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Academic Papers of Professor Richard Doherty, Professor of Midwifery at Queen's College Galway from 1849 to 1876. The collection consists of notebooks and lecture notes.

The material in this collection relates almost exclusively to Seaghan Mac Énrí's work on A Handbook of Modern Irish and other work. The collection is divided between correspondence and drafts of his literary work. The correspondence with Peadar Ua Laoghai

Correspondence between Seaghán Mac Énrí and Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Micheal Breathnach and others. Mainly relating to his work on the "Handbook of Modern Irish".

Correspondence between Seaghán Mac Énrí and Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Caislean Ua Liathain, Co. Chorgaighe.

Letter from Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Caislean Ua Liathain, Co. Chorgaighe to [ ], discussing the use of "is" in the Irish language. He advises, "When analysing Irish a person must put English out of his head". He disparages the work of grammarians, calling them "a pack of Asses!" He advises that Irish and English forms of the interrogative are totally different.

Letter from Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Castlelyons, County Cork, to Mr Henry saying that he has gone over the book and can find no grammatical errors. He states that he would have mistaken his Irish for Munster Irish. "What a lot of nonsense has been said and written about "dialects" and "provincialism!" He then goes on to argue against calling "cad" a neuter pronoun.

Part of letter from Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Caisleán Ua Liatháin, Co. Corcaigh to Seaghan Mac Énrí, outlining some corrections that should be made to the proofs. He comments on a mistake in using the pronoun for the word rather than the thing that the word s

Part of letter from Peadar Ua Laoghaire to Seaghan Mc Enri, concerning the proofs of the book. He discusses the use of adjectives and pronouns with feminine nouns. He feels that old speakers would be the best to listen to as "a good many errors have been creeping in lately". He discusses the roots of words, particularly "geall", which grew from the idea of "bond", as well as the use of the word "deanamh".

Letter from same to same discussing proofs. He focuses on the use of substantives. He recommends that he follow what native speakers say rather than what is written in relation to Irish. He suggests that no letter should be doubled in Irish unless the sound of it demands it. He also recommends modern spelling for words.

Letter from Peadar Ua Laoghaire to Seaghán Mac Énrí. He goes over the same points he made before when dealing with pronouns in great detail. He recounts a story about a man seeing goats in his garden when he was five and what he said to illustrate his poi