This collection comprises two folio manuscript letter books bound in vellum containing copied letters from Thomas White to various named persons between 1702 and 1719. White writes mainly from London, and the letters are mainly concerned with the letting and management of his extensive portfolio of farms and properties, some in England but including a substantial number in County Limerick. Hovering in the background is the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), and the letter book provides insights into the effects of the on-going conflict on rents and land transactions. There is also a more personal side to the letter books, with several copies of letters to an aunt and cousins, rich in detail, with frequent references to court gossip, political and current affairs and personal family matters. The letter books open a vivid and multi-faceted view into the life of the prosperous middle class in the first decade of the eighteenth century.
White, Thomas (1676-1742), English solicitor and landownerThe material contains primarily correspondence, petitions and resolutions created and generated by Thomas Spring Rice during his political career.
Rice, Thomas Spring, 1st Baron Monteagle of BrandonDiary, letters, campaign medals and other memorabilia relating to Thomas Noonan's military service in the First World War and his death in Gallipoli in August 1915.
Noonan, Thomas (1891-1915), soldierThis series contains administrative records relating to the Synan estates of Carnane and Rathjordan.
Barry family of Sandville, Ballyneety, County Limerick and of Leamlara, County CorkThis series contains administrative records relating to the Sullivan estate of Ballyfoleen.
Barry family of Sandville, Ballyneety, County Limerick and of Leamlara, County CorkPoem entitled The Strange One written by Frances Condell under the pseudonym Pat Francis.
Condell, Frances née Eades (1916-1986), first female Mayor of LimerickThis sub-series contains material relating to Maurice Walsh's short story The Storytellers, published in 1964 in the collection The Smart Fellow.
Walsh, Maurice (1879-1964), writerThis sub-series comprises issues of The Stony Thursday Book containing poems by Seán Lysaght.
Lysaght, Seán (b. 1957), poetCards bearing the logo and contact details of The Starfish Enterprise Print & Design.
O’Neill, Jeremiah Michael (1921-1999), novelist and playwrightBlack and white negative of a The St. Laurnce O'Toole Pipe Band. Negative missing.
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