Sophie O'Brien Descriptive List (Ref. PR25)

From the collections of Cork City and County Archives Service.

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Cork City and County Archives Descriptive List

Identity Statement Reference Code:

IE CCCA/PR25

Sophie O’Brien Papers

Title:

1880-1945

Dates:

Level of description: Fonds / Item Extent: 63 items

Context Creator(s): O’Brien, Sophie (neé Raffalovich) (b1860-d1960),

Archival History

PR25, the Sophie O’Brien (Mrs. William O’Brien) Papers, were kept by O’Brien’s friend Eoin O’Mahony, a well-known historian and genealogist (d.1970). The papers were placed in the care of Cork City and County Archives via Cork County Library.

Biographical History

Sophie O’Brien, neé Sophie Raffalovich, was born in Odessa, Russia, the only daughter of Marie and Hermann Raffalovich, a wealthy Jewish banker and/or Grain Merchant. She spent most of her earlier years in Paris, where the family moved in ca.1863. Her elder brother Arthur was a noted

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economist, her younger brother André, to whom she was close, was a poet and friend of poet John Gray. She married William O'Brien M.P. (1852-1928) in London in June 1890 (PR25/3 and PR25/12). At the time, O’Brien was editor of the Irish Land League newspaper, United Ireland. They came into contact through her and her mother’s support for Irish nationalism during the ‘Land War’ of the 1880’s, and their proposed translation of William O'Brien’s fenian romance novel When We Were Boys (1890). Sophie O'Brien provided much moral and practical support to William O'Brien, acting as his secretary and devoting herself to his welfare, and her wealth was used in financing his political activities, however the Russian Revolution in 1917 seems to have reduced this wealth considerably. The couple lived in Westport Co. Mayo for the first 20 years, and following that in Mallow County Cork (PR25/46). She was noted for her work with the needy during her time in Ireland. Converting to Roman Catholicism prior to her marriage, she was to become committed to her new faith, and some of her close friends were nuns (PR25/5 and PR25/59). She was well-read and produced a number of works including a translation of John Morley’s biography of Richard Cobden, and a series of books reflecting on her life and times in Ireland including Golden Memories (1929) and My Irish Friends (1937). She wrote many articles for various newspapers and periodicals, of which a number are found in the present collection (Section C of the arrangement). Unlike her husband, she was not a supporter female political enfranchisment (PR25/17). She remained in Ireland for a few years following her husband’s death in 1928, before returning to France to live with close friends at Eplessier, near Amiens (PR25/7). She spent the last years of her life in poverty, but was granted a small pension by the Irish Government in recognition of her contribution to the nation. Sophie O'Brien’s husband, William O'Brien (1852-1928 ) was a journalist, writer and a major nationalist political figure born in Mallow, County Cork. He was particularly involved in the campaigns for land reform in Ireland in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, drafting the famous ‘No rent’ manifesto while imprisoned in Kilmainham gaol in 1881-2. He was elected Parnellite M.P. in 1883 for Mallow, and later for other areas, including Cork City up

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until 1918. In 1886 he helped to initiate the ‘Plan of Campaign’ for land reform by the Irish Land League. In 1887 O’Brien was involved in a rent strike at Mitchelstown, and 3 tenants were shot dead by police outside the town’s courthouse where O’Brien was brought for trial (the ‘Mitchelstown Massacre’). In 1898 he helped to form the United Irish League, which was more or less taken over by the Irish Party. In 1910, William O'Brien founded the All for Ireland League, a group of dissident nationalists mainly from the Cork area, following the rejection of his proposal for a land conference and a policy of conciliation. Editor of the Irish People 1899-1909 and Cork Free Press 1910-1916. He was opposed to Home Rule at the expense of a united Ireland, and expressed support for Britain’s war effort. He did not contest the 1918 parliamentary election.

