Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of

Collection List No. 127

Larcom Papers

[MSS 7457-7588, 7590-7683, 7685-7792]

(Accession 1011)

The personal and administrative papers of Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom (1801-79), Assistant Supervisor of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland (1828-48) and Under-Secretary of State for Ireland (1853-69), consisting of 337 volumes of letters, pamphlets, memoranda and news cuttings.

Compiled by Stephen Ball, Ph.D., Temporary Cataloguer, 2007.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ...... 4 Biography ...... 4 Collection ...... 4 Arrangement ...... 5 Related materials ...... 5 Acknowledgements ...... 6

I. PERSONAL PAPERS ...... 7 I.i. Personal correspondence...... 7 I.ii. Offices...... 7 I.iii. Science and technology...... 8 I.iv. Obituaries...... 9

II. SURVEYS ...... 9 II.i. Boundary survey...... 9 II.ii. Ordnance Survey ...... 10 II.iii. Down Survey...... 13

III. POLITICAL AFFAIRS...... 14 III.i. International affairs ...... 14 III.ii. Royal family...... 16 III.iii. Parliamentary politics...... 16 III.iv. Vaticanism...... 18 III.v. Electoral and parliamentary reform...... 19 III.vi. Industrial unrest...... 20

IV. IRISH ADMINISTRATION...... 21 IV.i. Irish Executive...... 21 IV.i.1. Lord Lieutenant...... 21 IV.i.2. Chief Secretary...... 22 IV.i.3. Thomas Drummond, Under Secretary ...... 23 IV.i.4. Civil Service...... 23 IV.ii. Law and Order...... 23 IV.ii.1. Law Courts...... 23 IV.ii.2. Constabulary ...... 24 IV.iii. Education ...... 27 IV.iv. Social and Economic Policy...... 30 IV.iv.1. Condition of Ireland ...... 30 IV.iv.2. Lunatic Asylums & Hospitals ...... 33 IV.iv.3. Poor Law ...... 33 IV.iv.4. Board of Works ...... 34 IV.iv.5. Census ...... 34 IV.iv.6. Taxation...... 35 IV.v. Agriculture and Fisheries ...... 35 IV.v.1. Agricultural statistics...... 35 IV.v.2. Cattle disease...... 35 IV.v.3. Fisheries ...... 36 IV.vi. Transport and Communications ...... 36

2 IV.vi.1. Transatlantic Cable and Packet ...... 36 IV.vi.2. Railways...... 36 IV.vii. City of ...... 37 IV.viii. Land Question...... 38 IV.viii.1. Landlord and Tenant ...... 38 IV.viii.2. Land sales...... 40

V. NATIONAL POLITICS...... 40 V.i. Fenianism ...... 40 V.ii. Nationalist movement...... 44 V.iii. Elections...... 47

VI. MISCELLANIOUS TOPICS...... 48

3 INTRODUCTION

Biography

Thomas Larcom was born at Gosport, Hampshire on 22 April 1801. The son of a naval officer, he studied at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers. In 1824, he joined the Ordnance Survey and in 1826 was transferred to Ireland. Two years later, Larcom was appointed as assistant at the Ordnance Survey headquarters in Phoenix Park. He supervised the compilation of the 6-inch survey maps and encouraged the systematic collection of scientific and historical data on the localities concerned. He was, however, frustrated in his plan to have descriptive memoirs of the survey published. Larcom married Georgina D’Aguilar, the daughter of General Sir George D’Aguilar in 1840. One year later he was appointed as a census commissioner and was responsible for large-scale changes in the collection and classification of statistics. He also served on commissions of inquiry into the state of the Royal Irish Society (1842) and the Queen’s Colleges (1845). When, in 1848, the Irish survey was brought under the control of the Ordnance Survey headquarters in Larcom was removed from his post. He subsequently held temporary posts with the Board of Works and the Famine Relief and Boundary Reform Commissions before being appointed Under-Secretary for Ireland in 1853, the post having been made non-political and, therefore, a permanent appointment.

During his period as Under-Secretary for Ireland Larcom acquired a reputation as a firm yet even-handed official. He used his wide knowledge of Ireland and Irish affairs, acquired during his years as a surveyor, to improve the efficiency of the Irish administration through the collection of copious and accurate information. He initiated and supervised reforms to the poor law and local government, and improvements to the public health system, including the greater provision of medical dispensaries, and the improvement of sewerage works. Larcom also sought to exercise an ever greater vigilance over the Irish people through the efficient use of the Irish Constabulary. At the same time seeking to promote economic growth and standards of living through the encouragement of education and the improvement of agriculture. Larcom was promoted to the rank of Major-General in 1858 and was created KCB in 1860. During the final years of Larcom’s term as Under-Secretary he played an active part in reforming the police in following sectarian riots in 1864, and in the suppression of the Fenian Rising in 1867. Larcom retired from office in December 1868 and was created a baronet.

During his retirement Larcom continued to collect and arrange information about Ireland which he presented to the learned societies with which he had long been associated. He died at Heathfield, near Fareham, on 15 June 1879.

Collection

This collection consists of 337 volumes of letters, pamphlets, memoranda and news cuttings, each set in a leather-binding. The volumes contain the personal and administrative papers of Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom (1801-79) as well as news cuttings and printed documents relating to public affairs and social life both in Ireland and abroad. The papers in the collection cover the whole of his distinguished career as a military officer, surveyor, and public official. The collection was acquired by the National Library of Ireland in two parts; 176 volumes were presented by the Statistical Society of Ireland in 1918-19 (a bequest to the

4 Society made by Sir Thomas Larcom in 1879), and the remainder was purchased from Gibbs Bookshop, Manchester in 1951. See Report of the Trustees of the National Library of Ireland, 1918-9.

The contents of the volumes in this collection cover a wide range of topics relating to Larcom’s duties as a military officer, surveyor and administrator. As well as family and personal correspondence, much of which concerns scientific and technical matters. There is a substantial amount of material relating to the Ordnance Survey of Ireland as well as a large collection of news cuttings relating to international affairs, domestic politics, and public affairs. The largest part of the collection, however, relates to Larcom’s period as Under- Secretary for Ireland and includes papers and news cuttings relating to almost every sphere of Irish administration, including executive government, policing, social and economic policy, the land question, Irish nationalism and Fenianism.

Arrangement

This list has been compiled from manuscripts previously listed in Richard Hayes, Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilization (1965) , Hayes, Supplement (1979) and National Library of Ireland Special List No. 37 (parts I and II). The current list is designed to supersede the latter list.

The list has been organised into six categories – I. Personal papers, II. Surveys, III. Political affairs, IV. Irish administration, V. National politics and VI. Miscellaneous topics. Each category has been divided into sub-sections wherever appropriate. Within each sub-section the original numerical order of the manuscripts has been preserved wherever possible.

Related materials

A further 57 volumes of papers were bequeathed by Sir Thomas Larcom to the , and they are now held in the Manuscripts Department of Trinity College Library (TCD MS 1710). The volumes contain newspapers cuttings and letters (chiefly correspondence between Larcom and other members of the Irish Executive) relating to religious affairs and sectarian disputes in Ireland. Subject matters include religious discord (vols. 1-38), ritualism (vol. 39), Orange anniversaries (vols. 40-47), Italy, the Pope and the Ecumenical Council (vols. 50-52), the relief of Roman Catholic disabilities (vols. 53-54), foreign Protestants (vol. 55), the Church of England (vol. 56), and the Church of Wales (vol. 57).

In addition to the manuscripts listed in this collection list further correspondence of Sir Thomas Larcom can be found in the National Library of Ireland’s collection of the papers of Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, see Collection List No. 126. Further National Library manuscripts relevant to Sir Thomas Larcom are as follows:

MS 789-794 700 letters arranged in alphabetical order of correspondents to and from George Petrie, correspondents include Thomas Larcom; 6 volumes 1824-66

5 MS 8,936 Documents relating to Messrs. Hodges and Smith, booksellers, of College Green, Dublin, including two letters from Sir Thomas Larcom 1839-44

GO MS 107 Copy of confirmation of arms to Thomas Larcom of the Phoenix Park, Dublin 3 Feb. 1840

P. 8002 Microfilm of the minute book of Athy Town Commissioners (16 June 1856 – 22 October 1891), also containing copies of correspondence with Thomas Larcom regarding the proposed boundary of Athy. c.1855-6

Acknowledgements

My thanks to Thomas Desmond, First Class Library Assistant, National Library of Ireland, and Estelle Gittins, Assistant Librarian, Trinity College Archives, for providing me with valuable information for the completion of this list.

6 I. PERSONAL PAPERS

I.i. Personal correspondence

MS 7,543 Copies and extracts of letters from Thomas Larcom to his mother, brothers and sister (1823-43), together with extracts of letters from his son, George Larcom (1868-78) 1823-78

MS 7,544 Copies and extracts of letters to and from Thomas Larcom on social matters (1840-1), with correspondence of a later period, including a letter of condolence from Jane Francesca neé Elgee, Lady Wilde to Georgina neé D’Aguilar, Lady Larcom on the death of her husband, and notes on a proposed biography of Sir Thomas Larcom 1840-79

MS 7,545 Copies and extracts of letters from Thomas Larcom to Dr. Robinson largely concerning scientific matters 1840-54

MS 7,546 Copies of letters from Thomas Larcom to Dr. Robinson, of a scientific nature (1854-72), and copies of letters from George Larcom to his parents (1867-73) 1854-73

MS 7,547 Copies and extracts of letters from George Larcom to his parents 1869-74

MS 7,515 Letters to Thomas Larcom from Major-General Joseph Ellison Portlock (President of the Geological Society). Also correspondence concerning Portlock’s death, a manuscript and printed copy of his memoir. Also letters concerning Woolwich and the Council of Military Education from Colonel R.K. Dawson, H.F. Murphy and others 1850-64

MS 7,516 News cuttings containing criticisms of J.A. Froude’s The English in Ireland made by John Mitchel and others, with reports on Froude’s visit to America and Froude’s articles in defence of his views 1872-3

I.ii. Offices

MS 7,569 Letters of Thomas Larcom relating to his promotion in the British Army and his appointment as Commissioner for the Board of Works (1845), and his election to membership of learned societies, including the Royal Society of (1844) 1841-5

7 MS 7,570 Letters of Thomas Larcom relating to his promotion to the rank of Major-General in the British Army and concerning advancement in his profession and his election to membership of learned societies 1846-59

MS 7,571 Letters relating to superannuation and deductions in army pay (1850) and Larcom’s appointment as Under Secretary (1853-4), with letters relating to the award of his K.C.B. (1855), and to the arrival of Archibald Montgomerie, 13th as Lord Lieutenant (1859). Correspondents include Sir Charles Trevelyan (Assistant Secretary to the Treasury) and Sir Richard Browley 1849-68

MS 7,572 Letters relating to Sir Thomas Larcom’s intended resignation and retirement from the post of Under-Secretary, with a statement of his services, a copy of a Treasury minute regarding his pension, and letters regarding the award of his baronetcy (1869) 1868-9

MS 7,573 Letters relating to Sir Thomas Larcom’s intended resignation as Under- Secretary (1866), the award of his baronetcy, and to the death of Sir Edward Wetherall, his successor as Under-Secretary 1866-9

