Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/59/16
Title
Brian Garahan (O'Conor Don letters)
Date(s)
- 1777-2002 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
20pp
Context area
Archival history
Marion Casey created the transcript from a letter held in the O'Conor Don Papers, Clonalis House, Castlerea, County Roscommon, and provided the transcript to Kerby A. Miller. Kerby A. Miller acknowledges permission from the Trustees of the Estate of O'Conor Don to consult and to quote from the O'Conor Papers, and the Catalog to the O'Conor Papers prepared by Gareth W. Dunleavy and Janet E. Dunleavy.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Transcript of an 1817 letter sourced from the O’Conor Don Papers written by Brian Garahan, an emigrant from County Roscommon in New York state, giving an account of his life over the past decade and providing information on other Roscommon emigrants;
- Kerby A. Miller’s abstracts [also found in P155/70/50] of letters found in the O’Conor Don Papers relating to emigration, Irish America, and Irish opinions of America;
- 2002 printout of the text of the American National Biography article on Charles O’Conor (1804-1884), cousin of the O’Conor Don, son of Irish emigrants who fled to New York City following the 1798 rebellion, and a prominent lawyer and Democratic politician.