Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

Letters of Florence MacCarthy Reagh …']. He sends Daniel a copy of his recently published novel which he describes as "a little cockboat in comparison with your seventy four".

Reference:

PR70/B/84

Date:

[?1854]

Title: Level:

Letter from William Delany, Blackrock [Cork], to Daniel MacCarthy.

Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/B

Scope and Content: Delany, the Bishop of Cork, writes that he has heard much about Daniel from the parish priest of Dunmanway [?John Hurley], and wishes to make his acquaintance. He invites Daniel to dinner at his house tomorrow in Blackrock, Cork.

Reference:

PR70/B/85

Date:

23 September 1875

Title:

Letter from Aubrey Thomas de Vere, Bellevue Hotel, Bournemouth [UK] to Daniel

MacCarthy. Level:

Item

Extent: Part of:

3pp

PR70/B

Scope and Content: De Vere thanks Daniel for sending him his "new volume", likely 'A Historical Pedigree of the Sliochd Feidhlimidh, the MacCarthys of Gleannacroim'. He adds that he is about to publish a new edition of his father's verse drama, 'Mary Tudor', as Lord Alfred Tennyson's book 'Queen Mary' [published in 1875] has called attention to it.

Reference:

PR70/B/86

Date:

6 March 1865-[16 February 1877]

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Letters from CG Donovan to Daniel MacCarthy.

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Extent: Part of:

30 letters, 1 newspaper cutting

PR70/B

Scope and Content: CG Donovan [née Catherine MacCarthy (died 18 September 1879)] corresponded with Daniel for over two decades and met him in Cork, when he visited in August 1870. As with other correspondents in the collection, Daniel sent Donovan multiple copies of 'The Life and Letters of Florence MacCarthy ...' which she circulated to other MacCarthys, including leading figures of the Catholic Church in Cork. Her letters mainly discuss: Daniel's project to revive the MacCarthy Mor chieftainship and the possibility of a "sept government"; Fenianism [see for example a discussion of the commuting of Thomas Francis Bourke's death sentence (letter dated 10 June 1867), and a mention of her husband Richard being "busy with those abominable Fenian trials" (letter dated 22 December 1867)]; and family matters. Donovan suffered from Erysipelas [see letter dated 2 July 1865] and was a passionate advocate of the health benefits of hydrotherapy which she discusses frequently, and successfully solicited a number of donations from Daniel for the building of Turkish baths in Cork. Most of her letters are written from her home, Clanloghlin [Lee Road], Cork but at least one letter was written from St Anne's Hill [St Ann's Hill] Hydropathic Establishment near Blarney in Cork. She was married to Richard Donovan [died 26 September 1883], a clerk of the Crown. File also includes a cutting from the 'Nation' newspaper dated 26 December 1868.