MS 7,574 Autobiography of Sir Thomas Larcom, with a memorandum of his services drawn up for Sir John Burgoyne (1852), notes on the history of the Larcom family with associated correspondence between Larcom and G. Albert Lewis of Philadelphia (1869). Also assorted letters, including that of Captain Albermarle Bertie (later Admiral Sir Albermarle Bertie) to John Pitt, 2nd Earl Chatham (First Lord of the Admiralty), written aboard HMS Thunderer on the eve of the Third Battle of Ushant (the ‘Glorious First of June’1794) 1794-1870

I.iii. Science and technology

MS 7,548 Letters to Thomas Larcom, with memoranda dealing with military and engineering matters, including the Royal Engineers (1826), the Royal Artillery (1839), and the Ordnance Survey, and the publication of meteorological observations 1837-55

MS 7,549 Letters to Thomas Larcom, with memoranda on meteorology, electrotype printing, the electrical explosion of gunpowder in mines (1843), experiments in the Phoenix Park (1843-4), and the demolition of Rooskey Bridge, county Roscommon (1844) 1843-4

8 MS 7,560 Letters and papers concerning Cleopatra’s Needle or obelisk, presented to the by Mehemet Ali in 1819 and subsequently erected on the Victoria Embankment in London in 1877 1839-78

MS 7,561 Index to Sir Thomas Larcom’s books on population, philosophy, education, etc., with a statement of the contents of the Ordnance Survey memoir volumes (MS 7,550-7,558), and a memorandum for Lieutenant-General Sir John Fox Burgoyne on the origins of the British Survey [undated]

I.iv. Obituaries

MS 7,480 News cuttings containing obituaries of various distinguished persons and other items of general interest, including the Oscott School case 1859-66

MS 7,481 News cuttings containing obituaries of distinguished persons and other items of general interest, including the African expedition of David Livingstone 1866-71

MS 7,482 News cuttings containing obituaries of distinguished persons and other items of general interest, with accompanying papers, including a memorial of Sir Burke, King of Arms 1871-6

II. SURVEYS

II.i. Boundary survey

MS 7,457 Printed papers on surveys and associated topics, with letters to Thomas Larcom on survey methods 1836

MS 7,458 An historical memoir of Londonderry city and district, compiled for proposed publication by the Ordnance Survey [undated]

MS 7,459 Letters and papers accumulated by Thomas Larcom in connection with the Commission on Municipal and Borough Boundaries in Ireland (1832 and 1836), the Railway Commission (1839), the Royal Dublin Society Commission (1841), and demolitions by electrical battery in Phoenix Park, Dublin (1843) 1832-43

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MS 7,460 Letters and papers accumulated by Thomas Larcom in connection with the Ulster College Commission (1845), and works for the relief of distress in Ireland (1846) 1845-6

MS 7,461 Letters, memoranda and other papers of Thomas Larcom and David Lynch as Commissioners of the Dublin Improvement Act, concerning the division of the borough of Dublin into wards, with maps, tables and calculations 1849

MS 7,462 Reports of the Commission on Municipal and Borough Boundaries in Ireland, with plans of the cities and boroughs in Ireland sending representatives to parliament, and an index of towns 1832

MS 7,463 Reports of the Commissioners on Municipal and Borough Boundaries in Ireland, with some plans and office copies from originals, made in the office of the Ordnance Survey, Dublin 1836

II.ii. Ordnance Survey

MS 7,518 Letters to Thomas Larcom, topics include the preservation of the original plans of the Ordnance Survey, the Milan survey, the Indian survey (1825), Robert Ball’s project for a Natural History Society (1838), Wiggin’s agricultural maps of Ireland (1845), Dr. Faraday on printed inks (1834), Charles Vignoles on the Irish railways (1841), and Grantham’s observations on a survey of the River Shannon. Correspondents include T. Hutton, Edwin Wyndham-Quin, Viscount Adare and Mr. Gardner 1830-51

MS 7,519 Correspondence concerning various aspects of the Ordnance Survey, including copper plate printing (1835), the refusal of additional sergeants for the survey companies (1842), a threatening letter to Thomas Larcom from “Capt. Rock” (1842), the murder of Alfred Lynch (1842-3), the American Boundary Survey, and the removal to Southampton of triangulation and observation books, correspondents include Colonel Colley 1835-46

MS 7,520 Letters to Thomas Larcom on the question of removing the Ordnance Survey Office to Southampton (1842), the cost of the survey, and drainage projects for the purpose of famine relief (1846) 1842-7

10 MS 7,521 Official correspondence concerning the Ordnance Survey, including the revision of the early maps, with particular reference to the northern counties, and the revision of the plans of large towns and the inspection of corporation boundaries (1841-2) 1842-57

MS 7,522 Reports made by Thomas Larcom in 1821 on military affairs, on promotion in progressive corps and a new order of knighthood, with a printed copy of Observations explanatory of a plan … for a citadel at Dublin designed by Sir Bernard de Gomme, and letters from Rev. T. O’Malley regarding his Essay on new modes of war (1866) and Samuel Ferguson on heating (1842) 1821-66

MS 7,523 Papers relating to changes in payment in the Ordnance Survey Office, with letters to Thomas Larcom seeking favours for discharged members of the survey 1842-74

MS 7,524 Correspondence on the Ordnance Survey, and the census of 1851, mainly concerning appointments and pensions, including letters to Thomas Larcom from John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry, with a recommendation that Owen Connellan be appointed to the staff 1839-69

MS 7,550 Letters to Thomas Larcom on the Ordnance Survey, including a military survey of Ireland (1713), the Bodley Survey (1602), old plans of Athlone, Crannoges, St. Columba’s stone, Dowth antiquities, and Vitrifield Fort. Includes a booklet, entitiled Heads of Inquiry containing directions issued to officers of the Ordnance Survey in respect of antiquities, etc., to be noted (1832). Correspondents include George Petrie and George Downes 1832-60

MS 7,551 Letters and memoranda dealing with the Ordnance Survey county memoir for Londonderry, correspondents include Rev. J. Reid, with copy correspondence between the Treasury, Sir William Gossett (Under Secretary for Ireland) and Colonel Colley. Also a draft introduction and draft history by George Downes of the barony of Turkeeren, and notes by John O’Donovan on family and place names 1833-57

MS 7,552 Memoranda and papers concerning the Ordnance Survey, with correspondence dealing with County Londonderry, especially the parish of Templemore and the fort of Aileach. Correspondents include Mr. Beaufort, Crofton Croker and Petrie Weale 1835-7

MS 7,553 Correspondence and memoranda concerning the suspension of the Ordnance Survey memoir of Ireland. Edwin Wyndham-Quin, Viscount

11 Adare’s efforts to sustain the work, and the appointment by Sir of a parliamentary commission to examine the matter. Includes a resolution of the British Museum (1835), and a memorial from the Royal Irish Academy (1843) 1835-44

MS 7,554 Collection of printed documents expressive of public opinion on the importance of the Ordnance Survey memoir of Ireland, with the report and evidence of the parliamentary commission, appointed in 1843, to examine the matter 1843

MS 7,555 Letters to Thomas Larcom relating to the suppression of the geological branch of the Ordnance Survey, Edwin Wyndham-Quin, Viscount Adare’s efforts to revive the memoir (1840), and the publication of the geological memoir. Correspondents include Sir William Reid (Governor of Bermuda) and Sir Henry James (Director-General of Ordnance Survey) 1840-3

MS 7,556 Correspondence relating to the suppression of the geological branch of the Ordnance Survey, and the visit of Sir Henry James to Bermuda. Correspondents include Thomas Larcom, Colonel Colley, Sir Henry James, John Young, Edwin Wyndham-Quinn, Viscount Adare, Robert Kane and T.R. Robinson. Includes a memorandum by John Young on geology (1844), and papers concerning the employment of officers on scientific duties 1844

MS 7,557 Memoranda and letters dealing with the separation of the geological branch from the Ordnance Survey and its transfer to the Department of Woods and Forests in 1845, with a memorandum on the survey for Sir John Fox Burgoyne. Also letters relating to the transfer of the Museum of Natural History to the Custom House and the question of a topographical dictionary 1845

MS 7,558 Newspaper and periodical articles on the Ordnance Survey memoir of Londonderry, including Dr. Lewell’s views on the survey, the report of the Commission on the Ordnance Survey Memoir of Ireland, and a manuscript review of the Ordnance Survey report on the county of Londonderry 1835-44

MS 7,559 Letters and memoranda dealing with the Ordnance Survey, including heads of a lecture on the subject to be given by Dr. Faraday (1826), the President’s address to the Geological Society of Ireland (1844-5), memoranda on engraving (1828-60), an account of Thomas Macaulay in Ireland (1849), and a memorandum drawn up for Sir Francis Head (1852-6). Includes letters from Sir Charles Trevelyan on the territorial

12 divisions of Ireland (1846), Sir Henry James on the ‘photo-zinco’ process (1867), William Hardinge on the unpublished papers of Sir William Petty in the Royal Irish Academy. Correspondence between Sir Thomas Larcom and Sir John Bernard Burke regarding the purchase of the Betham manuscripts, and William Hennessy on the publication of Chronicum Scotorum and Aislinge Meic Conglinne (1867-73) 1826-74

MS 7,563 Correspondence between Thomas Larcom, George Petrie, John O’Donovan and James Henthorn Todd on matters appertaining to the Ordnance Survey memoir 1833-6

MS 7,564 Correspondence between Thomas Larcom, George Petrie, John O’Donovan and James Henthorn Todd on matters appertaining to the Ordnance Survey memoir 1837-61

MS 7,565 Correspondence between Thomas Larcom and George Petrie on matters appertaining to the Ordnance Survey 1838

MS 7,566 Correspondence between Thomas Larcom and George Petrie on matters appertaining to the Ordnance Survey 1839

MS 7,567 Correspondence between Thomas Larcom and George Petrie on matters appertaining to the Ordnance Survey 1840-44

MS 7,568 Letters to Thomas Larcom concerning the deaths of George Petrie and John O’Donovan, with the obituary notices of Petrie, O’Donovan and Eugene O’Curry, notices granting pensions to Petrie’s daughters and to O’Donovan’s widow, and a printed memoir of Petrie by Dr. William Stokes. Includes letters from James Henthorn Todd, John E. Pigot, James Talbot, 4th Baron Talbot of Malahide and others concerning an Irish dictionary 1866-74

II.iii. Down Survey

MS 7,760 Correspondence relative to the editing and publication of The History of the Survey of Ireland, commonly called the Down Survey, edited by Thomas Larcom (Dublin, 1851), with the printer’s copy and a preface with notes by Thomas Larcom, correspondents include John Weale, Dr. James Henthorn Todd, John Wilson Croker, Sir Robert Peel, Redmond Barry, Dr. Abraham and Francis Beaufort

13 1834-56

MS 7,761 News cuttings and pamphlets relative to The History of the Survey of Ireland, with an obituary of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Landsdowne, and portrait 1852-75

MSS 7,794-7,795 Transcriptions from Sir William Petty’s The Down Survey History of Irish Lands, and other items connected with this work, [undated]

III. POLITICAL AFFAIRS

III.i. International affairs

MS 7,464 News cuttings and pamphlets on the controversy between the United Kingdom and the United States of America concerning the privateer, Alabama, including President Ulysses Grant’s speech and the appointment of a commission by the British and American governments 12 Aug. – 19 Dec. 1870

MS 7,465 News cuttings relative to the ‘Alabama’ controversy, including reports on the establishment of an arbitration board in Geneva 19 Dec. 1870 – 9 March 1872

MS 7,466 News cuttings relative to the ‘Alabama’ controversy, including reports on the Geneva arbitration, and the consideration of indirect claims 11 March – 10 May 1872

