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Group photograph (149 x 101 mm) of six dancers from the Keniry School of Irish Dancing in Youghal.

Group portrait (148 x 101 mm) taken at the All-Ireland Dancing Championships in Cork. Seated in the centre of the front row is Charles Haughey, the then opposition leader of Fianna Fáil. Kathleen Keniry is standing on the far left in a white jacket and cream and white dress.

This series contains a notebook of dance steps collected by James O'Mahony and ephemera relating to his daughter Kathleen Keniry née O'Mahony.

Letter from ‘Brenda’ to Kathleen Keniry enclosing a video recording of dance steps (now not present).

This collection contains memorabilia relating to the Irish dancing school established in Castlemartyr by James O’Mahony in the 1930s and its subsequent expansion to Midleton and Youghal by his daughter, Kathleen Keniry. The collection highlight is James O’Mahony’s notebook (N86/3/1), in which are recorded traditional step dances from many of the dancing masters prominent in Cork in the early twentieth century. The documented steps in the book provide a rare insight into step dances popular at the time and make possible their reconstruction and closer study.

Two small bound volumes of hand-drawn townland maps formerly in the possession of book collector Patrick Lysaght.

Photo postcard (135 x 85 mm) depicting a half-length studio portrait of a Charles Dunman with his children Patience (Pat) in a white-collared dress and Charles (Chuck) in a sailor suit.

Head and shoulders studio portrait (115 x 158 mm) of Helena O’Malley née Ryan with coiffed hair and pince-nez. Also a digital reproduction (101 x 150 mm) of same.

Snapshot (86 x 110 mm) of Charles Vincent O’Malley in a suit and tie, seated, with his arms resting on his thighs and his hands loosely crossed.