Materials related to 39 letters written in 1855-1935 between members of the McIntyre, Sample and Galbraith families and held in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on a letter written by Thomas McIntyre. According to Kerby A. Miller, McIntyre was 'a skilled craftsman --a plasterer-- and a Presbyterian.' Miller also states that, 'Robert McIntyre, evidently T. McIntyre's brother, was born in Co. Tyrone in 1827 and immigrated to Boston on 24 April 1846. Occupation, marble worker, at the time of his naturalization in 1882. In the 1870 Boston Directory, a Robert McIntyre, occupation foreman (see T. McIntyre's letter), was living at 17 Haverhill, Boston. In the 1860 Boston Census Index, a Thomas McIntyre was listed as living in the city's Fifth Ward.'
The series contains: Miller's typed transcripts of a number of the letters along with written abstracts for others in the original PRONI collection; an inventory of the letters; census research; photocopied pages from 19th century Boston City Directories; Miller's research notes; a photostatic copy of naturalisation documents for Robert McIntyre; Miller's correspondence with researchers, the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Copy of partial decision of the Commission (European Commission of Human Rights) on the application of T. McFeeley et al (Thomas McFeeley, Kieran Nugent, John Hunter and William Campbell) All four men were convicted of scheduled 'terrorist-type offences' and were serving their sentence in H.M. Prison, the Maze in Northern Ireland. The men were represented at this case in Strasbourg by Francis Keenan, Solicitor, and Prof. Kevin Boyle, University College Galway. File also includes letter (8 Feb 1980) from Dick Oosting, Deputy Secretary General, Amnesty International to Mr. Francis Keenan, Solicitor, Belfast discussing contact between Keenan and Amnesty International and between Amnesty International and the Maze prison concerning conditions for prisoners. File also includes copy letters from Kevin Boyle to Francis Keenan, Solicitor, Belfast, enclosing notes on the case.
Literary drafts, of his finished novel and eighteen plays, including adaptations of plays beginning with Chekhov's Seagull. Theatre production files, mostly programmes, promotional material, press reviews, few photographs. Radio and television work, with both adaptations of his plays and original play. Unfinished literary and media work, including novels 'Angela', 'Quirke', television plays; other projects. Administrative records, concerning production and publication of his works, his involvement with The Abbey, and The Field Day Companies. Private correspondence, with fellow playwrights including Tom MacIntyre, Frank McGuinness, and with fellow writers including John McGahern, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Deane. Drama, poetry and prose by other writers. Critical writing about Thomas Kilroy - essays and reviews. Lecture and conference notes. Collected printed material. Photographs, not production-specific.
Letter from Thomas Jones to Anthony Ormsby, Ballinamore in which he refers to his wife's fortune, putting his "affairs in the hands of the lawyers" and serving the trustees {Anthony and Mr. Knox] to Mr. Ormsby's will with a subpoena. Includes copy of Anthony's reply in which he states that he had received his letter and as he is a "stranger to your articles of intermarriage therefore can't have the least objection to ye receiving your wife's fortune ...", dated at Ballinamore, 20 June 1774.
Photocopies of early 20th century articles on Irish promontory forts published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (JRSAI), Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society (JGAHS), and Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (PRIA) by the Irish antiquarian, folklorist, and archaeologist Thomas Johnson Westropp. Westropp's articles were the major sources of background information for Markus Casey's research on promontory forts. The photocopies are heavily annotated by Casey. Includes:
-'Notes on Certain Promontory Forts in the Counties of Waterford and Wexford', JRSAI 36 (1906): 239-258;
-'Promontory Forts in the "Irrus", Co. Clare', JRSAI 38 (1908): 28-47, 221-231;
-'Notes on the Large Cliff-Forts of the West Coast of County Mayo', PRIA 29 (1912): 11-33;
-'The Promontory Forts and Early Remains of the Coasts of County Mayo, Parts I-II', JRSAI 42 (1912): 51-59, 101-139, 185-216; 'Parts III-IV,' JRSAI 44 (1914): 67-83, 148-158;
-'Promontory Forts and Allied Structures in Northern County Kerry, Parts I-IV', JRSAI 40 (1910): 6-31, 99-131, 179-213, 265-296; 'Part V', JRSAI 42 (1912), 285-324;
-'The Promontory Forts and Early Remains of the Islands of Connacht', JRSAI 44 (1914): 297-337;
-'Fortified Castles and Headlands on the South Coast of Munster, Part II', PRIA 32 (1915): 188-226;
-'Fortified Headlands and Castles in Western County Cork, Part I', PRIA 32 (1915): 249-286;
-'The Promontory Forts and Traditions of the Districts of Beare and Bantry, Co. Cork, Part I', JRSAI 50 (1920): 139-159; 'Part II', JRSAI 51 (1921): 1-16;
-'The Promontory Forts of the Three Southern Provinces of Ireland', JGAHS 11 (1922): 112-131;
-'The Promontory Forts and Adjoining Remains in Leinster, Part I', JRSAI 52 (1922). 52-76.
