Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland

Collection List No. 9

Sean T. O Ceallaigh Papers

(MSS 27,672-27,734)

(Accession No. 4096)

1 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, documents etc. 1904-1922 ...... 3

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, documents etc. 1932-1963 ...... 4

Articles and speeches mainly on the subject of the period 1900-1923 ...... 5

Memoirs and related materials ...... 6

Miscellaneous articles, mainly on Irish Republican History, the 1916 Rising etc. 7

Bureau of Military History, Department of Defence: Documents and Files ...... 8

Miscellaneous...... 9

Appendix ...... 9

2 Correspondence, newspaper clippings, documents etc. 1904-1922

MS 27,672 Photograph of Sean T. O Ceallaigh as a boy c. 1900

MS 27,673 Photostat copies of Padraig Pearse’s holograph ‘Address at the graveside of O’Donovan Rossa’. With Photostat copies of the autograph letters by Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, Patrick Pearse, The O’Rahilly, J.J. Heuston, Austin Stack, Cathal Brugha, Erskine Childers and Tommy O’Connor; 18 pp 1904-1953

MS 27,674 Typescript copies of letters from Padraig Pearse to Sean T. O Ceallaigh; 11 items 1905-1912

MS 27,675 Miscellaneous newspapers clippings; 7 items 1906-1929

MS 27,676 /1-2 Bound volume [assembled by Mgr. Michael Curran] containing official papers published by H.M.S.O. and Dail Eireann 1918- 1921, and publications of Dail Eireann’s Irish delegation in Rome: ‘La recente insurrezione in Irlanda’ 1916; “Indirizzo ai Deputati della Nazione Italiana da parte della ‘Dail Eireann’” With associated newspaper clippings and leaflets c. 1916-1951

MS 27,677 Letters and postcards from Sean T. O Ceallaigh to Mgr. Michael J. Curran. With a copy of the Constitution of Sinn Fein and the first issue of ‘Iris Dail Eireann’; 15 items 1916-April 1917

MS 27,678 /1-3 Issues of the ‘Irish Bulletin’ 1919-1921. With a duplicated typescript ‘The land for the people; Ireland for the Irish’; c. 200 pp 1919-1921

MS 27,679 Copy of official memorandum in support of Ireland’s demand for recognition as a sovereign independent state. Presented to M. Clemencau, President, and members of the Peace Conference at Paris by Sean T. O Ceallaigh and George Gavan Duffy, June 1919. Copies in English, Irish French and Italian 1919

MS 27,680 ‘Memorandum par Sean T. O Ceallaigh, Depute de l’Irlande’, Rome, 18 May 1920: typescript memorandum to the Pope re the Irish situation; 9 pp 1920

MS 27,681 Letters written from Rome by Sean T. O Ceallaigh describing

3 his activities there; 16 pp May-June 1920

MS 27,682 Bound volume of the ‘Bulletin Irlandais’, No. 1, 2 January 1921-No. 128, 8 December 1921. Assembled by Mgr. Michael J. Curran; c. 130 pp 1921

MS 27,683 3 leaflets: ‘Stop Press: Poblacht na hEireann: A diary from the Four Courts, June 28th 1922’; ‘Violation of Padraig Pearse’s home: Mrs Pearse’s words to the Free State Soldiers’; ‘Oglaigh na hEireann: Proclamation: 28th June 1922’; 3 items 1922

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, documents etc. 1932-1963

MS 27,684 Newspaper clippings re Sean T. O Ceallaigh and Irish social and political life; c. 10 items 1932-38

MS 27,685 /1-3 Correspondence, newsclippings, notes re Imperial Economic Conference held in Ottwa, 1932, at which Sean T. O Ceallaigh led the delegation of the Irish Free State; c. 100 items July-August 1932

MS 27,686 Letters to Sean T. O Ceallaigh, including a copy letters from Sean MacBride to Archbishop Barton re Noel Browne; 13 items 1935, 1945, 1947, 1951-1953

MS 27,687 Newspaper clippings re Sean T. O Ceallaigh and Irish political and social life; 30 items 1941-1968

MS 27,688 /1-18 Correspondence of Sean T. O Ceallaigh, many items referring to his visit as President of Ireland to the U.S. in 1959; c. 220 items 1954-1963 /1 1954; c. 40 items /2 1955; c. 30 items /3 1956; c. 30 items /4 1957; c. 30 items /5 1958; c. 30 items /6 January 1959; c. 9 items /7 February 1959; c. 15 items /8 March 1959; c. 15 items /9 April 1959; c. 20 items /10 May 1959; c. 20 items /11 June 1959; c. 15 items /12 July 1959; c. 20 items /13 August-September 1959; c. 15 items /14 October-December 1959; c. 15 items

4 /15 1960; c. 40 items /16 1961; c. 35 items /17 1962; c. 30 items /18 1963; c. 10 items

Articles and speeches mainly on the subject of the period 1900-1923

MS 27,689 Typescript copy of the report in An Phoblacht 30 April 1926 of the speech by Sean T. O Ceallaigh made in New York on easter Sunday 1926 commemorating the Rising of 1916; 8 pp [1926]

MS 27,690 Typescript ‘Recollections of Zagloul Pasha’. With pages from memoirs, pp. 170-187; 26 pp [193?]

