Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection
Part of:
PR70/C/3
Scope and Content: Denis thanks Daniel for sending photographs of himself and his son [Florence Strachan MacCarthy]. He says that Daniel’s “clansman Brendan … has felt highly honoured by your commission”. He appears to discuss the design of the MacCarthy family coat-of-arms, which likely relates to the illustration on page 131.
Reference:
PR70/C/3/50
Date:
1847-1879
Title: Level:
Page 131. Colour illustration of [?the MacCarthy coat-of-arms].
Item
Extent: Part of:
PR70/C/3
Scope and Content: Illustration may have been done by Denis Florence MacCarthy. See letter from Denis on page 130.
Reference:
PR70/C/3/51
Date:
1847-1879
Title:
Page 133. ‘Signature of Lord Talbot’ – letter [?to the editor of] the ‘Academy’
periodical. Level:
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PR70/C/3
Scope and Content: The letter was written by E Hawksley Rhodes and was published in the ‘Academy’ on 11 July 1874. It mentions a Stephen Popham, who may have been an ancestor of Daniel MacCarthy’s wife, Harriet Alexandrina Bassett Popham MacCarthy.
Reference:
PR70/C/3/52
Date:
1847-1879
Title:
Page 137 – 140. “Armorials of the [MacCarthys]” and “Mottoes” - notes by Daniel
MacCarthy. Level:
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Extent: Part of:
PR70/C/3
Scope and Content: Copied extract from the ‘Council Book of the Corporation of Cork’ edited by Richard Caulfield regarding the Cork City coat-of-arms, and a copied extract from a letter dated 7 March 1878 from “Mrs Calverley”, Eastwood House, Keighley [Bradford, West Yorkshi re, England] regarding the MacCarthy family motto.
Reference:
PR70/C/3/53
Date:
1847-1879
Title:
Pages 146 – 150. ‘Council Book of the Corporation of Cork’, edited by Richard
Caulfield – the submission of the King of Cork, Dermod MacCarthy to King Henry II. Level: Item
Extent: Part of:
PR70/C/3
Scope and Content:
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