MS 7,467 News cuttings relative to the ‘Alabama’ controversy, including reports on the Geneva arbitration, the supplementary treaty, and contributions from Professor Bernard and John Russell, 1st 11 May – 12 June 1872

MS 7,468 News cuttings relative to the ‘Alabama’ controversy, including reports on the Geneva arbitration and its award, and reports on the Boston Music Festival 12 June – 23 Sep. 1872

MS 7,469 News cuttings relative to the ‘Alabama’ controversy, including articles on Sir Alex Cockburn, the award and the indemnity estimates; also to disputes between the United States and Canada over the Washington Treaty, and between the United Kingdom and the United States in connection with the boundary of San Juan and the arbitration of Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany Sep. 1872

14 MS 7,470 News cuttings relative to the federation of the Canadian provinces, the reunion of the United States, and the relations of Mexico and the United States with France and Great Britain 1862-72

MS 7,471 Letters and news cuttings relative to British relations with China, including reports on the operations of Major-General Sir George D’Aguilar, Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong 1844-8

MS 7,472 News cuttings relative to British relations with China 1857-9

MS 7,473 News cuttings relative to British relations with China 1860-75

MS 7,474 Letters and news cuttings relative to the political status of the Ionian Islands, the secession of Corfu, and the actions of Sir John Young and William Gladstone, successive Lord High Commissioners of Corfu 1855-70

MS 7,475 Letters and news cuttings dealing with the British administration of India, the Indian civil service and the activities of the Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo as Viceroy of India 1858-72

MS 7,476 News cuttings dealing with the British administration of India, the assassination of Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, and the appointment of Thomas Baring, 1st Earl Northbrook as Viceroy of India 1872

MS 7,477 News cuttings dealing with colonial emancipation (1861-3), and Britain’s relations with the colonies, including New Zealand and the Gambia (1870-2) 1861-73

MS 7,478 News cuttings relative to the insurrection in Jamaica, the actions of Governor Edward Eyre and the British Government’s refusal to grant his pension 1865-75

MS 7,479 Letters and news cuttings relative to the war in New Zealand (1861), and the defence of the north west frontier of India 1861-4

15 III.ii. Royal family

MS 7,483 News cuttings and pamphlets relating to and the Royal Titles Bill. Includes articles on the royal assent, Robert Lowe’s speech, and the views of Lord Shelbourne and Sir Henry James 1876-7

MS 7,484 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings dealing with the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland in 1861, and other news concerning members of the royal household, including the Princesses Louise and Beatrice, the Princes Arthur and Leopold, and the Duke of Edinburgh 1861-74

MS 7,485 News cuttings dealing with various matters, including memorials presented to Albert, Prince Consort (1862) and a proposal to open St. Stephen’s Green to the public 1862-74

MS 7,486 News cuttings dealing with the royal household, including an attack on Queen Victoria by Arthur O’Connor (1872), the illness of Edward, Prince of Wales, his recovery and subsequent visit to India, the question of a royal residence in Ireland, and the protest of Geoffery Guthrie-Brown, 2nd Baron Oranmore and Browne against an alleged affront to Cardinal Henry Manning at a royal garden party (1875) 1871-5

MS 7,487 Letters and news cuttings dealing with Edward, Prince of Wales, including articles on his marriage (1863), his visits to Ireland in 1861, and in 1865 for the purpose of inaugurating the , his reception in Belfast, protests in Dublin and Cork, and his visits to Syria and Denmark 1861-5

MS 7,488 News cuttings dealing largely with Edward, Prince of Wales, including articles on his visits to Ireland in 1868 and 1871, and to continental Europe, and the question of a royal residence in Ireland 1868-74

III.iii. Parliamentary politics

MS 7,489 News cuttings dealing with the Disraeli administration, including ministerial statements, parliamentary debate on Ireland, a vote of censure and the prorogation of Parliament, and an account of the Merchant Taylors banquet 1867-8

MS 7,490 News cuttings dealing with the Disraeli administration, including articles on John Bright, William Gladstone, John Arthur Roebuck,

16 ’s visit to Liverpool, and proposals for votes for women and the disestablishment of the 1867-72

MS 7,491 News cuttings dealing with the Disraeli administration, including articles on his intended visit to Ireland, his earldom, the parliamentary session of 1876, Edward Bouverie MP, and Lord Mayor’s Day 1874-6

MS 7,492 News cuttings concerning parliamentary debate on Ireland, including articles on the Queen’s speech (1867), the views of Lord Edward Stanley on unrest in Ireland, the motion of Sir Colman O’Loghlen MP motion on the state of the country, the suspension of habeas corpus, and the resignation of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl Derby as prime minister 1866-8

MS 7,493 News cuttings dealing with the Gladstone administration, including articles on the Queen’s speech (1869), changes in cabinet, the budget, the Lord Mayor’s banquet, and the close of session (1871), with references to Irish political affairs 1869-71

MS 7,494 News cuttings dealing with the Gladstone administration, including articles on Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd , Sir Charles Dilke’s visit to Newcastle, William Gladstone’s visits to Whitney, Wakefield and Greenwick, his speech at the Mansion House, and his visit to Aberdeen with Edward Stanley, 15th Earl Derby and Benjamin Disraeli, with references to the Irish political affairs 1871-2

MS 7,495 News cuttings dealing with the Gladstone administration, including articles on Sir Charles Dilke, the appointment of Sir Robert Collier, parliamentary motions by Sir Edward Stanhope and Richard Cross, Hugh Childers at Pontefract, Edward Stanley, 15th Earl Derby, and John Arthur Roebuck 1872

MS 7,496 News cuttings dealing with the Gladstone administration, including articles on Sir Charles Dilke, Sir Henry James, Joachim Goschen, James Stansfield at Halifax, Robert Lowe at Glasgow, William Forster at Bedford, the Attorney-General at Liverpool, Edward Cardwell and Sir William Harcourt at Oxford, the Guildhall banquet, income tax, and a retrospect of 1872 1872

MS 7,497 News cuttings dealing with the Gladstone administration, including articles on Sir Charles Dilke, Mr. Bruce, Benjamin Disraeli at Manchester and Sydenham, Mr. Trevelyan’s visit to Lancashire, George Hunt at Bradford, William Gladstone’s proposed visit to

17 Belfast, a presentation to John Bright, Robert Lowe’s budget (1872), the Mansion House banquet, a Conservative meeting in Kent, and the close of the parliamentary session 1872-3

MS 7,498 News cuttings dealing with the Gladstone administration, including articles on the Queen’s speech and the opening of parliament, the budget, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke Richmond, George Trevelyan, William Gladstone’s proposed visit to Ireland, and the resignation of his ministry 1873

MS 7,499 News cuttings dealing with the Gladstone administration, including articles on John Bright at Birmingham, Edward Stanley, 15th Earl Derby at Liverpool, Benjamin Disraeli at Glasgow, Robert Gascoyne- Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury at Hertford, William Forster at Bradford, the Lord Mayor’s day, the Druidy dinner at Oxford, the dissolution of parliament, and a summary of the events of 1873 and the prospects for 1874 1873-4

MS 7,500 News cuttings dealing with William Gladstone, including articles on his dealings with John Bright and Benjamin Disraeli, his retirement to Hawarden (1874), and his visit to Ireland in October 1877 1874-9

III.iv. Vaticanism

MS 7,501 News cuttings and pamphlets dealing with William Gladstone’s political critique of the decrees of the Vatican Council in his The Vatican Decrees and Vaticanism (London, 1874) and Vaticanism: an answer to replies and reproofs (London, 1875) 1874-5

MS 7,502 News cuttings dealing with William Gladstone’s critique of the decrees of the Vatican Council, including articles on the replies of Monsignor Thomas Capel, Cardinal Henry Newman and Henry Manning, and Gladstone’s comments on the speech of the Pope Pius IX 1874-5

MS 7,503 News cuttings and pamphlets dealing with William Gladstone’s critique of the decrees of the Vatican Council, including a review of his second pamphlet by the Dublin Review, and articles on Catholic reform, the protestations of 1789 and the Irish Catholic oath of 1793, John Dalberg- Acton, 1st Baron Acton, and L’Osservatore Romano (the Vatican newspaper)

18 1874-5

III.v. Electoral and parliamentary reform

MS 7,528 News cuttings dealing with the affairs of the House of Commons and , with particular reference to the representative peers of Ireland, including articles on Henry Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl Portarlington, bishops in the House of Lords, bankrupt peers, Joseph Leeson, 5th Earl Milltown, Lucius O’Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin, Henry Fawcett MP, and Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton 1867-77

MS 7,529 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the Reform Bills for Ireland and Scotland, and a Registration Bill for Ireland 1867-8

MS 7,530 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the Reform and Franchise Bills for Ireland 1857-65

MS 7,531 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the Franchise Bill, and the parliamentary defeat of the ministry 1866

MS 7,532 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the Redistribution of Seats and Franchise Bills, an amendment by Ulick Canning de Burgh, Lord Dunkellin later 1st Marquess , and the parliamentary defeat and consequent resignation of the ministry 1866

MS 7,533 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on public meetings and demonstrations, and John Bright’s campaign in Ireland to found an Irish 1866

MS 7,534 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the proposed Reform Bill for Ireland, and the observations of Thomas Babington Macauley, 1st Baron Macauley on Chartism 1867

MS 7,535 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the Reform demonstrations in Hyde Park, and the parliamentary debate on the Reform Bill 1867

19 MS 7,536 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the committee stage of the Reform Bill, the Representation of the People Bill, and the failure of the Meetings in Public Parks Bill 1867

MS 7,537 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the passage of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords and the granting of the royal assent 1867

MS 7,538 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the Boundary Bill, the Registration Bill, the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, and the Representation of the People Act 1867-8

MS 7,539 News cuttings dealing with parliamentary reform, including articles on the Electoral Reform Conference, the distribution of electoral powers and Isaac Butt on the redistribution of seats in Ireland 1871-5

MS 7,540 News cuttings dealing with electoral reform, including the report of the Parliamentary and Municipal Election Committee, and articles on the Registration of Voters and Ballot Bills 1870-1

MS 7,541 News cuttings dealing with electoral reform, including articles on the progress of the Parliamentary and Municipal Election Bill in the House of Commons and House of Lords 1871-2

MS 7,542 News cuttings dealing with electoral reform, including articles on the Parliamentary and Municipal Election Act, and the subsequent elections at Preston and Twerton, the election of Dr. Edward Vaughan Kenealy as MP for Stoke-on-Trent, corrupt practices at elections, and A.M. Sullivan’s position regarding parliamentary reporters 1872-5

III.vi. Industrial unrest

MS 7,756 News cuttings relative to combinations and strikes, including the strikes and outrages in Sheffield, correspondents include a Mr. Hancock 1859-69

MS 7,757 News cuttings relative to strikes, including those of bakers in Dublin, engineers in Newcastle, building workers in London, flax workers in Belfast, and workers in Cork, and concerning the and the Trades Union Bill

20 1870-2

MS 7,758 News cuttings relative to strikes, including those of bakers and policemen in London, colliers in South Wales, gas workers, and saddlers in Dublin, and concerning the coal industry and Anthony Mundella’s committee 1872-3

MS 7,759 News cuttings relative to economic distress in Lancashire 1862-8

IV. IRISH ADMINISTRATION

IV.i. Irish Executive

IV.i.1. Lord Lieutenant

MS 7,504 Memoranda concerning the Irish government and the Lord Lieutenancy by George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle, Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Edward Cardwell and Rickard Deasy, Attorney-General for Ireland, with special reference to the abolition of the viceroyalty, and correspondence on the subject between Sir Thomas Larcom, John Poyntz Spencer, 5th , Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo and J.D. Fitzgerald 1857-72