Content & Structure Scope and Content

The papers are divided into 4 main sections. Section A. contains some of Sophie O'Brien’s writings and manuscripts. Her level of education is apparent from her 1887 article on Lord Shaftesbury (PR25/1). Her writings include a draft manuscript of her unpublished autobiography ‘Recollections of a Long Life’ (PR25/2), a more complete typescript of the autobiography (PR2/3), plus additional notes she intended to add to the work (PR25/4). Also found are some ‘Intimate Notes about William O'Brien and some of his friends’, which give a personal insight into William O'Brien’s character and political life, and their life in Ireland (PR25/5). Section B contains correspondence, mainly from Sophie O'Brien to her friend Captain Lucey in 1938, concerning the proposed publication of her autobiography. Section C.I contains news clippings of articles by Sophie O'Brien in various newspapers and journals covering personal and non- personal topics. Section C.II contains other news cuttings, including a number relating to husband William O'Brien M.P., and an article by him on Tim Healy (PR25/30). Section D contains photographs. These include photographs of Sophie O'Brien, William O'Brien, friends and relations, a photo. of William O'Brien with press associates in the U.S.A. in 1887 (PR25/36), and photographs of scenes outside Tipperary Courthouse in October 1890 (PR25/39 - /42).

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The papers contain personal insights into some of the political, social, and economic events of the 1880-1920 period, in particular an insight into the new Catholic Irish political élite. The background, character and opinions of Sophie O'Brien and those of her husband are well documented in the papers. The material in particular provides information on the political activities of William O'Brien and his associates during his work as a journalist, as a nationalist M.P., and as a leader of the Irish National Land League, the United Irish League and the All For Ireland League, as well as documenting his later views on Ireland’s role during the 1 st World War, and on Home Rule and partition. Sophie O'Brien’s writings, correspondence, and published articles are an informative source for social history and womens’ history.

Arrangement:

4 main sections as follows. A: Writings

B: Correspondence C: News clippings I:

By Sophie O’Brien

II:

Other

D: Photographs

Allied Materials:

Related Material: CCCA: U.289 Mitchelstown Riots material. U.163 Padraig O’Hickey Papers, relating to eviction U.275 Douglas Branch of Irish National League, Minutes. U.326 Letters of the Bartlemy Branch United Irish League U.139 Ryan Purcell Estate Papers U.99 Smith Barry Rents Elsewhere: Boole Library, University College Cork: William O’Brien MSS

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National Library of Ireland: William O’Brien Papers and other papers including correspondence with Michael Davitt, John Dillon, T.M. Healy, John Redmond, J.F.X. O’Brien, Timothy Harrington, Lord Dunraven, and various others. National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division: Reference Dep. 372: Correspondence and papers of Canon John Gray, Parish Priest of St Peter’s, Morningside, Edinburgh, and of Mark André (Sebastian) Raffalovich, 1898- 1932 including papers relating to Sophie Raffalovich/O’Brien. Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A: The Aylesford mss., 1941-1968, includes material relating to Sophie O’Brien. Publications by Sophie O’Brien and William O'Brien are held by Cork City Library, Cork County Library, college libraries of the National University of Ireland, the National Library of Ireland, and the Royal Irish Academy.

Conditions of Access and Use

Access: Open by appointment to those holding a current readers ticket Language: English Finding Aid: Descriptive List

Publication Note:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Volume 41, Oxford University Press (2004) A New Dictionary Of Irish History from 1800 , Hickey & Doherty, Gill & Macmillan (2003)

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Archivists Note:

Brian McGee, Archivist, Cork City and County Archives, June 2005, Sept 2010

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Contents

Appendix: List of Books by Sophie O'Brien...............................................8 A: Writings......................................................................................................9 B: Correspondence........................................................................................11 C: News clippings.........................................................................................18 I: By Sophie O’Brien.............................................................................18 II: Other...................................................................................................18 D: Photographs..............................................................................................19

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Appendix: List of Books by Sophie O'Brien

Under Croagh Patrick (1904) Unseen friends (1912) In Mallow (1920)

Sister Mary Eustace (1923) Silhouettes d’Autrefois (1926) Golden Memories: the love letters and the prison letters of William O'Brien 2 vols. (1929) Around Broom Lane (1931) My Irish Friends (1937)

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List of Items

A: Writings

1. January 1887 Pamphlet in French, by Sophie Raffalovich (Sophie O’Brien) entitled ‘Lord Shaftsbury Sa Vie et Ses Travaux’, extracted from the Journal des Economistes . 23pp 2. (1937) 24 August 1945 MS. ‘Recollections of Youth, Middle Age and Old Age’, by Mrs. William O’Brien (Sophie O’Brien). 11 vol. (459pp) (1937) 1945 ‘Recollections of a Long Life’, autobiography, by Mrs. William O’Brien (Sophie O’Brien). Typescript containing 35 chapters. Subjects include her childhood, education, life in Paris, marriage to William O’Brien, the political situation in Ireland, and her life in Ireland. 467pp 4. c.1945 MS ‘Notes to be added to Recollections’, by Sophie O’Brien. Additional material for inclusion in the autobiography, mainly relates to her earlier years. 124pp 3.

