Bound hardback scrapbook signed ‘Agnes M. Gaffney New York January 1895’ on the inside of the front cover. The book contains mainly press cuttings accounting the movements and activities of Agnes Gaffney and her brothers in America and Ireland. Several pages have been dedicated to the sudden death and funeral of Joseph P. Gaffney in 1897 and to the activities of Frances Gaffney née Humphreys, wife of Agnes’s brother Thomas St John Gaffney and an early women’s rights activist, who was elected president of the National Council of Women in 1899. There are reviews and accounts of musical and theatrical entertainments, many of which included performances by members of the Gaffney family, who were gifted singers. Also included are calling cards of various family members; invitations to weddings, dinner parties and other gatherings; and theatre and concert programmes, such as the golden jubilee celebrations at Laurel Hill Convent on 11 June 1895, a concert organised by Adare Bicycle Club under the patronage of the Earl and Countess of Dunraven on 31 January 1896 and a celebratory dinner in honour of Joseph Gaffney as High Sheriff of Limerick city on 9 January 1897. There are articles about the state of the stock market and about political events unfolding in Limerick. One of the pages contains a broadsheet entitled ‘Supplement to the Summit Herald’ dedicated to Thomas St John Gaffney’s views on America’s foreign policy, outlining his reasons ‘Why Every Irish-American Should Support and Uphold the Republican Party.’ Also to be found in the scrapbook is a White Star Line booklet incorporating a list of saloon passengers on board Royal & US Mail SS Germanic from Liverpool to New York on 24 October 1894.
Gaffney, Agnes Mary
Medium-sized hardback scrapbook with padded covers and the word ‘Album’ embossed in gold on the front cover. The scrapbook contains mostly drawings, either drawn directly on the page or pasted in with glue. The drawings are light-hearted and often humorous, featuring children, pets, flowers, young women, landscapes and seascapes, streetscapes of Bruges and a watercolour of the gardens at Glenstal. Some of the drawings are signed or initialled; contributors include among others Madeline Clayton, E. Powell, Kitty Haynes, F. M. Gilbert, Barbara Adams Camfray, A. B. N. Noel, C. Reeve, Victoria Arkell, E. Tenant, K. Courtenay, C. J. M. Sparks, B. Angus and L. Barnicot. Also pasted in are two poems cut out from magazines, ‘Hints to a New Girl’ by L. K. Young and ‘Sea-song’ by Dorothea Jennings’, and humorous thank-you letters in verse. There are also autographs collected from guests at parties, and two pages of mounted autographs from public figures of the day, including Prince George (later George VI), author George Grossmith, publisher Andrew Land, Lord Roberts, Duke of Bedford and Lord Lansdowne.
Barrington, Winifred Frances (1897-1921)Scrap of paper bearing the text ‘Moore & others to Mooney – Mortgage and Reconveyance – Tennison a Moore’.
Moore family of Moynehall, county Cavan
Scrap album containing floor plans of Dromore Castle, county Limerick; sketches, mainly of buildings and interior details, by the architect Edward William Godwin, some in colour; and 22 black-and-white photographs, mainly of Dromore Castle in the process of construction c. 1868-1874. Many of the middle plates are blank.
Pery family, Earls of LimerickIssues no. 14 and 17-21 of SCRAM Energy Bulletin. Inserted inside issues no. 18, 19 and 21 is a SCRAM mail order list for books, booklets, badges, stickers and T-shirts.
Dalby, Simon, Professor EmeritusS. Scott, Energy Demand in Ireland, Projections and Policy Issues. Policy Series No. 2. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute, 1980.
Dalby, Simon, Professor EmeritusPhotocopy of S. Scott, ‘Forecasting Energy Consumption: The Search for a Saturation Point’, Technology Ireland, October 1977, pp. 14-16.
Dalby, Simon, Professor EmeritusScore of a game of bridge kept by Seán Mac Diarmada.
Daly Family of Limerick CityIssues of Scissors and Paste, 19 December 1914; and 9 January, 13 January, 23 January, 27 January, 24 February and 27 February 1915.
Daly Family of Limerick CityFebruary 1981 issue of Science + Technology, a magazine of Irish scientific and technological issues.
Dalby, Simon, Professor Emeritus