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- 1920s-1960s (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 containing 25 photographs, mainly of Charles Vincent O’Malley and his wife taken between the 1920s and 1960s, including a photograph of his grave; also includes a picture of Slievenamon House in Thurles, home of the Walsh family, c. 1960s. Inserted inside the album is a photocopy of one of the photographs depicting a gathering of members of the Corbally O’Malleys in c. 1936-1937, with the names of each individual written on the reverse. For loose photographs found inside the album, see P83/3/1/3, P83/3/2/2/13, 23, 26-29 and P83/3/2/5/3.
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This item is fragile and requires a book cushion for support.