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IE 2135 P2/3/1/3/1/3 · File · 1939 and 1950
Part of The Daly Papers

Hardback notebook containing a list of names and addresses captioned ‘List for Appeals (Limerick)’ and accounts relating to posters and postcards of the 1916 leaders produced to collect funds for the 1916 Memorial. Inserted between the pages are additional accounts, correspondence between Madge Daly and The Sign of the Three Candles Limited, 9-10 Fleet Street, Dublin, a handwritten subscription list and a galley proof of same.

Daly Family of Limerick City
IE 2135 P3/7/1/1/1 · Item · [c. 1941-1959]
Part of The Frances Condell Papers

Hardback scrapbook with an embroidered front cover, containing handwritten copies of poems by Padraic Pearse, Cahir Healy and others; childhood letters from Alan Condell to his parents; press cuttings of poems by Condell under a variety of pen names; letters and postcards from family and friends; theatre and other programmes; and assorted pictures. Also a press cutting relating to Condell’s wedding. Poem titles by Condell include The 90 Hours, At Home and Overseas, The Letter, Dreams, May-Time, Wandering, Until, Remembering, Laus Deo, To My Black Cat, The City Child, Some Day…, The Tinker and Her Child, Nocturne on the Heath, The Sea at Banna Cove, Night in the Children’s Ward, Requiescat, Portrait of an Old Woman, Forgotten Things…, Prayer of a Tree and Exile, Come Home. Several loose items.

Condell, Frances née Eades (1916-1986), first female Mayor of Limerick
IE 2135 P27/3/1/2 · Item · 1866
Part of The Allott Papers

Hardcover notebook bearing the bookplate of Joseph Dollard on the inside cover, and embossed on the first page ‘Emilie M. Watson, Mount-mellick, 1866’. The Watsons were a Quaker family of Mountmellick, a centre of Irish Quakerism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book contains short essays in clear handwriting with titles presented in ornate calligraphy. Contents include a table listing the gravities of chemical elements; a note on triangles with illustrations; distances of planets from the sun; list of the signs of the zodiac; genealogical tables relating to the royal family; map of Ireland with related topographical and geographical notes; notes on mythology; the role of the resultant in mechanics; phrenology; barometers and thermometers; wind and rain; phosphorus; the empire of Alexander the Great; ancient Greece; classification of mankind; figures of speech; and on mammals, reptiles, insects, fish and leaves. Between the essays are ornate pages containing sayings and quotations. At the end of the book, in reverse, is a long poem of religious nature entitled The Three Rocks, attributed to ‘Nannie’ Webb. For ‘Nannie’ Webb, also see P27/3/1/1.

Allott family of Odellville, County Limerick
Harp logo
IE 2135 P50/1/1/7746 · Item · March 1965
Part of The Shannon Development Collection

Black and white negative copy of a logo of a harp centred in jet wings, for M. Hartnett. Envelope notes the initials T.J.C.

Shannon Development