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Memoir 'Recollections of Easter Week, 1916'

• IE OHA OHS31-B-3
• Item
• 1966

Part of O'Brennan Family Papers

Memoir by Maura O'Brennan, Church St. Tullamore, recounting her youth in Co. Wexford, her republicanism and the events of Easter Week 1916.

Annual Report 1919

• IE OCCHO DIGBY/D/30
• Item
• 1919

Part of Digby Irish Estates

Report for year ending June 1919 outlining a remittance of £10,250 to Lord Digby, the increased amount being ascribed to revenue derived from the woods, particularly mature Scotch pine from Clonad Wood to a firm of match-makers. Remarks that altho...

Copy outgoing letters from Toler Roberts Garvey (Junior), land agent, (1916-1923)

• IE BCA ROSSE/Q/354
• File
• 1916-1923

Part of The Rosse Papers

Includes a letter from Toler R. Garvey, land agent in Birr to client, V. J. E. Ryan who owns property in Sackville Street, the scene of some of the worst fighting in the Rising on 10 May 1916:‘I hear that your house in Sackville Street is not seri...

Garvey, Toler Roberts, Jr

Copy outgoing letters from Toler Roberts Garvey (Junior), land agent, (1921-1923)

• IE BCA ROSSE/Q/359
• File
• 1921-1923

Part of The Rosse Papers

Includes a letter from Toler R. Garvey Jr land agent at Birr Castle to ‘V.J. Beaumont Nesbitt’, Tubberdaly, Edenderry on 9 June 1921 who records agitations in Birr, and laments a former way of life:‘...Although things are bad they are not a bit wo...

Garvey, Toler Roberts, Jr

Copy outgoing letters from Toler Roberts Garvey (Junior), land agent, (1922-1923)

• IE BCA ROSSE/Q/360
• File
• 1922-1923

Part of The Rosse Papers

Includes letters from Toler Garvey Jr relating to the occupation of Birr Castle by the Free State Army during December 1922 and January 1923. Also contains letters concerning the finances of the Birr Castle estate, theft of silver from Thomastown ...

Garvey, Toler Roberts, Jr

Copy outgoing letters from Toler Roberts Garvey (Junior), land agent, (1922-1924)

• IE BCA ROSSE/Q/361
• File
• 1922-1924

Part of The Rosse Papers

Includes letters from to Toler R. Garvey Jr relating to incidents at Birr Castle during the Irish Civil War, particularly the protestation of the execution of three youths, William Conroy, Patrick Cunningham and Colum Kelly from Tullamore in Janua...

Garvey, Toler Roberts, Jr

In-letters to agents Toler R. Garvey (Junior) and Captain Alex Drought, Bundles ‘A’ and ‘C’. (1910-1951)

• IE BCA ROSSE/Q/383
• File
• 1910-1951

Part of The Rosse Papers

Box of in-letters from correspondents whose names begin with ‘A’ and ‘C’, including correspondence about Sir Nesbitt Armstrong’s trusts, and letters from James Callaghan (a thatcher employed by the Rosse estate), from the ‘Chief of Staff, January ...

Callaghan, James

In-letters to agent Toler R. Garvey (Junior) and Captain Alex Drought, Bundles ‘P’ ‘Q’ ‘R’ and ‘T’. (1910-1951)

• IE BCA ROSSE/Q/392
• File
• 1910-1951

Part of The Rosse Papers

Includes letters from the Hon. Geoffrey Parsons, in Basingstoke, relating to the affairs of Birr Castle Demesne, during the period in which he acted on behalf of the sixth earl in his minority (1918-1924).

Parsons, Hon. Geoffrey

In-letters to agents Toler R. Garvey (Junior) and Captain Alex Drought Bundles ‘W’ and ‘Y’ (1910-1951)

• IE BCA ROSSE/Q/394
• File
• 1910-1951

Part of The Rosse Papers

Includes minor letters from Captain P. Wall, Castle Barracks, Birr (1922-1923).

Wall, Captain P.

Scrapbook

• IE OHA OHS31-B-4
• Item
• 1966

Part of O'Brennan Family Papers

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, culled from the 1966 Jubilee publication by The Midland Tribune and other newspapers. Mainly relates to Offaly's participation in the period 1914-1916, particularly focussing on the Tullamore Incident. Contain...

O'Brennan, Alo