Leather-bound hardback photograph album compiled by Doris Ballingal. The first page bears the inscription ‘Doris from Kit March 1919.’ The album contains of snapshots of Doris, her mother and friends; Rathkeale Races; horses at Ballywilliam; Limerick Races; Adare Manor Golf Club spring meeting; the 1919 tennis tournament at Wimbledon; holiday in the south of England; holidays on the Breda estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; Walcot House and Powerscourt waterfall in county Wicklow; Farragh House in county Longford; Kilruddery House in Bray, county Wicklow; a shooting party at Adare Manor; a county Limerick lawn tennis tournament; Westbourne, county Limerick; and a drag hunt. Many of the images have come loose. For loose items originally inserted between the pages of the album, see P69/1/22-25.
Ballingal, Robert Rennie (1867-1928), land agentPhotograph album with cardboard covers containing 22 photographs of men, women and children alone or in groups, and one head and shoulders red pencil portrait of a nun. Most of the individuals featured in the images are unnamed, but they include a portrait of Denis and Helena O’Malley and eight of their children, a wedding portrait of Frank and Edna O’Malley and a studio portrait of Maude O’Malley; there are also two head and shoulders portraits of ‘Gay’ and ‘Pauline’. For loose photographs found inside the album, see P83/3/2/1/5, 8, 10-12; P83/3/2/3/2; P83/3/4/5/2, 4-5; and P83/3/2/6/1.
Cantillon, Grace née O'Malley (b. 1934), family historianThis series contains a photograph associated with Michael Healy.
Healy, Michael, Irish VolunteerPoem entitled Photograph written by Frances Condell under her own name.
Condell, Frances née Eades (1916-1986), first female Mayor of LimerickPhotocopy of typescript copy of God Is Dead on Ball’s Pond Road.
O’Neill, Jeremiah Michael (1921-1999), novelist and playwrightPhotocopy of two press cuttings concerning volunteers of the Irish Brigade, one entitled ‘Irish brigade survivor’, is a letter from Tom Hayes, 28 St. Brendan’s Place, Killarney, which begins ‘SIR – In a recent Tralee edition of The Kerryman I read with regret of the death of Mr. Christy O’Halloran’, Includes also the aforementioned article from The Kerryman entitled ‘The late Christy O’Halloran’, which begins ‘The death occurred on Monday at Our Lady’s and St. Teresa’s Hospital’ and contains a photograph of O’Halloran with members of Kerry section of Irish Brigade.
Stradling, Robert Arthur, scholarPhotocopy of two photographs of Patrick Hickey as a volunteer in the Irish Brigade.
Stradling, Robert Arthur, scholarPhotocopy of two letters from Pádraig Quinn, Uisce Mor, Graig-na-Managh, county Kilkenny, to Captain Maurice Fennell, Church Street, Rathkeale, county Limerick, noting among other things a Radio Telefís Éireann documentary on the Irish Brigade.
Stradling, Robert Arthur, scholarPhotocopy of two articles from Mayo News, first entitled ‘YOUNG WESTPORT MAN LEAVES FOR SPAIN TO FIGHT FOR INSURGENTS WITH GEN. O’DUFFY’, which begins ‘Mr. Matthew Beckett of the Quay Road, Westport, left here on the 1.45 p.m. train on Monday’, noting Beckett as second Mayo man to leave for Spain, with 130 Irishmen having already left on the Brigade Advance Guard (5 December 1936). The second article entitled ‘SEVERAL MAYO MEN SAIL FOR SPAIN. UNNOTICED DEPARTURE’, begins ‘Over 100 Irish men left Dublin last Friday night, en route for Spain’, identifying eight Mayo men amongst the party who left on Friday night. Also notes figures for Dublin, Limerick and Cork, and records departure of 700 Irishmen from Galway Bay, and the establishment of a rival party to fight on the government side in Spain, under the charge of Frank Ryan (19 December 1936).
Stradling, Robert Arthur, scholarPhotocopy of the last will and testament of Patrick O’Mealy of the Round House, Limerick dated 8 April 1905.
Cantillon, Grace née O'Malley (b. 1934), family historian