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Credit notices, invoices and receipts for textiles, fabric and clothing sold to John McCarthy by William Todd & Co., [Drapes and Tailors], Limerick. In seven folders.

Invoices and receipts for wine and spirits sold to John McCarthy by William Lloyd, Wine Merchant, 106 George Street and Cecil Street, Limerick.

Invoices and receipts for coal supplied to John McCarthy by Whitehaven Colliery Co. Ltd, Limerick.

Receipts for cash sales of coal to John McCarthy by Wallace Bros. Ltd, Coal Importers, Mallow Street, Limerick.

Receipts for margarine sold to John McCarthy by W. M. Kidd Ltd, Limerick.

Receipts for pigs purchased from John McCarthy by W. J. Shaw & Sons (Limerick) Limited.

Receipt for services rendered by Thomas O’Brien Kelly, Solicitor, 98 George Street, Limerick.

Letter from Thomas Collins & Sons, The People’s Bakery, Parnell Street, Limerick to John McCarthy, promising what yeast he can spare and regretting that ‘Bourke will have no more until trouble is over only two Bakeries working in City people starving’.

Invoices for goods supplied to John McCarthy by The Powell Press, Printers, Binders, Publishers, Wholesale Manufacturing Stationers, Paper and Twine Merchants, 22 Parliament Street and 16 Lower Exchange Street, Dublin.

This collection contains invoices, receipts and some related correspondence from wholesalers, specialist providers and other commercial outlets mainly in Limerick city and county, but also in Dublin and England accrued by John McCarthy in his role as farmer, publican and baker. The documents date from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) and Irish Civil War (1922-1923) and reveal the way in which these conflicts interfered with commerce and trade and the availability of certain goods such as sugar and flour. It also provides insights into the commercial life of the country in its first years of independence, the cost of goods, the range of commercial outlets available and the rise of the large department stores.