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Ireland

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 165 Collections and/or Records:

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6th letter / 2nd letter [from?], 1874-01-01 - 1874-12-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 194: 17
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1874-01-01 - 1874-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Class: Very fragile material - access may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please seek guidance.
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'A week in western Ireland', 1905-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/6/8
Scope and Contents

Offprint from the National Review; and photographs (27).

Dates: 1905-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Accounts of Travelling Expenses

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6299
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Accounts of travelling expenses on various journeys in England and Ireland, and between the two countries, 77 folios. Fos 1-4 and 13v-77 are blank.

Dates: 1798-1801
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Acts regarding weights and measures, 1840 - 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 62/13
Scope and Contents Acts regarding the standards of weights and measures, 1824-1870, printed 1840-1870, including the establishment of the Troy pound as the standard measure, the abolition of local measures such as the Winchester Bushel and the Scots Ell, the appointment of inspectors of weights and measures and the preservation of the restored standards: An Act for ascertaining and establishing Uniformity of Weights and Measures, 1824.An Act to prolong the Time of the Commencement of an Act of...
Dates: 1840 - 1870
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Acts relating to the formation of the Board of Longitude and the proposal of a reward for the discovery of an accurate method of finding longitude at sea, 1713 - 1821

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/1: 10-95
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There are Supplementary Acts regarding navigation and surveying the chief ports and headlands of Great Britain and Ireland; John Harrison and his chronometer; and discovering a northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and for making a journey to the North Pole.

Dates: 1713 - 1821
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Analysis of Irish tide observations, 1842

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/516
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Analysis of Irish tide observations at Old Head, Mullaghmore, Buncrana, Port Rush, Carrowkeel and Ballycastle.

Dates: 1842
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Analysis of Irish tide observations, 1842

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/517
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Analysis of Irish tide observations at Glenarm, Donaghadee, Ardglass, Clougher Head, Kingstown and Courtown.

Dates: 1842
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Analysis of Irish tide observations, 1842

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/518
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Analysis of Irish tide observations at Dunmore East, New Ross, Passage West and Castletownsend. The volume also includes the epitome of the analysis of the individual stations; a list of the Moon's declinations; the diurnal and tertio-diurnal tide at Dunmore East and Courtown; and calculations titled 'Irregularities in the values of A as given by Analysis at the different stations collected'.

Dates: 1842
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Armorial

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4135
Scope and Contents (fo. 1) Lords Justices and Lords Lieutenant of Ireland; (fo. 18) English nobility; (fo. 24v) 'Des Romischen Kunigs Ferdinandi Erblandische wappen'; (fo. 25) royal families and princes of Europe and the east; (fo. 40) cardinals; (fo. 44v) archibishops; (fo. 49v) bishops; (fo. 57) German nobility. There are occasional additions in 17th and 18th century hands. The drawing and colouring are crude. Many coats of arms are not coloured. On fo. 74v is 'And Die is cast John White' (18th century)....
Dates: 1605 (Circa.)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Articles, books and pamphlets, many by LSA or with contributions and annotations by him, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/194
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Copy of "Home Rule" by Harold Spender.

Dates: 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Articles, books and pamphlets, many by LSA or with contributions and annotations by him, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/206
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"Against Home Rule, the case for the Union" and an issue of the Covenanter with an article by Leo Amery on keeping the Union.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Authentische Geschichte des Klosters der unbeschuhten Franziskaner aus Irland und Schottland oder sogenannte Hiberner bei St Ambrosius in Prag 1629-1786

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4350
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Contents: (p. 1) text in German, beginning 'Durch die zu Ende des xvi Jahrunderts unter der Köningin Elisabeth', and ending 'so werden dieselben hier unterdrückt'; (p. 7) 'Nachrichten über einige merkwürdigen Persönlichkeiten irländischer und schottischer Abkunft'; (p. 9) copy of a Latin foundation charter, the original being in the University Library, Prague; (p. 11) 'Erlaüterung des beiliegerenden bildlichen Prospektes'.

Dates: 1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Barnaby Rich: Alarm to England

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3031
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Fos 1, 61-4: mutilated. Inside front cover: 'No. 253', and bookplate of E. Knight. On fly-leaf: 'Dr Routh's sale of MSS at Sotheby's 1855.'

Dates: 1578 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Blacksod Bay: altered route scheme, 1909-03 - 1914-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/30
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Correspondence between Sir Thomas Troubridge and others on a proposed link between a ferry and Irish railways at Blacksod Bay [County Mayo, Ireland] for the fishing trade, with plan of the bay showing the proposed new rail route.

