Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

MacCarthy family throughout County Cork.

The book was published in 1867 in London with several critics stating that a book on Florence MacCarthy Reagh had been sorely needed for the study of Irish History, while another reviewer stated that the book was almost unreadable. The copy here in the Cork City and County Archives is an original edition. Within it, there is a photo of the author himself as he would have appeared in 1867 at about the age of 60. Daniel's manuscript volumes [PR70/C] and correspondence [PR70/B] detail much of the historical research which informed the book. Daniel gifted numerous copies of the book to his friends and fellow MacCarthys/McCarthys, as can be seen in the many thank-you letters included in the collection.

Reference:

PR70/A/2/1

Date:

1867

Title: 'The Life and Letters of Florence MacCarthy Reagh, Tanist of Carbery, MacCarthy Mor, with some portion of "The History of the Ancient Families of the South of Ireland", compiled solely from unpublished documents in Her Majesty's State Paper Office' by Daniel MacCarthy (Glas). Level: Item Extent: 515pp Part of: PR70/A/2 Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of Daniel MacCarthy on the inside cover.

Reference:

PR70/A/2/2

Date:

31 May 1867

Title:

Advertisements and other promotional material for 'The Life and Letters of Florence

MacCarthy Reagh ...' Level: file Extent:

6 items

Part of:

PR70/A/2

Scope and Content: File includes catalogue of Longmans and Company Publishers.

Reference:

PR70/A/2/3

Date:

11 July 1867-[?1868]

Title: Level:

Reviews of 'The Life and Letters of Florence MacCarthy Reagh …'

file

Extent: Part of:

3 items

PR70/A/2

Scope and Content: Includes reviews from the Limerick Chronicle newspaper dated 11 July 1867; the Westminster Review dated October 1867 [which describes Daniel's book as "almost unreadable"]; and a newspaper cutting relating to the presentation of a paper on 'The Life and Letters of Florence MacCarthy Reagh …' at the eleventh annual me eting of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. Additional reviews are included in manuscript volume II [PR70/C/2].