Notebook containing handwritten research notes for the travelogue My Ireland including chapter structure and related notes, and financial calculations. The notebook begins with an incomplete draft of the structure: ‘Foreword. 1. Hesitations. 2. Holy Places.’ The following is recorded about the Burren in county Clare: ‘…alkaline limestone. Carboniferous, ledged, shelved – in plateau formation. Small flowers… Shelter in crevices.’ Unpaginated.
O'Brien, Kate (1897-1974), writerNotebook containing lists of students, rooms, and officials [at St Patrick’s College?] for 1927-1928, 1928-1929, 1929-1930, and 1930-1931.
Looney, Timothy (Tim) (1914-1990), local historianBound hardback lined notebook buy Guy & Co. Stationers, Limerick, containing transcripts of letters to or concerning Edmund Sexton Pery (1719-1806), MP in the Irish House of Commons from 1751 to 1785 and three-time Speaker of the House (in 1771, 1776 and 1783). The first three pages constitute an index, which however is not fully consistent with the contents and suggests a second, now missing, volume of transcripts. The letters are not in chronological order, although a genera chronological sense in discernible in parts. The letters, written by high-profile statesmen and politicians of the day between 1749 and 1777, relate in the main to parliamentary and current affairs of the day, including political appointments, the state of the Irish revenue, the passing of various bills in the Irish House of Commons and Pery’s campaign to secure a position as Speaker in 1776. The letters also include references to the Seven Years War and, on a more personal note, to a house Pery is building. Other topics covered by the letters include the forthcoming marriage of Pery’s younger brother William to Dorothea Crump, ‘to whom I have been strongly attached for many years & whose fortune is much better than I could expect’ and who ‘is past fifty years old & therefore there is no danger of bringing me any children’ (letter no. 11); the death of Anne Drelincourt, Viscountess Primrose and the bequests to Pery and his wife in her will (no. 62); and the art of growing vines (no. 78). Brief biographical notes of the correspondents have been added to some of the transcripts in pencil in a different hand, presumably by Trifine Turner née de la Poer Monsell.
Monsell family of Tervoe, county Limerick, Barons EmlyNotebook containing handwritten travel details. Unpaginated.
O'Brien, Kate (1897-1974), writerA 72-page notebook marked ‘Receipts’ on the front cover. The book contains handwritten and gummed-in printed remedies for both farm livestock and persons. There are maintenance hints and directions for gardens, farmyards, houses and furniture. Inserted between the pages are two printed notes relating to the activities of a book club, a press cutting for a cure for cholera, and a sheet of blotting paper.
Allott family of Odellville, County LimerickSoft-cover notebook with handwritten poems attributed to the Webb family. In addition to poems, the book contains an essay written in 1893 by Deborah Webb describing holidays in Kilkee 51 years earlier. Inserted between the pages are 40 loose inserts of mainly handwritten or printed poems, some of them unattributed. One of these poems is entitled Walt Whitman in Killarney. Also inserted is a bound set of autographs of guests at the Golden Wedding anniversary of Thomas and Mary Webb celebrated at 56 Kenilworth Square, Dublin, in 1883.
Allott family of Odellville, County LimerickThis sub-series contains bound notebooks used by Timothy Looney for compiling research notes.
Looney, Timothy (Tim) (1914-1990), local historianThis sub-series comprises notebooks containing poems written by Frances Condell.
Condell, Frances née Eades (1916-1986), first female Mayor of LimerickThis sub-series contains Hella's school exercise books and assignments.
Fuller, Hella née Scholz (1925-2003)Map and pages photocopied from books relating to Roosca Castle near Cahir, county Tipperary.
Looney, Timothy (Tim) (1914-1990), local historian