Series 6 - D. Ryan Twomey letters

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D. Ryan Twomey letters

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  • 1935-1990 (Creation)

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Catherine M. Twomey of Midleton, County Cork donated the letter to Kerby A. Miller in January 1978.

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Materials pertaining to the D. Ryan Twomey letters. D. Ryan Twomey emigrated to Chicago, Illinois from the Cobh/Midleton area of County Cork. Twomey would become a lawyer in Chicago and was deeply invested in the revival of the Irish language. His letters date from 1935 and 1936, and he died in Chicago in 1943.
The series includes: typed transcripts of the letters and photocopies of the original letters; Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with the donor, researchers, archivists and the Archdiocese of Chicago; a handwritten transcript of Twomey's obituary; photocopied pages of secondary sources on Chicago; and census research.

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