Dates: 1909-03 - 1914-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Books, articles and pamphlets, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/6/41
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"The Common Market, the case against" by [John] Enoch Powell.

Dates: 1971
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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British Covenant, 1914-01 - 1914-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/26
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Cutting and texts of articles, letters and memoranda by LSA for the British Covenant against Irish Home Rule, with a petition form against the Home Rule Bill and issue of the Covenanter.

Dates: 1914-01 - 1914-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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British-Irish Inter Parliamentary Body, 1989-06 - 1989-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 12/1/6
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Rough notes, papers and correspondence, mainly with Stuart Bell, secretary of the body’s steering committee, on the body’s draft constitution and membership, with a briefing for a follow-up meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe [Foreign Secretary].

Dates: 1989-06 - 1989-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Cabinet memoranda and other undated memoranda, 1916-10 - 1923-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/36
Scope and Contents Cabinet papers, including: note by LSA on the Government's agreement to the campaign plan for 1918; memorandum by Lord Robert Cecil [Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood] on preventing future wars by international agreements, with comments by Sir Eyre Crowe [Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; interim report of the committee on the League of Nations; notes by [?] LSA on the prevention of war and a League of Nations;...
Dates: 1916-10 - 1923-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Cabinet Papers on naval and general First World War subjects, 1910-10 - 1915-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 4/7
Scope and Contents Includes: memorandum by the First Lord of the Admiralty [Winston Churchill] on the formation of a naval War Staff; diary of a visit to Berlin by 1st Lord Haldane [Secretary of State for War] and his discussions with the German Chancellor [Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg], Kaiser Wilhelm II, Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] and with J Cambon [? French Ambassador to Germany] on the balance of power in Europe, the increase in the British and German fleets,...
Dates: 1910-10 - 1915-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Calculations for Irish tides, 1842

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/514
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Calculations for Irish tides, including tables of diurnal tides in conjunction with the Moon's transit and high and low water levels; computation of equations for diurnal tides and attempts to find their solution; and a model of the instrument used for the tidal observations.

Dates: 1842
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Calculations for Irish tides, 1842

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/515
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Calculations for Irish tides, including tables of corrections for diurnal tides and the rise of the tide. There are computations and analysis of the tides at Kilbaha, Kilrush, Foynes Island, Limerick, Cashel Bay and Galway.

Dates: 1842
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Collection of letters and state papers relating to the rebellion in Ireland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kk.01.15
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155 items are enumerated in the numbering of the detailed description given in 'A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge', volume 3, 1858, pp. 572-588.

Dates: Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Collections of Irish historical and literary compositions, compiled for Sean Bhailis (John Walsh)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3095
Scope and Contents Contents: Geoffrey Keating, MS copy of his History of Ireland, printed by Irish Texts Soc., 4 vols, London, 1902-14; 'Ionnsuighe Mhuighe Leana', text belonging to the 'short recension' of the MS described by K. Jackson, Cath Maighe Léna, Dublin, 1938; 'Cath Mhuighe Muchroimhe', not the version edited by W. Stokes (Revue Celtique 13 (1892), but probably that in modern Irish mentioned by him at pp. 428-9; Toruigheacht Cheallachain Caisil, MS version of text edited by A. Bugge, Oslo, 1905;...
Dates: June 1759
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Contains cuttings referring to the biography of WSC, ‘Battle’, with a minority of photographs and cuttings concerning other topics, 1932-08-30 - 1940-11-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 27 3
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Foreign Policy: Riots in Ireland; Soviet Union begins the second of its five year plans.

Career: Release of Hugh Martin’s biography of WSC, aptly entitled ‘Battle’, results in the press re-examining almost every episode of any interest in WSC’s early life. ‘Battle’ is given a variety of complementary reviews from a comprehensive selection of newspapers.

Dates: 1932-08-30 - 1940-11-09
Conditions Governing Access: Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
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Copy of an unpublished memoir, 1865-1926, 1926 - 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CAVN 1/1
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Comprising: Home, Clevedon, Eton; Sandhurst and Examinations; The Grenadier Guards; Racing: a Story of the Inevitable; Ireland; Canada; South African War 1900-1902; Tennis, Hunting, Stalking, Golf, Fishing and Shooting; The First German War: France and Belgium; Italy; Some Notes on the Battle of Vittorio Veneto and After; From Aldershot to Washington; and War Office 1922-26.
With correspondence with Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1925 (2).

Dates: 1926 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.