Irish Women Poets [Pamphlets]

Rosenfield Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Private acts of parliament

Tipperary Studies

This is a small collection of local interest private acts of parliament ranging from 1695 to 1905. An individual (wealthy, influential and of course male) who for example wanted a divorce or who wanted to undo some family arrangement about property had to finance a private act of parliament to achieve his ends. The various acts range from an act concerning fines in the County Palatine of Tipperary ...

Cole Bowen Papers

Tipperary Studies

While this family was based in Cork (Bowen’s Court, Co. Cork) the bulk of their land was in Tipperary amounting to around 5,000 acres. This came through the 1716 marriage of Henry Bowen to Jane, only child and heiress of Robert Cole of Ballymackey, Co. Tipperary. This is a large collection of mainly 19th century estate material, rentals and maps. Large volume of Tipperary estate maps covering 16 t ...

Murphy family, Ballinamona collection

Tipperary Studies

This is a collection of family and estate papers from the Murphys of Ballinamona. The official Return of Owners of Land published in 1876 lists William Murphy of Ballinamona as having an estate of 856.75 acres. The family continued at Ballinamona until the death of Kathleen Murphy in 1975, the last of the family. What made the Murphy family different from their ‘Big House’ neighbours and which giv ...

Nodstown National School

Tipperary Studies

A collection of national school records for Nodstown National School from 1841 -1987. The Board of Education was set up in 1831 to create a nationwide government-assisted education system which was responsible for the establishment of national schools. The Nodstown boys school was established in 1839, registered with the board in 1840 and the girls school was established in 1839, registered in 184 ...

Lough Derg Yacht Club

Tipperary Studies

A miscellaneous collection of records and documents relating to LDYC founded 1836.The collection includes minute books, accounts, regatta programmes and books, members lists, general correspondence, a short history of the club, lease and building & club improvements. A large collection of 20 boxes mainly ranging from 1893 - 1954 Includes (approximate dates) Minute Books 1883 - 1893, 1893 - 1897, 1 ...

The Bagwell Papers

Tipperary Studies

This is a large collection of papers relating to the Bagwell family of Tipperary. It relates entirely to estate matters from the 17th century Butler Ormonde interest to the end of the 20th century when the Bagwell connection with Clonmel finally ended. The Bagwell home, Marlfield, was burned during the Civil War and many personal papers were lost. The collection deals with the getting and letting ...

Poor Law Union Records

Tipperary Studies

In 1838 the Irish Poor Law Act was passed, introducing an entirely new system of state welfare in Ireland. The result was the establishment of over one hundred Poor Law Unions throughout the country. Each Union had a Workhouse, financed by the payment of rates on landholders in the Union. The vast bulk of the Poor Law Union (PLU) sources comprise Minute and Rate Books. Minute Books contain the rec ...

New Irish Poetry Anthology of Essays receives accusations of sexism

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Published / Digitised / Open Access / Lagan Online Digital article on The Cambridge Companion To Irish Poets (P ublished 30th November, 2017 ) ISBN: 978-1108414197, price £26.99 Lagan Online URL: http://laganonline.co/new-irish-poetry-anthology-of-essays-receives-accusations-of-sexism/ Related Page URL : http://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/fired-irish-women-poets-and-canon/anthologies-show-lack-r ...

Dunn Family Collection

Ward Irish Music Archives

The Dunn Family Collection, c. 1904 - c. 1935 Donated to WIMA by David K. Dunn, this collection contains the manuscripts, books, sheet music, recordings, artifacts and ephemera collected by Michael J. Dunn. Musician and instrument maker/repairer Michael J. Dunn (1855 - 1935), also a captain of the Milwaukee Fire Department, was a contemporary and associate of the famed Irish music collector, Franc ...

