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Press cuttings relating to trade union history.

Press cuttings from the Cork Examiner, Hibernia, In Dublin, Irish Times, Sunday Independent and unidentified newspapers, relating to toxic waste. Topics include asbestos; radioactive waste; concerns over the Eli Lilly biopharmaceutical plant in Cork; toxic hazards of industry; transport of ammonia by rail and road through populated areas; toxic waste dumps; Nitrogen Éireann Teoranta (NET) fertilizer factories in Cork and Arklow; fish kill at Mitchelstown following the release of 5000 gallons of toxic waste into the Gradogue and Funcheon Rivers in 1980; and the discharge of domestic effluent from Midleton into Cork Harbour in 1980. In four folders.

Press cuttings relating or referring to Timothy Looney.

Reviews of the play The Ante-Room based on Kate O’Brien’s novel of the same name. In three folders.

Press cuttings relating to the stage adaptation of That Lady, including reviews of its performances in America.

Assorted press cuttings and photocopies of press cuttings relating to the contents of the speech delivered by Herrema at the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants monthly lunch.

Press cuttings and a handwritten note relating to the so-called Russian Jewels given to representatives of the Irish Republic by a Russian delegation as a security for a $20,000 loan and redeemed in September 1949.

Press cutting from Sunday Tribune advertising the Simon Community 10-kilometre road race in aid of Dublin’s homeless. Also a page from the Irish Independent relating to the same race, in which Herrema participated. On the same page is an article about the closure of the Ferenka plant in Limerick in 1977.

Press cuttings relating to the purchase by Limerick County Council of the lands of Strand House to be utilised as a site for a new courthouse and council offices.

Press cuttings relating to the murder in 1921 of George Clancy, Michael O’Callaghan, and Joseph O’Donoghue; also a press cutting concerning a related memorial to be erected at the junction of O’Callaghan Strand and Ennis Road.