MS 7,505 Memoranda and news cuttings concerning the Lord Lieutenancy, and the questions of central and local government and of administrative organization 1857-61

MS 7,506 News cuttings concerning the Lord Lieutenancy, including articles on proposals to abolish the Lord Lieutenancy, the death of George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle and the appointment of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl Kimberley as Lord Lieutenant (1864), and a bill for the better government of Ireland (1873) 1862-77

MS 7,507 News cuttings concerning the Lord Lieutenancy. Including articles on the arrival of the John Wodehouse, 1st Earl Kimberley in Dublin, riots in Belfast, signs of unrest in the country, an attempt to assassinate the Lord Lieutenant, Judge Thomas O’Hagan, and the resignation and death of Judge Ball 1864-66

MS 7,508 News cuttings concerning the Lord Lieutenancy .Including articles on George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle’s second term as Lord Lieutenant, the Wellington Testimonial, the Royal Hibernian School, the Queen’s

21 Colleges, a lecture on Oliver Goldsmith, appointments to the vacant bishoprics of Killaloe and Cork, and the death of Lord John Beresford, 1859-62

MS 7,509 News cuttings concerning the Lord Lieutenancy, including articles on the appointment of James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn as Lord Lieutenant and of Rev. Dr. Drew as vice-regal chaplain, and the activities of Rev. Hugh Hanna. Also includes the correspondence of Sir Thomas Larcom concerning the prophecies of St. Columbkille 1866-7

MS 7,510 News cuttings concerning the Lord Lieutenancy, including articles on John Russell, 1st Earl Russell’s visit to Belfast (1867), the re- appointment of James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn as Lord Lieutenant (1874) and his visit to Belfast (1876), the installation of Edward, Prince of Wales as a Knight of St. Patrick. Subject also include the Abergele railway accident, Frederick Hamilton-Temple- Blackwood, 1st Marquess Dufferin and Ava, Henry Moore, 3rd Marquis Drogheda, Queen’s Colleges, Belfast, and Lord Hamilton on the Church of Ireland 1867-76

IV.i.2. Chief Secretary

MS 7,513 News cuttings on various matters, including reports on the death of Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, the appointment of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell as Prime Minister and of Chichester Fortescue as Chief Secretary for Ireland (1865), the Irish Reform Bill (1866), matters relating to land tenure, and Earl Russell’s recollections 1864-73

MS 7,514 News cuttings on various matters, including reports on the appointment of Sir Robert Peel as Chief Secretary, his controversy with Cardinal Paul Cullen, and his affront to Daniel O’Donoghe, The O’Donoghue of the Glens 1861-71

MS 7,583 Correspondence between Thomas Larcom and Sir Robert Peel concerning the latter’s controversies with Daniel O’Donoghe, The O’Donoghue and Father Patrick Lavelle, and regarding the Peace Preservation Act, jury panels, and land valuation, with news cuttings relating to the Partry evictions, and a telegraph line between London and Cobh 1862

22 IV.i.3. Thomas Drummond, Under Secretary

MS 7,511 Letters and papers relative to Sir Thomas Larcom’s memoir of Thomas Drummond, Under-Secretary for Ireland (1835-40), including a draft of Drummond’s testimonial and a memorandum on John F. McLennan’s memoir of Drummond, correspondents include J. Browning, Colonel William Yolland (Railway Inspectorate) and Sir , with a copy of Drummond’s letter to John Hely-Hutchinson, 3rd 1840-67

MS 7,512 Printed copy of John F. McLennan’s memoir of Thomas Drummond, a pamphlet, entitled Observations on the value of the Ordnance name of Irish townlands, an obituary of Bernard Mulrenin (painter), and a poem believed to have been composed by Peter Breen [undated]

IV.i.4. Civil Service

MS 7,752 Official correspondence relative to the introduction of examinations for junior appointments in the Civil Service, and for appointments in the office and to the Chair of Celtic Languages at Queen’s College, Galway 1853-6

MS 7,753 Official correspondence relative to examinations for posts in the Civil Service, including the members of the Irish Constabulary, county surveyors, supplemental and temporary clerks, and for the Indian Civil Service, correspondents include Rickard Deasy MP 1856-64

MS 7,754 News cuttings relative to examinations for posts in the Civil Service, including the employment of soldiers in various offices 1854-69

MS 7,755 News cuttings relative to examinations for posts in the Civil Service 1870-7

IV.ii. Law and Order

IV.ii.1. Law Courts

MS 7,772 Letters, memoranda, news cuttings and pamphlets relating to the courts of law and equity, including the Juries Act, and judicial statistics, correspondents include Dr. Hancock 1860-72

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MS 7,773 Letters, memoranda, news cuttings and pamphlets relating to the courts of law and equity, including the Juries Act, the Chancery Bill (1864-7), criminal and judicial statistics, and the Admiralty Court 1861-76

MS 7,774 Letters, memoranda, news cuttings and pamphlets relating to the courts of law and equity, including the Juries Act, Mr. Lambert’s Bill, petty juries, grand jury presentments, and the Public Prosecutions Bill, correspondents include Thomas O’Hagan, 1st Baron O’Hagan 1871-8

IV.ii.2. Constabulary

MS 7,576 Correspondence on various matters, including the Irish Constabulary and crime, with a printed and amended copy of the Preservation of the Peace Act (1847), notes on the Foyle fisheries, and news cuttings concerning the murder of Miss Charlotte Hinds in Cavan (1855-6), correspondents include George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle 1847-56

MS 7,617 Official correspondence relating to the Irish Constabulary, including the origins of the force, its clothing, arms and pay, volunteers for service in India, the transfer of revenue duty to the force, illicit distillation in Dublin, licences for the consumption of wine in eating houses, and the laws of weights and measures, correspondents include William Fitzgerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros, Sir Duncan McGregor and Sir Henry Brownrigg (Inspector-Generals of Constabulary) 1847-62

MS 7,618 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Irish Constabulary and magistracy, including Roman Catholics in the force and the question of patronage, the Indian police (1859), the instruction of cadets (1860), the Amendment Act (1859), Leitrim magistrates, and the retirement of certain resident magistrates and of Sir Duncan McGregor (1858), correspondents include Sir Charles Trevelyan, Major Blackhall, and Mr. De Gernon 1858-74

MS 7,619 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Irish Constabulary, including ’s attack upon the force (1864), its conduct during the Fenian outbreak (1867), awards and medals, the commission of inquiry into increase of pay (1866), undetected crimes, crime in County Roscommon, and the retirement of Sir Henry Brownrigg, correspondents include Sir John Stewart Wood (Inspector-General, Royal Irish Constabulary) 1864-76

24 MS 7,620 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Irish Constabulary, including the protection of river fisheries, relationship to the Dublin , and agrarian crime, with special reference to counties Clare and Donegal 1858-66

MS 7,621 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Irish Constabulary, including proposals to consolidate the Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police, riots at Trinity College on the occasion of the visit of the Lord Lieutenant, and the taxation of the City of Dublin 1858

MS 7,622 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Irish Constabulary, including proposals to consolidate the Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police, the Amendment Bill, changes in headquarters establishment, increases of pay, the London Metropolitan Police, and the destruction by fire of St. Andrew’s Church, Dublin, correspondents include Sir (Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police) 1858-68

MS 7,623 Letters and news cuttings dealing with sectarian riots in Belfast, including the report of the commission of inquiry, and the letter from Sir Maziere Brady (Lord Chancellor of Ireland) to Frederick Stewart, 4th Marquess Londonderry 1857-8

MS 7,624 Letters and news cuttings dealing with sectarian riots in Belfast 1857-8

MS 7,625 Letters and news cuttings dealing with sectarian riots in Belfast, including the Belfast Municipal Commission (1858), Orange riots (1862), the magistracy, the Belfast police, and local newspapers 1858-65

MS 7,626 Letters and news cuttings concerning conditions in Belfast, including Orange riots, the commission of inquiry, the Irish Constabulary, and the question of martial law, correspondents include Sir George Grey (Home Secretary) and George Howard, 7th (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) 1864

MS 7,627 Letters and news cuttings concerning conditions in Belfast, including disturbances, election anniversaries, a parliamentary debate (Feb 1865), and the Constabulary Bill, correspondents include General Sir George Brown (Commander-in-Chief, Ireland) 1864-5

MS 7,628 News cuttings relating to the O’Connell monument and the attitude of Dr. John MacHale () towards the project, with a memorandum on the reconstruction of the police force of Belfast

25 1862-4

MS 7,629 News cuttings concerning the O’Connell demonstration in Dublin, riots in Belfast and the burning of O’Connell’s effigy 1864

MS 7,630 News cuttings concerning the commission of inquiry into the riots in Belfast, the occurrence of riots in Dundalk and Queenstown, the assizes, and parliamentary elections 1864-5

MS 7,631 News cuttings concerning riots in Belfast (Aug 1872), proposed measures to deal with disturbances, the spring assizes (1873), and the issues of libel and contempt of court 1872-3

MS 7,632 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings concerning the state of the county of Donegal 1857-70

MS 7,633 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings concerning the state of the county of Donegal 1858-64

MS 7,634 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings concerning the state of the county of Leitrim, with special reference to crime, and William Clements, 3rd Earl Leitrim’s exclusion of the Lord Lieutenant from the Maam Hotel, Co. Galway 1856-67

MS 7,635 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings concerning the state of Queen’s County and Kilkenny 1858-62

MS 7,636 Letters and news cuttings concerning the state of the county of Tipperary, with special reference to crime 1857-9

MS 7,637 Letters and news cuttings relating to the state of the counties of Tipperary and Limerick, with special reference to crime, including the murder of Mr. McGuire and Charles Thiebault, convictions for threatening letters, the special commission at Clonmel and the acquittal of Halloran, the stationing of extra constables, and the Hon. Charles Spring Rice’s proclamation, correspondents include William Levinge 1862-3

MS 7,638 Letters and news cuttings relating to the state of the counties of Tipperary and Limerick, with special reference to crime, including the search for [?] Walsh 1862-3

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MS 7,639 Letters and news cuttings concerning the state of the county of Westmeath and King’s County, with special reference to crime 1858-62

IV.iii. Education

MS 7,647 News cuttings dealing with the subject of education in Ireland, including articles referring to the views of William Gladstone, James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess Salisbury, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl Derby, and Rev. Canon Kinsley 1858-66 & 1870

MS 7,648 Letters and memoranda on the subject of education in Ireland, including the Queen’s College, Belfast, the memorial of the prelates of the Roman , ultramontane designs, and the Church Education Society, correspondents include the Bishop of Cork, Mr. Wilkie, Rev. W.A. Wilcock, Mr. Stoney, and Judge Mountifort Longfield (Landed Estates Court) 1861-65

MS 7,649 News cuttings dealing with the question of national education, including the attitude of the prelates of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Church of Ireland, the senate of the Queen’s College, and Sir Robert Kane’s views on ‘Cullenism’ 1857-9

MS 7,650 News cuttings dealing with the question of national education, including the views of the , the Church Education Society, and the Belfast Presbytery, and reports on a public meeting in Cork, the Roman Catholic prelates and the government, and parliamentary debates 1860

