Photograph 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 historianPhotograph album containing black and white snapshots of tea and tennis parties at Strand House; Senator Stephen O’Mara and his wife Ellen and family; fishing expeditions; Stephen and Anne O’Mara; Mary (Moll) Rynne and her children; members of the O’Brien family, including one of Catherine (‘Katty’) O’Brien née Thornhill; Boru House; photographs taken during Stephen and Anne O’Mara’s trips to the United States, including the White House, Washington, D.C.; and photographs taken during foreign holidays in Wales, Lourdes, the Pyrenees, France, Italy and Gibraltar.
O'Mara family of Strand House, LimerickPhotograph album containing black and white snapshots mostly taken at various locations in Ireland, including Downings House, Prosperous, county Kildare; Clongowes Wood College, county Kildare; Inverann, Corofin, county Clare; Old Strand House, Claremorris; and Corofin. Also family photos of Peter O’Mara and his parents Stephen and Anne O’Mara; his aunts Kate, May and Clare O’Brien; and his cousins Kay and Clare O’Brien and Etienne and Michael Rynne at Strand House, Inverann and Corofin. Other individuals featured in the photographs include Mary (Moll) Rynne née O’Mara; Bridget and Alice Rynne; Joseph (Joe) O’Mara; Rosemary O’Brien née Fitzpatrick; Gerard (Gerry) O’Brien; and Jack and May O’Mara.
O'Mara family of Strand House, LimerickThis 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, scholar