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Press cuttings and photocopies of press cuttings from the Cork Examiner, Evening Echo, Hibernia, Hot Press, Irish Times and Sunday Independent, originally contained in a folder marked ‘Newsclippings Nuclear – Ireland End 1979.’ Topics include the debate for and against the introduction of nuclear power into Ireland; alternative sources of energy; activities of anti-nuclear groups in Ireland and abroad; nuclear accidents; unreliability of official energy need forecasts; the arms race and the threat of nuclear war; EEC support for a nuclear plant in Ireland; British nuclear programme; dangers involved in transporting and storing plutonium; the film The China Syndrome; Carnsore public inquiry and the role of political parties in it; uranium mining; Kinsale gas field; the prospect of power cuts in the coming winter; and the impact of ecological issues and conservationist parties in the forthcoming European election. The press cuttings are grouped into months by blank sheets of paper. In ten folders.

Assorted loose press cuttings and photocopies of press cuttings from the Cork Examiner, Hibernia, Irish Independent, Irish Times, People, RTÉ Guide, Sunday Press, Sunday Tribune, Wexford People and unidentified newspapers. Topics include economic development in Ireland; the Harrisburg nuclear reactor accident; the film The China Syndrome; proposal to build a tunnel under the Lee River; alternative energy sources; prospects for nuclear power in Ireland; proposal to build a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point; activities of the Irish anti-nuclear groups; uranium mining; radiation hazards; Wood Quay; planning procedures; anti-nuclear stance of the Socialist Labour Party; the proportional representation system of voting in Ireland; the 1992-2001 Strategic Plan for Cork, and the 1992 Earth Summit. Also obituaries and assorted articles on ephemeral subjects. Also a set of press cuttings and cartoons attached to a brochure entitled Face the Facts with a compliment slip of the Dublin West County Anti-Nuclear Group. In three folders.

Press cuttings from the Irish Times and Cork Examiner, originally contained in a folder marked ‘Press Cuttings Ireland Energy 1981’. Topics include the eviction of demonstrators from the site for a controversial hydroelectric plant in Norway; visit of Bruce Kent, general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain; proposed referendum on nuclear energy; nuclear related accidents and incidents abroad; rise in the cost of petrol, coal and gas; Kinsale gas field; EEC stand on nuclear power; alternative sources of energy and energy saving measures; earth tremor in Wexford; British Government’s nuclear programme; activities of anti-nuclear lobbies in Ireland and abroad; and a natural gas field discovery on the border between Cavan and Fermanagh. In five folders.

Press cuttings and photocopies of press cuttings from The Colonist, Cork Examiner, Daily Telegraph, Evening Echo, Evening Press, Financial Post, Hibernia, Industrial Research/Development, Irish Times, Monday Magazine, Sunday Times, Sunday Times Business News, Sunday Tribune and Victoria Times, originally contained in a folder marked ‘Energy Press Cuttings’. Topics include anti-nuclear activities in Ireland and abroad; uranium mining in Australia; nuclear accidents, incidents and problems abroad; uranium mining and export; the arms race and the cold war; shortage of oil; Kinsale gas field; construction of nuclear power plants abroad; energy industry; the proposed Carnsore Point nuclear power plant; and offshore oil and gas exploration. In ten folders.

Press cuttings from the Cork Examiner, Daily Telegraph, Evening Echo, Guardian, In Dublin, Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Sunday Press, Sunday Times and Sunday Tribuneoriginally contained in a folder marked ‘Miscellaneous Press Cuttings’. Topics include the continuing oil crisis in Ireland and abroad; ESB inter-union dispute; alternative energy sources; search for oil off the Irish coast (Kinsale, Dublin and the Aran Islands); proposal to build a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point; threat of nuclear war; incidents at power stations abroad; explosion on board of an oil tanker in Cork Harbour; new ESB hydro turbo generator at Parteen Weir; Ballingarry anthracite mines; and the burning runaway Ixtoc I oil-well in the Gulf of Mexico. Also a four-page issue entitled Local Elections 1979 produced by the Socialist Labour Party. In sixteen folders.

Pages torn from a magazine or similar publication containing black and white photographs by N. Vilag of chimpanzees wearing various facial expressions. Each photograph is accompanied with an English caption to match the expression. Originally found with P14/7/2/54.

Press cuttings and photocopies of press cuttings concerning the Land League, Fenianism, John Daly and related topics. In three folders.

Press cuttings concerning the School of Celtic Studies, the teaching of Irish, St Patrick’s Day celebrations, the annual Celtic Congress, the Irish Genealogical Research Society, the Irish Placenames Society, the Irish Manuscripts Commission and related topics. In two folders.

Press cuttings from the Evening Press, Hibernian, Irish Independent, Irish Press, Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Sunday Press and unidentified newspapers, originally held in the Dublin office of the Friends of the Earth. Topics include the nuclear debate; risks of nuclear power plants; demand for a public inquiry into Carnsore Point; uranium finds in Wicklow and Carlow; search for uranium in County Tyrone; anti-nuclear protests in Ireland and abroad; Labour Party policy on nuclear power; alternative sources of energy; the dangers of asbestos; and EEC nuclear dictation and its effect on Fianna Fáil’s commitment to nuclear power. The press cuttings are grouped into months by dividers, which are copies of a letter from Simon Dalby to Department of Geography, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 2Y2, seeking responses to a previously sent questionnaire regarding the controversy surrounding nuclear power in Ireland. In seven folders.

Press cuttings collected by Charles Vincent O’Malley, including poems titled ‘A Cynic at Kilmainham’ by Eavan Boland and ‘Prophesies of Ireland – the Englishman’s Grave’ and ‘The Veterans’ by Donagh Mac Donagh; and a press cutting titled ‘Value of Land in North Tipperary’.