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IE 2135 P48/3/3 · File · [1940]
Part of The Michael Healy Papers

Typed summary detailing the formation, activities and operations of C Company 2nd Limerick City Battalion, and the formation of the Limerick City Active Service Unit, including a list of the names and addresses of its members. Also complete and incomplete copies of the original document, and versions of the original text with slightly differing detail, some with handwritten additions and amendments.

Healy, Michael, Irish Volunteer
IE 2135 P76/1/2 · Item · 21 September 1975
Part of The Michael O'Toole Papers

Summary of Michael O’Toole’s interview with Mother M. Patrick O’Brien at Laurel Hill Convent, Limerick, Kate O’Brien’s friend and fellow boarder at Laurel Hill school and the model for Eileen O’Doherty in The Land of Spices. The notes outline Mother Patrick’s early recollections of Kate O’Brien; the parallels between Laurel Hill Convent and the Compagnie de la Sainte Famille in The Land of Spices; parallels between people known to Kate and characters in her novels; Mother Patrick’s irritation with the liberties Kate took with these characters; Kate’s time at UCD; her move to England; her early career as a teacher; her marriage and reasons for its failure; and her homosexuality.

O'Toole, Michael (1938-2000), journalist, author and bibliophile
IE 2135 P76/1/3 · Item · 20 February 1976
Part of The Michael O'Toole Papers

Handwritten summary of Michael O’Toole’s meeting with Kate O’Brien’s nephew John O’Brien, when O’Toole was writing an article about her plays. The notes refer to her failings as a playwright and deal mainly with the unsuccessful adaptation of That Lady for the stage and screen; the purchase of the house in Roundstone from the proceeds of that work; Kate’s unhappiness in Roundstone; her relationship with alcohol; and her sad and unproductive final years.

O'Toole, Michael (1938-2000), journalist, author and bibliophile
IE 2135 P76/1/1 · Item · 29 January 1975
Part of The Michael O'Toole Papers

Summary of Michael O’Toole’s conversation with Paddy Cregan concerning an alleged falling out between Kate O’Brien and the O’Mara family following the publication of Without My Cloak.

O'Toole, Michael (1938-2000), journalist, author and bibliophile
IE 2135 P22/4/5/3/3/2 · File · c. April 1978
Part of The Tiede Herrema Papers

Summary entitled ‘Pattern of Behaviour During Kidnapping’ prepared by Herrema for the VNO Security Seminar. The same summary may also have been used at the Police Academy study conferences in 1976 and the ASIS European Chapter Meeting in 1985.

Herrema, Tiede (1921-2020), managing director of Ferenka Ltd.