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Bank books issued to North Offaly Co-operative Agricultural Society by Hibernian Bank Limited, recording lodgements and receipts.

Page 12 and 13 of Irish Independent (9 December 2013) with reprint of photograph of delegates attending the Gaelic League national convention in 1913. Photograph is annotated to identify Seamus O'Brennan seated to the immediate left of Eamonn Ceannt.

Minute book of the South Offaly sub-committee detailing fixtures of junior and senior hurling championships, and schools' league draws. Also records objections from representatives of various clubs in the southern division.

Letters from Irish prisoners-of-war in internment camps in Germany, mainly Limburg, to Lady Rosse either requesting assistance in the form of parcel aid or thanking her for parcels received. Prisoners are predominately from the Irish Guards but other regiments feature also.

This series contains personal records relating to the Trench family.
Included in this series are family history papers concerning the Trench family's pedigree and related families, personal correspondence and diaries.

File of letters sent to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench from 1881 until 1884. The file consists of mainly administrative letters but also touches upon personal topics.

A significant proportion of the file contains letters from William Thomas Trench as both he and Benjamin Bloomfield Trench step into the roles left absent by their father. An example of such as case is a letter from William Thomas Trench, Loughton, King's County, dated 7 March 1882 in which he discusses 6 rents cases, 'The Dowager' racehorse and the loss of Henry Trench. He writes 'we are thinking a great deal of how our mother will fear the return of this day with its sad memories to her and to all of us- the absence of his experience wisdom and love seems as fresh as it was when we had just lost them and the thought constantly comes back that we shall some day tell him everything that has happened, as we used to after being away from him for a time'.

On 25 July 1881 William Thomas Trench also sent a letter in which he describes his visit to Kildysart, Co. Clare and The Burren, Co. Clare. In the letter William describes the conditions faced by the local population, 'The people at the former place are in a wretched way. Heavy loses of stock having depressed some of them beyond possibility of [recurring] recovery.'

Administrative letters within the file include a letter from George Drew, 3 Langley Park, Sutton, Surrey regarding checking value of work done before making payments and a letter from Herbert Saunders, 1 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington in regards to paying for repairs.

File of letters sent by Benjamin Bloomfield Trench to Dora Turnor.
The letters chart the evolution of their relationship and Benjamin's feelings towards Dora. The letters also covers Benjamin's concern over Dora's asthma and his time in South Africa.

Letters sent by and sent to Theodora Trench from 1913 until 1917.

During this Theodora volunteered with the Red Cross as a Chauffeuse and as such the file contains letter relating to this. Examples include two 1916 letters from the Royal Automobile Club regarding driving tests and a 1916 letter from the Red Cross Voluntary aid detachment informing members of their latest activities.

The file also includes a copy of a letter from Moscow dated Oct 9th 1917. The letter discusses the increasing difficulty faced by those who wish to travel, 'It is no easy matter to get to Petrograd now-a-days; one has first to get permission from the commissaire of the town here and then get a ticket, and it is by no means easy to get either. , but got there at 12.10, and found the place shut'. The letter also discusses the hostility within society 'They seem to be taken by a sort of wave of madness, which brings out all the brute in them'.