Bennett's of Ballinacurra Descriptive List (Ref. B609)

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here as it seems to have been a personal record of John H Bennett’s, not a formal business record. B609/9/A/60 Account Book, John H Bennett in account with Bank of Ireland, May 1906 to January 1918 B609/9/A/61 Account Book, John H Bennett in account with Bank of Ireland, Cork, September 1931 to September 1936, and Executrices’ Account, September 1935 to July 1937. The executrices of John H Bennett are Mrs Esther Bennett and Miss Dorothy McNeill. See also B609/9/D & E below.

B609/9/B

John H Bennett, personal letters, photographs, and other items, 1877 to 1935 (1952)

John H Bennett, personal letters, photographs, and other items, 1877 to 1935 (1952). This sub-section contains some small groupings of personal letters to John H Bennett, including letters from JO Young, his lifelong friend since their days at Arlington School; letters from his son Jack and letters of sympathy received following Jack’s death in the Great War, and following the death of his wife Brida in 1916; and a small number of other personal and family letters. A letter from Dorothy McNeill to a former employee following Bennett’s death contains an account of his funeral (B609/9/B/6). Also present are some photographs of Bennett’s yachts. Other items present include a cricket score book from Arlington School. B609/9/B/1 Letters to John H Bennett from JO Young, school friend at Arlington and lifelong friend thereafter (1883-1904). Young seems to have taught at Mostyn House School and later entered the Church. A letter dated 23 August 1897 [signed James, but possibly not from Young] encloses an Arlington School List of Boys and Marks for the week ending 15 September 1877. Bennett is listed in the Sixth Form, as is Young. The letters are personal in nature, and include much talk of sport, especially cricket, and of politics, often in a humorous tone. In his letter of 15 July 1902 Young gives his account of the homecoming celebrations for Kitchener’s return from South Africa. In a letter of 24 August 1902, he comments ‘one sometimes fears that the Irish Parliamentary Party is killing the Irish sense of humour, which is more necessary to the nation’s salvation than the judicial rents of a thousand commissioners and the grand craps of ten thousand baronies’. A letter of 7 March 1904 makes reference to Harry Humphreys [see B609/9/B/2 below]. [See also B609/9/B/9 below]

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