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c.1938 MS. ‘Intimate Notes about William O’Brien and some of his friends’ by Mrs. William O’Brien (Sophie O’Brien). Contains a foreword, plus 15 chapters, including ‘William O'Brien at Work, ‘…as a Newspaper Man’, ‘…on a holiday’, ‘Dr. Banner and Hon. Edward Burke’, ‘John O’Donnell’, ‘William O'Brien as a Teacher’, ‘Lord Dunraven’, ‘William O'Brien as a Reader’, ‘William O'Brien as a Parliamentarian’, ‘William O'Brien as a host’, ‘Tom Gill’, ‘William O'Brien in the Law Courts’, ‘William O'Brien on the Platform’, ‘John O’Meara’, ‘Mallow Friends’. (See also PR25/23) 196pp c.1938 MS. Entitled ‘Abuse’ by Mrs. William O'Brien (Sophie O’Brien). Concerns the character of William O'Brien in responding to insults. She ‘felt that enemies’ attacks so failed to hit him, that I had not a moments discomfort reading the veilest abuse of him…’. Enemies of his own he never had. He only looked on enemies those who were against his beloved land…’. He found it harder to forgive attacks on his wife, ‘Any unpleasant allusion to Jews made my husband angry while in my pride of race I thought it too silly to mind…as a rule, in Ireland, Jews are very kindly treated’. Mentions poor emigrant Jews becoming prosperous. 7pp

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B: Correspondence

7 5 April 1938 Letter, from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, near Amiens, Somme, France, to ‘My Dear Captain Lucy’. Encloses Mr. Macdonagh’s letter. Congratulates him on being in the Literary Supplement of The Times. Glad to know he is friendly with Terence O’Hanlon. She may go to London, but her plans depend on the health of Miss Mattie Murphy. Mentions a friend from Cork, Eowen O’Mahony. 3pp 8 27 May 1938 Letter, from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My Dear Friend’. Agrees to the proposal ‘with a deep emotion to find such affection and understanding and sympathy…The book as it stands will bring no money- if you make it…a popular book it will be [a] joy to me…’. Fernande and herself will look out for photographs. Mentions book in Dublin University on Jewish customs, her material in Cork University, and suggests reading Mr. MacDonagh’s book about William O'Brien. 3pp 9 1 June 1938 Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My Dear Friend’. ‘As things strike me I jot them down…’. She has gathered all the photos. and newspaper cuttings and one of her husband’s note books and will give these over. Mentions the ‘Mulruenny forgery’. She will reply to the best of her ability to any questions. Enclosed are notes ‘On Jewish ways’ (2pp). 3pp 10 5 June 1938

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Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My Dear Friend’. She is glad he is starting work and that he feels ‘as I do about Jews & Irish’. She remarks how nice that his wife is reading with him, ‘I do believe in that union of intellect as most helpful- we women feel things in a different way, more acutely perhaps less deeply…’. Mentions disagreement with her husband about women in politics, ‘I wished to keep them for better work’. Remarks on the Irish Republicans taking their inspiration from William O'Brien, who was ‘more indulgent to the young than I was. Some were so over bearing.’ Notes that William O'Brien’s book on Parnell was not as good as it might have been as he was ill when he composed it. 5pp 11 9 June 1938 Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Captain Lucy’. Concerns letter from Jack Nagle [brother in law] which ‘has thrown me in perfect dismay’, as ‘the book he sketches…is another book from the one I had in mind…the less you will talk about the book to others, the better…’. 2pp 12 10 June 1938 Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. Concerns her recollections of her wedding day 48 years previously. ‘I was perfectly calm. I had not one anxiety about the future…he was much more worried…he dreaded for me the change of life.’ 5pp 13 15 June 1938 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. ‘Your letter reassures me fully…I like to know you

