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Opening Night: 13/08/1928
Playwright: J.M. Synge, Lennox Robinson
Venue: Dublin

Printed season programme from Druid's "A Season of Anglo-Irish Plays" featuring 'Riders to the Sea'.

Opening Night: 15/06/1931
Playwright: J.M. Synge
Venue: Dublin

Materials pertaining to 19 letters written by James Richey and later his brother Andrew, natives of Lisburn who emigrated to the United States in 1818 and 1829, respectively. The brothers settled in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, later moving to Clinton, Mississippi. They wrote letters home to their family giving their news, and on matters of religion and politics where they live, including on the slavery question. Included in this series are transcripts of the 19 family letters (dated 1818-1843) found in PRONI (D3561) and copied by Miller, as well as Miller's research notes on the family and photocopies of secondary source publications for additional historical context.

Drafts of transcripts of 19 letters written by James Richey and later his brother Andrew, natives of Lisburn who emigrated to the United States in 1818 and 1829, respectively. The brothers settled in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, later moving to Clinton, Mississippi. They wrote letters home to their family giving their news, and on matters of religion and politics where they live, including on the slavery question.’
The series also includes portions of a draft of an essay on Scotch-Irish emigration to the United States written by Professor E.R.R. Green and featuring James Richey as a example.

Richard Thompson. Black and white portrait photographs of musician Richard Thompson. Images are professional promotional photos. Thompson is facing the camera, holding his guitar. Images measure 253mm X 203mm and one image includes a white border. Also includes smaller close-up headshot image of Thompson, 110mm X 132mm.

Letter from Richard Ruttledge, Dublin to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. "I received this day a letter from your son Mr. Ormsby of Knockmore mentioning his having got from Mr. Ruttledge of Bloomfield all the leases (except four or five which are in Dublin) of my grandfathers fee simple estates in Mayo and Galway, not at all reckoning those deriving under the lease for ever which has been I understand settled on said Mr. Ruttledge. The schedule which Mr. T. Ormsby has drawn from these leases amounts in the whole to about £1590 a year. I thought it would have been considerably more and altho' the above amount is to me ample and abundant yet I would not like to be deprived of anything to which I may have a just right, now my Dear Sir as you have always been my friend I am sure you will give me and your son (who has undertaken to manage my affairs) any information you can concerning the denominations, bounds and circumstances as far as have come to your knowledge. I believe you must have had some conversations about this property which our late dear friend Mr. Ruttledge of Cornfield who knew everything minutely. I write this to you in confidence I suppose that Mr. Ruttledge of Bloomfield has delivered everything fairly and correctly but we are all liable to mistakes. I ask pardon for giving you this trouble and am with best respects to Mrs. Ormsby and all of you, Dear Sir your most obedient, faithful humble servant Richard Ruttledge. Total amount of rent £1580. Deduct Kellescope etc. in the Co. Galway set to Mr. Campbell Fair at per annum, £440. Leaves the Mayo rent £1140.

Materials pertaining to letters written by Richard O'Gorman in New York to Irish nationalist politician and Young Ireland leader William Smith O'Brien between 1852 and 1861. The letters span from the time O'Brien was serving a sentence of transportation to Tasmania through to his exile in Brussels.
Per Helen F. Mulvey (1953), ‘New York City in 1859: A Letter from Richard O'Gorman to William Smith O'Brien’, New York History 34, no. 1, p. 85-90 : ‘Richard O'Gorman, junior, was born in Dublin in 1820, the son of a prosperous merchant, one of the numerous Catholics of the middle class, who had come forward in Irish life after the lifting of the penal laws in the late eighteenth century. O'Gorman's family had taken a leading part in the Catholic Emancipation cause, but had later on fallen into disagreement with Daniel O'Connell. It was the Young Ireland movement of the 1840's which brought O'Gorman into Irish public life, and resulted eventually in his exile to the United States… … In America, O'Gorman first settled in St. Louis, but eventually came to New York where he began to practice law. He served two terms as corporation counsel beginning in 1865. In 1870, he was chosen Commissioner of Immigration, and in 1883, a judge of the Superior Court of New York city. He retired in 1890, and died on February 28, 1895.’
During his time in government, O’Gorman was part of the Tammany Hall political machine. Per Kerby A. Miller, ‘In 1858 his old Young Ireland comrade, Michael Doheny, had described O'Gorman as "sharp as a chisel and equally keen in his race for money." Financially as well as politically, O'Gorman had won his race. To be sure, the course had turned out to be much more devious than he had imagined as an idealistic and rebellious youth, but, as he wrote to Smith O'Brien in 1859, he had left that "honest fellow ... behind [him] in Ireland."’
In addition to transcripts and abstracts of O’Gorman’s letters to O’Brien, the series contains extensive research and writing on O’Gorman, correspondence between Miller and fellow researchers regarding O’Gorman, and correspondence between Miller and O’Gorman descendants.

Richard O'Donnell and Matthew Manning. Concert held at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway. File includes TS press release issued by Music for Galway publicising the concert; photocopy of brief biography of O'Donnell and Manning; fax copy of press review of the concert; photocopy of press review of a concert by O'Donnell and Manning held at the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Foster Place [Dublin], taken from the Irish Times.

Photocopied excerpts of Memories of Three Score Years and Ten by Richard McIlwaine (New York and Washington: Neale, 1908).
Per the donation letter of Richard McIlwaine Dunn, Jr.: ‘My great-grandfather Richard McIlwaine was not an emigrant, but his father, Archibald Graham McIlwaine, and his mother, Martha Dunn, were both Irish emigrants about 1823. Archibald Graham McIlwaine came to this country and settled in Virginia about 1823, while still a teenager. He did well and he was the founder of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, which is now a large national insurance company. He was of some importance in the Presbyterian Church in Virginia, and for some years he was a trustee of Hampden-Sydney College, which is a presbyterian college in Virginia founded in 1775. His son Richard McIlwaine was a presbyterian minister and was president of Hampden-Sydney College for many years. He also was elected to our State Legislature in Virginia for one term. There is no positive count, but I will guess that through the years 25 members of the "McIlwaine family" have graduated from Hampden-Sydney College. There are still many McIlwaines and their kin here in Virginia. You will note that Martha Dunn was also an emigrant from Northern Ireland. A number of members of the McIlwaine and Dunn families moved to Petersburg, Virginia in the early 1800s. Petersburg was a Scotch-Irish town. My grandfather William Wilcox Dunn and my grandmother Ann Read McIlwaine were both from Petersburg, Virginia and second cousins. Richard McIlwaine visited his grandparents in Ireland on two occasions. In his old age he wrote his memoirs which included these visits to Ireland. I am attaching these two chapters from his memoirs and the first chapter about his ancestry and kinfolk in Ireland. On the first page of Chapter One of his memoirs he mentions that his grandfather's name, Richard McIlwaine, father of the emigrant Graham McIlwaine, is carved in the rear wall of the Cathedral (Episcopal) which was, as I understand, in Londonderry. I understand further that the Cathedral was damaged by Cromwell troops and that this Richard McIlwaine was the building contractor (undertaker) who rebuilt the church. For this job he was given two silver goblets. I have one of these cups and enclosed is a photo. The other is in the possession of descendants of Archibald Graham McIlwaine in Memphis, Tennessee in this country.’