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O'brien Cahirmoyle LIST 64 Leabharlann Naisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 64 PAPERS OF THE FAMILY OF O’BRIEN OF CAHIRMOYLE, CO. LIMERICK (MSS 34,271-34,277; 34,295-34,299; 36,694-36,906) (Accession No. 5614) Papers of the descendents of William Smith O’Brien, including papers of the painter Dermod O’Brien and his wife Mabel Compiled by Peter Kenny, 2002-2003 Contents Introduction 7 The family 7 The papers 7 Bibliography 8 I. Land tenure 9 I.1. Altamira, Co. Cork 9 I.2 Ballybeggane 9 I.3. Bawnmore 9 I.4. Cahirmoyle 9 I.5. Clanwilliam (Barony) 11 I.6. Clorane 11 I.7. The Commons, Connello Upper 11 I.8. Connello (Barony) 11 I.9. Coolaleen 11 I.10. Cork City, Co. Cork 11 I.11. Dromloghan 12 I.12. Garrynderk 12 I.13. Glanduff 12 I.14. Graigue 12 I.15. Killagholehane 13 I.16. Kilcoonra 12 I.17. Killonahan 13 I.18. Killoughteen 13 I.19. Kilmurry (Archer) 14 I.20. Kilscannell 15 I.21. Knockroedermot 16 I.22. Ligadoon 16 I.23. Liscarroll, Co. Cork 18 I.24. Liskillen 18 I.25. Loghill 18 I.26. Mount Plummer 19 I.27. Moyge Upper, Co. Cork 19 I.28. Rathgonan 20 2 I.29. Rathnaseer 21 I.30. Rathreagh 22 I.31. Reens 22 I.32 Correspondence etc. relating to property, finance and legal matters 23 II. Family Correspondence 25 II.1. Edward William O’Brien to his sister, Charlotte Grace O’Brien 25 II.2. Edward William O’Brien to his sister, Lucy Josephine Gwynn (d. 1907) 26 II.3. Edward William O’Brien to his brother-in-law by his 1st marriage, Thomas Spring- Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle 26 II.4. Stephen Edmond Spring-Rice to his wife, Ellen Mary Spring-Rice (née Frere, d. 1869) 27 II.5. Edward William O’Brien to his mother-in-law by his 1st marriage, Ellen Mary Spring-Rice (née Frere, d. 1869) 27 II.6. Edward William O’Brien to his 1st wife, Mary O’Brien (née Spring-Rice) 27 II.7. Mary O’Brien (née Spring-Rice) to her husband, Edward William O’Brien 28 II.8. Mary O’Brien to her father, Stephen Edmond Spring-Rice (1814-1865) 28 II.9. Mary O’Brien to her mother, Ellen Mary Spring-Rice (née Frere, d. 1869) 28 II.10. Mary O’Brien to her brother, Thomas Spring-Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle 29 II.11. Mary O’Brien to her brother, Francis Spring-Rice, 4th Baron Monteagle (1852- 1937) 30 II.12. Alice Spring-Rice (d. 1929) to her sister, Mary O’Brien 30 II.13. Mary O’Brien to her grandfather, Thomas Spring-Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle 30 II.14. Mary O’Brien to her grandfather’s 2nd wife, Marianne Spring-Rice, Baroness Monteagle (née Marshall, d. 1889) 30 II.15. Mary O’Brien to her uncle, William Cecil Spring-Rice (1823-1880) 30 II.16. William Cecil Spring-Rice to his niece, Mary O’Brien 30 II.17. Mary O’Brien to her aunt, Augusta Frederica Frere (1824-1888) 31 II.18. Mary O’Brien to her cousin, Lady Mary (Emily Frances) Molyneux (née Fitzgerald, d. 1917, daughter of 19th Knight of Kerry) 31 II.19. Mary O’Brien to her sister-in-law, Lucy Josephine Gwynn (d. 1907) 31 II.20. To Mary O’Brien, on her engagement to William (Edward O’Brien) 31 II.21. Ellen Mary Spring-Rice (née Frere, d. 1869) to her husband, Stephen (Edmond) Spring-Rice (1814-1865) 31 II.22. Edward William O’Brien to his 2nd wife, Julia (Mary) O’Brien (née Marshall) 32 II.23. Julia (Mary) O’Brien (née Marshall) to her husband, Edward William O’Brien 32 II.24. Edward William O’Brien to his son, Dermod O’Brien 33 II.25. Dermod O’Brien to his father, Edward (William) O’Brien 35 3 II.26. Lucius Henry O’Brien (1842-1913) to his nephew, Dermod O’Brien 37 II.27. Elizabeth Spring-Rice, Baroness Monteagle of Brandon, to Dermod O’Brien 37 II.28. Julia (Mary) O’Brien to her stepson, Dermod O’Brien 37 II.29. Dermod O’Brien to his stepmother, Julia (Mary) O’Brien 39 II.30. Ellen (Lucy) O’Brien to her brother, Dermod O’Brien 42 II.31. (Lucy) Mary O’Brien (Mrs. Arthur Cane) to her brother, Dermod O’Brien 44 II.32. Dermod O’Brien to his sister, (Lucy) Mary O’Brien (Mrs. Arthur Cane) 44 II.33. (Edward) Conor (Marshall) O’Brien to his sister, Margaret Ernestine O’Brien, and to his half-brother, Dermod O’Brien 47 II.34. Aubrey (Ulick Marshall) O’Brien (1882-1914) to various relatives 47 II.35. Lucy Penelope Gwynn (1866-1947) to her cousin, Dermod O’Brien 47 II.36. Ellen Smyly (1814-1901) to her granddaughter, Mabel O’Brien 47 II.37. Lucy Josephine Gwynn (d. 1907) to Mabel