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Correspondence between Rosemary [O’Brien], Mulcair House, Limerick; Dublin Pure Ice & Cold Storage Company Limited, Warrenmount Mills, Mill Street, Dublin; and O’Mara Limited, Limerick relating to the establishment of a cold store in the neighbourhood of Limerick.

Correspondence, mainly between J. & P. Rogers Solicitors, 100 O’Connell Street, Limerick and Stephen O’Mara, Strand House, Limerick relating to the purchase of a property on Catherine Street and of Fitzgerald’s cottages. Also related accounts, which identify these properties as part of the estate of Michael O’Brien, who died in 1923.

Correspondence with the Department of the President concerning the proposal by the Minister for External Affairs to send Stephen O’Mara to the United States to investigate the desirability of extending the Consular service there and to report on the possibility of developing export trade with the United States. Also correspondence, and mainly with the Department of External Affairs, Dublin, Consulate General of the Irish Free State, New York, and with American businesses and publicists, relating to Stephen O’Mara’s activities in America to develop trade between the United States and the Irish Free State; the salaries and subsistence of O’Mara’s secretarial staff in the USA; the intelligent use of publicity to improve the profile of the Irish Free State in Ireland; reduced transatlantic travel fares for distressed cases; and Irish beneficiaries receiving money from America. Also related reports and parts of reports, accounts, calculations and handwritten notes. In four folders.

Correspondence, mainly between Stephen O’Mara, Eamon de Valera and Robert Brennan relating to the formation of the Irish Press newspaper. The letters deal in the main with the joining of O’Mara as one of the directors of the Irish Press; canvassing for share capital; the proposed purchase and reconstruction of the Tivoli Theatre premises; the proposed acquisition of The Nation; the purchase of two printing presses; the resignation of Frank Gallagher as one of the directors; financial difficulties experienced by the newspaper; and O’Mara’s resignation from the Board of Directors as a consequence of a dispute with de Valera over pig killing quotas. Also related accounts of establishing and running costs, note on the circulation figures of the Irish Independent; prospectuses; annual report; financial statements; comparison list of sites under consideration; and calculations comparing the estimated weekly costs of a morning paper versus an evening paper. Also some correspondence with Frank Gallagher in his capacity as editor of the Irish Press, mainly relating to book reviews (including a reference to Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room on 7 August 1934), articles submitted to the paper by O’Mara and the Irish bacon industry. In seven folders.

Letter from Susie Watson, Pagette Communications Ltd., 4 Bedford Square, London, relating to one of Nestor’s short stories, which has been included among 50 shortlisted stories for the 1990 Ian St James Awards. Also a letter from Graham Taylor, The Ian St James Awards, 2A Haven Green, Ealing, London, regretting that Nestor’s short story has failed to reach the top-twelve shortlist.

Correspondence with Joseph E. O’Connor, National Archives and Records Service, Washington D.C., and with Robert P. Chalker, Counselor of the US Embassy in Dublin, relating to the John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Project. Condell is asked to contribute to the project, the purpose which is to record interviews with colleagues and contemporaries of the late President. The letters deal in the main with arranging a suitable date for the interview. A related brochure is attached to one of the letters.

Correspondence between Thomas H. Kenny, Solicitor, 55 George Street, Limerick, James G. Barry, Sandfield, Grange, Kilmallock, Lord Emly and Thomas Browne, PP, Roxboro Castle, Limerick, relating to the lease of the site of the Mungret school house to Father Browne and a survey of the grounds this necessitates.

Correspondence with James Halpin, 18-20 Thomas Street, Dublin, relating to the loss of Dublin trade owing to competition from Irish curers and foreign bacon.

Correspondence primarily with Lady Constance Butler, Old Taplow Cottage, Taplow, Buckinghamshire; Department of Defence, Parkgate, Dublin; S. S. & E. Reeves & Sons Solicitors, 51 Merrion Square East, Dublin; and Kaye Parry, Ross & Hendy, Architects & Civil Engineers, 6 Leinster Street, Dublin relating to the occupation of Shanbally Castle by military authorities during the Second World War, and damage caused by troops to the house, grounds and livestock. With related map, agreement, notice, schedules of dilapidations, invoices and receipts. In eight folders.

Correspondence with Bronwyn Conroy, Chief Beauty Consultant, and K. C. Jamieson, General Manager, Revlon Ireland, 104 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, relating to the provision of a range of cosmetic products to Condell for her visit. Attached to one letter is a cutting from The Sunday Press of 20 February 1966 featuring an advertisement by Revlon of an upcoming visit of Conroy to Switzers store in Dublin.