Kerby A. Miller's transcript of Thomas Higgins' autobiographical letter. Thomas Higgins was born in 1844 in near Boyle in County Roscommon and emigrated to Wisconsin in 1858 with his parents and siblings. Higgins worked a number of different jobs throughout his life, including working as a lumberjack in Wisconsin, building docks in Chicago and levees in Louisiana, and in railway construction through the American Midwest. He also prospected for gold in the Pacific Northwest and copper in Arizona. He moved to Los Angeles in 1900 where he ran a successful property business and became a philanthropist. Higgins died in Los Angeles in 1920 having completed the Higgins Building downtown in 1910. He wrote the letter included in this series from Los Angeles, California to his cousin, Cecilia Keefe in Mosinee, Wisconsin in 1916. Kerby A. Miller writes that the letter itself 'is a memoir -and an excellent and fairly long one- that Higgins presented to his cousin in letter form, conveying extensive, chronologically-arranged, autobiographical information... ...Higgins describes in some detail his years of travail as an itinerant unskilled and semi-skilled laborer on American construction projects in the Northern and Southern states, and his eventually successful struggles as a hard-rock miner in the Pacific Northwest and, finally, in Arizona Territory -where he battled extreme heat and angry natives- between 1862 and the early 1900s, when he finally became rich, moved to Los Angeles, and built that city's first skyscraper, the Higgins Building, which still stands. His memoir is also interesting in how he shared his wealth with his long-lost siblings and their families-in Ireland, the US, and even Australia-some of whom he brought to Los Angeles and employed.'
Materials pertaining to Thomas Higgins' autobiographical letter. Thomas Higgins was born in 1844 in near Boyle in County Roscommon and emigrated to Wisconsin in 1858 with his parents and siblings. Higgins worked a number of different jobs throughout his life, including working as a lumberjack in Wisconsin, building docks in Chicago and levees in Louisiana, and in railway construction through the American Midwest. He also prospected for gold in the Pacific Northwest and copper in Arizona. He moved to Los Angeles in 1900 where he ran a successful property business and became a philanthropist. Higgins died in Los Angeles in 1920 having completed the Higgins Building downtown in 1910. He wrote the letter included in this series from Los Angeles, California to his cousin, Cecilia Keefe in Mosinee, Wisconsin in 1916. Kerby A. Miller writes that the letter itself 'is a memoir -and an excellent and fairly long one- that Higgins presented to his cousin in letter form, conveying extensive, chronologically-arranged, autobiographical information... ...Higgins describes in some detail his years of travail as an itinerant unskilled and semi-skilled laborer on American construction projects in the Northern and Southern states, and his eventually successful struggles as a hard-rock miner in the Pacific Northwest and, finally, in Arizona Territory -where he battled extreme heat and angry natives- between 1862 and the early 1900s, when he finally became rich, moved to Los Angeles, and built that city's first skyscraper, the Higgins Building, which still stands. His memoir is also interesting in how he shared his wealth with his long-lost siblings and their families-in Ireland, the US, and even Australia-some of whom he brought to Los Angeles and employed.'
Draft of Kerby A. Miller's typed transcript of Thomas Higgins' autobiographical letter sent on19 May 1916 from Los Angeles to his cousin Cecilia Keefe in Mosinee, Wisconsin. Thomas Higgins was born in 1844 in near Boyle in County Roscommon and emigrated to Wisconsin in 1858 with his parents and siblings. Higgins worked a number of different jobs throughout his life, including working as a lumberjack in Wisconsin, building docks in Chicago and levees in Louisiana, and in railway construction through the American Midwest. He also prospected for gold in the Pacific Northwest and copper in Arizona. He moved to Los Angeles in 1900 where he ran a successful property business and became a philanthropist. Higgins died in Los Angeles in 1920 having completed the Higgins Building downtown in 1910. Miller writes that the letter itself 'is a memoir -and an excellent and fairly long one- that Higgins presented to his cousin in letter form, conveying extensive, chronologically-arranged, autobiographical information... ...Higgins describes in some detail his years of travail as an itinerant unskilled and semi-skilled laborer on American construction projects in the Northern and Southern states, and his eventually successful struggles as a hard-rock miner in the Pacific Northwest and, finally, in Arizona Territory -where he battled extreme heat and angry natives- between 1862 and the early 1900s, when he finally became rich, moved to Los Angeles, and built that city's first skyscraper, the Higgins Building, which still stands. His memoir is also interesting in how he shared his wealth with his long-lost siblings and their families-in Ireland, the US, and even Australia-some of whom he brought to Los Angeles and employed.'
[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.] The Thomas Gunning letters is based on five letters written in the 1830s by Thomas Gunning, a Catholic merchant's clerk in New York City, to Major Charles O'Hara, who is thought to be his former landlord or employer, in Tobercurry, Co. Sligo. Gunning emigrated to New York in the 1820's and, in some of the letters, recounts having been conviced by two fellow Irish immigrants to move with his wife to Mexican Texas. This move would prove to be disastrous for the Gunnings, as it was for many early coloniseres of the area, which Gunning explains in detail. The Gunnings eventually abandoned the colony and headed back to New York, but Mrs. Gunning did not survive the journey. Also discussed are the politics of the time with emphasis on Jackson and the Democratic party, economic opportunities in the North East, seed sharing, interactions with Spanish settlers and Indigenous populations, Sauk leader and warrior Black Hawk in the North East, conditions in Mexican Texas, failed migration schemes, and Gunning's plans to have the young son he left in Ireland sent across to him. The collection contains typed transcripts and photocopies of the original letters, Kerby A. Miller's research notes and correspondence, information on the Lambert family, and Miller's research on 19th century Irish and New York sources, including photocopied pages from two published works on the Irish in Texas: William Oberste, Texas Irish Empresarios and Their Colonies (Austin, 1953) and John B. Flannery, The Irish Texans (San Antonio, 1995).
Photocopied excerpt from Doyle, M. (1834), Hints on Emigration to Upper Canada (Dublin: William Curry, pp. 70-75) featuring transcripts of two letters written in 1827 and 1828 by Thomas Graham in Brockville, Upper Canada (Ontario) to his mother Elizabeth near Enniscorthy describing his recent emigration and life in Canada.