National Library of Ireland: 1996 Accessions

National Library of Ireland

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dramatist and politician: letters to Richard Peake 1777-1807
• James Weale: misc corresp and papers rel to social and political affairs 1826-36
• Sir Thomas Wyse, politician and diplomat: misc papers incl some rel to his brother George and his son William Charles Bonaparte Wyse c1826-80
• James Graves (1815-86), antiquary: papers
• Thomas Colville-Scott: journal of a tour to Connemara 1853
• Solicitors copies of letters and documents rel to the divorce of William Henry O'Shea and Katherine O'Shea 1890
• Abbey Theatre Lectures Committee: minute book 1918-19
• Collection of illuminated addresses presented to Lord French of Ypres, mainly on his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1918-21
• Earley & Co, stained glass artists, Dublin: letters and receipts c1920-24
• Brian O'Nolan: letters to Leslie Daiken 1959-62
• Domhnall Mac Amhlaigh: notebooks and diaries c1950-89
• Maurice (“Spike”) Hennessy, writer and genealogist: papers c1935-90
• Patrick Johnston, former curator of the Dublin Civic Museum: papers c1940-95
• Thomas Patrick O'Neill (b1921), historian: papers