MS 7,651 News cuttings dealing with the question of national education, including a manifesto from the Roman Catholic Church bishops, the resolutions of the and parliamentary debates 1861-3

MS 7,652 News cuttings dealing with the question of national education, including Cardinal Cullen’s pastoral on the matter, meetings in Belfast, the attitude of Presbyterians, and the Royal Commission on Primary Education 1864-7

MS 7,653 News cuttings dealing with the question of national education, including Presbyterian education, and the Royal Commission on Primary Education

27 1868-71

MS 7,654 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with the question of national education, including reports of public meetings at Dublin, Cork and Kilkenny on the subject, the case of O’Keefe versus Cullen, and education in Prussia, with a booklet entitled Roman Catholic Priests and National Schools by G. Fitzgibbon 1872

MS 7,655 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with the question of national education, including the case Harkins versus O’Keefe, the National Education League, the parliamentary committee, and the Education Commissioners’ reports for 1874-6 1873-6

MS 7,656 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with the National Education Bill, including its progress through the House of Commons and House of Lords 1869-70

MS 7,657 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with the National Education Bill, including W.E. Forster’s speech at Bradford, the National Education League, and the views of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1870-3

MS 7,658 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with the National Education Bill, including the National Education Union, the Wesleyans, the School Board and the views of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell and Mr. Dixon 1870-4

MS 7,659 Pamphlets and news cuttings relating to intermediate education, including the Endowed Schools Commission, the Public Schools Bill, and education in Ireland and Scotland 1854-78

MS 7,660 News cuttings dealing with the Scottish Education Bill, and Mr. Gordon’s resolution 1871-7

MS 7,661 News cuttings dealing with intermediate and university education, including the pastorals of the Roman Catholic hierarchy on the subject, a deputation to William Gladstone, a collection for the Catholic University, the attitudes of the corporations of Dublin and Kilkenny, and the abolition of the university tests in England 1871

MS 7,662 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with university education, including the views of Jules Sinton, and English university endowments 1872

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MS 7,663 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with university education, the introduction of the University Bill, Magee College, endowed schools, and a meeting of the senate of Dublin University 1872-3

MS 7,664 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with university education, including the Synod of Maynooth, Sir John Gray, Henry Fawcett MP, Isaac Butt MP and the University Bill, and a conference of Irish Liberal MPs 1873-7

MS 7,665 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with Trinity College, Dublin, including the Divinity School, the education of the clergy, sham degrees, the Dublin University Tests Bill, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge 1865-71

MS 7,666 Pamphlets and news cuttings dealing with Trinity College, Dublin, including the Historical Society, the Divinity School, Henry Fawcett MP and the University Bill, the Queen’s letter, and a comparison as to finance between Dublin University and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge 1872-75

MS 7,667 Letters, memoranda, pamphlets and news cuttings relative to the Queen’s University and Queen’s Colleges, including surgical degrees, and a proposal to abolish the professorship of Celtic at Queen’s College, Galway 1850-60

MS 7,668 Letters, memoranda, pamphlets and news cuttings relative to the Queen’s University and Queen’s Colleges, including articles on the Museum of Industry, St. Stephen’s Green, the Catholic University of Ireland, and the Royal Dublin Society 1857-66

MS 7,669 News cuttings relative to the Queen’s University and Queen’s Colleges 1857-65

MS 7,670 News cuttings relative to the Queen’s University and Queen’s Colleges, including the Convocation, Sir Robert Peel (Chief Secretary for Ireland) and the new charter, and the award of degrees 1865-6

MS 7,671 Papers and news cuttings relative to the Queen’s University and Queen’s Colleges, including the new charter rolls court, the Convocation, degrees, a meeting of the senate, William Gladstone on religious education, the Methodist College, Belfast, and the appointment of Professor William Kirkby Sullivan to succeed Sir

29 Robert Kane as President of Cork College 1867-78

MS 7,672 Papers and news cuttings relative to the Roman Catholic University, including an address to the Irish hierarchy by the National Conference 1858-62

MS 7,673 News cuttings relative to the Roman Catholic University, including articles on Roman Catholic university education in England 1863-9

MS 7,674 News cuttings relative to the Roman Catholic University, including Dr. Haughton and the correspondence of the Roman Catholic bishops, a meeting and resolution of the bishops, a protest by ex-students, the Catholic College at Kensington, and the report of the Royal Commission 1867-79

IV.iv. Social and Economic Policy

IV.iv.1. Condition of Ireland

MS 7,562 Memoranda on the social and economic condition of Ireland drawn up in 1850, 1851, and 1854, by Thomas Larcom, Mr. Murray and others, for the use of the Lord Lieutenant, together with reports on agricultural societies and on conditions in Galway and Londonderry 1857-60

MS 7,600 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including numbers of troops stationed in the country, outrages, the Poor Law, the state of Dublin and the Metropolitan Police, the Atlantic cable, the Mansion House banquet, Lord Carlisle’s departure from office, agricultural meetings at Athlone and Waterford, and the Limerick election. Correspondents include Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, Richard Boyle, 9th Earl Cork and Orrery, George Villiers, 4th Earl Clarendon, Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl St. Germans and George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle 1850-7

MS 7,601 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, particularly agriculture, including Lord Eglington’s tenure as Lord Lieutenant, the condition of Londonderry, a visit of Scottish tenants to Galway, the state of Dublin, the Lord Mayor’s banquet, the Royal Dublin Society prizes, the Royal Agricultural Society, the Museum of Irish Industry, and the death of Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl Eglington and 1st Earl Wintoun. Correspondents include Elizabeth Stewart neé Jocelyn, 4th Marchioness Londonderry and J.D. Fitzgerald 1858-9

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MS 7,602 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, particularly agriculture and emigration, including notes on Drogheda, the meteorological register (1860), the Royal Agricultural Society and agricultural shows, the butter trade, cottages for the poor, dockyards, and the industrial movement in Ireland. Correspondents include William Clements, 3rd Earl Leitrim and George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle 1859-60

MS 7,603 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including agriculture, education, the Poor Law, public works, crime, emigration, population, marriages, land valuation, newspapers, and the railways, correspondents include Edward Cardwell (Chief Secretary for Ireland) 1859-60

MS 7,604 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including the Royal Dublin Society, dwellings of the labouring classes, agricultural shows and meetings, notes on Belfast, Lurgan, Portadown, dwellings for the poor, population and educational statistics, the Poor Law and drainage work on Lough Neagh. Correspondents include Mr. Wilkie and Mr. Power 1861

MS 7,605 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including Dublin city, the Royal Dublin Society prizes, the Poor Law and public health, the Post Office, the Royal Agricultural Society and agricultural shows, sheep and cattle diseases, Limerick city, the Land Improvement Acts, meteorological observations (1861), flax production, food prices (1851, 1856 and 1861), education, trade, railways, revenue, emigration and population (1862). Correspondents include George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), and Messers. Heron, Fisher and Rainsford 1851-62

MS 7,606 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including Dublin city, the Mansion House banquet, agricultural meetings and shows, the Cork and Macroom railway, the Poor Law, flax production, education, emigration, population, housing, public health, crime, and the Irish language. Correspondents include George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), Joseph Colthurst, Dr. W. Neilson Hancock (Dublin University), and Messers. Donnelly and Griffith 1863

MS 7,607 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including emigration, criminal statistics, the English press, the National Review, and Ireland past and present. Correspondents include Sir William Wilde, Dr. W. Neilson Hancock, Dr. Ingram, Mr. Lever, Gustavus Dalton, and William Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl Clancarty 1864

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MS 7,608 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including criminal offences in Dublin, the Poor Law, the O’Connell statue, the Royal Dublin Society, the Mansion House banquet, Irish horses, the Royal Agricultural Society, a cattle show at Sligo, the remittance of public money between Great Britain and Ireland, flax production, recruitment to the Federal Army of the United States, and the results of the harvest, correspondents include Dr. W. Neilson Hancock 1864

MS 7,609 Letters, memoranda, pamphlets and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including Irish industries, bank deposits, the violence of the working classes, the origin of the Dublin Athenaeum, distress in Galway, the Poor Law, flax production, statistics relating to the importation of cattle, sheep and pigs, distilleries and imports of wine, and emigration. Correspondents include Dr. W. Neilson Hancock, Sir Robert Kane, Sir Joseph Napier, James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl Charlemont, and Mr. Long 1865

MS 7,610 Letters and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including statistics on flax cultivation in Connaught and Munster, Irish manufacture, cattle and agricultural shows, Lord Erne and his tenantry, the Mansion House banquet, and parliamentary debates. Correspondents include Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, and James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford 1865

MS 7,611 Letters and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including notes on the Royal Dublin Society, flax cultivation, cattle shows, agricultural labourers, with a summary of events of 1866. Correspondents include Sir Colman O’Loghlen, Dr. W. Neilson Hancock, Frederick Hamilton- Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Henry Grey, 3rd 1866-7

MS 7,612 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, particularly on distress in the west of Ireland and on measures taken to relieve it, with articles on the Royal Agricultural Society and criminal statistics for 1867. Correspondents include C. Smyth, Dr. W. Neilson Hancock and James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) 1867

MS 7,613 Memoranda and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including a return of agrarian outrages, the rentals of a number of counties, House of Commons debate on Ireland, the Royal Agricultural Society, the Mansion House banquet, and returns of emigration, bank deposits and crop production in Ulster. Correspondents include Mr. Maguire 1868

32 MS 7,614 Pamphlets and news cuttings on the condition of Ireland, including an annual summary for 1871, the spring and summer assizes (1872), agricultural meetings, deposits and cash held by Irish banks (1840-69), economic conditions, crime, with special reference to counties Westmeath, Mayo and Tipperary, savings in government funds, emigration, wages in the west of Ireland, and the Dublin Exhibition 1870-2

MS 7,615 News cuttings dealing with the condition of Ireland, including agricultural shows, investment in savings banks, bank note circulation, the Mansion House banquet, riots in Dublin, docks at Limerick and Waterford, Greenore harbour, Sir Arthur Guinness v. Freeman’s Journal, attempts to upset trains, the reclamation of waste land, emigration statistics, the murder of William Clements, 3rd Earl Leitrim, the Peace Preservation Act, and William Gladstone’s visit to Ireland 1873-8

MS 7,616 News cuttings and papers dealing with the condition of Ireland in 1879, the funeral of Sir William Wilde (1876), and a manuscript note on the death of Sir Thomas Larcom 1876-9

IV.iv.2. Lunatic Asylums & Hospitals

MS 7,775 Letters, memoranda, news cuttings and pamphlets relating to lunatic asylums, including those constructed under the original Board of Control rules, the proceedings of a commission of inquiry, the removal of lunatics, Lucan spa, the establishment of six new asylums, comparisons of costs and improved administration 1843-59

MS 7,776 Letters, memoranda, news cuttings and pamphlets relating to lunatic asylums, including those in the counties Clare, Limerick, Donegal, Londonderry, Down, Antrim, Monghan, Cavan, Wexford and Mayo, and the reconstructed Board of Control 1859-77

MS 7,780 News cuttings and pamphlets relating to the Hospitals and Infirmaries Bill, an outbreak of smallpox, the Vaccination Bill and the Poor Relief Bill 1854-65

IV.iv.3. Poor Law

MS 7,781 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Poor Law, charges of proselytism and of enmity towards the Catholic clergy in poor law

33 institutions, and distress in 1863-66

MS 7,782 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Poor Law, charges of proselytism and of enmity towards the Catholic clergy in poor law institutions, and distress in county Mayo 1858-67