I am a poet without a landscape, a woman poet without a narrative heritage. (Irish Times)

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

A meditation on publishing in an Irish Poetry landscape which has disavowed the woman poet's voice in numerous iterations throughout the writing life of the poet, by C. Murray for the Irish Times. The landscape of Irish women's poetry is fragmented and incomplete, we lack familiarity with the poet's image and with their words. The problems extend into anthologizing, indexing and archiving the work ...

'A tipping point’: women writers pledge to boycott gender biased books after very male anthology

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Media Article/ Feature : Published / Digitised / Open Access Published: The Guardian Newspaper 12/01/2018 URL : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/12/a-tipping-point-women-writers-pledge-to-boycott-gender-biased-books-after-very-male-anthology Keywords : Pledge, Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets (2017), Gerald Dawe, Fired!, Guardian Newspaper, Parity, Gender Equality, Poetry, Irish Women ...

The White Blackbird; The Marginalisation of Irish Women Poets from Literary Magazines During the 1980s

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Ireland has been blessed with a long history of great writers. A series of names come to mind, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, and the list goes on. Our national literary history is a source of great pride and yet if you asked the average person to name an Irish woman poet you would almost certainly be met with the same handful of names, and in ...

Alex Pryce Papers

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

“Selective traditions: feminism and the poetry of Colette Bryce, Leontia Flynn and Sinead Morrissey”, University of Oxford, DPhil (2014). URL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3cff3422-3046-48d1-b765-05a815963ecd

Freda Laughton (1907-1995)

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Freda Laughton (1907-1995) was born in Bristol and moved to Co. Down after her marriage. She published one collection of poetry, A Transitory House (Jonathan Cape, 1945) but little else is known about her life and work. She may have lived in Dublin for some time, as her poem The Welcome details the textures of Dublin City and its suburbs, and suggests she knows the city by heart. A sample of Freda ...

Irish Women Poets [Papers]

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Irish Women Poets, Tradition, Generational Influences, Colette Bryce, Leontia Flynn, Sinéad Morrissey

Dublin Castle Collection

Houses of the Oireachtas Library

The Dublin Castle collection (6,800 items) contains a variety of formats including historical monographs, maps, periodicals, cartoons, prints and pamphlets. The collection is particularly distinct in its holdings of visual and periodical material. Given the wide range of publication dates, major themes and topics of Irish history are represented. These include materials relating to: The 1641 rebel ...

Irish Women Poets [Papers]

National Library of Ireland

Now I am a Tower of Darkness: A Critical History of Poetry by Women in Ireland challenges the critical reception of Eavan Boland and the restrictive criteria, developed in the 1970s, under which poetry by women in Ireland has been assessed. She considers the subversive nature of women’s poetry written between 1921 and 1950, and calls into question the critical assumption that Eavan Boland represen ...

The Pledge [Related Documents]

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

The Pledge https://thepledgearchived.home.blog/ & associated forms garnered responses to the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets ( Cambridge University Press, 2017 )

The Hugh Irvine Collection

Newry and Mourne Museum

The Hugh Irvine Collection Born in Belfast in 1930, Hugh Irvine came to Kilkeel in 1953 when he was appointed as a history teacher in the newly opened Kilkeel High School. Hugh developed a keen interest in the history, archaeology, architecture, genealogy and folklore of the area around Kilkeel and the Mourne Mountains. He recorded the results of his research on a series of index cards and built u ...

De Buitléar

National University of Ireland Galway

This book collection was received as part of a substantial archival donation by the late Éamon de Buitléar. It comprises of c.600 volumes, many of which relate to his career researching, filming and broadcasting on wildlife in Ireland. The collections also contains some early 20th Irish language titles originally the property of Éamon’s father. The Éamon de Buitléar Archive is an exceptional and u ...

Robinson

National University of Ireland Galway

The library was fortunate to receive the archive and elements of the library of the writer and cartographer Tim Robinson. The book collection consists of over 300 volumes, principally relating to the history, heritage and topography of Connemara and the Burren. The archival collection includes literary manuscripts from the preparation of Tim's well known works as well as detailed research material ...

Royal Belfast Botanic & Horticultural Company Ltd.

