Correspondence and enclosures between Professor James P Murray, Professor of Radiology at UCG and Tim Robinson on the subject of Lady Dudley's Nursing Scheme.

Professor Murray writes seeking sources as part of his research in compiling a history of medicine in Galway. Enclosures include the 1971 Annual Report of the scheme, press cuttings. Letters include information on Dr Stoney - doctor on Inis Mór in 1880s, nurses in the Recess and Roundstone districts in 1904, and anecdotes.

Transcript of 'Roundstone - a populous solitude', part 4 of a 6-part series called 'Along Many a Mile' by Mervyn Wall. The talk was broadcast on 20 February 1959.

Letter from Frank Keaney enclosing photocopied notes that shed light on migration to Connemara, possibly from Ulster in the late 18th century (1984).

A letter to Tim Robinson from Mervyn Wall about the research he carried out in the late 1950s, and enclosing notes. (1984).

Photocopy of 'Notes and Queries, the diamond fight of 1795'. (1958).

Two photocopies of a letter from the Roundstone Relief Committee office, dated 1847, encloses list of subscribers to the Roundstone Relief Committee for the Parish of Moyrus. Provenance is unclear (based on the stamp, it is likely these are reprographic copies from NLI).

Copy letters from Tim Robinson to Proinsias Mac Aonghusa on a book the latter wishes to publish on the War of Independence in Connemara. (1986)

Handwritten reminiscences from John Barlow, (Roundstone newsagent). The first is in Tim Robinson's handwriting, and is entitled 'Notes on War of Independence and Civil War from conversations with John Barlow', dated 18 March - 20 April 1986. It begins with the arrival of Black and Tans in Seana Chaolla, and ends with a story about Derrynasliggaun Lodge being occupied by the Irregulars during the War of Independence. Reminiscences include an account of the recruitment methods adopted during World War 1, 'A Bird's Eye View of the Anglo Irish and Civil Wars in Galway and Connemara', 'A Birds Eye View of the Civil War Years in Ireland 1922-1923'. An account of the Emergency Years in Ireland. Copies of orders in John Barlow's possession relating to licence duty, the O'Dowd family, guidelines on handling weapons issued to the LDF, and a newspaper story about Ernie O'Malley.

Photocopies from:

'With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom, 1919 to the Truce, a book of essays published in Kerry before 1958 (undated). Covers the West Connemara Column at Mounterown, 23 April 1921.
'West Connemara IRA, Organisation and Operation', statement by Captain P J McDonnell.

Five pages of Tim Robinson's handwritten notes from sources such as St. John Gogarty's 'As I was Going Down Sackville St', Padraic O'Farrelly's 'Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence', and some notes on the Marconi station written on the back of a personal email from Nuala O'Faoláin towards the end of her life.

Anonymous letter to Tim Robinson telling a story about Stephen Conneely from Rosmuc, postmark on envelope suggests it was sent some time in the 2000s.

Copy letter from Robinson to the Commissioners of Irish Lights, seeking information on lighthouses at Lion Point, Killeen Point, Kiggaul Bay, Croaghnakeela Islands, Inishnee in Roundstone Bay, Slyne Head, Inishbofin, Inishlyon, and Cleggan Point. Response enclosing photocopies from the Admiralty List of Lights and a short history of Slyne Head (13 July 1987). A newspaper cutting from the Connacht Tribune, 31 April 1990 on the closing of the Slyne Head Lighthouse, with accompanying picture.

Correspondence from the Public Records Office in Kew enclosing information on the records available relating to shipwrecks, the operational records of the Royal Navy (1660-1914), and the records of HM Coastguard. Later correspondence between Tim Robinson and Frank [likely to be Francis Keaney] enclosing transcribed research from the PRO on the Royal Oak and shipwrecks taken from captain's logs (1989-1990).

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes):

'The West of Ireland', Henry Coulter, (1862);

'Tour in Connemara and the Martins of Ballinahinch', Maria Edgeworth, (first published in 1950);

'Rosaleen Dhass - A Tale of the Killeries', "Aroon", (1902);

'Tales of the West of Ireland', James Berry, (1966);

'Tyrone House, Co. Galway', Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, (1976);

'Geography and the Irish Electoral System', A J Parker, (1984-5);

Griffiths Valuation for the Unions of Clifden and Mountbellew (1855);

Selected copies from O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey letters for Galway (Vol 3), (1839);

'A Statistical and agricultural survey of the County of Galway drawn up for the consideration and by the direction of the Royal Dublin Society', Hely Dutton, (1824);

'Lewis Topographical Dictionary for Moyrus', (1837);

'Slater's Directory, Ireland for Clifden', (1856);

'The Last Invasion of Ireland - When Connacht Rose', Richard Francis Hayes, (1939) - notes on Fr Miles Prendergast;

'Five letters Relating to Galway Smuggling in 1737'. Louis Cullen, (1962);

'A forgotten campaign and aspects of the heritage of South East Galway', (1986) - note about the arrest of Johnny Gibbons at Woodford;

'Connemara Refuge for Mayo Rebels of '98', Rory Lavelle, (typed piece, possibly unpublished);

'On timeless shores - journeys in Ireland', . C. Vyvyan, (1957);

'Fifty years of Irish Journalism', Andrew Dunlop, (1911) - writes of Carraroe evictions and the Maamtrasna murders;

'The Irish Crisis of 1879-80', Proceedings of the Dublin Mansion House Relief Committee 1880, (1881) - refers to Arranmore Investigation;

'An Account of the Constitution, Administration and Dissolution of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland from 1891-1923', William L Micks, (1925);

'Memories: Wise and Otherwise', Sir Henry Robinson, (1924);

The last folder contains Tim's handwritten notes from 'Whites Tour of Connemara', 'Cromwell from Old Galway', 'O'Flaherty Iar-Chonnacht', 'Hell or Connacht! The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1952-1660'. There are some tourist brochures from 1990s also in this folder, and have been left here as per original order.

