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- [c. 1900-1940?] (Creation)
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Grace O’Malley was born in 1934 as the elder of two children of Charles Vincent O’Malley and Dr Sarah (Judy) née Walsh. Her father was a dentist and ran a successful dental practice in the heart of Limerick city at No. 4 Pery Square, while her mother worked as a doctor and ophthalmologist. Grace was educated at Mount Anville in Dublin and later entered University College Dublin, where her studies for a degree in French and Italian were interrupted by tuberculosis in 1956. Following her recovery, Grace worked in public relations in Shannon. In 1958 she met and married her husband, George Cantillon, and had four children with him. Grace’s lifelong interest in family history culminated in an MA in Art History at University of Limerick in 2004 and the publication of The Round House O’Malleys: The Power of One Woman! in 2014.
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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.
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This item is fragile and requires a book cushion for support.