O’Brien 48 II.38. Dermod O’Brien to his wife, Mabel 48 II.39. Mabel O’Brien to her husband, Dermod 84 II.40. Brendan (Edward) O’Brien and his wife, (Pamela) Kathleen (Helen) (née Wilmer, d. 1984), to his parents, Dermod and Mabel O’Brien 121 II.41. David (Lucius) O’Brien and his 1st wife, Mary (née Steel-Maitland, d. 1987) to his parents, Dermod and Mabel O’Brien 122 II.42. Máirín (i.e. Mary Elinor) O’Brien (Mrs. Bruce Flegg) to her parents, Dermod and Mabel O’Brien 123 II.43. (Rosemary) Brigid O’Brien (Mrs. Andrew Ganly) to her parents, Dermod and Mabel O’Brien 123 II.44. (Horace) Donough O’Brien to his father, Dermod O’Brien 123 II.45. Mabel O’Brien to her parents, Sir Philip Crampton and Lady Selina Maria Smyly 123 II.46. Julia Mary O’Brien to her daughter-in-law, Mabel O’Brien 123 II.47. Mabel O’Brien to her father-in-law, Edward (William) O’Brien 123 II.48. Mabel O’Brien to her mother-in-law, Julia Mary O’Brien 123 II.49. Mabel O’Brien to her sister-in-law, Lady Aileen Smylie 124 II.50. Arthur Beresford Cane to his brother-in-law, Dermod O’Brien 125 II.51. Other Family Correspondence 126 III. Papers of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864) 131 IV. Papers of Lucy Caroline O’Brien (née Gabbett, 1811-1861) 132 V. Papers of Edward William O’Brien 132 V.1. General Correspondence 132 4 V.2. Financial papers 132 V.3. Miscellaneous Papers 132 VI. Papers of Very Rev. Lucius Henry O’Brien (1842-1913), Dean of Limerick 133 VII. Papers of Charlotte Grace O’Brien (1845-1909) 133 VIII. Papers of Dermod O’Brien 135 VIII.1. Estate of Walter Osborne 135 VIII.2. Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin (Hugh Lane Gallery) 135 VIII.3. Government of Ireland Bill, 1912 135 VIII.4. Petition for Leniency towards participants in 1916 Easter Rebellion 135 VIII.5. Irish Convention, 1917-1918 135 VIII.6. Irish Dominion League, 1919-1920 135 VIII.7. Irish Musical League 135 VIII.8. Irish Advisory Committee of Carnegie United Kingdom Trust 136 VIII.9. National Museum of Ireland 136 VIII.10. United Arts Club 136 VIII.11. Lectures, essays, etc. 136 VIII.12. Verse and other literary works 138 VIII.13. General Correspondence 139 VIII.14. Finance 143 VIII.15. Diaries 145 VIII.16. Inventories and related papers 145 VIII.17. Printed Material 145 VIII.18. Photographs 157 VIII.19. Newscuttings 158 VIII.20. Miscellaneous papers 158 IX. Papers of Mabel O’Brien 160 IX.1. Cheese making 160 IX.2. Music 160 IX.3. Essays, etc. 161 IX.4. Translations of Dante 163 IX.5. Correspondence 164 IX.6. Diaries 165 IX.7. Miscellaneous papers, including poems, photographs, etc. 166 5 X. Papers of (Edward) Conor (Marshall) O’Brien and his wife, Katharine (née Clausen) 167 XI. Miscellaneous family papers 167 XII. Genealogical Papers 168 XIII. Works by Lennox Robinson 168 “Dermod O’Brien” 169 Palette and Plough 169 XIV. Printed items concerning the O’Briens 169 6 INTRODUCTION The family The Papers relate particularly to the descendents of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864) one of the leaders of the Young Ireland movement. On the death of his mother, Lady Charlotte, in 1856, O’Brien inherited the estate of Cahirmoyle, near Rathkeale, in County Limerick. Lady Charlotte had married Sir Edward O’Brien, 4th Bart. in 1799. She was the eldest daughter of William Smith, a solicitor, who had bought the Cahirmoyle estate in 1774. On her father’s death in 1809 she inherited the property. When William Smith O’Brien died in 1864 the estate was inherited by his eldest son William Edward O’Brien (1837-1909) who had married Mary Spring-Rice, sister of the 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon, in 1863. She died in 1868. They had three children: (William) Dermod (1865-1945), Ellen Lucy (Nelly) (d. 1925) and (Lucy) Mary (d. 1926). William Edward O’Brien married, secondly, Julia Mary Marshall in 1880. They had four children. The eldest son by the first marriage, Dermod, married Mabel Smyly, 2nd daughter of the Dublin physician Sir Philip Crampton Smyly, in 1902 and, on the death of his father in 1909, he inherited Cahirmoyle. Cahirmoyle was sold by Dermod O’Brien in 1919 and the family moved to Dublin. Mabel O’Brien’s death in 1942 was followed by that of her husband in 1945. The papers The collection was purchased by the National Library of Ireland in December 2000 (Accession 5614).
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