Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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C. Personal Material, Writings and Lyrics

The Munster Bar (1839) (1 item)

62 6 May 1839 List of Members of the Munster Bar. ‘At a General Meeting of the Munster Bar held on 6 th May 1839, George Bennett, Esq, in the Chair, the following Resolution was passed unanimously RESOLVED – That the Committee be directed to call in the Members…who have not already subscribed to the Wine Fund, to pay their Subscriptions of One Pound each’. Also with a list of members’ names. Names include Beamish, Besnard, Bereton, Coppinger, Fitzgerald, Goold, Galwey, Herrick, Jackson, Lalor, Lane, Longfield, McCarthy, O’Connell, O’Donovan, O’Leary, Pigott, Perrier, Rutherford, Sarsfield, Townsend, Wrixon. 1 item John O’Hagan (1855) (1 item) 63 25 June 1855 Letter, from John O’Hagan, 20 Kildare Street, Dublin to Denny Lane, Cork. ‘John Pigot with Mrs Pigot and the Miss Phelans are coming over to take a cup of tea…I will take it as a very great favour if you will accompany them…’. 2pp

Denny Lane – Draft Writings (c.1840-1850) (1 item)

64 c.1840 - 1850 Writings in draft form by Lane, ‘The expostulatory address of Old Nick’ address to Councillor M.Joseph Barry, Queens Inn Chambers, Henrietta Street, Dublin. Contains verse, such as, ‘Do you think I am Such a fool of a devil, and a devil of a fool,

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