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Transcripts of a letter written by Alex Aitken at Rapid Creek, Iowa, where he had just purchased land, to William Patterson, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, 14 January 1866. Aitken had first considered emigrating to Canada but found the land expensive and unappealing.

The Alex Wilson letters are a set of letters written between 1898 and 1909 by emigrant Alex Wilson in Brooklyn, New York to his sister Maggie Denham in Ballymena, County Antrim. Alex and his wife Lizzie (née Nelson) emigrated to New York circa the 1870s. Although it took the couple some years to obtain stable employment, the Wilsons (parents of three children) appear to be moderately prosperous by the mid-1900s.
The series includes: transcripts of 5 letters and abstracts of 26 letters taken from the Wilson Family letters held in PRONI; Bruce D. Boling's biographical notes on the Wilson family; and correspondence from 1990 between Kerby A. Miller and Stephen J. Sullivan which includes slight information on Alex Wilson.

Alexander Baillie and James Lisney. Concert held at the Aula Maxima, National University of Ireland, Galway. Includes printed concert programme with details of works performed from Beethoven and a biography of both musicians.

Transcript of the first 38 pages of the diary of Alexander Chesney (1755-1843), a native of Ballymena, County Antrim who emigrated with his family to Winnsboro, South Carolina in 1772. Chesney remained loyal to Britain during the American Revolutionary War and fought in the British Army. Following the defeat of Britain and the November 1781 death of his wife, Chesney returned to Ireland in 1782. The journal is transcribed in full until 1 March 1783, by which time Chesney had returned to Ireland. Per Professor Kerby A. Miller: 'By his official appointment and remarriage, Chesney has successfully reintegrated into Irish life, and so his career as an emigrant effectively ended. The remainder of his journal is summarized'.

Transcripts and reproductions of a letter sent 2 March 1861 by emigrant Alexander Gamble in Pittsburgh to a recipient in Ireland discussing personal news and life in Pittsburgh.

Published, autographed copy of My Lady of the Chimney Corner/The Souls of Poor Folk by Alexander Irvine (London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1921); photocopy of both the published version of Irvine's From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910); Kerby A. Miller's transcript of the same; Miller's research notes and additional secondary research on Irvine's books.

Materials pertaining to the Alexander Irvine memoirs and Kerby A. Miller's research related to the memoir of Michael Kilcran.
Author, lecturer and Congregationalist minister Alexander Irvine was born in Antrim, Ireland in 1863 and emigrated first to Scotland in 1884, and then to America in 1888. Per Bernie McGill: 'Born in Antrim town on 19th January 1863, Alexander was the ninth child of Anna and Jamie Irvine. His father was a shoe-maker, poor and illiterate. His mother had been educated, was destined before her marriage to become a teacher and was a sincere devotee of the Church, but her love for Jamie led her to leave her home in Crumlin and to set up house with him in Antrim to a life of severe poverty and hardship [...] As a youngster Alexander worked as a barefoot paperboy and then as stableboy to the local landlord. He laboured as a miner's mucker in the coalmines of Scotland before joining the Royal Marine Corp where he finally got the education he'd missed out on as a child. After spending some time at Oxford University, he emigrated to the United States where he began his ministry in the New York Bowery slums. In 1903 he took his doctorate in theology from the University of Yale. He was a YMCA padre in the trenches during the First World War; he was invited by Lloyd George to address the miners of Britain who refused to return to work after the General Strike; he was later elected to the National Executive of the American Socialist Party.' Irvine moved to Los Angeles in 1911 to manage the mayoral campaign of Socialist candidate Job Harriman. He died in Hollywood, California in 1941.
Michael Kilcran was born around 1862 in Mohill, near Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim and emigrated to Chicago, Illinois in 1882, following an uncle who paid for his passage. Kilcran wrote his 'Stockyards Memoir' in 1912 and wrote another memoir ca. 1913-1914 about his time in the Chicago Police Department. Upon arriving in Chicago, Kilcran worked a number of labouring jobs for stockyards and meatpackers between 1880 and 1892, when he then joined the Chicago Police Department (CPD). He worked for the CPD until 1912 and in that time was a plainclothes detective for 12 years, a patrol sergeant for 6 years and a street patrolman for 2 years. He died in 1914.
This series contains: copies of Irvine's published memoirs; Miller's research notes and secondary research on Irvine; Miller's research on Michael Kilcran and his family, both in Ireland and America; copies of secondary sources on Chicago history, the Archdiocese of Chicago, and the Kilcran family; and Miller's research correspondence with colleagues, archivists, and Kilcran relatives.

A photocopy of the 'First Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of the Irish Fisheries, with the minute of evidence 1836', sent to Robinson by Finbar [ ] at Queen's University. Some notes inserted on poverty in Cleggan, the pier in Roundstone, the quay at Ros a Mhíl.. Two pages of Robinson's handwritten notes.

Copy of a map of the "Harbours of Roundstone and Birterbuy" surveyed by Nimmo for the Commissioners of Irish Fisheries in 1823 (map has been glued together in sections, and the glue has dried - handle with Reading Room Staff supervision).

Detailed correspondence exchanged with J W de Courcy, Robert Jocelyn and Arnold Horner about Nimmo.

Photocopy of Alexander Nimmo's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Alexander Nimmo's map of Kenmare River, Co. Kerry.

The Alexander Robb letters are a set of 11 letters written between 1862 and 1873 by Alexander 'Sandy' Robb (1839-1910) at Nicola Lake, British Columbia to his family in Dundonald near Belfast. Robb was one of a group of young men from County Down to try their their luck in the Cariboo gold rush. After failing to find gold and thereafter working as a labourer helping construct the Cariboo Wagon Road through central British Columbia, Robb became one of the first two Europeans to establish a ranch in the Nicola Valley of southern British Columbia. Robb Creek, which empties into Nicola Lake at Quilchena, is named for him. Robb and his letters are the subject of Brian R.D. White (2023), Alexander Robb and the Making of British Columbia: The life and letters home of an Ulster-Scots pioneer (Newtownards: Ulster Historical Foundation).
The series consists of: Kerby A. Miller catalogue of the letters; correspondence with descendant Dr. John Robb including information on Robb’s descendants; and PRONI’s transcripts of the letters.

Alexei Nabiullin (also given as Nabioulin). Concert held at the Aula Maxima, National University of Ireland, Galway. File includes details and notes on works performed from Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, Wilson and Stravinsky, also a brief biography of Nabiullin.