MS 27,691 Rough notes for articles and speeched on the period c. 1900- 1922, including notes taken from contemporary newspapers; c. 200 pp c. 1932-1963

MS 27,692 Typescript of a lecture entitled ‘1916 before and after’ delivered by Sean T. O Ceallaigh at the Mansion House, 24 April 1937 under the auspices of the Tomas O Clerigh Cumann of Fianna Fail; 48 pp 1937

MS 27,693 Scripts for the 1944 broadcast on Radio Eireann commemorating the 1st Dail in 1919, and for the 1966 broadcast on Radio Telifis Eireann commemorating the 1916 Rising; c. 60 pp 1944, 1966

MS 27,694 Typescript account of Sean T. O Ceallaigh’s visit ot the Vatican and audience with the Pope in 1920; 4 pp 1949

MS 27,695 ‘Points in the life of Sean T. O Ceallaigh’. Typescript; 21 pp [1950?]

MS 27,696 Easter Week 1916: Accounts by Sean T. O Ceallaigh of the Rishing and its immediate aftermath [prepared for radio broadcasts]; c. 50 pp c. 1957

MS 27,697 Manuscripts and typescripts of a series of talks given by Sean T. O Ceallaigh on Radio Eireann, about Arthur Griffith, Queen Victoria’s visit to Ireland, the Iris Republican Brotherhood, Comradh na Gaeilge, Easter 1916, Cumann na nGaedheal, Confederate Clubs and Sinn Fein; c. 100 pp

5 [c. 1960]

MS 27,698 Typescripts of a series of radio talks given by Sean T. O Ceallaigh describing the receiption he gave at the Grand Hotel, Rome in 1920, his interviews with Pope Benedict XV in 1920, and his interviews with Pope Pius XI in 1922 and 1935; c. 100 pp c. 1960

MS 27,699 Typescript series of articles in the politics of the Western world written by Sean T. O Ceallaigh; 17 pp c. 1961

MS 27,700 Manuscript and 7 typescripts of a talk given by Sean T. O Ceallaigh on Arthur Griffith; c. 250 pp 1965

MS 27,701 Manuscript and typescript of an article on the 1916 Rising and the events leading up to it, writtern by Sean T. O Ceallaigh for Columbia Records, with some related correspondence; c. 50 pp 1966

Memoirs and related materials

MS 27,702 /1-7 Manuscript and typescript draft memoirs by Sean T. O Ceallaigh; c. 500 pp c. 1952-1963

MS 27,703 Letters to Sean T. O Ceallaigh from Vivion de Valera and Francis Carty re the publishing of O Ceallaigh’s memoirs in the Irish Press; 26 pp 1960-1962

MS 27,704 /1-4 Manuscript and typescript drafts of Articles 9-62 of Sean T. O Ceallaigh’s memoirs, for publication as a series in the Irish Press; c. 160 pp 1960-1962

MS 27,705 Newspapers of Sean T. O Ceallaigh’s memoirs as published in the Irish Press; c. 50 pp 1961

MS 27,706 Galley proofs of Sean T.: sceal a bheatha a insint ag Sean T. O Ceallaigh arna chur in eagar ag Proinsias O Conluain, published by Foilseachain Naisiunta Teoranta in 1963 1963

MS 27,707 Typescript in English of Sean T. O Ceallaigh’s memoirs, translated and published in Irish as Sean T. and Sean T. ii 353; 16 pp

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MS 27,708 Correspondence between Phyllis Bean Ui Ceallaigh and Padraig O Fiannachta re translating into Irish and editing ‘Sean T.ii’, a second volume of Sean T. O Ceallaigh’s memoirs covering the period 1916-1923; c. 20 items 1970-1971

MS 27,709 Typescript of Padraig O Fiannachta, translation of Sean T. O Ceallaigh’s memoirs 1916-1923, ‘Sean T.ii’, into Irish; 202 pp 1970-1971

MS 27,710 Galley proofs of Sean T.ii: sceal a bheatha o 1916 go 1923 a insint ag Sean T. O Ceallaigh. In eager ag Padraig O Fiannachta [1972]

Miscellaneous articles, mainly on Irish Republican History, the 1916 Rising etc.

MS 27,711 Newsclipping of a series of articles entitles ‘Nation in Revolt’ by Piaras Beaslai; 48 pp [1953]

MS 27,712 /1-4 Typescript memoirs of Mgr. Michael J. Curran 1913-1921; c. 129-794 [1949]

MS 27,713 Typescript life of the Rev. Peter Christopher Yorke, a elader in the Irsih Catholic community in San Francicso. Sent by Ralph Hunt to the Rev. Michael Browne; c. 106 pp [c. 19??]

