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Minute book of Cumann na gCleas-luth Gaedhealach Coisde Ui Failighe from its meeting in Kilcormac on Sunday 19 August 1917, with Rev W. O'Kennedy CC, presiding. Lists the delegates from clubs in Birr, Cloghan, Rahan, Clara, Kilcormac, Kinnity, Drumcullen, Eglish, Coolderry, Killoughey, Philipstown and Killeigh. Includes minute from meeting of 11 July 1919 investigating soccer being played in Clara.
Minute book recording the meetings held and decisions taken by the committee of Tullamore GAA Club, such as the organisation of whist drives, the purchase of medals, team training schedules, travel arrangements, and notably discussions surrounding the purchase of a new field for the club in a proposed move from Ballyduff. Also includes file of loose and dissociated correspondence on routine matters (1924-1926)
File of dissociated club records. Includes note/letter from Richard ('Dick') Barry, USA, to [John Clarke] outlining the origins of Tullamore GAA Club. 'This group was the one that became affiliated with the GAA in 1904. I left that year in July so did not play in any of the county games. Seán Forrestal and Gerald O'Loughlin and Jack Craven MtPleasant were also members. Jack Craven was probably the last all round men on the team. Rough and tough it took a very exceptional man to get a ball away from him or rise when he was playing on them...etc.'
Also includes Secretary's reports for 1966, 1967 and 1968, as well as club financial accounts for those years and, separately, 1980.
Scrapbook containing typescript essay on history of Ballinamere GAA Club, newspaper cuttings with match reports, original photographs of Ballinamere teams, individual players, and hurling committees,and reports from AGMs.
Minute book containing minutes of meetings held by Offaly Southern Committee, mainly held in various locations in Birr, detailing election of officers, arrangement of fixtures, decisions on tournament permits, objections raised by clubs in relation to outcomes of matches and other matters. Also contains a letter from the Leinster Council to the Secretary of Offaly GAA, English Hotel, Birr in relation, among other things, to the application of the Parish Rule in the reinstatement of players who were in the British Army. Also includes details of Gaelic Sunday, 5 August 1918, which was organised by the GAA nationwide 'to demonstrate their right to play their games without permit from the English Government authorities.'