MS 7,783 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Poor Law, including charges of proselytism and of enmity towards the Catholic clergy in poor law institutions, and distress in county Mayo 1858-61

MS 7,784 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Poor Law, and the relief of distress, especially in the west of Ireland, with a map showing the areas most severely affected 1861-2

MS 7,785 Letters and news cuttings relating to the Poor Law, and the relief of distress, especially in the west of Ireland, with a map showing the areas most severely affected 1862-3

IV.iv.4. Board of Works

MS 7,745 Manuscript and printed documents dealing with the Board of Works and its activities, including the relief of distress, railways, tillage, politics, the Indian famine, and potato disease 1846-75

MS 7,746 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings relative to the Board of Works, drainage and land reclamation, fisheries, the Piers and Harbours Acts, the County Fiscal Affairs Bill, the Polling Places (Ireland) Bill 1850-65

IV.iv.5. Census

MS 7,525 Official correspondence concerning the census of Ireland of 1841, including Thomas Larcom’s appointment as Commissioner, occupational groups, and mortality rates, correspondents include Mr. Nichols, Mr. Kennedy and George Howard, Lord Morpeth (Chief Secretary for Ireland) 1840-5

MS 7,526 Official correspondence concerning the census of Ireland of 1841, correspondents include Sir Randolph Routh (Chief Relief

34 Commissioner), with extracts from newspapers and periodicals 1841-50

MS 7,527 Memoranda and letters to Thomas Larcom concerning the censuses of Ireland of 1841 and 1851, with forms of tables, a draft report, an audit of accounts, and news cuttings concerning the census of 1851 1841-50

MS 7,750 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings relative to the census of Ireland of 1861 1860-70

MS 7,751 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings relative to the census of Ireland of 1871, including religious denominations, the publication of the work, statistics and summary tables, and the press. Correspondents include Sir William Wilde and Dr. Abraham 1870-6

IV.iv.6. Taxation

MS 7,786 Letters and news cuttings relating to the taxation of Ireland and the report of the taxation committee 1860-70

IV.v. Agriculture and Fisheries

IV.v.1. Agricultural statistics

MS 7,743 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings containing agricultural statistics, including an account of the quantities of corn grain meal and flour imported during the year 1847 1847-51

MS 7,744 Letters and news cuttings containing annual agricultural statistics for the period 1847-1876, with emigration statistics for 1857, and notes on the Domesday Book 1847-76

IV.v.2. Cattle disease

MS 7,748 News cuttings relative to cattle plague and the Cattle Diseases Bill 1865

MS 7,749 News cuttings relative to cattle plague and the Cattle Diseases Bill

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IV.v.3. Fisheries

MS 7,767 News cuttings relative to the inland and sea fisheries of Ireland, including salmon fisheries, the Irish Fisheries Act, and the appointment of the Fishery Commissioners 1860-3

MS 7,768 News cuttings relative to the inland and sea fisheries of Ireland, including salmon fisheries, oyster fisheries, the Irish Fisheries Act, and the appointment of the Fishery Commissioners 1863-76

IV.vi. Transport and Communications

IV.vi.1. Transatlantic Cable and Packet

MS 7,787 News cuttings relative to the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable between Valentia Island and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland 1857-65

MS 7,788 News cuttings relative to the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable between Valentia Island and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland 1866-70

MS 7,769 News cuttings dealing with the establishment of a transatlantic packet station at Galway 1858-60

MS 7,770 News cuttings dealing with the transatlantic packet station at Galway 1861-71

IV.vi.2. Railways

MS 7,791 News cuttings and pamphlets relative to the Irish railways, railway reform and a movement respecting the purchase of Irish railways by the Government 1867-8

MS 7,792 News cuttings and pamphlets relative to English and Irish railways, railway reform, and a movement respecting the purchase of Irish railways by the Government 1872-4

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IV.vii. City of Dublin

MS 7,640 News cuttings relating to Dublin city improvements, with particular reference to the gas supply, the Ballast Board, the Botanic Gardens, public statues of Daniel O’Connell, Henry Grattan, Sir Philip Crampton and Lord Gough, St. Andrew’s Church, the Cathedrals of St. Patrick and Christchurch, and improvements to the Cathedral at Tuam 1858-78

MS 7,641 News cuttings and papers relating to Dublin city improvements, with particular reference to the Fire Brigade 1860-76

MS 7,642 News cuttings relating to Dublin city improvements, with particular reference to the water supply 1860-1

MS 7,643 News cuttings relating to Dublin city improvements, with particular reference to the water supply, including Rathmines waterworks 1861-73

MS 7,644 News cuttings relating to Dublin city improvements, with particular reference to the metropolitan railway, and the establishment of a new cattle market 1861-4

MS 7,645 News cuttings relating to Dublin city improvements, with particular reference to the purification of the River Liffey, the opening of St. Stephen’s Green to the public, Essex Bridge, and the rebuilding of Carlisle Bridge 1864-73

MS 7,646 Letters, memoranda and pamphlets relating to the Dublin hospitals, including the receipt of grants, royal charters, the report of a commission of inquiry, the heads of a proposed bill, a deputation to the Lord Lieutenant, a pamphlet by John Prendergast Vereker (3rd Viscount Gort), and the appointment of Dr. Phelan, correspondents include George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), Dr. McDonnell, Sir Philip Crampton, and the British Medical Association 1849-74

MS 7,778 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings relative to the construction of the Wellington monument, with an obituary of John Hogan, sculptor 1856-60

37 IV.viii. Land Question

IV.viii.1. Landlord and Tenant

MS 7,706 News cuttings relative to the landlord and tenant question, including the ideas of Sharman Crawford, the Tenure and Improvement of Land (Ireland) Act (1860), and a comparison between land tenure in Ireland and Belgium 1855-63

MS 7,707 News cuttings relative to the landlord and tenant question, including the ideas of Professor Cairnes, the Tenure and Improvement of Land (Ireland) Act (1860) and a comparison between land tenure in Ireland and Belgium 1864-65

MS 7,708 News cuttings relative to the land question, including the land bills of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas and Ulrick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, cattle plague in County Down, and a comparison between the British, Scottish and Irish systems of agriculture 1866-7

MS 7,709 News cuttings relative to the land question, including the views of Isaac Butt, Sir John Gray, and J.S. Mill, land bills, cattle plague in County Down, and a comparison between the British, Scottish and Irish systems of agriculture 1868

MS 7,710 News cuttings relative to the land question, including the National Association, meetings at Castlebar, Sligo and Mayo, the Independent Club, Queen’s County, the Prussian plan, Kenmare Board of Guardians, the North Dublin Union, and the views of Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley, John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, Spencer Caendish, Marquess of Hartington, Isaac Butt, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl Carnarvon, Professor Fawcett, K. Shuttleworth, and others 1869

MS 7,711 News cuttings relative to the land question, including Ulster tenant right, meetings at Cavan, Limerick and county. Clare, Henry Dawson- Damer, 3rd Earl Portarlington and Rev. Dr. Taylor, and William Gladstone’s views on agrarian crime 1869

MS 7,712 News cuttings relative to the land question, including the Longford conference, meetings at Carrick-on-Shannon, Tullamore, and the Curragh, the election of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa as MP for Tipperary, Mullingar Board of Guardians, Lord John Manners, the Irish Tenant League, and fixity of tenure 1870

38 MS 7,713 News cuttings relative to the land question, including the National Conference requisition, a meeting at Dungarvan, William Perry, 3rd Earl Limerick, and Issac Wallop, 5th Earl Portsmouth 1870

MS 7,714 News cuttings relative to the land question, including the opening of the parliamentary session, Irish landlords and tenants, the Irish Tenant League, and a deputation to William Gladstone 1870

MS 7,715 News cuttings relative to the land question, including the Irish Land Bill of 1870, Kerry Farmers’ Club, the Life and Property Bill, and Rev. Dr. Gillott 1870

MS 7,716 News cuttings relative to the Irish Land Act of 1870, including the Ballymoney conference, a comparison of Greece and Ireland, and the passing of the Land Bill, with T.F. Barry’s pamphlet, and G.A. Dean’s treatise 1870

MS 7,717 News cuttings relative to the Irish Land Act of 1870, including amendments by the House of Lords, Lord Justice Christian, Captain Nolan, the Portacarron award, the law of hypothec, and English land law 1870-1

MS 7,718 News cuttings relating to agrarian crime in Ireland, including the second reading of the Peace Preservation Bill (1870), the summer assizes, the trial of Barrett in Dublin, and Captain Lambert 1870

MS 7,719 News cuttings relating to agrarian crime in Ireland, including the introduction of the Protection of Life and Property in Certain Parts of Ireland Bill (the Westmeath Act), the summer assizes, and William Gladstone and Dr. Ball 1871

MS 7,720 News cuttings relating to the land question and crime, including the sale of the Marquis of Waterford’s estate, the Portacarron award, an attack on a chairman of quarter sessions, a murder at Rathgar, the Peace Preservation Act, a bill to enable the Board of Works to advance funds, the Social Science Congress, the Farmer’s Club and Tenant Defence Association, Valentine Browne, 4th Earl Kenmare, Sir Joseph McKenna, Edward Stanley, 15th Earl Derby, William Clement, 3rd Earl Leitrim, James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford’s committee, the purchase of farms by tenants, and the Duke of Leinster and his tenantry 1872-3

MS 7,721 News cuttings relating to the land question, including Ulster tenant

39 right, the renewal of the Peace Preservation Act, James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford, Sir James Caird, the land conference at the Rotunda, Dublin, the Agricultural Holdings Bill, and the Tenant Right Bill 1874-5

IV.viii.2. Land sales

MS 7,789 News cuttings relative to the sale and transfer of land, the Landed Estates Court, the Incumbered Estates Court, and the Registry of Deeds 1857-64

MS 7,790 Letters, memoranda and pamphlets relative to the sale and transfer of land, the registration of deeds, and the value of the Ordnance Survey maps for this purpose, with 5’’ map of Dublin city (1838) and 6” map of Lorrha Bar (1840) 1847-63

V. NATIONAL POLITICS

V.i. Fenianism

MS 7,517 Official correspondence concerning Fenianism in Ireland and America, including statements made by Nicholas English, executed for his part in the Clerkenwell explosion (1867). Copies of letters to Sir Thomas Larcom concerning the Fenian movement in America from Pierrepoint Edwards (Acting Consul, New York) and others. A short history of Fenianism, a memorandum on a supposed conspiracy by Colonel Nagle to assassinate W.F. Million, an unpublished preface to the Dublin Special Commission prepared by Mr. Chamney, and an index of names mentioned in the documents 1855-69

MS 7,793 Official correspondence dealing with the Phoenix Society, with a copy of the Irish Voice (23 Nov 1861) and cuttings from the Nation (1862) 1858-9

MS 7,593 Official correspondence dealing with the quantity of firearms captured in 1866, troop movements, probable distress in the west of Ireland, police reports on Fenianism and James Stephens, and the arrest of Edmund O’Donovan 1867

MS 7,594 Official correspondence dealing with Fenianism, troop movements, and the appointment of special constables 1867

40 MS 7,675 News cuttings relative to Fenianism in Ireland, England and America, including the seizure of the Irish People (with extracts from the suppressed edition), Cork magistrates, and the arrest and examination of prisoners 1865

MS 7,676 News cuttings relative to Fenianism in Ireland and America, including the release of John Mitchel, attempted assassinations, the arrest of Martin O’Brennan, proprietor of the Connaught Patriot, the arrest and escape of James Stephens, and the Board of Superintendence of Richmond Prison 1865

