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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon
Moyra Donaldson delineates her response to Alex Pryce, “Ambiguous Silences? Women in Anthologies of Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry”, Peer English 9 (2014). This is memoir /personal response and pertinent to Moyra Donaldson's input to and support of Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon. The piece is published/ digitised /open access (online) URL: http://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/fired-iri ...
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 ...
University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Libraries
The Patrick McCabe papers comprise 24.5 cubic feet. The papers contain manuscripts, drafts, ephemera and correspondence and financial records relating to McCabe's literary works. The dates of the collection are approximately 1974 to 2013. The collection is organized in two major section, McCabe's literary papers, and his business and personal papers. The literary papers, which make up the bulk of ...
Newry and Mourne Museum
The Éamon Donnelly Collection comprises over 400 documents dating from 1881 to 1972, but mostly from the 1930s and early 1940s. T hey are the personal and political papers of the Nationalist and Republican politician, Éamon Donnelly (1877–1944). Donnelly was elected by constituencies in both the north and south of Ireland: Armagh (1925–29), Laois-Offaly (1933–37) and Belfast Falls division (1942–4 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Libraries NI, Irish and Local Studies Library, Armagh
The Crossle Papers at Libraries NI comprise background and genealogical information on families in the Newry area of Northern Ireland. The information is handwritten and accumulated in notebooks and scrapbooks from the early 1900s. Francis Crossle, and later his son Philip Crossle, compiled the information from old newspapers. The information, gathered in scrapbooks and notebooks, was often supple ...