In some instances these folders include material that relates to other topics. They have been left in their original order. The "related material" field will represent many of these links to other parts of the archive.

Family tree of the Clements family (Cromwellian Ensign), hand-drawn by Tim. Covers the period 1690s-1950s. Connection to Arigna Mines;

Correspondence from Mary and Nora Keane, forwarding enclosures with information about clergy in the Kilbride Parish, and information on Fr Durkan, Fr Hugh O'Rourke and others. (1996);

Letter from Una Hoydal requesting information on a man who once lived in Dog's Bay of the name Santiago (18th century), (2003);

Correspondence from Rionach uí Ógáin, National Folklore Archive, seeking information on people Séamus Ennis met on the course of his travels, and two pages of handwritten notes (beginning mid sentence) of a story told to Tim by Miss Dundass in Roundstone in 1984 about her grandfather. (2005);

Correspondence from Mary Pat Joyce with information on the Joyce family of Muintir Eoin, enclosed folder of information on the family from 1856, and covering the period of Parnell and the Land League. (2012);

Letter from Patrick Melvin referencing the Blakes of Doon House, (undated);

A poem 'Replies from Inishlacken';

Press cuttings relating to a bridge at Inis Ní.

Photocopy of Fr M D Conroy's memoirs, (January 1943). Fr Conroy was ordained in 1884, and appointed to Leitir Mealláin / Lettermullan and Carraroe, and ordered to build a church in Leitir Mealláin. His memories outline Parish Priests and local churches and schools in the areas from the time of his ordination. It covers Ada Yeats who taught lace making in Croe, evictions and rioting in Croe, Casheen Bay as a safe anchorage for the Duke of Edinburgh when distributing food and clothing to the poor, the arrival of German v-boats there during the first World War. The role of the Comerford family of Kinvara. It covers in detail the division of Killannin into Killannin, Spiddal, and Killeen, and Fr Coyne's objection when Killanin was given to Galway in 1890. Fr Conroy later encountered problems with Fr Coyne's faction, with several confrontations involving a police presence and subsequent trial. Two pages of Robinson's handwritten notes accompany the memoir.

A handwritten note in Tim's writing to say they are a copy of the typescript in possession of Fr M Lang, the Parish Priest at An Cheathrú Rua.

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes, some with cover notes from people who sent them). These largely cover Protestant Missions but include other information too:

Substantial photocopies from 'History of the Archdiocese of Tuam' by Monsignor D'Alton, (1928), and 4 pages of Robinson's handwritten notes;

'The Bible in Ireland' by Asenath Nicholson (c. 1845);

'Fifty Years in The Irish Mission' by the Rev. Hamilton Magee (undated);

Photocopies from 'Records of the Connemara Orphan's Nursery', with some post-it notes indicating items of Robinson's interest including 'Tarbot Resistance', Glenowen for girls, kidnapping, D'Arcy rectory;

'A Short Visit to the Connemara Missions, A Letter by the Rev W C Plunkett BA', (1863);

'The Saxon in Ireland, or the Rambles of an Englishman' by J H Ashworth, (1851);

Cover note from Michael Gibbons enclosing selected photocopies from 'The Letters of Lord Chief Baron Edward Willes to the Earl of Warwick, 1757-1762', in which he writes on the Joyce family (undated);

'A Tour in Connacht', Caesar Otway (1839);

'The Irish Sketch Book and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo' by W M Thackeray, (1875);

'Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century' by Edward MacLysacht, (1969);

'Letters from Ireland' by Harriet Martineau, (1852);

'Through Connemara in a Governess Cart', (1893);

'Sketches of the Irish Highlands', by Rev A McManus (1863);

Letters from Patrick Gageby enclosing the following 3 items:

Obituary for James Keyworth, (1864);

Connemara Past and Present' by the Rev Joseph Denham Smith (1853);

Envelope of 10 photographs of Irish Church Mission banners (referenced in P Gageby's cover letter);

'Lift up a standard, the centenary story of the society for Irish Church Missions' by A E Hughes;

'The Protestant Crusade in Ireland, 1800-70', Desmond Bowen;

A photograph of the Protestant Church in Moyrus in 1910, sent to Tim from Frank Keaney;

Pages of Robinson's handwritten notes on the Protestant crusade in Ireland;

Correspondence between Tim Robinson, the Very Revd W J Grant, J F Buttimore, Raymond Rafausse, Rev Michael Molloy about a church near Ballinahinch Castle which transferred from Church of Ireland to Roman Catholic in 1959. Enclosures include extracts from the Parish history of Ballyconnely and Claddaghduff. A photocopy from the Calendar of Papal Registers 1471-1484, on Moyrus, and a copy of a church newsletter from Kilmilkin in Leenane, which gives a history of the church from Early Christian times 500 - the Penal Laws 1829 (1987-1989);

Newspaper cutting on Ethel Mannin;

Letter from Roddy (R.P.) McCaffrey of Robinson, Keefe, Devane enclosing a description of Cashel Church (1997);

'Burke's Guide to Country Houses, Vol 1 Ireland'. Short note from Patrick Farrell to Tim enclosing a photograph captioned 'Teachín na bPrayers', and a small painted sketch of the house as he remembers it, (1997).