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

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would not be considered, and it is proposed that JHB will become a barley buying and storage depot for AGS. The family may retain a 20% stake, or sell out to AGS (that company’s preferred option). A compensation package is outlined. It is suggested that ‘Brian’ offer himself as a Brewer Candidate at AGS. On Royal Irish Automobile Club- headed paper. [See also B609/4/C/31]

B609/9/F/4 Letters and cards sent to Dorothy West on the occasion of her retirement from JHB, in summer 1969. Writers include Richard Levinge and Arthur Hughes (AGS); Franz Latchford (Miller and Grain Merchant, Tralee); Denis Quinlan (solicitor, Cork); Rita Paul, Cloyne [employee]. There are also three cards present, two signed by numerous employees. In his letter, Levinge notes that he was brewer-in-charge at AGS when the merger with JHB took place, adding ‘it was in fact the first “diversification” which AGS ever made in Ireland and I think did much to set a pattern for the many other ventures which followed it’.

B609/9/9/F/5 Menu from Luncheon given to Dorothy West by the Board of Directors of Arthur Guinness Son & Co Ltd, Wednesday, 11 th June 1969. Signed by many AGS officers and staff.

B609/9/F/6 Family correspondence regarding Charleston Properties, 1971-76 (1935, 1987). Contains letters to and from Dorothy West regarding rates on land and rents incoming and outgoing. The file also includes a draft rental agreement [July 1975] between three West brothers (Dorothy’s sons: Timothy Trevor, John, and Alexander) and Ignatius Byrne, Inspector of Agriculture, renting to him the house and gardens of ‘Oikoseen’, Ballinacurra [a house and property on the Charleston estate]. Also present is a Schedule of Documents on the Estate of John H Bennett, Decd, 10 July 1935. In addition the file contains three letters regarding a wayleave through family property required by Cork County Council as part of a sewerage scheme [1987]. Council scheme drawing also present.

B609/9/F/7 Photograph of Dorothy McNeill as a young girl [c1915].

B609/9/F/8 Two essays by Dorothy McNeill, apparently from school days. One is on the saying ‘England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity’, the other on the saying ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’.

B609/9/F/9 Newscuttings: (1) Irish Times, 4 December 1930, regarding an old Dublin Fiddle Shop. The shop was run by members of the McNeill family, until Miss Elizabeth McNeill, ‘the last surviving member of the family’, died

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