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• Photocopies of publications pertaining to 19th century Philadelphia and Tennessee with mentions of the Bell family;
• Information on John Bell descendant Walter A. Bell (1888-1950), medical doctor and state senator provided by the family to the Tennessee State Archives in 1958;
• Scope and content notes on the Bell family papers from the Tennessee State Archives;
• Reproductions of Dr John Bell’s journal containing poetry and writings but no autobiographical content.

Photocopied excerpts of historical publications regarding Irish emigration to New Brunswick and Quebec; genealogical notes on Bryan Clancy, Patt & Bridget McGowan, and Thomas Garry; excerpts from published histories of Saint John, New Brunswick and Westchester County, New York.

[This sub-series contains outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.] Kerby A. Miller's timeline of Tom Brick's life; copies of secondary sources related to locations associated with Brick in Iowa and South Dakota, and research on Garryowen; newspaper clippings; census research; cemetery records for the Brick family; research on Brick's brother, William Brick; Miller's extensive research notes, bibliography, and an annotated bibliography.

Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with archivists, librarians, the donors, the Michigan Department of Health, the Archdiocese of Detroit, the Detroit Historical Society, and the Burton Historical Collection; photocopied pages from secondary sources on Detroit and Brooklyn; and a copy of a picture of the Dever brothers' sister-in-law in Donegal.

Kerby A. Miller's research notes on Batt O'Connor; copies of secondary sources related to Rhode Island, labour history, and Manchester, New Hampshire; photocopied entries from Manchester city directories; and Miller's correspondence with librarians and the Manchester Historic Association.

Photocopied pages, mostly from histories of handloom cotton manufacturing in Ireland and the United States, 1750-1850; and from old histories of Patterson and Essex County, New Jersey, and of Watertown and Jefferson County, New York.

-Photocopies of published historical works used as secondary references by Kerby A. Miller while researching the McGiffert/McGifford family, including histories of 19th century Alabama (particularly Greene County, the home of David McGiffert, and Tuscaloosa, the home of William McGiffert)
-Alabama agricultural census records from 1850; photocopies of McGiffert obituaries published in Alabama newspapers
-Miller and Beth Ruffin McIntyre's handwritten research notes compiling secondary research sources
-Orphans Court records from 1837-1838 regarding the distriction of the estate of James McGifford
-Miller's correspondence with archival and historical institutions in Alabama; exceprts from Jerrett, H.D. (1915), California's El Dorado Yesterday & Today (Sacramento: Jo Anderson), which Miller referenced when studying William McGifford's time in California during the gold rush;
-alternate transcripts of some of the letters;
-further genealogical information.

Photocopy of 'The Secret Languages of Ireland with special reference to the origin and nature of the Shelta Language' by R A Stewart Macalister. Accompanied by a handwritten note from Paul Corrigan (2001).

File of photocopies from the following sources:

A verse in Irish and with English translation, 'Colum Kill Sung' (published 1808);

Cover letter to Robinson from Edward O'Loghlen, Library, UCG, accompanying a photocopy of Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, in Latin. 30 Apr 1993;

Cover letter to Robinson from Edward O'Loghlen, Library UCG, accompanying a photocopy of O'Hanlon's Life of St Enda 18 May 1993;

'Saint Brecán of Clare' by Anne O'Sullivan (published 1983), accompanied by cover slip from John Waddell, 15 Feb 1994;

'St Endeus or Enda, Abbot of Arran, County of Galway' from 'Lives of the Irish Saints' by Canon O'Hanlon, published 1873;

'Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae' by Carolus Plummer A M (in Latin), published 1910;

'The Life of Saint Enda' translated from Plummer by Anne Mohr.

'Medieval Irish Saints Lives: An Introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae' by Richard Sharpe (published 1991);

'Betha Coluimb Cille of his labours in the West', no author or date given;

'The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: Ecclesiastical an introduction and guide' by James F Kenney' (published 1979);

'The Monastic Churches 1' no author or date given;

Photocopy from the Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette (1 Mar 1877), giving summary information on the Dioceses of Elphin, Tuam and Achonry.

File of off-prints and photocopies of the following articles:

'Royal Irish Academy Transactions Vol 14 - Antiquities';

'Proceedings from the Third General Meeting of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland', held in 1895;

'Arkin: An Outpost in Aran', by J R W Goulden (published 1952-3);

'Killnamanagh: The Lost Church of Aran' by J R W Goulden, (published 1954) Robinson's sketches on back;

'J R W Goulden's excavations on Inishmore, Aran, 1953-1955' by John Waddell, (published in 1987);

'Slate Medals and Amulets from the Aran Islands' by Etienne Rynne (published 1979/80);

'Dún Aengus and some similar celtic ceremonial centres' by Etienne Rynne, (published 1992);

'Early Churches in Mortared Stone', author and publication date unknown;

'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland' by Ruairí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, (published 1972);

'The Limestone Crosses of Clare and Aran' by Liam de Paor, taken from Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, (published 1955/56);

'Archaeological excavations at two church sites on Inishmore, Aran Islands' by Conleth Manning, an offprint from the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, (published 1985). Accompanied by a letter to Robinson from Manning (12 Dec 1986);

'Kilcholan: An early ecclesiastical site on Inishmore, Aran, Co Galway' by John Waddell (published 1976);

'The Antiquarian Remains of Inisheer, Aran, Co Galway' by T H Mason, (published in 1938);

'Notes on some antiquities on Aranmore, in the Bay of Galway' by the Reverend William Kilbride, (published 1868-1869);

'Irish Art in the Romanesque Period' by Francoise Henry, (published in 1970);

'A handaxe from Dun Aenghus, Inishmore, Aran Islands, Co Galway' by B Murphy (published in 1977);

'An Archaeological Survey of Temple Brecan, Aran' by John Waddell (published 1972-1973);

'A Study of the Early Forts and Stone Huts in Inishmore, Aran Isles, Galway Bay' by Thomas Johnson Westropp (published 1910);

'Notes on some of the Ancient Villages in the Aran Isles, County of Galway' by G Henry Kinahan (published 1866), with cover note to Robinson from John Waddell referring to Baile na Fear;

'Sketches in the West of Ireland - Aran pre-Christian Antiquities' by G H Kinahan (published 1876);

'An Unpublished High Cross on Aran, county Galway' by John Waddell (published 1981). The article describes North Cross at na Seacht dTeampall

A printed list of Selected papers on Irish Archaeology available from the Royal Irish Academy. The papers were published between 1938 and 1979.