School Resource Packs: Cork 1912-1918

Resource Pack 4: 1914 Suzanne R. Day

6 Cork City & County Archives: Through War and Rebellion: Cork 1912-1918

Further Research and Sources

CORK CITY AND COUNTY ARCHIVES CATALOGUE

This extract is from a minute book of the Cork Board of Guardians: http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110000165

Papers of Day’s nephew Alec R Day, antiquarian, historian, and photographer: http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110005911

Day’s co-playwright, Geraldine Cummins, from Glanmire, was a famous medium and spiritualist. Her papers include copies of the plays she co-wrote with Susanne Day: http://catalogue.corkarchives.ie/Details/archive/110000657

CORK CITY AND COUNTY ARCHIVES WEBSITE

Descriptive list of Cork Board of Guardians records: http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/BG69web.pdf

ELSEWHERE AND ONLINE

Jstor.org An academic research website preserving ‘the scholarly record’ online. Accessible via Cork City Libraries and Cork City and County Archives

Day, Susanne R, ‘ The Workhouse Child ’, The Irish Review (Dublin), Vol 2, No 16 (Jun., 1912), pp169- 179 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30062823

Impassioned article by Day regarding the plight of children in the workhouse system, published within a year of her election to the Cork Board of Guardians.

Cork County Library holds a copy of Day’s ‘The Amazing Philanthropists’ (London, 1916): http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/1914%20Day%20The%20Amazing%20Philanthropists.pdf

Corkpastandpresent.ie Cork City Libraries research website

Day’s unpublished novel ‘St Martin’s Cloak’ may be downloaded from this site, which also gives a good short biography of Day. http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/culture/corkwriters/susannerouvierday/

Book Gonzalez, Alexander G (ed.), Irish Women Writers: an A-to-Z guide (Greenwood Press, 2006)

Includes detailed entries of Cummins and Day, which are present in the Google Books preview: https://books.google.ie/books?id=quocyNYLbLcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r &cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Abbeytheatre.ie Details of productions, including ‘Broken Faith’ and ‘Fox and Geese’ http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/play_detail/10250;

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/988

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