Scope and Contents Invitation to Harry W. French from five prominent Boston Irish Americans, written in ink on a single sheet of lined paper. Signed by John Boyle O'Reilly, Hugh O'Brien, Patrick A. Collins, T.J. Dacey, and Dominick Fay. Full text reads "Harry W. French Esq. Dear Sir, we cordially invite you to give your lectures on Ireland in this city, confident that your knowledge of the subject and splendid illustrations of it will interest and entertain all classes of our fellow citizens." Likely written...

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Scope and Contents The collection includes two typescripts and a single letter by Padraic Colum. The letter was written in 1927 to M.J. Fitzsimons, SJ, of Boston College. The typescripts are of Colum's plays: Timbuktu (1953) and Kilmore (1966). Timbuktu includes additions and deletions in Colum's own hand. It is a three-act comedy about the fabled African city of Timbuktu; also adapted by Colum under the titles: The Desert; The Vizier; and Mogu the Wanderer. Kilmore is a first draft of an unpublished, one-act...

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Program for the 1981 Abbey Players production of At Swim Two Birds, adapted for the stage by Audrey Welsh and directed by Eamon Morrissey. Includes historical note by Niall Sheridan.

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View of a Union Army signal station, built in a tree, with a flag-carrying soldier standing on top and other men standing near the base of the tree. A sailing ship and city skyline appear in the background. This image appears in The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion (1896), by J. Willard Brown. Attributed to Jay Dearborn Edwards.

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One exchange of letters between architect and affordable housing activist Seymour Rutkin to urbanologist and architectural critic Jane Jacobs regarding her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

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This unpublished transcription of the Flann O'Brien "Cruiskeen Lawn" columns that are not represented in published compilations was prepared by drama scholar Steven C. Young. It is thought to be the only extant copy of this work.

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View of Black men, women, and children seated before, and riding in, a covered wagon. A mounted soldier is visible in the background, presumably a Union soldier based on the cap and dark uniform.

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View of five Black people (two men, a woman, and two children), in front of a cabin.

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View of five Black children posing with chimney sweeps' tools.

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Collage on paper, consisting of a type-written list of food and drink eaten by the artist on May 31, 1977, with clippings and bottle cap from corresponding food packaging attached.

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Abstract From the Collection: Anonymous and unfinished manuscript copy or draft of a ballad about the 1805 murder of Marcus Lyon in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Written on a folded leaf of stationery with watermark "Joynson 1859" and lithographed image of a woman waving a United States flag above the caption "True to the Stars and Stripes." The 15 extant stanzas relate the discovery of Lyon's body, but conclude without mention of the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Dominic Daley and James Halligan. According to...

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Draft or notes for an unidentified text, possibly a sermon. Caption title reads "Matts. 5:16," which is followed by three lines in Greek and the corresponding Dutch translation of Matthew 5:16: Laat u ligt alzoo schijnen voor de menshen, dat zij uw goede werken mogen zien, ende uwen Vader, die in de hemelen is, verheerlijken. With numerous marginal notes and emendations. Signed on page 16: Dom. Lydius.

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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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