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

The Belfast Botanic and Horticultural Society was formed in February 1827. In 1829, after an abortive attempt at laying out botanical gardens at Bradbury Place the current site was purchased on the Stranmillis Road. Monies were raised through a share issue and a committee formed to manage the gardens. In 1860 the Society was replaced by the Royal Belfast Botanic and Horticultural Company Ltd with ...

Irish Manuscripts Commission Collection

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

According to the Catalogue of Publications produced by the Irish Manuscripts Commission, the Commission was established in 1928, "to report on collections of manuscripts and papers of literary, historical and general interest relating to Ireland, whether in private or public ownership, and also to arrange for and supervise the execution of programmes of publications." The collection in Belfast Cen ...

Samuel Beckett collection

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Samuel Beckett collection comprises six distinct series and one miscellaneous series of Beckett-related material including manuscripts and typescripts by Beckett, correspondence with Beckett, ephemera, photographs, and publications by and about Beckett: The Samuel Beckett-Calvin Israel collection (1929-1981) is primarily Beckett manuscripts and publications, but also includes theater programs, ...

Hibernica Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The Hibernica Collection, or Henry Collection as it was previously known, is a substantial collection of monographs, periodicals and pamphlets of general Irish interest and/or origin, being strongest in history and literature, and also including works of Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton. Officially established in 1929 with a deposit of 1000 volumes from the personal library of R.M. Henry (Profess ...

Simms Collection (Irish)

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Significant collection of early monographs, pamphlets, bound letters etc pertaining to Ireland by foreign authors and/or by Irishmen printed abroad. Dating mainly from before 1701, the Simms collection contains many rare and important items that have been gathered together by a local book collector of some repute reflecting a particular interest in Irish affairs. Prominent among the subjects cover ...

Graves Collection

Royal Irish Academy

The Graves Collection consists mainly of 19th century antiquarian correspondence. It is an amalgamation of three separate, but related, correspondence collections of three prominent Irish antiquarians: John O’Donovan (1806-1861) Rev. James Graves (1815-1886) Rev. Charles Graves (1812-1899). The John O’Donovan correspondence reflects O’Donovan’s work and personal interests and are broadly related t ...

Lough Hyne Collection

Royal Irish Academy

The Lough Hyne/Ine Collection is made up of documents arising from the scientific expeditions carried out at Lough Ine marine lake, Cork from the 1940s until the 1980s. These expeditions were carried out by teams of British scientists and students led by Professor Jack Kitching and Professor John Ebling. The collection consists of the following - lengthy correspondence between Ebling and Kitching; ...

Upton Collection

Royal Irish Academy

Personal papers of Henry A. S. Upton of Coolatore, Moate, Co. Westmeath, 1870-1947, an amateur genealogist and local historian. The bulk of collection consists of 20th century transcripts of legal and historical documents dating from the 17th century to the 19th century used to trace genealogies of various Irish gentry families in counties Westmeath, Laois and Offaly. The collection also includes ...

Reside Collection

Newry and Mourne Museum

The Reside Collection contains documents which are of great importance to the study of local history and geneaology in the Newry and Mourne area. The Collection is the product of the professional lives of Major G.W. Reside, an architect and engineer based in Newry and his wife Margaret (neé Fisher), who was a solicitor in the town. Much of this material also reflects Major Reside's enthusiasm for ...

Comintern Papers (Irish Labour Movement Papers)

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

This collection comprises copies of files held in the Russian Archive for Social and Political History (RGASPI), Moscow. The files pertain to the Irish labour movement and the history of Communism in Ireland, comprising documents from the departments and standing committees of the Executive Committee Communist International (ECCI) including speeches, reports, letters, agendas, fliers, handwritten ...

Met Éireann Library

Met Éireann, Research Division

When the Irish Meteorological Service was founded in 1936 it inherited a small collection of technical books and weather records from the British Met Office. This, together with a collection of early meteorological books that had been bequeathed to Valentia Observatory by R.H. Scott in 1916, formed the origins of the Met Éireann Library. Today, the primary aim of the Met Éireann Library is to prov ...

