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Black and white press photographs produced by Dublin commerical photographers Michael O'Reilly and G.A. Duncan.

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John T. Hughes papers contain correspondence including letters, cards, telegrams, and postcards addressed to John T. Hughes and his family, plus multiple copies of a cablegram from Hughes to Èamon De Valera. Ranging from the personal to the political, the correspondence highlights Hughes's active role in Irish Free State affairs. A staunch supporter and friend of De Valera, Hughes also corresponded with Senator Joseph Connolly, who served in De Valera's cabinet as Minister of Lands and...

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Contains Christmas cards received by Clarke, photographs of the Daly and Clarke families, and a card from her funeral. The cards include those received from Eamon de Valera, Douglas Hyde, and Sean Ó Ceallaigh, as well as one Clarke sent to her son Daly from Halloway Jail in 1918. Some of the Christmas cards were produced by well-known Irish printers, Cuala Press and Three Candles Press.

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John T. Hughes papers contain correspondence including letters, cards, telegrams, and postcards addressed to John T. Hughes and his family, plus multiple copies of a cablegram from Hughes to Èamon De Valera. Ranging from the personal to the political, the correspondence highlights Hughes's active role in Irish Free State affairs. A staunch supporter and friend of De Valera, Hughes also corresponded with Senator Joseph Connolly, who served in De Valera's cabinet as Minister of Lands and...

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: These records document the activities of the Eire Society of Boston through their correspondence, event ephemera, financial records, minutes, and publications. Events are further illustrated by photographs and scrapbooks. The core of the Society's functions is captured through its administrative files, which include personal and official correspondence of members, communications to members, constitutions, officer and member lists, biographical sketches of Gold Medal winners, arrangements for...

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Composed of published speeches of Sinn Fein leader and Irish president Éamon De Valera, some of which date from the World War II era. There are also images of him, including photographs taken during his visit to Boston in 1947. In addition, the collection includes obituaries of De Valera from Irish newspapers, and two letters of De Valera's wife, Sinéad.

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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subject files contain clippings, fliers, pamphlets, and other materials gathered and organized alphabetically by subject by Goldstein. Topics include birth control; women’s suffrage and anti-suffrage; Socialism and Communism; Catholicism, Judaism, and other religions; Middle Eastern affairs; the formation of Israel; the Soviet Union; the Mexican Revolution; McCarthyism; and material related to the organizations of which Goldstein was a member, including the Catholic Campaigners for Christ...

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Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These records document the activities of the Eire Society of Boston through their correspondence, event ephemera, financial records, minutes, and publications. Events are further illustrated by photographs and scrapbooks. The core of the Society's functions is captured through its administrative files, which include personal and official correspondence of members, communications to members, constitutions, officer and member lists, biographical sketches of Gold Medal winners, arrangements for...

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers document the professional lives of Elizabeth Christitch and her daughter Annie Christitch, both writers and political activists in the early twentieth century. The bulk are letters to Annie and Elizabeth concerning the Catholic Church in Serbia, the women’s rights movement, publishing, Irish independence from England, and Annie's lecture tours. A smaller set of correspondence documenting the presonal side of their lives is between family members, including Annie's younger sister...

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers document the professional lives of Elizabeth Christitch and her daughter Annie Christitch, both writers and political activists in the early twentieth century. The bulk are letters to Annie and Elizabeth concerning the Catholic Church in Serbia, the women’s rights movement, publishing, Irish independence from England, and Annie's lecture tours. A smaller set of correspondence documenting the presonal side of their lives is between family members, including Annie's younger sister...

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Includes correspondence to, from, and about McCormack, as well as correspondence to and from Frederick Manning documenting McCormack’s life and career. Letters include personal family correspondence, business correspondence, and correspondence about McCormack’s performances.

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Collection is open for research. Some audio materials may not be available immediately for use as they will require reformatting; please contact the Burns Library in advance for access to audio materials. McCormack's sheet music cabinet is not available for access at this time due to structural instability.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: A collection of photographs by Bobbie Hanvey featuring people and scenes from Northern Ireland during and after The Troubles, a period of violent conflict between Protestant unionists and Roman Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland. The collection contains portraits, candid shots, and documentary images of everyday life, public events, paramilitary activity and violence, as well as political and religious figures. Hanvey also photographed artists, entertainers, performers, poets,...

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Transparent media and digital storage media (hard drives) are not available for use; access limited to the online digital version.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John T. Hughes papers contain correspondence including letters, cards, telegrams, and postcards addressed to John T. Hughes and his family, plus multiple copies of a cablegram from Hughes to Èamon De Valera. Ranging from the personal to the political, the correspondence highlights Hughes's active role in Irish Free State affairs. A staunch supporter and friend of De Valera, Hughes also corresponded with Senator Joseph Connolly, who served in De Valera's cabinet as Minister of Lands and...

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Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials that were clearly described in Murray's inventories as belonging to Máire Gill. It documents her personal life and involvement with camogie, Cumann na mBan, and her time in Kilmainham jail. This series also includes materials from Kathleen Byrne, a friend of Gill's who was part of the same camogie club. Some materials in the Irish arts and culture and Irish independence series could have belonged to Gill but did not have sufficient description to determine the...

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Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes caricatures and political cartoons. Most concern Irish politics and Irish politicians, with a special emphasis on Eamon De Valera, and the relationship between Ireland and Great Britian. An exception is the political cartoons by Peter Schrank, whose topics are generally American and world politics, with a particular focus on American President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq. Shrank's cartoons appear to have been grouped with the Irish collections by Anthony Mourek because they...

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Inventory number 1988.29

On view in Burns Library Irish Room.

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Personal papers of librarian and historian Helen Landreth relating to her research on Irish history.

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John T. Hughes papers contain correspondence including letters, cards, telegrams, and postcards addressed to John T. Hughes and his family, plus multiple copies of a cablegram from Hughes to Èamon De Valera. Ranging from the personal to the political, the correspondence highlights Hughes's active role in Irish Free State affairs. A staunch supporter and friend of De Valera, Hughes also corresponded with Senator Joseph Connolly, who served in De Valera's cabinet as Minister of Lands and...

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Includes fliers and posters, primarily regarding Irish independence and the relationship of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and England. Most are printed materials, but one by Constance de Markievicz is an original drawing. Unlike the political satire series, none of these incorporate satire or comedy to make their point.

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Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes caricatures and political cartoons. Most concern Irish politics and Irish politicians, with a special emphasis on Eamon De Valera, and the relationship between Ireland and Great Britian. An exception is the political cartoons by Peter Schrank, whose topics are generally American and world politics, with a particular focus on American President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq. Shrank's cartoons appear to have been grouped with the Irish collections by Anthony Mourek because they...

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Collection is open for research.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John T. Hughes papers contain correspondence including letters, cards, telegrams, and postcards addressed to John T. Hughes and his family, plus multiple copies of a cablegram from Hughes to Èamon De Valera. Ranging from the personal to the political, the correspondence highlights Hughes's active role in Irish Free State affairs. A staunch supporter and friend of De Valera, Hughes also corresponded with Senator Joseph Connolly, who served in De Valera's cabinet as Minister of Lands and...

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Collection is open for research.