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are determined…’. Fernandé will send on a ‘little volume in French of mine: Silhouettes D’Autrefois. It may help you’. Relates incidents concerning her husband and Frank Gallagher (Editor of the Irish Press), ‘He is no friend..’ and ‘was quite rude’ to William O'Brien. She could not get articles published in the Irish Press. 4pp 14 [June 1938] Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. Mainly concerns a recollection concerning ‘F.G’ (Frank Gallagher, Editor of Irish Press), a ‘town boy’ who ‘knew little about the agrarian problem. My husband gave him An Olive Branch and told him it would help him to understand’. Frank Gallagher ‘had a gift of smart writing but he was incapable of improving himself’. Mentions arrangements for going away. 3pp 15 8 July 1938 Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Friend’. She hopes the silence does not mean there is anything wrong. Describes her life in Paris. ‘I make a retreat in my own fashion...I go to two masses…then I read a book of meditations…’. Mentions meeting relatives in Paris and Professor Chauviere. 4pp 16 13 July 1938 Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Friend’. Relates that a dear friend of hers ‘one of my Irish girls who is married to J.Costello’ wrote to her concerning the author of ‘There’s a Devil in the Drum’ and she ‘replied that…you are a man worth knowing…’. Gives some recollections concerning Costello and his wife. Mentions her article in the Irish Press.

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17 17 July 1938 Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Friend’. She answers his question on her first impressions of Ireland. ‘It was the persecution of Irishmen by Coercion that drew my heart to Ireland. I loved Ireland first I loved William O'Brien after…’. She read of Ireland in the English papers, and found Irish girls delightful, the older women ‘more attractive still’. Remarks on qualities of the Irish and laments at the waste that goes on in Ireland, such as the amount of land unused, and the fact that many women no longer make butter. She ‘does not believe in women in politics…’, one of the subjects on which she disagreed with her husband. 4pp 18 26 July 1938 Letter, from J.O. MacNamara, St. Edwards College, Everton, Liverpool, to ‘My dear Mrs. O’Brien’. Encloses suggestions for changes to her book. He is glad to know she is ‘comfortably situated with the good Nuns’. He is almost recovered from ‘the accident’. Mentions moving school to suburbs from ‘what has become a slum quarter…surrounded by Orangemen’. He hopes O’Brien will find a publisher for her book and thinks that a reader not acquainted with she or her husband may consider it too long. 4pp 19 31 July 1938 Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Captain Lucy’. She encloses a letter from ‘a dear Christian Brother’ who sent suggested corrections to the text of her book. 4pp

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20 4 November 1938 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘Dear Friend’. Encloses an article which she is sending via London to give her god daughter a chance of reading it. 1p 21 9 November 1938 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Captain Lucey’. Concerns publisher for her book. Discusses the partition of Ireland, ‘we must not look to England to help us…but work it out on my husband’s policy of conciliation’. Mentions the teaching of Gaelic, and the views of the French in the matter, ‘Our work is to win the more sensible of the Northern by our good sense’. Notes that Professor Chauviere of Dublin University is very much interested in Ireland. Postscript concerning her efforts to get articles published in Irish papers. 5pp 22 17 November 1938 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘Dear Friend’. Concerns two messages she has received , firstly that a new priest at Mallow advised the people to read William O'Brien’s works and secondly concerning a letter. Mentions a series of 4 articles she is working on. 2pp 23 25 November 1938 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. Concerns manuscript ‘Intimate notes on William O'Brien’ (see also PR25/5). Asks him to look over it. ‘Please God the French and English Premieres will do good business. I feel so grieved

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about the persecution of the Jews in Germany. Punishment must come- but now must we wait’. 2pp 24 26 November 1938 Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. Sends ‘hearty thanks for welcome letter and article in Irish Press’. Mentions typescript sent to publishers. 2pp 25 7 December 1938 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. She is pleased the Irish Press is publishing so much of William O'Brien’s book. Mentions possible publishers of her work. 4pp 26 1 February 1939 Letter from Sophie O'Brien to ‘My dear John’. She has written to Michael Doran and Mrs. Walsh. ‘I think it is only for you I could have done such a thing’. Mentions an Irish appeal for refugees and a manuscript she asked Gill to send. ‘There is so much real tragedy all around, one is ashamed to think so much of one’s own little literary interests’. 3pp 27 30 April 1939 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Captain Lucey’. Mentions visit to London, ‘the political news seems somewhat better and we are hoping the clouds of war will lift…’. As long as England, France and the U.S.A. ‘stand firm, we may hope to be spared the worse’. She has heard no news from

