in the Unitarian Church at St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin until it was transferred to theRoyal Irish Academy in two separate deposits in 2006 and 2008
Description or Catalogue	Pdf of catalogue available for download and searchable Royal Irish Academy Library manuscript catalogue online at www.ria.ie/library.aspx

Collector
Name	Dublin Unitarian Church

Owner
Name	Royal Irish Academy
Organisation	Royal Irish Academy
Role	Librarian
Telephone	0035316762570
Email	library@ria.ie
History	An all-Ireland institution, the RIA was founded in 1785 as a learned society for the promotion of the sciences and the humanities in Ireland. See http://www.ria.ie

Location
Name	Royal Irish Academy
Address	19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Ireland
Website	http://www.ria.ie
Access Control	Access to members, readers with a library ticket, or ALCID card. During library hours, Monday - Thursday, 10am - 5.30pm, Friday 10am - 5pm.
Role	Librarian
Phone	+353-1-6380910
Fax	+353-1-6762346
Email	s.fitzpatrick@ria.ie