MS 7,677 Letters and news cuttings relative to Fenianism in Ireland and America, including the exchange of letters between James Stephens and John O’Mahony, a meeting at the Rotunda, Dublin, the proclamation of Dublin City and County, and the suspension of habeas corpus 1865-6

MS 7,678 News cuttings relative to Fenianism in Ireland, America and Canada, including Cardinal Cullen’s pastoral letter, James Stephens in Paris, a portrait of The O’Donoghue, and a memoir of General Thomas Sweeny 1866

MS 7,679 News cuttings relative to Fenianism in Ireland, England, America and Canada, including James Stephens in America, the raid on Canada, General John O’Neill, a speech by D’Arcy Magee, ‘Greek Fire’ in Liverpool, the resignation of John O’Mahony, an address to Lord Kimberley, the Jones Wood meeting, the speeches of George F. Train, the suspension of habeas corpus, and letters by John Mitchel and Father Patrick Lavelle 1866

MS 7,680 News cuttings relative to Fenianism in Ireland, America and Canada, including General Meade’s report on the raid on Canada, the Fenian trials in Canada, the Jones Wood meeting, President Andrew Johnson’s message, experiments with ‘Greek Fire’, the recruitment of special constables, the arrest of Stephen J. Meany, and an anti-Fenian demonstration in Valentia, Co. Kerry 1866-7

MS 7,681 News cuttings relative to Fenianism in Ireland, England and Canada, including the commutation of sentences on Fenians in Canada, arms seizures and arrests in Belfast, the raid on Chester Castle, and Fenianism in Killarney 1866-7

MS 7,682 News cuttings relative to the Fenian insurrection in Dublin on 6 March 1867, and elsewhere in Ireland, the duties and powers of special

41 constables, and on the suppression of the rising 1867

MS 7,683 News cuttings relative to the suppression of the Fenian insurrection in Ireland, including activities at Castlemartyr and Mitchelstown, the escape of Kirwan, the death of Walsh at Waterford, the establishment of the Special Commission, the activities of William Roberts, John Martin, and General Fariola, the views of Archbishop Henry Manning, Mr. Maguire and Victor Hugo, and the arrival of the ‘Jacknell’ at Sligo and Dungarvan 1867

MS 7,685 News cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the Reform League in England, the execution of Allen, Larkin and O’Brien, the funeral procession for the ‘Manchester Martyrs’ in Cork, the arrest of Rickard Burke, the Queen’s letter, Mr. Maguire’s The Irish in America, the Clerkenwell explosion, the Nation, Dublin Corporation, and A.M. Sullivan’s denunciation of assassinations 1867

MS 7,686 News cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the Bishop of Kerry’s circular, and the question of American citizens in British prisons 1868

MS 7,687 Letters and news cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the arrest and escape of James Stephens, the governorship of Kilmainham prison, Fenian trials in Dublin and Cork, the removal of prisoners from Ireland to Pentonville Jail, discussion of the origins of the movement, and photographs of Lynch, O’Donovan, Dillon and Duggan 1865

MS 7,688 Letters and news cuttings relative to Fenianism, including copies of two ballads of the period, correspondents include , 3rd Eal of Bandon 1865

MS 7,689 News cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the release of John Mitchel, the arrest of John O’Donovan, the libel charge against the Freeman’s Journal, the raid on Canada, and the arrest and escape of James Stephens, with portraits of Stephens and his wife, John O’Mahony and Thomas Meagher 1865

MS 7,690 Letters and news cuttings relative to Fenianism, including photographs of prisoners, ballads of the period, and statistics of emigration during the months November and December 1866, correspondents include Mr. Goold RM and Sergeant McCarthy 1866

MS 7,691 News cuttings relative to Fenianism and Orangeism, including the

42 meeting at Moneymore, with ballads of the period, and portraits of prominent Fenians 1866

MS 7,692 News cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the activities of James Stephens, a letter from Father Patrick Lavelle, ballads of the period, and portraits of prominent Fenians 1866

MS 7,693 News cuttings relative to Fenianism in Ireland, America and Canada, including the treatment of Fenian prisoners 1866

MS 7,694 Memoranda and news cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the Irish People, a circular for the liberation of prisoners, and Captain F. Lawlor, with photographs of prisoners, correspondents include Mr. Hanna RM 1866-9

MS 7,695 News cuttings relative to Fenianism in Ireland, England and America, including the embarkation of Fenian convicts for Australia, an entertainment for Father Patrick Lavelle, and funeral processions for the ‘Manchester Martyrs’ 1867

MS 7,696 News cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the raid on the Martello tower at Duncannon, the position of the Roman Catholic clergy on Fenianism, loyal addresses, the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, a plot to assassinate Queen Victoria at Lucerne, Fenian convicts in western Australia, disturbances in New Zealand, and the activities of John O’Mahony, and Generals Fariola, Cluseret and Millen 1868

MS 7,697 Letters, pamphlets and news cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the Phoenix Society in America, information respecting Irish American hostility towards the British Government, correspondence between John Martin and William Smith O’Brien relative to a French invasion, a letter from Jules Lasteyrie to Jonathan Pim MP on the state of Ireland, the suspension of habeas corpus, the escape of James Stephens, the report of the inspectors of prisons, a Fenian Republican bond, and photographs of a number of Fenians, correspondents include Rev. T. O’Malley 1858-72

MS 7,698 Letters, memoranda and pamphlets relative to the Young Irelanders and Fenianism, including the death of William Smith O’Brien, recollections of the Insurrection of 1848 by T.F. Meagher, and reminiscences of the author by John Mitchel, photographs of Fenians, booklets of popular poetry, with an account of the Insurrection at Ballingarry by Rev. P. Fitzgerald and a reply by Thomas Trant

43 1861-7

MS 7,699 News cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the prohibition of ‘Manchester Martyrs’ processions in Cork, Dublin and Limerick, American press reaction to the executions, and gas explosions at Warrington and Newcastle 1867-8

MS 7,700 News cuttings relative to Fenianism, including the attempted murder of M. Melvin at Arran Quay, the murder of Head-Constable Talbot, the trial of Kelly, and the prosecution of Richard Pigott, proprietor of the Irishman for contempt of court 1868-73

MS 7,701 News cuttings relative to the Special Commission in Dublin and the trials of prominent Fenians, including Charles Kickham, William Roantree, John Fottrell, F.P. Cleary, and Cornelius O’Mahony, the action for illegal imprisonment by Thomas C. Luby against the Lord Lieutenant, and prisoners’ claims for the restoration of supplies from America 1865-6

MS 7,702 News cuttings relative to the Special Commission in Dublin and the trials of prominent Fenians, including Denis Killen, J. Flood, Sergeant Danagh, J. Mulvehill, McCarthy, Burton, McCoy, and Cranston, and allegations of Fenianism in the British Army 1865-7

MS 7,703 News cuttings relative to the Special Commissions in Cork and Limerick and the trials of prominent Fenians, including Clarke, Edward Duffy, Burke and Charles Doran, the campaign for the commutation of capital sentences, and penal servitude in English prisons 1867

MS 7,704 News cuttings relative to Fenian prisoners and the Amnesty movement 1869-70

MS 7,705 News cuttings relative to Fenian prisoners and the Amnesty movement, including public meetings at Hyde Park, Clerkenwell, Glasgow, Newry, Dundalk and Drogheda 1871-8

V.ii. Nationalist movement

MS 7,722 News cuttings relative to secret societies, Ribbonism and the Phoenix Clubs, including the Phoenix trials in Tralee, Cork and Belfast, and the attitude of Catholic priests to secret societies

44 1858-9

MS 7,723 News cuttings relating to the nationalist movement, including Australian sympathy, The O’Donoghue, the death of Michael Doheny, the Brotherhood of St. Patrick, distress in the west of Ireland, and Dr. Cullen’s pronouncements on secret societies 1862

MS 7,724 News cuttings relating to the nationalist movement, including a pamphlet on the subject by Rev. William Smith, John Martin’s lecture on Daniel O’Connell, and James Whiteside’s lecture on ‘The Life and Death of the Irish Parliament’ 1863

MS 7,725 News cuttings relating to the nationalist movement including a letters from John Mitchel on the American question, the inauguration of the Goldsmith statue, the death of Archbishop Hughes, and the 1864

MS 7,726 News cuttings relating to the national question, including the foundation of the National Association and the attitude towards it of Cardinal Cullen and Bishop MacHale, and a banquet given for 1865

MS 7,727 News cuttings relating to the national question, including local administration, the National Association, The O’Donoghue’s estates, and the death of John B. Dillon, with portrait, with a pamphlet by Rev. W. Smith 1866

MS 7,728 News cuttings relating to the national question, including John Martin and the National Association, Samuel Haughton on repeal, the taxation of Ireland, and the death of Thomas F. Meagher, with portrait 1867

MS 7,729 News cuttings relating to the state of Ireland, including martial law, federation, repeal, the position of Roman Catholic priests on the national question, and the Irish in America 1868

MS 7,730 Pamphlets and news cuttings on Irish nationality, including Irish sympathy for France in the war with Prussia, the death of George H. Moore MP, Londonderry, the visit of the President of the French ambulance to Ireland, autonomy in the Austrian dominions, and the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1870-1

MS 7,731 News cuttings relating to the Home Rule movement, the Home Rule

45 Association, Gavan Duffy’s premiership of Victoria, and a pamphlet entitled Irish Federalism by Isaac Butt 1870-1

MS 7,732 Pamphlets and news cuttings relating to the Home Rule movement, including the views of Sir David Wedderburn, Earl Russell, Mr. Maguire, and Mr. Dodson on the subject, private bill legislation, the Local Government Board Bill, and the Dublin University Bill 1872

MS 7,733 News cuttings on the Home Rule question, including the Home Rule Conference, meetings at Clontarf, Enniskillen and Tralee, with pamphlets on the during parliamentary independence and on federalism, on Dr. Manning’s views on Ireland, and on the Irish Home Rule League, including published letters and articles by ‘Protestant Celt’ (Robert MacDonnell) from The Times (14 & 21 April 1873) and Freeman’s Journal (22 & 23 April 1873) 1873

MS 7,734 News cuttings on the Home Rule question, including the general election, the Dublin county election, the Queen’s speech, Chichester Fortescue, Isaac Butt and a conference of Irish MPs, with pamphlets on the Irish Home Rule League 1874

MS 7,735 Letters and news cuttings relating to landlordism and ribbonism, especially in Queen’s County (Laois) 1858-9

MS 7,736 News cuttings relating to the Home Rule movement, including nationalism in Belfast, a meeting at the Rotunda, Dublin, the borough franchise, political prisoners, the Home Rule Convention and banquet, Dr. Mulcahy, The O’Connor Don, P.J. Smyth, and Isaac Butt, and the unveiling of the Grattan monument 1876

MS 7,737 News cuttings relating to the Home Rule movement, including Joseph Biggar, and the obstruction policy, Isaac Butt’s letter to Father Murphy, William Gladstone’s speech at Nottingham, P.J. Smyth, a demonstration at Kilmallock, and a meeting in the Ancient Concert Room, Dublin 1877

MS 7,738 News cuttings relating to the Home Rule movement, including the Home Rule Conference, Isaac Butt and his constituents, an international conference, the Home Rule Confederation, Major O’Gorman MP, Alfred Webb, Edmond Dease MP, A.M. Sullivan MP, and Richard O’Shaughnessy MP, and a tenants’ tribute to Mitchell Henry 1878-9

