Opening Night: 20/08/1938
Playwright: Paul Vincent Carroll
Venue: Dublin
A Play in Four Acts by Paul Vincent Carroll first produced in 1937. Arthur Shields played the role of Very Rev. Thomas Canon Skerritt and Aideen O'Connor the role of Thomasina Concannon.
Plan of a book to challenge the policy of compulsory Irish, submitted by Finbarr Corry, AIBI. Cover title is '"Shackles, Slogans and Shekels!" A critical analysis of the policy to revive Gaelic by compulsory means in the Irish Republic', by Christopher T. Morris, AIAA. Provides an overview of points to be included in the book, chapter by chapter, giving historical information and dates. Also includes an index. The book will look at language policy, the various political party's approach to it, and the story of the LFM, as well as covering education, the civil service, and other such industrial themes.
Press cutting from [ ] by George Jackson entitled 'SF signal decoded by Hume', focusing on Martin McGuinness's appeal to Peter Brooke for imaginative steps following a complete cessation of armed struggle. (Caption by [Éamonn Downey], commenting on the article and Brendan Duddy's writing a piece for Peter Brooke. Piece is dated by Hume's 21st anniversary of election as MP for Foyle, 24 February 1969.)
Several drafts of the first line of P71/87.
Seven sheets of contact prints, comprising one hundred and twenty images of Bailey in various poses. Also includes two large portraits of Bailey taken from the prints. Taken by Annette Green of Fulham, London.
Colour photograph of seven accordions on a table.
Settlement on the marriage of J T Byrne and B G Daly. The parties were John Tyrrell Byrne, Drumsna, Co Leitrim, (1), Bridget Grace Daly, Dunsandle (2), Denis Lord Dunsandle, father of Bridget (3), and Robert Warren Meade, 32 FitzWilliam Sq, Dublin and Col Francis O’Beirne, Jamestown Lodge, Co Leitrim, MP (4). Lord Dunsandle settled a trust fund of £5,000 on Bridget. Stamped for succession duty Feb 1893. Meade and Colles.
Settlement on the marriage of A W Blake and E Daly, the parties were Denis Lord Dunsandle (1), his daughter Ellen Daly (2), Andrew William Blake, Furbo, Co Galway (3) and William Daly, Dunsandle, and John Henry Blake, Rathville, Co Galway (4). Lord Dunsandle settled a fortune of £6,000 on Ellen, charged on his estates in the barony of Kilconnell and entrusted to William Daly and John Henry Blake. Ellen was to receive the interest during her life and provision was made for any children of the marriage. Enclosure a page stating that a note of the trusts accompanying the deed was made at the Legacy and Succession Duty Office in Register 1897-2888. Meade and Colles, 8 Kildare St, [Dublin, solicitors]. Also stamped 27 July 1897.