File containing accounts, circulars and subscriptions relating to the Padraig O Conaire Memorial Fund, c/o Thomas Concannon, Salthill, Galway. Includes audited accounts by Duffy, Tierney & Co., 14 Ship Street, Galway. It shows a surplus of £56.2.7 that was donated to Comlucht Gaedeal na Gallimhe (2 May 1951). Also cheque receipt book, processed cheques and bankbook of the Coisde Cuimneain Padraig Conaire. Invoices for the printing costs for circulars, advertisements and costs and fee of the sculptor, Albert G Power, 18 Geraldine St., Dublin NW 4. Also circulars and letters to various groups. Includes one to Galway Urban District Council outlining the reason for delays and that the project has not been abandoned. It finishes, “We may add that the Memorial Committee proposes to draw up on parchment a list of the subscribers to the Memorial to be deposited in the Archives of the City of Galway so that future historians of the city by the Corrib will report the names of those to whose generosity she is indebted for such a gift of art” (5 June 1933). Also draft list of subscribers including Eamonn de Valera, Lady Gregory and many more (12pp).
File containing accounts, circulars and subscriptions relating to the Padraig O Conaire Memorial Fund, c/o Thomas Concannon, Salthill, Galway. Includes audited accounts by Duffy, Tierney & Co., 14 Ship Street, Galway. It shows a surplus of £56.2.7 that was donated to Comlucht Gaedeal na Gallimhe (2 May 1951). Also cheque receipt book, processed cheques and bankbook of the Coisde Cuimneain Padraig Conaire. Invoices for the printing costs for circulars, advertisements and costs and fee of the sculptor, Albert G Power, 18 Geraldine St., Dublin NW 4. Also circulars and letters to various groups. Includes one to Galway Urban District Council outlining the reason for delays and that the project has not been abandoned. It finishes, “We may add that the Memorial Committee proposes to draw up on parchment a list of the subscribers to the Memorial to be deposited in the Archives of the City of Galway so that future historians of the city by the Corrib will report the names of those to whose generosity she is indebted for such a gift of art” (5 June 1933). Also draft list of subscribers including Eamonn de Valera, Lady Gregory and many more (12pp).
UntitledFile of articles and press cuttings relating to the Padraig O Conaire Memorial. Includes copy of "An Stoc" with an article by Tomás Ua Concheanainn, Cisdeoir, Lios na Mara, Galllimh naming contributors to the fund and asking for another £100 (Jan-Feb 1931). Items mainly from local and national papers relating to the unveiling of the statue by President de Valera on Whit Sunday 1935.
UntitledCertificates relating to the birth and marriage of Stiophán Bairéad.
Copy of birth certificate of Stephen Barrett, son of Stephen and Celia (nee O'Beirne), at Meelick, County Leitrim. His father is a farmer. The copy is dated 16 May 1969.
Copy of baptismal certificate of Stephen Barrett at the Church of Dangan, Parish of Aughrim, Diocese of Elphin on the 22 August 1967 by John Gunn, CC. This copy is dated 23rd August, 1969.
Invoice from Hely's Limited, Printers, Dame Street, Dublin to S.J. Barrett, Amien St., for the printing of 36 wedding cards. Also printed wedding card and copies of visiting card for Stiophán Bairéad and Siobhán Ní Mhurchadha. Also copy of marriage certificate of Stephen Barrett, Treasurer of the Gaelic League, 54 Blessington St., Dublin and Julia Murphy of Abbey Gate St., Galway, who were married on 11 Feb 1903 at the Catholic chapel of St. Nicholas in Galway.
Mainly receipts and business correspondence from various bodies to which Stiophán Bairéad was a member. Also material relating to employment and banking transactions.
"File containing receipts from various bodies to which S.J. Barrett subscribed. Also share receipts from various companies he subscribed to. Includes ""The Gaelic Journal"", ""Connradh na Gaeilge"", the Irish Text Society, Irish Industrial League, invoice from M Meers, 10 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin, for furnishing a celtic costume. Also Clo-chumann Ltd., Sinn Féin printing and publishing company, Cumann na bPiobairi, Scoil Eanna Ltd. and Sinn Féin (16 Apr 1918)."
"Letter from Alfred [Tostow], Dublin City Distillery (South Brunswick Street) to Stiophán Bairéad, enclosing cheque in settlement of wages following his resignation. Also letter of reference from same, noting that Stiophán is ""a staunch teetotaller""."