Correspondence between William Montgomery & Son, 97/9 Grafton Street, Dublin; The Ocean, Accident & Guarantee Corporation Limited, 36-44 Moorgate, London EC2; Guinness & Mahon, 17 College Green, Dublin; Laois County Council, Courthouse, Portlaoise; Eric Maguire & Co. Auctioneers, 45 Molesworth Street, Dublin; J. G. Onions, Borris, Maryborough, county Laois; D. & T. Fitzgerald Solicitors, 30 Anglesea Street, Dublin; Esmonde T. White Solicitor, Portlaoise, county Laois; Evelyn G. Eyre Kaye, Queniborough Old Hall, Leicestershire; and various tenants concerning rents and other routine estate management matters. In two folders.
Coote Family, Barons CastlecooteCorrespondence between James O’Connor, Stock and Share Broker, 89 O’Connell Street, Limerick, and O’Mara Limited Limerick, concerning shares owned by Stephen O’Mara Senior; also related share certificates, sale notifications, costs and handwritten calculations. In four folders.
O'Mara family of Strand House, LimerickLetters from William Roche & Sons Solicitors, 20 Stephen’s Green North, Dublin, to James G. Barry, Sandville, Ballyneety, county Limerick, with some copy attachments of correspondence with Richard A. MacNamara, Solicitor, Westmoreland House, 35 & 36 Westmoreland Street, Dublin, concerning the apportionment of the head rents of the Islandmore estate, part of which was being sold by Colonel Roche Kelly. In two folders.
Barry family of Sandville, Ballyneety, County Limerick and of Leamlara, County CorkCorrespondence relating to genealogical research concerning the descendants of John McCoy of Banbridge, county Down.
Looney, Timothy (Tim) (1914-1990), local historianCorrespondence and photocopies of photographs and handwritten notes relating to the Greene family of Greenville and Moorstown Castle, and to the history of Moorstown Castle.
Looney, Timothy (Tim) (1914-1990), local historianPhotocopies of correspondence relating to attempts to locate possible heirs to Marie Dee who died 6 April 1981 in Bronx County, New York City.
Looney, Timothy (Tim) (1914-1990), local historianPhotocopies of correspondence concerning the publication of Yeats and the Occult, The Speckled Bird and The Secret Rose in the Yeats Studies series. Correspondents include Robert O’Driscoll, St Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 81 St Mary Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4; and Virgil D. Duff (executive editor) and Patrick Meany (director), College Division, Macmillan of Canada, 70 Bond Street, Toronto.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetCorrespondence with Sacred Heart Convalescent Home, Limerick; John J. Dundon Solicitor, Limerick; J. B. Barrington & Company Estate Agents, Limerick; and James Nash & Son, Limerick, concerning the purchase of Strand House from Captain Gabbett and rents due on the estate.
O'Mara family of Strand House, LimerickCarbon copy of a letter to Andrew Hewson, John Johnson Limited, 12/13 Henrietta Street, London, enclosing a copy of the radio play Incident at Meadow Close. Also Hewson’s reply.
Nestor, Thomas G. (1936-2023), writerCorrespondence between Pig & Bacon Commission, Dublin; Purtill and Company Accountants, Dublin; Irish Bacon Curers’ Association, Dublin; O’Mara Bacon Curers, Limerick; Clover Meats Limited, Waterford; W. J. Shaw & Sons Limited, Limerick; McCullough’s Limited, Dublin; Little, Ó hUadhaigh & Proud Solicitors, Dublin; and Stephen O’Mara, Limerick, relating to the purchase and distribution of pigs; the proposed re-organisation of the pork and bacon industry and the resulting pressure for the resignation of the chairman of the Irish Bacon Curers’ Association; the government White Paper for the reconstruction of the bacon industry; and the prospective sale of O’Mara’s entire organization to a co-operative society. The file includes a letter from Stephen O’Mara to his wife, expressing an inclination to accept the sale ‘mainly because in the present state of growing disorder – bureaucratic and communistic – I see no prospect for the future, for private enterprises on our scale.’ Also related memorandums and discussion documents, and an agenda of a conference relating to the reorganisation of the pig and bacon industries held on 2 October 1946. In two folders.
O'Mara family of Strand House, Limerick