Letter from John Fleming to Mr. Barrett, asking him to call into him at any stage he finds convenient.

Note from John Fleming to Mr. Barrett saying any hour that would suit him for the reading of Irish would be fine. "I am now running for a Turkish Bath".

Receipt from Dollard printers to Stiophán Bairéad for his subscription to the "Gaelic Journal".

Bound volume containing copies of letters written by Mr S.J. Barrett

Bound volume containing copies of letters written by Mr. S.J. Barrett, Meelick House, Kilmore, County Roscommon to various correspondents, primarily to the Secretaries of the Gaelic Union and the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language. In a letter to R.J. O Mulrenin, Honorary Secretary of the Gaelic Union, with reference to the two societies, he states "Now is strikes me that if the two societies were united it would be better for the cause which you have so much to heart" (10 June 1885). He also gets involved with various disputes with newspapers, complaining to the Editor of the "Shamrock" that in his article on Mr. J.J. McSweeney no mention was made of the work of the Gaelic Union (4 Apr 1889). In a letter published in the "Leitrim Observer" he lauds the cause of the Irish language: "I trust it will never be said of us that we yielded to the Welsh, who have brought their language from the former state of obscurity to a position which it now occupies" (2 Aug 1890) [Formerly LSB59].

Membership card for the Gaelic Union

Membership card for Stephen J Barrett with the Gaelic Union for the Cultivation and Preservation of the Irish Language, signed by Richard J. O'Mualrenin.

Letter from John Flood, Kilbride, to Mr. Stephen J Barrett thanking him for his subscription to the Irish National League, and he hopes that he will inspire the young men of the parish to join "but you Sir in your tender years has showed to the youth of Kilmore that you have the cause of your Country at heart".

Bound volumes containing press cuttings relating to the activities of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language and the Gaelic Union.

Cuttings of reports of meetings of "The Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language" and "The Gaelic Union", made by Stephen Barrett. The cuttings are mainly from "The Freeman's Journal", giving reports of meetings. Includes report on the seventh Annual Report of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language which referred to such items as the teaching of Irish in the National Schools (6 Mar 1885). Also copy of a motion passed at a meeting of the Gaelic Union condemning "the sneering and irreverent manner in which a portion of the Press treatson any question of our native language" (9 May 1885) [Formerly LSB55].