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Correspondence between Kate O’Brien, The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway; Messrs Arthur Cox & Co., 42/43 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin; Messrs Proud & Walsh, Solicitors, 4-5 Trinity Street, Dublin; and Stephen O’Mara, Strand House, Limerick, relating to the state of Kate’s financial affairs and claims made against her. Also a note in Stephen O’Mara’s hand listing Kate O’Brien’s estimated income and expenditure.

Correspondence relating to Michael O’Brien’s role as Acting Consul of the Irish Republic for New York City. In two folders.

Correspondence with Robert V. Trainer, Secretary, Roller Bearing Company of America, Sullivan Way, West Trenton, New Jersey, USA, relating to Nestor’s attempts to locate a copy of a book entitled The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come [by John Fox Jnr] about the American Civil War.

Mainly correspondence relating to Stephen O’Mara’s first term as Mayor of Limerick. In addition to letters of administrative nature, the file includes correspondence with and relating to Maire Clancy, widow of the murdered Mayor of Limerick George Clancy; and with Joseph J. Cahill, Mayor of Stepney, alluding to O’Mara’s recent release from prison. Also included in this file are a resolution to tender the gratitude of the Irish nation to the people of the United States of America for their support, signed by Eamon de Valera; a telegram from O’Mara’s father announcing the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty; and letters relating to Stephen O’Mara’s subsequent trip to the United States. In five folders.

Correspondence relating to Stephen O’Mara’s second term and partial third term as Mayor of Limerick. The letters deal in the main with O’Mara’s mayoral duties, housing and lighting issues, the Limerick Union Amalgamation Scheme, assistance granted to individuals in diminished circumstances, conditions prevailing in Limerick Jail, maintenance of police barracks and the Belfast Refugees. Also correspondence relating to O’Mara’s fundraising trip to the United States; and his imprisonment as one of the trustees of the Republican Loan Fund. The file includes correspondence to and from Councillor Paul O’Brien as Deputy Mayor during O’Mara’s absence in the United States between April and May 1922, and during his imprisonment between December 1922 and March 1923.

Draft letter from Stephen O’Mara announcing his resignation as Mayor of Limerick and outlining his reasons for doing so. With two typed copies of the final version of the letter. Also a letter from Padraig O Ruitleis, Acting President, Government of the Republic of Ireland, Dublin, regretting O’Mara’s decision to resign as Mayor of Limerick and asking him to reconsider his decision.

Mainly correspondence relating to Stephen O’Mara’s second term as Mayor of Limerick. The letters are primarily concerned with the political conflict in Ireland, British occupation and the country’s future; O’Mara’s trip to the United States in January 1922; Irish political representation in the United States; fundraising in the United States and the Irish Republican Trust Fund of which O’Mara was a trustee; the Celtic Cross Association (established as a fund for dependants of prisoners); the Belfast Distress Fund; and the acquisition of Mary Street Barracks for municipal purposes. Also letters of congratulation on O’Mara’s election as Mayor for the second term; a balance sheet, list [of money collected in the United States?] and a typed document entitled Memorandum Concerning the Banking and Currency Legislation of Ireland by C. F. McGuire. Correspondents include among others John Finnerty, William F. Cahill, Gavan Duffy (Minister for Foreign Affairs), Michael Collins and Harry Boland.

Correspondence between Michael O’Toole and Donough O’Brien relating to the preparation of a bibliography of Kate O’Brien’s works. O’Brien’s note encloses a photocopy of a press cutting from the Limerick Chronicle relating to the launch of Ordinary People Dancing (for which see P76/3/2/2/2/11 (1)); a photocopy of a review of the book by Sean McMahon for the Irish Independent (for which see P76/3/2/2/2/11 (2)); and a list of New Concert Hall events (now not present).

Incidental correspondence relating to preparations made in advance of the first and second Bond Drives in the United States, including letters of introduction to contacts in America, requests for meetings and notes from well-wishers. Correspondents include Eamon de Valera, Paul O’Brien Deputy Mayor of Limerick, State Council Office of Illinois, Charles Edward Russell, J. C. Walsh, J. F. Power, Century Trust and Savings Bank, and Harry Boland, who writes prior to his own departure to the USA to collect funds for the forthcoming election and regrets that ‘I have not the “pep” I should like to have for the forthcoming struggle as there is but poor satisfaction in entering in a campaign of opposition to erstwhile friends.’