Showing 49713 results

Draft (15 pp) and faircopy (17 pp) of chapter entitled 'Bloody Sunday in context' [Niall Ó Dochartaigh's last chapter for From civil rights to armalities, 2nd ed. 2005]. (Draft has occasional passages highlighted, and a prefix of sources to be consulted, by [Éamonn Downey].)

Synopsis of Canon Hayes' sermon given at Basilica San Silvestro in Capite, Rome, 1930, with a focus on Hayes' thoughts on the negative qualities of Humanism.

[These letters contain outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.]
Documents pertaining to the family of Charles Bell, a native of County Antrim who emigrated to the United States before 1842 and ultimately settled in Ethel, Mississippi, as compiled in 1962 by his great-granddaughter, Doris G. Bias, in Jackson, Mississippi and submitted to the Antrim Registrar of Births and Deaths and E.R.R. Green. Bias compiled the documents in an effort to find relatives in Antrim. Included are Bias’ introductory letter of 9 September 1962 containing family information and asking for assistance in finding relatives, biographical notes on Charles Bell and his siblings, and transcripts of two letters sent to Charles in the United States by his mother Elizabeth in Antrim.

Letter from Charles C. Ormsby to George Ormsby relating to genealogical matters.

Copy of an article, 'Diary of Col. Charles Clinton During His Passage from Ireland to America, May 9th-October 4th, 1729’ published inBreifne (1977-1978), pp. 256-257. The article is a transcript of Clinton’s emigration voyage diary.
Col. Charles Clinton, an Anglo-Irish soldier from County Longford who established the Clinton political dynasty in America, documented his intended voyage to Pennsylvania. In May 1729, Charles, his wife Elizabeth, with two daughters and one son, chartered a ship from Dublin called the George and Anne and sailed for Philadelphia with a group of neighbours and friends from County Longford intending to settle in Pennsylvania. According to his papers, he paid for ninety-four of the passengers. The captain of the ship intentionally starved the passengers, possibly as a way to steal their belongings. Ninety-six of the passengers died, including Clinton's son and a daughter. In October 1729, they arrived at Cape Cod, and after paying a large ransom for their lives, the survivors were allowed to disembark.

Copy of an 1882 petition for United States citizenship made by Charles Farrell, and a letter from his grandson in Virginia to Kerby A. Miller forwarding the copy. Charles Farrell was born on a farm in Dungiven, County Derry on 2 August 1858, married another County Derry native, Rose Boylan, in Philadelphia on 1 January 1884, and died in Philadelphia on 9 October 1934.

Materials pertaining to Charles John McGuinness, including his 1935 memoir. McGuinnes was born in 1893 in Derry and left home in 1910, thus beginning a life of travel and exploration. McGuinness periodically returned to Ireland, including around the War of Independence during which he served as an officer in the IRA. McGuinness's extensive travels are recounted in his memoir and he is believed to have drowned at sea in 1947. Per Professor Kerby A. Miller: 'It's difficult to say that McGuinness ever ""emigrated"" in the normal sense of the term; rather, he ran away from home c.1910 and spent the next two or three decades, at least, going from one ship, and one adventure to another, in numerous countries, usually stopping in New York or another US port only long enough to recuperate and find another ship. After the Irish Civil War, McGuinness came to the US and spent some time in a construction job in the New York City area. Then he participated in Admiral Richard Byrd's first Antarctic expedition of 1928-30. After returning from Antarctica, he remained in the US for a year or two and supported himself by engaging in smuggling liquor from St. Pierre to Long Island during Prohibition. His memoir ends with his ""retirement"" from that occupation and his departure for the USSR. By 1935, he was back in Dublin, but we aren't told how or why or when he left the USSR. Written: in the early 1930s, after his retirement from rum-running but before his departure for the USSR. However, after he returned from Russia, he may have revised his ms. in Dublin before it was published in Philadelphia in 1935.'
The series includes: a published copy of McGuinness's 1935 memoir, Sailor of Fortune: Adventures of an Irish Sailor, Soldier, Pirate Pearl-Fisher, Gun-Runner, Rebel and Antarctic Explorer.; Miller's typescript version of the Preface for and Chapter 25 of Sailor of Fortune, along with various photocopied sections of the text; a photocopy of McGuinness's birth certificate and World War I enlistment papers; photocopied pictures of McGuinness; secondary source research citations; Miller's research notes.

Material pertaining to the passing of Charles Raymond Kirwan (1880-1971), brother of Denis Birmingham Kirwan and father of Denis John Kirwan. Charles was the last Kirwan owner of Dalgin House and left with his family for Stillorgan, Dublin in 1956.

Materials pertaining to letters written by or concerning Charles Locke between 1853 and 1863.
Charles H. Locke was a native of Dublin who had emigrated to Upper Canada. A bookbinder by trade, Locke was reduced to itinerant farm labour in order to provide for his six children. Locke eventually moved to the United States where one of his adult daughters had settled; by 1860 he was in Buffalo, New York, During the American Civil War, Locke enlisted with the Confederate Army at Iberville, Louisiana in February 1862. At the time he enlisted, he was an overseer on a plantation 50 miles below New Orleans (‘I enlisted whilst under the influence of liquor.’) In March 1863 he deserted alone while in charge of some rebel deserters. Locke reached the federal line 9 miles from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He became a United States prisoner of war and switched his allegiance to the United States at the point. Enrolling in the Union Army later in the year, Locke joined the 34th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, pretending to be 43 instead of 52 and concealing a leg wound he suffered while served with the Confederates. His motive was likely financial in order to support his family. Locke was killed at the Battle of Pine Knob, 16 June 1864.
The series consists of: abstracts, transcripts, and reproductions of the Locke letters; reproductions of four unrelated letters written to Eliza and Edward Shea in County Wexford in the late 19th century which were received alongside the Locke letters; biographical notes on Charles Locke; Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with historical organisations while researching Locke; and photocopies of historical publications pertaining to mid-19th century southern Ontario used by Miller for historical context.