Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

Title:

Scrapbook containing mainly newscuttings

Extent: c600pp Scope and Content:

Bound volume scrapbook containing large number of items, mainly newscuttings, from the Southern Reporter, Cork Examiner, and Cork Constitution newspapers. Topics include; religion, temperance, local politics, mechanics institute, payment of tithes, Cork Liberal Club, Catholic emancipation, Holy Trinity Parish, elections, Cork Corporation, anti-slavery society, public meetings, reform, national politics, poor laws, taxation, repeal, Cork Literary and Scientific Society, town councils, ministers money, Father Mathew, Daniel O'Connell, election of Mayor, horticulture, fever hospital, workhouse; also circus poster with animals from 1834.

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U140/K/3

Date:

?1820s - 1850s

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Scrapbook Extent: 183 pages/files containing c1000 items. Scope and Content:

Scrapbook in 3 volumes containing large number of mainly printed manuscripts and items kept by Richard Dowden. Items relate to local and national political movements and institutions, educational societies and institutions, religious organisations, charities, the temperance movement, and the theatre, etc. (Up to 12 items per page/file).

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U140/K/3/001

Date:

1831, 1834

Level : file Title:

Scrapbook Page

Extent: 3 items Scope and Content:

8 Oct 1831 Poster, 'Blacklist! Annual Amount of Pickings of the Peers and their Families, who voted against the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, Saturday, Oct 8, 1831'. Lists all Dukes, Marquisses, Earls, Viscounts, Lords, Bishops who voted against the Reform Bill, and estimate of annual income. Sold by Fergusson, printer, bookseller, stationer, 108 Patrick's Street, Cork, agent for the Comet, Dublin, weekly newspaper. (1 item) 6 Dec 1834 Handbill, for scientific exhibition by Holland and Co. of microscopes and a lime light, at the Royal Cork Institution, Nelson Place. 'A DROP OF WATER, Magnified 900,000 times!.....In Which are seen Thousands of Living Creatures....THE REFULGENT RAYS OF LIGHT, emanating from a ball of lime.... ILLUMINATING THE WHOLE CITY OF CORK!...'. (1 item) 15 Jan 1831 MS. letter, to 'Dear Sir' regarding address by the citizens of Cork to the French people, forwarded to Lafayette by the writer's father, given to the Prefect of the Seine at a ceremony attended by municipal officers of Paris and other distinguished individuals for the deputation from Cork. Quotes a toast given by the Prefect at the event dinner, to "The City of Cork and the brave Irish who always proved to be our friends; may they soon enjoy all the benefits of civil and religious Liberty". (1p)

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List