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This series contains documents relating to Gerard Moore, eldest son of Samuel Moore the elder.

This sub-series contains letters to Madge Daly mainly relating to the funding of and fundraising towards various republican causes.

This series contains material relating to the trust estate of Frances Nevile née Moore, granddaughter of Samuel Moore the Elder.

This series contains photographs of Ernest de Regge.

This sub-series contains manuscript and typescript narratives by Madge Daly and Nora Scanlon relating to Edward (Ned) Daly.

This sub-series contains material relating to Dromore Castle, County Limerick and its construction in 1868-1874.

This sub-series contains material relating to Doneraile Court in county Cork.

This sub-series contains rent books relating to Castle Otway, county Tipperary.

In 1769, Edmund Henry Pery decided to replace a chapel of ease on his estate close to Limerick with a new church in a better location. As the church was likely to cost a large sum of money, Pery induced his relatives to assist. Sir Henry Hartstonge agreed to pay for the new church on ground donated by Pery in exchange of £50 in cash, the materials of the old church, and the four lots of ground upon which it was built. In 1771, Pery granted Hartstonge a lease of the four lots of ground. Soon after, Sir Henry Hartstonge let the lots for building. In 1797, Pery granted and released to church wardens Anthony Lefroy and Alexander Torrens part of the land whereupon the new church had been built. The local clergyman attempted to let the lot for building but the church wardens objected as they had not been empowered to let the land for that purpose. In 1804, Pery demised the lease to the Bishop of Limerick along with the right to do with the plot of ground what he pleased except for a space of 20 feet immediately contiguous to the church which was to be applied solely to the use and convenience of the church. Later that year, the Bishop leased part of the ground to John Meade Thomas, who subsequently expended a large sum of money on building on this plot of ground. By now, the new church had become inconvenient for the parish and a decision was made to replace it. An agreement was entered into with the Provincial Bank of Ireland for the sale of the lot that remained in the Bishop’s possession. However, as a consequence of the lease made in 1804, the Bishop did not have the power to dispose of it and an Act of Parliament was passed to enable him to do so. The Act made no statement that the premises ever belonged to the Earl of Limerick but it did state that the lot was part of the estate of the Earl of Limerick who was a consenting party to the act and entitled to the rent of five shillings a year if demanded. In c. 1833 the Bishop of Limerick attempted to sell this plot of ground to the Provincial Bank of Ireland for the construction of a bank. A dispute arose as to the title of ownership and resulted in a court case, to which the papers in this sub-series relate.

Mainly correspondence relating to business of the council, including details regarding meetings of the council director, notes, interpreter charges, discussion topics such as the role of the writer in Europe, payment of annual contribution, list of delegates and newly elected presidency and council. Includes a letter in French to Kate O’Brien in Dublin from the secretary of Comunità Europea degli Scrittori, Clelia Guala, noting the following about her handwriting, ‘Giancarlo Vigorelli m’a prié de taper à la machine le texte de votre intervention, dont je vous remets ci-joint la photocopie. Malheureusement après la première page j’ai dû m’arrêter car je n’arrivai pas à comprendre votre écriture’ [‘Giancarlo Vigorelli asked me to type the text of your intervention, a photocopy of which I am sending you herewith. Unfortunately after the first page I had to stop because I couldn't understand your writing’] (3 September 1963). In addition, a letter from Kate O’Brien, 13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Clelia Guala stating ‘I have not been able to deliver those to lectures about our COMES doings, because I have been awaiting data from you, and did not dare report the Leningrad dialogue from memory: I have written some light articles, of cheerful but vague propaganda – not worth sending on to you. I am sending you an entirely irrelevant piece, about Moscow, which is in the current New Statesman – but only just to amuse you. It has nothing to do with COMES’ (7 January 1964). Also contains list of delegates attending assembly in Rome in October 1965, noting the following for Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh, Eileen MacCarvill, Kate O’Brien, Robert O’Driscoll, Desmond O’Grady and Lorna Reynolds, and a list of newly elected presidency and council of organisation in October 1965, with Kate O’Brien representing Ireland.