CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Scope and Content Family collection of papers belonging to Royal Navy officer Edward Fitzgerald of Curraghbinny, Co. Cork.
Includes significant scrapbook of the maiden voyage of the HMS New Zealand, created by Fitzgerald as a diary of events and places visited during the 'world tour' voyage of 1913 [see item: PR79/5].
The collection also includes a small number of personal items, including postcards sent by Mr Fitzgerald to his wife and children whilst at sea, religious poems from the first world war, and a volume of songs presented to Fitzgerald by Henry E. Swinglehurst in Chile [PR79/9].
System of Arrangement Chronological.
Section I: Section II: Section III: Section IV: Section V:
Items dated 1905 to 1912
Items from 1913 including HMS New Zealand World Tour
Items dated 1914 to 1915 Items dated 1917 to 1918 Items dated 1941 to c.2016
PERSON/INSTITUTION INDEX: Royal Navy
SUBJECT/EVENT ETC. INDEX : 1900s 1910s First World War
New Zealand British Empire British Royal Navy Diaries and Journals Postcards Ships
CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE
Conditions Governing Access
Open to all readers holding a reader's ticket, subject to the standard rules of access at Cork City & County Archives.
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