Assorted research material, possibly collected by Lorna Reynolds for her book Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait, including a handwritten note concerning the origin of Kate O’Brien’s ancestors; notebook containing extracts from letters in the John Jordan collection [in the National Library of Ireland] from Kate O’Brien, Enid Starkie and Lorna Reynolds written between 1955 and 1962; photocopy of ‘Fragments from Lost Census Returns: Entries Relating to the Kilfinane District’ by Mainchín Seoighe from North Munster Antiquarian Journal vol. 17 (1975), pp. 83-91, with handwritten notes relating to Kate O’Brien’s ancestors in the margins; photocopy of Kate O’Brien’s short story ‘Golden Lady’ published in The First Class Omnibus, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934, pp. 457-492; photocopy of the 1911 census returns relating to the O’Brien family; photocopy of statistics relating to male and female employment in 1911; photocopy of a press cutting relating to Thomas O’Brien from c. 1835-1840; photocopy from an unidentified publication of an introduction by Mary Hanley relating to two letters of Kate O’Brien; photocopy of Kate O’Brien’s introduction to Dublin and Cork, a book of photographs by R. S. Magowan, London: Spring Books (1961); photocopy of an article titled ‘The Task of the Patient Author’ by Kate O’Brien; a photocopy of a poem ‘O’Brien’s Glory’ by Kate O’Brien; and a photocopy of the blurb of Paul Preston’s book The Triumph of Democracy in Spain (1986).
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetThis series contains research material collected by Michael O’Toole and includes writings by Kate O’Brien as well as published and unpublished works about Kate O’Brien.
O'Toole, Michael (1938-2000), journalist, author and bibliophileThis sub-series contains Lorna Reynolds' research notes and drafts of her lectures and articles on literary subjects.
Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poetBlack and white negative of a rescue boat. Negative missing.
Shannon Development
Black and white negative of a rescue boat. Envelope notes the initials T.J.C
Shannon Development
Black and white negative of a rescue boat. Envelope notes the initials T.J.C
Shannon DevelopmentBlack and white negative of a rescue boat. Negative missing.
Shannon Development
Black and white negative of a rescue boat on a dock. Envelope notes the initials T.J.C
Shannon DevelopmentPoem entitled Requiescat written by Frances Condell under her own name.
Condell, Frances née Eades (1916-1986), first female Mayor of LimerickTwelve-stave manuscript music book containing a simplified Requiem Mass in B flat, arranged to be played by Karel De Regge, aged 7. Includes Requiem, Dies Irae, Domine Jesu Christe, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Before the ‘Libera’ and Libera Me.
De Regge, Ernest (1901-1958), musician, organist and composer