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This collection comprises musical notations of jigs, reels, hornpipes, mazurkas, flings, gallops, quadrilles, lancers, schottisches, mazurkas and waltzes popular in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century.

Commercially printed 12-stave score sheets, imprinted ‘Acme P & W’, bound into a hardback volume labelled ‘Music’ on the front cover. The sheets contains handwritten musical notations of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other popular traditional dances in several different hands. With a loose insert of a reel on a slip of paper, and several blank or semi-blank score sheets.

Two manuscript score books bound into a single small hardback volume labelled ‘Music’ on the front cover and signed by Justin McCarthy, Cappamore on the inside of the front cover. The inside of the back cover contains the names of John McCarthy and Cornelius Collins of Cappamore, county Limerick. The book contains handwritten musical notations of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other traditional tunes in different hands.

Commercially printed 12-stave score sheets bound into a hardback volume. The book contains handwritten musical notations of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other traditional tunes in different hands, some possibly dating from the 1870s. With loose inserts of additional musical notations.

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.

Handwritten inventories on scraps of paper of stock (mostly beer and spirits) and cash to hand. The inventories relate to John McCarthy’s pub and cover the dates 16 March to 9 April 1917.

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.

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

Receipts for cement and bricks sold to John McCarthy by James McMahon, Ltd, Steam Saw Mills, Cooperage and Box Factory, St Alphonsus Street, Limerick.

Receipt for combs and one dress sold to John McCarthy by E. Boushel, General Drapers, Millinery, Boots and Dressmaking, Cappamore, [county Limerick].