Collection G42 - The Papers of Seosamh Mac Grianna

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Seosamh 'Joe Fheilimí' Mac Grianna was born in August 1900 in Ranafast, in the Rosses area of north-western Donegal, to a family who were the first to settle in the area, having come from Letterkenny in the mid-18th century. His childhood and youth unfold

These papers were extracted from another archival collection, namely the papers of Proinsias Mac an Bheatha, according to the archival principal of provenance. Mac Grianna's papers had come into Mac an Bheatha's possession when, after Mac Grianna's unanno

This small collection of personal papers comprises documents effectively spanning 25 years in the life of Donegal and Dublin writer Seosamh Mac Grianna. All manuscript material, whether in the form of notebooks or loose leaves, contains a mixture of diary

The collection falls broadly into two parts, namely notebooks and various writings by Seosamh MacGrianna, and accumulated papers found together with these; two appendices give documentary evidence. Originally, the loose-leaf papers had been bundled togeth

The material in this collection is available to all bone fide researchers and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at the James Hardiman Library. No material may be reproduced from this collection without the
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