Freedmen’s Bureau Records

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of Records of the Assistant Commissioners for the states of North Carolina (M843) and South Carolina (M869) between 1865 -1872, along with Records for the Field Offices for the States of North Carolina (M1909) and South Carolina (M1910) between 1865-1872 and the Records of the Commissioner’s office including letters sent by General O.O Howard between 1865-1872 (M742). The Bureau of Refu ...

Presbyterian Mission Archive

Union Theological College, The Gamble Library

The Presbyterian Mission Archive includes letters, scrapbooks, photographs, audio recordings, postcards, minutes and diaries relating to foreign missions conducted by Irish Presbyterians or the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, in places such as India, Manchuria and Africa, as well as missions delivered in the north and south of Ireland. Documents detailing the history of several related mission org ...

Samuel Beckett - Judith Schmidt Douw collection

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Samuel Beckett - Judith Schmidt Douw collection primarily contains correspondence between Schmidt Douw (née Schmidt) and Samuel Beckett; Alan Schneider, American stage director; Rudoph von Abele, English literature professor at American University; James Knowlson, French professor at the University of Reading French professor; Emory Universit; and M. M. Spitzer. There is some additional corres ...

Piry Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Collection of private papers of Théophile Piry (fl. 1880-1915), Commissioner of Customs and first Postmaster General of the Imperial Postal Service, China, 1911-1915. This collection contains a range of material bearing on Piry’s later career in the Chinese administration including drafts, notes, copies of correspondence, memoranda, reports etc relating to customs affairs in Lappa and Macao and, l ...

Judith Schmidt Douw collection of Samuel Beckett letters

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Judith Schmidt Douw collection of Samuel Beckett letters contains letters from Beckett to Judith Schmidt (later Schmidt Douw). The letters deal with professional matters relating to Grove Press and Beckett's works and also concern the personal relationship between Beckett and Schmidt Douw.

Gilbert Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The Gilbert Collection comprises draft autograph and typescript manuscripts of novels and short stories, proof copies and quires, correspondence, notes, synopses, draft speeches, draft poems, juvenilia, school reports, photographs, scrapbooks, and postcards of Stephen Gilbert. The correspondence includes letters written by authors such as a Walter de la Mare, George Buchanan, Forrest Reid and E M ...

Samuel Beckett - Barney Rosset collection

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Samuel Beckett - Barney Rosset collection includes manuscripts representing three decades of Beckett's writing; annotated copies of plays, stories, and other works; letters and cards from Beckett to Rosset discussing the author's life and work; and Grove Press business and financial records relating to Beckett's career. The series is arranged in four subseries: A. Manuscripts; B. Correspondenc ...

Caldwell Collection

Royal Irish Academy

The Caldwell Collection is a broad and varied collection spanning almost three centuries. Its core is made up of the private and business correspondence of members of the Caldwell family and to a lesser extent their wives, siblings, near relatives and business partners. The following male heads of the family feature prominently - Andrew Caldwell (1683-1730/1) Charles Caldwell (1707-1776) Andrew Ca ...

Samuel N. Freedman collection on George Bernard Shaw

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The George Bernard Shaw collection consists of approximately 2 linear feet (7 boxes) of Shaw materials accumulated over a period of about forty years by Samuel Freedman. The collection included about 3,000 books by and about Shaw, which are catalogued for the Irish Collection in the Burns Library. Also received with the collection were several framed portraits and posters that are housed in the li ...

Eleanor Knott Collection

Royal Irish Academy

Papers of Eleanor Marie Knott, 1886-1975, Old-Irish scholar and academic. Including correspondence, notebooks, drafts and printed material. In 1939 she was appointed Professor of early Irish in Trinity College Dublin and was one of the first women elected to the Royal Irish Academy. From 1911 onwards she worked on the 'Dictionary of the Irish language' for the Royal Irish Academy, was active in th ...

