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Poem entitled An Exile’s Holiday written by Frances Condell under her own name.

Poem entitled An Exile’s Wish written by Frances Condell under her own name.

Handwritten draft of a children’s story entitled Andrew the Hairpin.

Poem entitled Aphelion, unattributed but presumably written by Frances Condell.

Article from an unidentified magazine entitled Let Them Sort It Out, a Thought for Next Year by Sean O’Sullivan. The article considers the need for change to what is seen as a ‘Catholic Constitution for a Catholic People’ before talking of national unity.

Article from the Lourdes Messenger entitled Why Does Time Gallop so Fast? by Jean Fielding.

Press cuttings featuring Condell at Clonakilty Festival (which she opened), and in the company of the Irish Ambassador to Italy after receiving an honorary MA degree at Trinity College. Also four press cuttings with no obvious link to Condell: the opening of the Cork ICA Drama Festival in 1967; a charity shop in Dun Laoghaire operating in aid of the Downs Syndrome Association; a column from the 'Irish Times' by Myles na gCopaleen about his education in UCD; and an article on Pierre Salinger’s Senate campaign.

Audio tape containing two interviews with Tom Tobin. Side A contains an interview broadcast on a Radio Luimní ‘Community Roundabout’ programme the week after the visit of Pope John Paul to Limerick in late October, 1979. Condell gives her view on the visit and what it meant for her. The interview also refers to highlights of Condell’s mayoralty, in particular the visits of President Kennedy, Mayor Dick Daley of Chicago, Cardinal Browne, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, and Senator Ted Kennedy. Side B contains an interview apparently taped at Condell’s home. Condell recalls events from her childhood, her love of literature and the Irish language, her marriage, the war years, her involvement in the Red Cross as a volunteer and later as a paid organiser, and her involvement with the National Blood Transfusion Service. The interview terminates abruptly as the tape ends.

Audio tape marked ‘M. Collins’. Side A contains sundry casual recordings of popular music and radio advertisements. Side B contains a recording of the RTÉ Radio programme ‘Seascapes’ from December 1980, in which Tom McSweeney interviews Captain Richard Farrell, the last surviving Irish holder of a master’s certificate for a large sailing vessel. Captain Farrell recalls rounding Cape Horn under sail on two occasions, the landing of Munster Fusiliers and other soldiers at Suvla Bay near Gallipoli during the First World War, the danger posed by submarines, and his career as Harbour Master in Waterford.

Poem entitled Autumnal Query written by Frances Condell under her own name.