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Ireland and has ‘given up thinking of anything about my manuscripts…’. 2pp

3 September 1945 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Haut Garonne, France, to ‘My very dear Friend’. O’Brien is joyful that they are not ill and their silence was ‘due to trying to get into touch with Professor O’Rahilly and that you are awaiting the visit of the lady he is sending you’. Refers to a manuscript and the ‘difficulties of publishing at present’. She will put on paper all she knows about Russia. Sends compliments on an ‘interesting’ idea, and expresses ‘thorough confidence in you...for good and all…My husband used to tell me I was simpliste…when things went well, I rejoiced…he foresaw all that might go wrong- and he worried accordingly’. She used to tell William O'Brien that Cardinal Newman had the same ‘terrible faculty of self torment. Only my husband had an advantage…he had a wife who sometimes succeeded in making him laugh…’. Sends warm good wishes to their husband and children. 4pp

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C: News clippings

By Sophie O’Brien

29 1930-1938 File of news clippings containing articles by Sophie O'Brien, from Irish Monthly, Evening Herald, Irish Press, Father Mathew Record, New Zealand Tablet, Irish Catholic, Irish Independent and The Advocate. Such as, ‘William O’Brien’s Religion’ (Father Mathew Record, c.1930), and such as concerning Master Geraghty, the Wandering Schoolmaster of Connaught (The Evening Herald, 21 November 1934), and such as ‘Recollections of the Holy Land (Irish Monthly, March 1936), and such as ‘A Famous Chapter in Irish History (2)’ concerning William O'Brien’s refusal to accept the leadership of the Irish Party (Irish Press, 28 April 1938) 21 items II: Other

1905-1934 File of news clippings from Cork Free Press, Cork Weekly Chronicle, Irish Independent, the Daily News, The Universe, the Catholic Herald, New Zealand Tablet, The Tribune and Weekly Free Press. Mainly relate to William O'Brien. Such as, concerning the resignation of William O'Brien M.P. (Cork Weekly Chronicle 3 April 1909), and such as, concerning a public meeting in Cork City Hall on Ireland’s involvement in the war, with text of speech by William O'Brien (Cork Free Press, 3 September 1914), and such as, letter from Moray McLaren concerning the late Mr. André Raffalovich (brother of Sophie O'Brien) (16 February 1934), and such as article by William O'Brien concerning Tim M. Healy (The Tribune, undated) 13 items

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D: Photographs

c.1870-1900

Full length portrait photograph of William O’Brien’s elder brother, James O’Brien. 5 x 10cm 32 c.1880-1930 Portrait Photograph of religious sister. 6 x 8 cm 33 c.1880-1930 Portrait photograph of ‘M. Guillaume Great French Sculptor who came to our wedding and offered to make a monument to John Mandeville’. (Photo. by Fd. Mulnier, Paris). 6 x 10 cm 34 c.1880 Portrait photograph of André Raffalovich, brother of Sophie O'Brien. 6 x 9 cm 35 c.1880 Full length portrait photograph of André Raffalovich at age 19. 10 x 21 cm 36 1887

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Group photograph inscribed ‘Editor Wm. O’Brien and Correspondents who accompanied him to Canada’. Shows Charles Ryan of Dublin Freeman’s Journal, Daniel F. Kellogg of New York Sun, William O'Brien M.P., editor of United Ireland, J.M. Wall of New York Tribune, Denis Kilbride ‘The Evicted Tenant of Luggacurren’, James Clancy of New York Herald, and James A. Gill of New York World. (Photo. by C.D. Fredricks 770 Broadway, New York). 23 x 18 cm 37 1890 Photograph of Rev. David Humphries being followed by 2 policemen in uniform. Inscribed ‘Shadowing in Tipperary’. 15 x 15 cm 38 c.1890 Photograph of Mrs. John Martin. Inscription at rear ‘John Mitchel’s Sister Married John Martin M.P. 1868. Both men died 1875. She wanted to marry Devin Reilly, but Mitchel preferred Martin. Maxwell Simpson M.D.F.R.S., Second Professor of Chemistry, Queens College Cork 1870-91, a Young Irelander, married Martin’s sister’. (Photo. by Abernethy, Belfast) 10 x 14 cm 39 October 1890 Photograph of street scene in Tipperary, showing armed police/army blocking the street. Inscribed ‘Col Caddell hides his face’. 10 x 8 cm 40 October 1890

