Folders of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes biographical information, research material, detailed description of 64 letters in PRONI (D.1828) (50pp). Transcripts (28pp) of seven letters from Robert back to his family in Antrim. Information on the Smiths in Philadelphia. The family are based in Moycraig, County Antrim. For details on individual letters see https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/search?ASSET_COLLECTION=857&c=857

Folders of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcripts and copies of letters held in PRONI (D3561) (50pp). c.7 letters (14pp) transcribed by Kerby from what is available. Also research on Todd and Christian County, Kentucky, and Hinds County, Mississippi. James Richey and later his brother Andrew arrive in the American South, and write home to their family giving their news, and on matters of religion and politics where they live, including on the slavery question. For details of individual letters see https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/search?ASSET_COLLECTION=865&c=865

Folders of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcripts and copies of letters from Daniel to his parents, transcript of a diary (c.50pp) kept by him and his sister, A lot of correspondence between Kerby and Margaret Gallagher, a lot of research work by Kerby and the family of the Sheehans in Cleveland and Canada.

Folders of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcripts and copies of letters of McClurg family. Including some in PRONI (T1229) (c.100pp). Transcripts from Arnold Shrier (34 letters) (78pp). Also file of research on the area of Pennsylvania they were in. Letters from various family members in Pennsylvania and Ohio back to their family in Templemoyle, Bovevagh Parish, County Derry across a number of generations. For individual letters see https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/search?ASSET_COLLECTION=1217&c=1217

Folder of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcripts of 4 letters, held in PRONI (T1727) (18pp). Copies of originals (36pp), some published in "Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild” (1984). Letters from James and Robert Wray from New York and Pennsylvania back to their brother Thomas, along with their mother and sister, living in Quilleybane, Parish of Dunboe, bear Coleraine, County Derry. The letters recount family news, including their brother John who lives near Kentucky, as well as asking after family at home and their good situation teaching in the States. For individual letters see https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/search?ASSET_COLLECTION=863&c=863

Folder of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcript from Grimshaw Letters, held in PRONI (T1116) (10pp). Kerby transcript, 1 letter (3pp), and folder of research on possible William Browns in New Orleans at that time. William Brown, New Orleans, writes to Robert Grimshaw, Belfast, of his desire to be again in his company (and that of "the ladies") in Belfast and looking forward to returning home, in a few years from a "swamp in the very head quarters of disease and dissipation" once he has made enough money. Brown has entered into a valuable business with their mutual friend Hugh Cading, establishing a "general Commission house" in a "fertile territory" with a rapidly increasing population as the "vast forests of the west" are being quickly cleared for agriculture and urban settlement. He notes the importance of steam-boats in this endeavour and the rapid increase in trade of cotton and sugar from the state. However, Brown deplores that "Slavery, detested Slavery prevails [...] in this land of freedom where equal rights and emancipation are the theme of every tongue" and concludes with news of other friends in Nashville and Florence, while entrusting this letter to a "true Irishman" James Hopkins, visiting home after amassing a huge fortune here of £3000 per annum. See https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/iiif/17479/view#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1722%2C-182%2C5987%2C3635

Folder of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcript of letter held in PRONI (T2850/1/5) (4pp), Kerby transcript (4pp), file of research and correspondence by Kerby, including copy of material on Moses Paul from Virginia State Library & Archives. Moses Paul, Petersburg, Virginia, admonishes his friend John Graham, Magherafelt, County Derry, for not writing to him since he arrived in 'this republic" nearly two years previous, even as he acknowledges Graham's kindness to his sister. The latter has written to Paul but he presumes "She is still as prejudiced as ever against America and Americans". While stating that he has 'turned American" he admits that "Americans are a little [underlined] better than savages [...] I know we are blamed for slavery, but we cannot help it -- we are obliged [...]". He claims that he is composing this letter while an auctioneer is 'displaying his Eloquence before the enlightened and free sons of Columbia -- over a lot of fine, healthy, likely negroes he is hiring out for the year 1841". He explains 'hiring out" as a means to send slaves that he owns but has no work for, to an auctioneer who will rent them out for a year to the highest bidder. Paul hopes he will see his relatives again 'but I am living in an uncertain climate -- here today and gone tomorrow". He asks Graham to send his affection to "that sweet Miss Eliza Duncan" but tell her he almost fell in love in America with "one of the most beautiful ladies I ever saw".

Folders of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcript of letter held in PRONI (T1449) (2pp). Information on family in Lisburn, copy of original (4pp) in PRONI. Research and Kerby correspondence relating to Fairfield County. John B. Philips, "Winnsborough, Fair Field District", South Carolina, writes to his brother James, Lisburn, County Antrim, after a "good passage being onely [sic] six weeks" from leaving Ireland. He describes the port town [Charleston] as the largest in South Carolina and "pretty well built" with an Exchange store, Armoury, Poor House, and churches (two each for Episcopalians, Congregationalists / Independents, Methodists and one each for Scotch Presbyterians, Baptists, German Lutherans, French Protestants) plus a Roman Catholic chapel, Quaker meeting house and Jewish Synagogue. After spending time with "an extensive merchant" who intended visiting Ireland, Philips was offered a post of school-master for $300 a year, by a country gentleman, in a settlement 160 miles above Charleston. He relates that both of them then travelled there by camping in the woods for four to five nights. However, the school was "engaged" so on arrival, Phillips took up employment working in carpentry with a son of Capt. James Phillips who owned a large plantation. He details how they are building "a Methodist preaching house of timber" for $700 and the good pay for tradesmen and schoolmasters. Phillips concludes with a description of the crops, cheap price of land and that he "lives as well as a man could wish". See https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/iiif/18126/view#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1726%2C-182%2C5994%2C3639

Productions by Druid Theatre Company during 2004

Issue number 4 of 'An Fuascailteoir, Journal of the Republican P.O.W.s., C. Company, Cage 10, Long Kesh Concentration Camp', Maze Prison, 25 March 1976.