Major accessions to repositories in 2018 relating to Ireland

Local

Coventry Archives

• Coventry Irish Society: oral histories (c50) created during the Irish Heart, Coventry Home project 2018 (PA3299)

National

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

• Donaldson family of County Down: photographs and family papers rel to Jonathan Pike Donaldson's service in the Royal Navy during the Second World War c1900-1950 (D4652)
• Shaw family of Dunmurry, Belfast and Tobermesson, Co Tyrone: printed material and papers rel to the Shaw and Moat families c1850-1950 (D4654/UNL/1)
• Hugh Moore Alexander (fl 1917-1944), Major, Royal Army Medical Corp: printed material and annotated albums taken during the First World War c1917-1944 (D4655/1/1-2; D4655/2/1-5)
• William Betty (1759-1904), of Co Fermanagh: farm account book 1759-1904 (D2347/1)
• Andrew Boyd (b1921), trade unionist and academic: corresp, newspaper clippings and manuscripts 1994-2011 (D4679/UNL/1)
• Emma Duffin (1915-1967), nurse, Belfast: diaries while serving in Egypt and France 1915-1967 (D2109/18/4, 5A, 5B, 6, 7, 9)
• Cahir Healy (1877-1970), MP: political, literary and personal papers 1904-1911 (D2991/J)
• Sir Charles Lanyon (1813-1889), knight, civil engineer: plans, sections and drawings for improvements to the Coast Road, County Antrim 1842-1846 (D4698/UNL/1)
• William James Pirie (1847-1924), 1st Viscount Pirrie: letter to Thomas Andrews in his capacity as chief of the design department at Harland & Wolf, ship manufacturer and repair 1911 (D4685/1/1)
• Hugh Shearman (1942-1991), writer and journalist: papers incl minutes, reports and memoranda of the Connswater River Conservation Committee c1942-1999 (D4695; D4696)
• Islandreagh Dyeing and Finishing Company, Dunadry, Co Antrim: sample thread books, accounts, plans and letters c1780-1980 (D4656/UNL/1)
• H & J Martin Builders, Belfast, Co Antrim: papers incl indentures, certificate of registration and incorporation 1860-1994 (D4662/UNL/1)
• UTV, Northern Ireland: tapes, cine film and digitised material c1959-1993 (D4677)
• Cairns Hill Residents' Association: minutes, maps and corresp rel to development plans c1991-1996 (D4681/UNL/1)
• Castlecaulfield District Nursing Society: corresp, minutes and accounts c1920-1969 (D4687)
• Magheracross Parish Church: baptism and marriage register 1800-1967 (CR1/20/UNL/1)
• Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities: reports and submissions on public policy and legislation 1995-2016 (D4697)
• Northern Ireland Women's Football Association: scrap books c1977-2003 (D4673/UNL/1)
• Prisons Memory Archive: filmed walk-and-talk recordings set in Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison 2006-2007 (D4616/2/1/1-24)
• Ulster Society of Organists and Choirmasters: minutes, corresp, photographs and printed material 1918-2017 (D4701/UNL/1)

Special

Representative Church Body Library

• Frederick Rothwell Bolton (1908-1987), Church of Ireland priest, Dean of Leighlin: sermons, corresp, research notes and drafts 1955-1983 (MS 1064)
• Alan Alexander Buchanan (1907-1984), Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland): sermons, obituaries, biographical note c1940-1977 (MS 1085)

University

Trinity College Dublin

• Leonard family of County Meath: farm business records c1950-1959 (IE TCD MS 11573)
• Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989), author, playwright and poet: letters and published works sent to Marion Leigh, theatrical ephemera and materials rel to the first production of the work Rockaby 1960-1980 (IE TCD MS 11585)
• Nicola Gordon Bowe (d2018), art historian, author and educator: research papers rel to the life and artistic work of Beatrice Moss nee Elvery (Lady Glenavy) (1886-1970) 2000-2018 (IE TCD MS 11581)
• John Byrne (fl 1933-2016), head of the School of Computer Science: personal and professional papers incl documentation of the computerisation of the University and library 1952-2000 (IE TCD MS 11572)
• Mary Duncan (1885-1964), artist: sketchbooks 1920s (IE TCD MS 11597)
• Military Establishment of Ireland as it stood on 22 May 1764 1764 (IE TCD MS 11577)

University of Reading: Special Collections

• Leslie Daiken (1912-1964), Irish socialist journalist and poet, writer on children's games and toys: notebooks rel to Trinity College Dublin in the 1930s, with a file of corresp between Daiken, his daughter Melanie and Samuel Beckett 1930-1983 (MS 5647)