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MS 7,739 News cuttings relating to the O’Connell monument in Dublin, including the collection of subscriptions, the location of a site, the design of the statue, and the unveiling of a statue to his memory in Ennis 1863-77

MS 7,740 News cuttings relating to the O’Connell monument in Dublin, including the disposal of surplus funds, and Lord Mayor McSwiney 1874-6

MS 7,741 News cuttings on international radicalism, including articles on the news social movement, Benjamin Disraeli’s ‘flank march’, a peace congress, English ‘Reds’, and rowdyism 1870-1

MS 7,742 News cuttings on international radicalism, including the death of Mazzini, a congress at the Hague, the Republican Brotherhood in Sheffield, a meeting of the International in London, Scott Russell and Mr. Harrison 1871-3

V.iii. Elections

MS 7,762 News cuttings relative to modes of conducting parliamentary and municipal elections, including the Sligo Election Commission, and reports on the election of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa at Tipperary, and elections in Queen’s county, Waterford, and Dublin city 1868-70

MS 7,763 News cuttings relative to modes of conducting parliamentary and municipal elections, including those at counties Meath, Limerick, Galway, Kerry, Tyrone, Monaghan, Westmeath and Mayo, and at Limerick City, Mallow, Londonderry city, Cork city, and Tralee 1871-74

MS 7,764 News cuttings relative to the Galway election of 1872, including the unseating of Captain John Nolan on the petition of the Hon. William Le Poer Trench, the controversy over the decision, and the trial of the for using undue influence at the election 1871-2

MS 7,765 News cuttings relative to the Galway election of 1872, including press reaction to the judgement against Nolan, the Metropolitan meeting, and statements by George Forbes, 7th Earl Granard and Cardinal Paul Cullen 1872

47 MS 7,766 News cuttings relative to the Galway election of 1872, including the legal proceedings, the Defence Fund, the election costs, the parliamentary debate, the abandonment of the prosecutions, and the insult to Judge Keogh at Drogheda, with the opinions of Isaac Butt MP, Rev. Dr. Duggan, and The O’Connor Don 1872-3

VI. MISCELLANIOUS TOPICS

MS 7,747 Letters and news cuttings relating to county surveyors, the grand jury laws, harbours of refuge and the Tramways Bill 1860-72

MS 7,771 Letters, memoranda and news cuttings dealing with various matters, including a Fenian meeting at Clontarf, the visit of the Prince of Wales to Ireland, Donnybrook Fair, the police, the powers of privy councillors, the Peace Preservation Act, Lord Charlemont’s library, the Dalton manuscripts, the opening of the Dublin Exhibition, the steamer ‘Ajax’, injury to ruins at Drogheda, the stationing of troops at Callan, the Queen’s plate, Roman Catholic lotteries, labourer’s cottages, the death of Sir G. Brown, and the expediency of government management of the railways. Correspondents include William Clements, 3rd Earl Leitrim, D’Arcy Irvine, Henry Bruce MP, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl Kimberley, Henry Moore, 3rd Marquess Drogheda, William Ormsby- Gore MP, Mr. Justice , Chief Justice James Monahan, Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl Bandon, Professor John Stevelly, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin, Sir Robert Peel (Chief Secretary for Ireland), John Hely-Hutchinson (Viscount Hutchinson), Dr. Hatchell, and Messrs. Bland and Burke 1865

MS 7,777 News cuttings relating to the Fairs and Markets Bill, the Weights and Measures Bill, the metric system, the quay walls in Dublin, the city basins, and the Irish Exhibition (1864-5) 1859-65

MS 7,779 News cuttings relating to the Social Science Association and its meetings in Dublin, the Married Women’s Property Bill, the question of employment for educated women, Lord Brougham, and the Queen’s Institute 1860-72

MS 7,575 Correspondence and memoranda on various matters, including the collection of rates, hours of trading, the condition of workhouses in Limerick, potato riots in Sligo, improvements to Dublin City, the Catholic Church in Tuam, the Convict Board, Spike Island prison, agricultural statistics, the Revenue Police, and an obituary of Sir Thomas Wyse, correspondents include Sir John Bernard Burke

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MS 7,577 Correspondence on various matters, including the Treasury and Irish Government, the Liffey Quay Wall tax, crown solicitors, turnpikes, prisons, the Church Temporalities Bill, the Town Improvement Act, Dublin Port and Ballast Office, the National Education estimate, Donnybrook Fair, evictions at Ballinasloe, the purchase of land in Cove by the Admiralty, the death of Jemima Eliot neé Cornwallis, Lady St. Germans, and the murders of Miss Hinds and Thaddeus O’Callaghan. Correspondents include George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) 1856

MS 7,578 Correspondence on various matters, including the Irish University Bill, the Incumbered Estates Court, the Turnpike Abolition Act, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Post Office arbitration, the Mayo parliamentary election, and the services of Sir Richard Griffith (Commissioner of Valuation). Correspondents include Edward Horsman (Chief Secretary for Ireland) and George Howard, 7th Earl Lord Carlisle (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) 1857

MS 7,579 Correspondence on various matters, including the improvement of harbours in Mayo, an extension to the Four Courts, the Peace Preservation Act, an extension to the Four Courts, the maintenance of prisons, Loughrea Union, the Vice Admiral of Munster, the visit of Cardinal Wiseman to Ireland, Arklow fishermen, the New Order of St. Patrick, and the case of William McDermott, assistant for Kerry. Correspondents include Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas and Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquis Clanricarde 1858

MS 7,580 Correspondence and news cuttings relative to the appointment George howard, 7th Earl Carlisle as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and of Edward Cardwell as his Chief Secretary. Militia riots in Kinsale, extra police for Westmeath, Navan fair, the Munster Flax Society, medals of the Irish Constabulary, a statue of Patrick Sarsfield, and a prison sentence passed on two men connected with the Phoenix Society. Correspondents include George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle and David Moriarty, Bishop of Kerry 1859

MS 7,581 Correspondence and news cuttings dealing with the consolidation of various offices, American ships with cargoes of arms at Cove, the grant to Maynooth College, the arrests of Ribbonmen in Dundalk, the enlistment of Irishmen in the Papal Army, the disposal of Culmore lands in County Londonderry, the Peace Preservation Act, the state trials of 1848, and the case of George Booth of Wicklow. Correspondents include Isaac Butt MP 1860

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MS 7,582 Correspondence and news cuttings relating to the census of Ireland, the proposed abolition of the Stationary Office, Dublin, the Dissenters Burial Bill, proposed amendments to the grand jury laws, Armagh Observatory, and the appointment of Sir Robert Peel as Chief Secretary for Ireland .Correspondents include Dr. T.R. Robinson 1861

MS 7,584 Correspondence and news cuttings dealing with riots in Tralee, Irish peerages, ‘Tenant Right’, the Jury Amendment Bill, fisheries and the Salmon Fisheries Bill, the Illegitimate Children Bill, the Dublin Metropolitan Railway, the education debate, emigration, the murder of Mr. Jackson, extra police in Co. Tipperary, and the annual report of Sir Henry Brownrigg, Inspector General of Irish Constabulary 1863

MS 7,585 Correspondence and news cuttings dealing with an address to Queen Victoria from Dublin Corporation, the Channel Fleet in Dublin, the oath of allegiance, ‘Tenant Right’, the prosecution of newspaper editors, recruiting in Ireland for the United States Army, and nationalist meeting and agitation 1863

MS 7,586 Correspondence and news cuttings dealing with the Irish People newspaper, the Irish Constabulary, expenses of the publication of the Brehon Laws, flax cultivation, lunatic asylums, Maynooth visitations, the reclamation of waste land, and the retirement of George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle and the appointment of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl Kimberley as Lord Lieutenant, correspondents include Sir Richard Griffith (Commissioner of Valuation) and Constable McGaw 1864

MS 7,587 Correspondence and news cuttings dealing with the recruitment of sailors for American ships, the Watching in Towns (Ireland) Act, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, amendments to the grand jury laws, the Beer-Houses Bill, proposals for a Royal Dockyard in Cork, the erection of a statue of Father Mathew, monuments at Clonmacnois, a site for Prince Albert’s statue, agrarian outrages, strikes, a nationalist meeting in Antrim, complaints against the police, and Fenianism in Ireland and Canada 1863-5

MS 7,588 News cuttings dealing with Fenianism and the Roman Catholic Church, the Lord Chief Justice, William Clement, 3rd Earl Leitrim and the police, coshering in Kilkenny, the Fenian organization, the Dogs Regulation Bill, the Juries (Ireland) Bill, the Peace Preservation Act and arms in proclaimed districts, cock fighting, the case of Patrick O’Donoghue, the death of General Brown, and the Towns Improvement Act 1865

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MS 7,590 Correspondence relating to the appointment of James Hamilton, 1st Duke Abercorn as Lord Lieutenant and Richard Bourke, Lord Naas as Chief Secretary, the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, the murder of Mr. Jephson, riots in Tipperary, the return to Ireland of Cardinal Paul Cullen, Somerset Lowey-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore’s eviction returns, Richard Bourke, Lord Naas in Scotland, and Fenianism and the search for James Stephens on the continent 1866-7

MS 7,591 Correspondence relating to the Dalton manuscripts, the rebuilding of Carlisle Bridge, landlord and tenant relations, disturbances in Protestant churches, Fenianism and the search for James Stephens, and the establishment of the Public Record Office of Ireland 1866-7

MS 7,592 News cuttings dealing with the arrival of James Hamilton, 1st Duke Abercorn as Lord Lieutenant, disturbances in churches, Irish law appointments, patronage, agricultural statistics, the suspension of habeas corpus, Fenianism, the escape of John Kirwan, agrarian outrages, the murder of William Scully of Tipperary, William Kearney’s confession to the murder of George Clarke, a planned bridge across the River Corrib, proposals for an industrial exhibition, and a proposal to establish a Royal Institute of Science and Art in Dublin 1866-9

MS 7,595 Official correspondence dealing with Fenianism and troop movements to suppress the movement, the death of Richard Bourke, 5th Earl Mayo, and the purchase of the National Exhibition Buildings in Dublin 1867

MS 7,596 Official correspondence concerning the Prince of Wales, the exact date of Cromwell’s landing in Ireland, the Irish national colour, Irish telegraphs, the attack on Duncannon fort, the murder of Mr. Featherstone, lectures by George F. Train, and the arrests of Captain Mackey, A.M. Sullivan and Richard Pigott, with an account of the services of the Coast Guard in 1867 and a memorandum for police and troops at forthcoming elections, correspondents include Sir John Bernard Burke 1868

MS 7,597 Official correspondence concerning the suppression of crime, the murder of William Scully, grand juries, the Burgoyne memorial, and ancient monuments, with remarks on the condition of prisons by Sir William Crofton, other correspondents include George Smith 1868

MS 7,598 Correspondence and news cuttings dealing with the relations of the Hon. Edward King-Harman with his tenants, Lady Brownrigg’s pension, the Queen’s Colleges, the Galway election judgement, the

51 University Education Bill, and the improvement of the River Shannon and the Claddagh fisheries, with a memoir of Sir Richard Griffith (with portrait), correspondents include Thomas H. Burke, J.B. Yong, Major Trench and Jonathan Pim MP 1873-6

MS 7,599 Official correspondence and memoranda on various matters, including a pension for Jane Francesca neé gee, Lady Wilde, and a memorandum for General Cameron on Sir Henry James MP 1876-7

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