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This collection contains material created and received by the Carrol, Angus and Scott families, particularly during their ownership and residence of Tulla and Lissenhall but also beyond. It includes legal, administrative and personal documents. There is a small amount of late eighteenth century material, the more interesting of which is a map from 1798 of the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal, though the bulk of the documents are from the nineteenth century. Legal documents include wills and issues of probate and executorship, affidavits, judgments, opinions and correspondence covering financial and trustee arrangements. They also include a large quantity of correspondence related to land sales and transfers, such as agreements, ejectment decrees and indentures, much of which arise from William Hutchison’s efforts to bring estate matters into order. Of particular interest is a return of debts due by the late Lieutenant General Sir William Parker Carrol and paid by his executors which lists many Limerick and Tipperary businesses from the period. Later documents, particularly relating to a legal struggle between the Carrol’s and Lloyds Insurance regarding claims for losses due to the theft of livestock and equipment during the 1920s, are also illuminating.
The Carrol family’s direct involvement with the Tulla and Lissenhall Estates has resulted in the collection containing some rental accounts which provide the names of tenants, acreage and their rentals and also estate accounts which includes the names of local individuals and businesses having commercial interaction with the Carrol estate. Other estate material involves correspondence regarding day to day estate management and operations but worthy of note is a print of the Encumbered Estates auction schedule which includes a description of Lot 1, Lissenhall, its tenants and rents at the time of William Hutchison Carrol’s purchase, and also Alice Carrol’s interactions with the Land Commission leading up to her vacating Lissenhall.
Personal material includes a great deal of personal correspondence and letters from family members much of which is concerned with family genealogy and includes printed and transcribed material from third party sources. Correspondence from institutions with regard to personal finances, stocks and taxation issues is also present. There is a significant quantity of photographs, both in albums and loose covering most of the principal individuals dating from the 1860s to the 1990s. Also present is a large scrapbook. The result of a familial connection to the Scott’s and compiled over nearly fifty years from 1895 to 1944, it contains copious material on Clement Scott and also the Du Maurier family, including photographs of Gerald Du Maurier and the young Daphne with her siblings.

Last page of a letter from James Butler, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel to an unidentified group of gentlemen, urging them to exercise their vigilance and diligence 'to extirpate vice, & plant virtue & good morels [sic] that they may gain the Celestial Reward'. The missive incorporates a letter from Ellicebeth Swift addressed 'to all & every Clergymen [sic] in Care of souls within the Dioceses of Cashel & Emly', accusing them of ill treatment and threatening to make them 'dance & gallop in sich [sic] a manner that the Munster Lass in her Prime would not catch you till you pass the post at Mitchelstown' if they do not mend their ways. The letter constitutes a rare and useful account of relations between clergymen and parishioners within the Catholic Church in the archdiocese of Cashel and Emly from the female perspective.

This collection contains invoices, receipts and some related correspondence from wholesalers, specialist providers and other commercial outlets mainly in Limerick city and county, but also in Dublin and England accrued by John McCarthy in his role as farmer, publican and baker. The documents date from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) and Irish Civil War (1922-1923) and reveal the way in which these conflicts interfered with commerce and trade and the availability of certain goods such as sugar and flour. It also provides insights into the commercial life of the country in its first years of independence, the cost of goods, the range of commercial outlets available and the rise of the large department stores.

This collection offers insights into Lorna Reynold’s academic career, her work as a poet and translator of poetry and her personal life. Material relating to her academic career is perfunctory, consisting in the main of academic certificates, correspondence of mainly administrative nature and extensive research notes primarily on English literature for teaching, talks and academic papers. Material relating to her literary career includes manuscript and typescript drafts of her poems and short stories, many of which were published in newspapers and other publications, typescript drafts of a play, Swear Not by the Moon, and book reviews.

Undoubtedly the most interesting part of this collection is to be found among the records of Lorna Reynolds’ personal life, which incorporate some 800 items of correspondence with her lover Kate O’Brien. Uniquely, both sides of this correspondence survive from November 1946 to July 1949, after which only Kate O’Brien’s side remains. The letters reveal the intense nature of the relationship between two highly creative, strong-minded and extremely intelligent women and the many clashes and fallings-out their respective personalities inevitably generated. While Kate seemed to thrive on and be invigorated by this intensity, for Lorna, weighted down by her academic duties and a difficult domestic situation, it proved too much and her feelings for Kate receded, but their friendship continued until Kate’s death. Another interesting series of letters are those from Darina Silone née Laracy to Lorna Reynolds, which reveal on the one hand Darina’s marital unhappiness and its consequences, and on the other her devotion to her husband Ignazio Silone and her determination to preserve his legacy.

The Lorna Reynolds collection reveals the remarkable personality, strength of character and outspokenness of its creator, and her unyielding insistence on the rights of women to enjoy the same personal freedom and independence as men. On a broader scale, the collection builds an exceptional picture of the Irish academic, cultural and artistic circles in the twentieth century, circles in which Lorna Reynolds moved and played a seminal role.

This small collection contains a watercolour and architectural drawing of the Old Thomond Bridge in Limerick city.

This collection comprises a scrapbook compiled by Charles Henry Gubbins and a number of loose items found inserted inside the book. The collection provides insights into the personal life of a humorous and sociable man and, more broadly, the rich cultural and sporting life of Munster in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

This collection comprises a scrapbook compiled by Agnes Mary Gaffney and a number of loose items found inserted inside it. It provides insights into the life and lifestyle of the members of a prominent and politically influential Roman Catholic family and their role not only in the formation of the Irish republic but on the wider arena of Irish-American republicanism and the campaign for women’s rights.

The material contains primarily correspondence, petitions and resolutions created and generated by Thomas Spring Rice during his political career.

Pair of late Victorian and early Edwardian scrapbooks in Winona Barrington’s possession, containing manuscript poems and ditties, pen and ink drawings, watercolours and autographs.

The collection comprises primarily correspondence between Frank Aiken, IRA Chief of Staff; Mr McAuliffe Acting Officer Commanding Limerick Brigade IRA; and Maurice Twomey Inspecting Officer. They are almost solely concerned with the reorganisation of the IRA command structure in Limerick, Clare and Kerry owing to the shortage of men and equipment during and following the Civil War.