MS 27,714 Newsclippings of the series ‘The Easter Rising from the Inside I-VI’ by Michael J. Lennon, published in the Irish Times 1949

MS 27,715 Galley proofs of an article by William O’Brien on James Connolly and a leaflet by William O’Brien entitled ‘A Night in Mountjoy’ 1914

MS 27,716 /1-2 Extracts from ‘Personal recollections and disclosure of political and military strategy leading to the Rising’ by William O’Brien published in Labour News 1937. With text spoken by William O’Brien for Record on ‘James Connolly’ at the Folklore Commission…1950 1937, 1950

MS 27,717 Typescript ‘Memories’ [of the time spent as a prisoner in Richmond Military Barracks after the Rebellion in 1916]. By L. O’Neill, Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1917-1924; 7 pp, 2 copies

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MS 27,718 Newsclippings of ‘The story of President Sean T. O’Kelly’ by J. Doran O’Reilly as published in The Sunday Chronicle; 11 items 1952

MS 27,719 Newsclippings of a series ‘The 1916 Rising: events outside Dublin’, by Liam Skinner published in the Irish Weekly Independent 1953-1954

MS 27,720 Newsclippings of a series of articles in Neutrality by Professor T. D. Williams published in the Irish Press, June-July 1953; 2 copies June-July 1953

MS 27,721 Typescript Thomas Davis lecture: ‘The Presidency in historical perspective’, by T.D. Williams; 15 pp [1967?]

Bureau of Military History, Department of Defence: Documents and Files

MS 27,722 Bureau of Military History 1913-1921: First report by the Director to the Minister [for Defence] covering the year ended 31 December 1947. Duplicated typescript; 29, 77, [3], 26, [18], 38 pp 1948

MS 27,723 Letter from the Bureau of Military History to Sean T. O Ceallaigh enclosing a questionnaire re Easter Week 1916 and associated events; 5, 38 pp 1948

MS 27,724 Draft Chronologies for the periods 1899-31 December 1915 and 1916. Drawn up by the Bureau of Military History. Carbon typescripts; 2 vols [c. 1949]

MS 27,725 Bureau of Military History: Director’s Third Report to the Minister [for Defence] covering six months ended 31 December 1948. Duplicated typescript; 9, [9] pp 1949

MS 27,726 /1-4 Bureau of Military History: Chronology, Part I-III, 1898-1921; 4 vols, 136, 44, 2; 98, 2; 304, [3]; 506, [3] [c. 1950-1952]

MS 27,727 List of Appendices [part of the Bureau of Military History Report for 1950], pp 15-30 [1951]

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MS 27,728 /1-3 Statement by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Michael J. Curran, former Secretary to Dr. William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, 1885-1927 to the Bureau of Military Histiry abouyt events c. 1913-1921. Carbon typescript; 14, 564 pp in 3 vols 1952

MS 27,729 Statement by Denis McCullough to the Bureau of Military History re Dungannon Clubs; 33 pp c. 1950

MS 27,730 ‘An Archbishop negotiates: behind the scenes of the preliminary Anglo-Irish negotiations’ by J. T. McMahon: notes given to the Bureau of Military History; 41 pp [1949]

MS 27,731 Statement of Sean Moylan to the Bureau of Military Histiry re period to 1921; 272 pp 1953

MS 27,732 Statements by Liam O Briain re the Easter Rising 1916; 3 files 1947

Miscellaneous

MS 27,733 Typescript copy letters of cardinal Cullen to Dr Walshe, Bishop of Halifax and to cardinal Manning as copied from the originals by Shane Leslie; Christmas card with drawing by Shane Leslie of Cardinal MacRory on his deathbed; miscellaneous articles by and about Shane Leslie; summonses to Daniel Curly and Timothy Kelly and others, April 1883; 23 pp c. 1845-1945

MS 27,734 Notebook of Phyllis Ryan (later Mrs Sean T. O Ceallaigh) re ‘Fuels from peat’; offprints of articles by Hugh Ryan and Phyllis Ryan from the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy; duplicated typescript of an article on peat by Phyllis Ryan c. 1917-1917

MS 27,735 Lists of documents presented to Sean T. O Ceallaigh and Phyllis Bean Ui Ceallaigh, including some correspondence, to the National Library of Ireland, University College Dublin, Bureau of Military History and to the Christian Brothers Schools, North Richmond St Dublin; c. 20 items 1935-1973

Appendix

Newspapers received as part of the Sean T. O Ceallaigh Papers and transferred to the Department of Printed Books

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Daily Bulletin, No. 1-149, 27 September 1922-25 March 1923

Daily Sheet, No. 1-No. 44, 25 October 1923-1 January 1924, Sinn Fein, 1923-1924

Eire: The Irish Nation. Vol. 1, no. 1-Vol. 2, no. 2, 20 January 1923-26 January 1924 Missing Nos. 37, 48

An Phoblacht: The Republic. N.S. Vol. II, No. 33-36, 17 December 1927-7 January 1928

Stop Press: Poblicht ne hEireann [War News No. 1]-No. 174, 28 June 1922-6 march 1923 5 copies missing

The Republican Leader, Wicklow Edition. No. 1-7, 22 August 1923-26 August 1923

Sinn Fein, Vol. 1, no. 8-Vol. 2, no. 45, 15 August 1923-30 August 1924

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