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The Anderson-Nimicks letters are based on typed transcripts and (some) photocopies of 24 letters written by members of the related Anderson, Nimicks, Riddle, and Cochrane families to their kinsmen and -women in Aghadowey parish, County Derry, in 1832-1879. Most of the letters were written by immigrant brothers John, Joseph, David, and Robert Anderson from northwestern Pennsylvania, northeastern Ohio, and near Valparaiso, Indiana, and by elderly immigrant Samuel Nimicks from southern Illinois.
Per Miller, 'these letters illustrate:

1. Transatlantic voyage in 1832 from Derry to Quebec; cholera epidemic of 1832 in Quebec.
2. Chain migration and mutual assistance, resulting in dense (although sometimes fractious) networks of kin and former neighbors among Irish immigrant farmers in America.
3. Detailed economic and social information, especially concerning immigrants' labor to acquire capital to rent, then purchase farms, and on farming, crops, livestock, prices, etc., in the Old Northwest, 1830s-1850s.
4. Transatlantic Protestant (especially Presbyterian) evangelicalism; exchange of religious information and newspapers between Ulster and America; the great transatlantic religious revivals in the US and in Ulster, 1857-1860. Evangelical and apocalyptic attitudes among Ulster immigrants to US slavery, Southern secession, and Civil War.
5. Special economic and psychological problems of immigrants who leave Ireland and America at advanced ages, and lose the support systems they formerly enjoyed.'
   The series also includes: Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with researchers in Ohio and Pennsylvania, who supplied detailed information about the Anderson brothers' families and farms; research notes by Miller and his colleague, Bruce D. Boling, mostly from 19th-century Irish primary sources; and photocopied pages from histories of Derry shipping and Trumbull County, Ohio.

Printed news sheet of the Anderstown People's Democracy, discussing housing in West Belfast.

Andreja Malirsh. Concert held at St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway. Includes details of works performed from Rota, Glinka, Van Delden and others. Concert is part of a lunchtime series of concerts and as part of the Galway Arts Festival.

Kerby A. Miller's typed transcripts and abstracts, and PRONI's catalogue of, 26 letters written by emigrant Andrew Greenlees to his brother John in Magheramorne, County Antrim between 1852 and 1907. Greenlees emigrated circa 1852 and initially settled in upstate New York working in an iron foundry. By 1856, he had moved in with relatives in Ottawa, Illinois and soon becomes a farmer. Greenlees began his family here shortly thereafter. In March 1874, the Greenlees moved to Rice County, Kansas and remained there as farmer until either 1896 or 1906, after which time Greenlees is in Oklahoma.

Materials pertaining to 26 letters written by emigrant Andrew Greenlees to his brother John in Magheramorne, County Antrim between 1852 and 1907. Greenlees emigrated circa 1852 and initially settled in upstate New York working in an iron foundry. By 1856, he had moved in with relatives in Ottawa, Illinois and soon becomes a farmer. Greenlees began his family here shortly thereafter. In March 1874, the Greenlees moved to Rice County, Kansas and remained there as farmer until either 1896 or 1906, after which time Greenlees is in Oklahoma. In addition to transcripts and reproductions of the letters, the series contains extensive genealogical research on the Greenlees and their relatives, photographs of the extended Greenlees family mainly from the early 20th century, and research (with related correspondence) compiled by Kerby A. Miller on the family.

Materials pertaining to the memoir of Andrew J. Byrne. Kerby A. Miller notes that Byrne's memoir covers 'much of Byrne's harrowing experiences as a Union soldier in the early years of the Civil War, and his post-war experiences as a skilled but (of necessity) transient worker in the building trades in Midwestern and Eastern US states, through his return to Ireland when the beginning of the great US depression of 1873- 77 temporarily ruined the labor market,' and that 'other sections relate his Dublin childhood and adolescence, his affiliation with Young Ireland, the Famine, his very troubled first marriage, his various emigrations (four times!) and returns to Ireland, his pre-Civil War service in the US Army on the Southwest frontier, his service during the last years of the Civil War and his and his comrades' response to Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and his participation in the Fenian movement in Dublin in 1865-67 to escape imprisonment for which he went back to the US for one last sojourn before his permanent return to Ireland.' Series includes: a copy of the 2008 published memoir, Memoir of Andrew J. Byrne: Veteran of the American Civil War edited by Byrne's grandson; Miller's highlighted photocopy of the memoir and his typed transcription of sections of it; and Miller's research notes.

[This collection contains outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.] Materials pertaining to the Andrew Leary O'Brien memoir. Andrew Leary O'Brien was born in Moileragh (Meelaherragh) parish, Kanturk, County Cork in 1815 into a 'strong-farmer' family and emigrated, initially to Quebec to study for the priesthood, in 1837. Kerby A. Miller notes that O'Brien appears to have been 'much better educated and more literate than most pre-Famine Catholic emigrants,' and is representative of the about half of pre-Famine emigrants to North America who were Catholic. His memoir began as a diary recorded over many years and consolidated into a single document around 1859, and eventually published. It documents his family and family history in Kanturk, his early life in Ireland, decision to emigrate and the journey, landing in New York and moving to Canada to study for the priesthood, his life in Canada and move back to New York and Pennsylvania, his move down to South Carolina and eventually onto Georgia where he settled and began teaching, the political climate in 19th century Canada and the pre-Civil War American South, enslavement in the South and O'Brien's participation in it, conversion to Methodism, homesickness and dealings with family at home, teaching and his part in founding a college, and attitudes toward Irish and Catholic immigrants. The series contains: a copy of the memoir, The Journal of Andrew Leary O'Brien, Including an account of the origin of Andrew College, Cuthbert, Georgia, published in 1946; Miller's research notes and correspondence; and census research.

Kerby A. Miller's typed transcript of the Andrew Leary O'Brien memoir. The reference copy of the Andrew Leary O'Brien memoir and Miller's related research are located in P155/8/4.

Transcript and reproduction of a 10 August 1785 letter sent by Andrew Martin in Pennsylvania to his father John in County Down, plus Kerby A. Miller's notes on the letter.
Per Miller: ‘When an emigrant wrote home of high American wages and good working conditions, it might reasonably be supposed that he would encourage relatives and neighbours to join him. Yet in the main emigrants were as cautious about advising others to come to America as they were unrestrained in their praise of the country. The following comment from a County Down emigrant in 1785 is typical: “I have not been at a loss for work nor lost no time since I came to America. As for encouraging any person to come here, I will not, but if any friends or acquaintances comes, I would be glad to see them.”
Paradoxical though such an attitude may seem it was prudent in the circumstances. The immigrant group had many of the characteristics of an extended family and its members were under similar obligations to a new arrival as would have been expected by a relative at home.’