Copy rental and particulars of the mansion house, demesne and lands of Emo Park, with the adjacent townlands situated in Portarlington, Queen's County. To be sold in the Court of the Commissioners for the sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland in the matter of the estate of the Right Honorable the Earl of Portarlington, and the Right Honorable George Lionel Dawson Damer. Lands to be sold on 19 and 20 February 1852.
Contains general summary of tenant names, acreage, rent, tithe charges and terms of tenure. Also contains copies of Ordnance Survey 6" maps.
Farm account book devised for use by agricultural schools and model farms. Includes labour accounts for each week, indicating casual labourers hired for the farm and the house. Also includes cash accounts, valuations and inventory. Heavily annotated throughout with memoranda columns used on occasion to note local births, marriages and deaths up until 1912.
Some of the labourers hired as servants show outgoings in cash to purchase boots, clothes or to give to parents.
Catalogue of books in the possession of Rt. Hon. Charles William, Lord Tullamore and bundle of incoming correspondence.
Sans titreTypescript drafts for the items to be displayed as part of the exhibition of local history and archaeology in the 'Aula Maxima' of the Vocational School, Tullamore, on the occasion of An Tóstal, Easter Week, 1953. Lists and revisions describing objects, or illustrations, in Irish and English, with notes also on the donor of the object to the exhibition.
Printer's proofs with revisions and amendments of the same exhibition, held again with minor changes in 1954.
Souvenir programme for the Tullamore 1954 exhibition, listing some of the discoveries that were brought to the fore as a result of the exhibition in 1953.
Newspaper articles by Fr Hurley and other Jesuit scholars on aspects of Irish history.
1.'Art Exhibition in Tullamore'. by Rev Mr Anthony Mills, S.J., St Stanislas College, Tullamore
- 'In Ancient Killeigh - an interesting lecture by Rev Father Hurley S.J.'
3.'Eire, die Heimat des Alemannenaposels' by Fr Horst Wernet, S. J., St Stanislas College, Tullamore
Disbound but complete edition of 'Árd na h-Éireann, An Irish-Ireland Magazine' published by An Craobh Colmchille, Conradh na Gaeilge, Tullamore, its second and final publication (1904). Contains a foreword by Séamus MacAodhgáin, editor, and essays by William Bulfin ('Che Buono'), William H. Grattan Flood, Maire de Buitléir, E.J. Delahunty, and Douglas Hyde among others. Printed by Athlone Printing Works, the magazine carries a significant amount of local advertising from businesses across county Offaly.
The first issue of 1903, the original not extant here, is represented by articles photocopied from an original edition belonging to Frank Meehan and supplied by Portlaoise Library to Tullamore Library in 1985, featuring essays by Fr Matthew Russell, S. J., David Sherlock, Seaghan Ó Liatháin, and William H. Grattan Flood.
Commemorative publication on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Conradh na Gaeilge, featuring essays from Domhnall Ó Corcora, Brian MacGiolla Phádraig, Sean Ó Súilleabháin, and Piaras Béaslaí among others.
- Tri-fold tourism leaflet about Tullamore published by the Midland Regional Tourism Organisation Ltd. (c.1950s)
- Set of cards representing specimens of Celtic art such as the Gospel Books of Durrow, Lindisfarne and Kells. Published by Hodges Figgis, and enclosed in an envelope entitled 'Specimens of Celtic Art.'
- Issue of 'Timthire' December 1950-January 1951, a religious publication.
Softbound copy book containing minutes of the Tullamore Lawn Tennis Club, including two loose notes, one of which is a hand drawn programme for a tennis tournament. Minutes contain general rules of the club, statements of account, plans for tournaments, and lists of members. Important decisions recorded include changing the site of the tennis grounds to Spollenstown, Tullamore in 1894 and the construction of a pavilion. Prominent members include Rev. Maxwell H. Coote, Capt. Fetherstonhaugh, James Perry Goodbody, Reginald Digby, David Sherlock, Lewis Goodbody, J. Prior Kennedy, Rev. R. S. Craig, George Lauder, A. G. Gardiner, A. B. Reamsbottom, George Hoey, and James Denning,
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