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Photograph, outside Tipperary Courthouse. Shows group of men plus R.I.C men in uniform. Inscribed ‘”Remember Tipperary” F.W. Hindley’. 10 x 8 cm 41 October 1890 Photograph of 2 men in discussion outside Tipperary Courthouse. Inscribed ‘”Remember Tipperary” F.W. Hindley’. 10 x 8 cm 42 October 1890 Photograph taken outside Tipperary Courthouse. Inscribed ‘”Remember Tipperary” F.W. Hindley’, and ‘after the fight in front of Tipperary Courthouse’. Shows group of men and armed police. 10 x 8 cm 43 8 August 1894 Photographs of letter from J.Sullivan R.M., Glenhest, to Mr. Anthony Kelly. Thanks him for the kind invitation. 2 items 44 31 August 1897 Photograph of note, from J.Sreenan, ‘Hon. Sec.’, Mulranny. ‘Sir kindly print about 30 hand Programmes for our races…’. 1 item 45 3 April 1898 Photograph of letter from John McHale, Chairman, [of a United Irish League branch], to ‘Dear James Kelly’. ‘As you are aware that Martin Kiely is going back to the bastard Stoney on Monday…and watch the

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Police at their houses will be visited on same night so let [Tierney] not be behind…Burn this for fear of strangers’. 1 item 46 c.1900 Photograph of front of Bellevue House, Mallow, residence of Sophie and William O’Brien. 11 x 6 cm 47 c.1900 Photograph of front of Bellevue House, Mallow, residence of Sophie and William O’Brien.

8 x 6 cm

48 c.1900 Photograph of Gravestone of Pierce [Hennessy], Mallow, died 1833. 6 x 9 cm 49 c.1900 Portrait photograph of Sophie O'Brien. 3.5 x 5 cm 50 c.1900 Full length portrait photograph of a man, inscribed ‘Willis’. 6 x 10cm 51 c.1900

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Photograph of portrait drawing of ‘M Planat de la Faye a great French soldier who fought through the wars of the Revolution + the Empire. His widow survived him, became blind and I used to read to her in Paris’. 11 x 16 cm 52 c.1910-1916 Photograph of William O'Brien ‘after a meeting of the All for Ireland League’. 14 x 10 cm 53 c.1900-1916 Photograph of public meeting at the Grand Parade, Cork. William O'Brien in attendance. A banner on the platform declaims ‘LONG LIVE O’BRIEN’. [Public rally of All for Ireland League members] 15 x 10 cm 54 c.1900-1920 Portrait photograph of William O'Brien. 4 x 5 cm 55 13 April 1902 Photograph of Father Fleming, ‘whom we met in Rome in 1901 where he was one of the Pope’s under Council’. 11 x 16 cm 56 26 September 1913 Portrait photograph of Father [T.M. O’Flynn], St Finbarr’s West, Cork. Signed ‘To William & Sophie from your affectionate friend’.

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57 August 1918 Photograph of Darrell Figgis, Countess Marchievicz, and David Kent, seated, ‘Taken at Kent’s place, Bonard House…After release from Jails etc’. 11 x 9 cm 58 c.1930-1950 Photograph of Sophie O'Brien and Sheila O’Rourke, her God Child, seated. 9 x 6 cm 59 7 May 1924 Portrait photograph of Sister M. Eustace ‘one of Mrs Eaton’s children…now a nun in Australia’. Signed, ‘To dear Mrs. O’Brien With love from Sister M. Eustace’. 9 x 14 cm 60 n.d. Photograph of envelope addressed to Mr. James Kelly, Kanturk. 12 x 9 cm 61 n.d Portrait photograph of John O’Neary, Mallow. (Monty Roche Photographer). 10 x 15 cm 62 1932

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Photograph inscribed ‘Cork du haut de l’Université’. 8 x 6 cm

[c. 1920-1940] Envelope addressed to Mr. E.M. O’Mahony, Barrister, Dun Maedhon, Cork, Ireland. From the Akademie für Deutsches Recht, Berlin W9, Leipziger Platz 15, Germany. 1 item

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