Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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As to stop when the wine’s so deliciously cool?...’ ‘The Devil’s dinner…He ate with great relish a pair of fried soles…’ 4p

Francis Woodley (1842) (1 item)

65 8 July 1842 Letter from Francis Woodley to Denny Lane, 4 Sidney Place, Cork. Concerns a breakfast and fishing trip on the River Lee. Written with playful and comical intent in the manner of a legal document, ‘I Francis Woodley by the grace of God of all I here about…do survey, send to my well beloved friends and cousins Denny Lane Esqre Barrister at law and Wm Lander Esqre Student…greeting…’.

Eugene Curry (1844) (1 item)

66 7 October 1844 Letter from Eugene Curry, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, to ‘Dear Sir’, Denny Lane, Cork. Concerns the genealogy of the O’Liathain family. ‘As I have not the advantages of a South Munster birth and a Blarney education, being a mere Dalcassian…’. Discusses the origin of the name from Uibh Liathain, an ‘extensive territory in the now County of Cork…’. Thanks Lane for his trouble in getting a list of ‘Mr O’Flynn’s MSS…one of which …was certainly sold here by Long, to Sir Wm Betham. Lists O’Flynn’s remaining manuscript, including the Lives of the Saints, Chronicon Scotorum, and enquires whether O’Flynn would give away the items, ‘We are making great efforts here to bring together and save from further ruin…all the remnants of out ancient literature – Anything that comes into Sir Wm. Bethams hands is never again heard of here…’. 4pp

Writings by Lane (?c.1840s- 1860s) (4 items)

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