John F. Deane papers

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The John F. Deane papers includes correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings related to Deane's life, literary output and career as a literary editor. The correspondents include Samuel Beckett, Daniel Berrigan, Alaine Bosquet, Padraig Daly, Paul Durcan, John Ennis, Monk Gibbon, Robert Graecen, Michael Hamburger, Seamus Heaney, Richard Kell, Thomas Kinsella, Philip Lar ...

Dublin Unitarian Church Collection

Royal Irish Academy

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 ove ...

CCÉ North America collection of Irish music materials

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The CCÉ North America Collection of Irish Music Materials documents the history and activities of Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Éireann in North America with reference to the activities of CCÉ in Ireland. The collection also reflects efforts by CCÉ North America members to preserve audio and video of performances of traditional Irish music, song, and dance in the United States and Canada. The collection inc ...

Doegen Collection

Royal Irish Academy

The Doegen Collection consists of the administrative correspondence of the Doegen Irish dialects project which was carried out between 1928 and 1931. This project entailed the recording of Irish speakers in Ulster, Connacht and Munster. The collections includes correspondence between Gaelic-speaking participants and Tómas Ó Máille, MRIA (1880-1938) making arrangements for the sound recordings to b ...

Nally Collection

Royal Irish Academy

Papers of Edward Vincent Nally [Éamonn Mhac Fhailigh], 1907-1992 of Emper, Ballynacargy. Nally was a school-teacher who maintained a life-long interest in both Irish and Hiberno-English. His major work, The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: a phonemic study was published in 1968. He was a contributor to Éigse, Celtica, and Dinnseanchas and also published an article on the Hiberno-English dialect of his na ...

Papers of J.L.E. Dreyer

Armagh Observatory

The Dreyer papers reflect the lifetime interests of Dr J.L.E. Dreyer. He was Director of the Armagh Observatory from 1882 until 1916. The papers consist of letters and manuscripts of his major publications - The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), his biography of Tycho Brahe, and that of his History of Planetary systems from Thales to Kepler. Dreyer's copy of the NGC is ...

Adair Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

c.650 documents, c.75 photographs and 2 volumes, 1606-1928, deriving from the Adair family of Loughanmore, Donegore, Co. Antrim and from the related families of Clements of Clements Hill, Straid, Co. Antrim, Ellis of Prospect, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, and Crymble of Ballygallagh, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, to the estates of whom the Adairs fell heir in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The pa ...

Royal Ulster Rifles Regimental Museum Library and Archive Collection

Royal Ulster Rifles Museum

The collection held at the Royal Ulster Rifles Museum consists of books, archives and some digitised histories. The collection deals with various aspects of the British Army including titles covering army lists, dating back to 1783. The lists refer to regular officers listed in the British army often with full personal details. Regimental histories are also prominent with many general books on med ...

Dufferin Papers

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Estate, family and political papers of the Blackwood family of Clandeboye, Bangor, Co. Down, Lords Dufferin and Marquesses of Dufferin and Ava. The collection focuses mainly on the records of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902). Serving in various high profile positions, his papers provide an important and interesting insi ...

Somerville & Ross Manuscripts

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

Of the literary papers can be found annotated, handwritten notes and manuscripts relating to numerous publications produced under the Somerville & Ross name, including that of ‘The Further Experiences of an Irish RM’ (1908), one of their best known works. Other papers concern the unfinished novel, ‘A Man of the People’ (c 1897-99) and drafts of ‘Some Irish Yesterdays’ (1906), ‘Mount Music’ (1919), ...

University Archive Collection

Queen's University Belfast, University Archive

The Institutional archive of Queen's University Belfast collection comprises official documents, minutes, correspondence, reports and other papers and photographs pertaining to the history and development of the University from its foundation in 1845 as Queen's College Belfast through to its establishment as an independent university in 1908 to the present day. It includes papers relating to Queen ...