Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

26 Mar 1828 Mechanics Institute, ballot for new directors, blank nomination sheet, mechanics, employers, scientific members.

nd Mr. Hamblin and Doctor Porter's School. Blank examination and attendance sheet. (1 item)

Ref.

U140/K/3/009

Date:

1830s -1834

Level : file Title:

Scrapbook Page

Extent: 4 items Scope and Content: 23 Oct 1834 Handbill/circular letter 'To the Honest Repealers of Enniscorthy', from 'A True Irishman', refers to banking in Ireland, English capital, etc. (1p)

nd Fragment of Temperance Society 'Nine First Rules'. (1p)

nd MS. list of 'Subscribers to the Loan of Fifty Pounds in Shares of One Pound Each', including William Clear, Charles Dodd, Richard Dowden, William Maginn, William Collins, etc. (1p)

nd Poster for fireworks display, description of including 'Crimson Sky Rockets', and 'Fire Pigeon'. (1p)

Ref.

U140/K/3/009a

Date:

1832 - 1835

Level : file Title:

Scrapbook Page

Extent: 6 items Scope and Content: nd Newscutting, with poem 'The Poor Irishmen's Friend, Address to the Afflicted and the Irish Public in general' by Aesculapius. (1 item) 16 Jun 1835 Notice regarding 'The People's Hall' from the Trades Association, listing uses of the hall, including public meetings, exhibition of Irish manufactured goods, cheap reading room, business meetings of famers, tradesmen and labourers, resort for the working classes, economy in public entertainments, extension of civil rights. Signed by Morgan O'Donovan and Henry Brady, secretaries, Perry Street. (1p)

1 May 1832 Ticket for the Solemn Consecration of St. Peter's New Catholic Chapel, Circular Road, Phibsboro, Dublin, by Most Rev. Doctor Murray. (1p)

16 Feb 1835 Notice to attend meeting of vestry of Presbyterian Meeting House. (1 item)

nd Handbill advertising Wests Weekly Times and Cork Commercial Economist, 'the cheapest news and advertising paper in the Kingdom'. (1p)

nd 6 Oct 1820 List of members requiring a meeting of the Cork Philosphical and Literary Society, with signatures, Samual Godsill, WJ Farrell, William Maginn, etc. (1p)

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

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