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Microfilm copy of the contents of ML MSS 403/10X, containing papers relating to the letters of Edmund Burke, Sir Richard Bourke’s distant relation, 1824-1852. The material includes an incomplete sketch of Edmund Burke and correspondence relating to the publication of Burke’s letters. For a related index to correspondents, see P62/2/1/ (1).

This series contains recordings on audio reels of songs performed by Dick Cameron and radio programmes hosted by him.

Audio reel containing a home recording of Dick Cameron performing the songs ‘High Germany’, ‘John Riley’, ‘The Old Man’s Song’, ‘Leezy Lindsay’ and ‘Autumn Has Come’. The last song ends abruptly and is followed by a recording of part of a radio programme [presumably Ballads of a Saturday], in which Angela Byrne sings the songs ‘Sloop John B’, ‘The Bold Fenian Men’, ‘The Further Rim’ and ‘Anathea’. The recording cuts off abruptly as the last song is ending. Duration 00:25:20.

Audio reel containing a home recording of Dick Cameron signing songs and accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar. The songs included on the reel are ‘Corpus Christi Carol’ (with poor sound quality), ‘The Seven Virgins’, ‘Said Judas to Mary’, ‘The Lord of the Dance’ and ‘Corpus Christi Carol’ (with better sound quality). Duration 00:18:32.

Audio reel containing a home recording of a man, identified on the cover of the reel as 'Tom', singing four songs beginning with the lines ‘Thank you my dear paperboy for the paper I will read tonight’; ‘You bolt right up out of bed find your hands clasped tightly round your head’; ‘Empty bar rooms of conversation, wouldn’t people still remain’; and ‘Rain on the roof, here today, gone tomorrow’. These are followed by an instrumental piece on the guitar and four songs beginning with the lines ‘Left a lot behind me in the bleakness of the trees’; ‘Hands red with the cold, that’s a sure sign that I’m getting old’; ‘Thus ran my child in the sun of gold across the sand’; ‘The candy shop on the corner’s closed’. These are followed by an instrumental piece on the guitar and a further four songs beginning with the lines ‘A touching smile, sparkling, beautiful’; ‘Windows covered up with frost’; ‘You’re Francis Russell B.A. you’re freshly out of West Point’; and ‘I’m a poor man, I never had much in the way of things’. Duration 00:48:32.

Cassette tape containing a recording of a two-part radio programme, The Wandering Ballad, produced by Ciarán Mac Mathúna and hosted by Dick Cameron. On Side A, Cameron sings and plays the songs ‘A Soldier Came from Georgia Way’, ‘Pretty Saro’, ‘Sam Hall’, ‘Barbara Allen’, ‘Lolly Too Dum’ and ‘The Lake of Champlain’. Duration 00:31:50. On Side B, Cameron sings and plays the songs ‘The Rambling Irishman’, ‘Green Grows the Laurel’, ‘The Catalpa’, ‘With My Swag All on My Shoulder’, ‘The Banks of Newfoundland’, ‘The Falling of the Pine’ and ‘The Old Man He Came Home One Night’. Duration 00:32:44.

Letter from John Kenny, Mungret Model Farm to Stephen de Vere, Foynes. Kenny has been promoted to the Munster Model Farm and wishes to settle the matter of income tax paid by him between 1854 and 1860 on behalf of the Model Farm.

Letter from J. Baldwin, Glasnevin to [John] Kenny relating to a financial transaction.

Letter from John Kenny, Superintendent, Limerick Agricultural School to J. G. Barry, providing information on the pupils currently present at the school.

Letters from W. H. Newell, Secretary, Office of National Education, [Dublin] to Lord Emly, Tervoe. Lord Emly’s letter of 3 September (now not present) containing suggestions for the future conduct of the Mungret Model Agricultural School and Farm has been discussed at a board meeting. They regret that they cannot adopt the proposal to limit the agricultural instruction to eight hours weekly and to provide instruction in Latin, as the chief object of the school is to provide agricultural instruction. The board are equally unable to adopt the proposal to reserve only five acres of the farm and to let the remainder to tenants. The Commissioners instruct the trustees to remit any balance on hands after the payment of rates on the interest on £1,000, which will be used for the purchase of books, implements and other requisites for the school and farm. Also Lord Emly’s draft reply, expressing the opinion that the results of the present system of agricultural instruction are scandalously bad, and if the system is not to be subverted then the school should be suppressed. He adds that the trustees have no power over the institution, but this fact is not known to the public, wherefore some of the discredit attaching to the current waste of resources falls on the trustees.