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Geoffrey Keating: 'History of Ireland' (transcribed by Diarmuid O'Mulchaoine)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.619
Scope and Contents

Transcribed for the Revd Morgan O'Brien, parish priest of Newcastle, Co. Limerick. The original first went into circulation in manuscript in 1634. Marginal subheadings in English, in O'Mulchaoine's hand. Flyleaf: note on Keating's chapel at Tubrid, by J. O'Donovan, Clonmel, 1840. A few notes by O'Donovan elsewhere in the text.

Dates: 1770
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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History of Ireland and Related Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4341
Scope and Contents An anonymous historical compilation in two parts, each preceded by a preface, and copiously annotated. Book I (fos 1-56) comprises 47 chapters, consisting of annals of the history of Ireland to the time of Conn Cedchathach, said by the author to be taken mainly from the works of Keating, O'Flaherty and Warner, and serving as the introduction to Book II. Book II consists of translations from Irish of (1) the narrative of the battle of Maighe Lena (fos 58-92), from a manuscript of the 'short...
Dates: 1790 (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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Home Rule, 1912-01 - 1914-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/27
Scope and Contents

Typescript and manuscript speech notes by LSA against Home Rule for Ireland, with print of an article by LSA for the Lancashire and Cheshire Junior Unionist.

Dates: 1912-01 - 1914-05
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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Home Rule and the Ulster Crisis, 1913-12 - 1914-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/28
Scope and Contents

Includes: extracts from the Quarterly Review on Home Rule; published interview and correspondence between John Seely, Secretary of State for War [later 1st Lord Mottistone], General Sir Arthur Paget [Commander-in-Chief, Ireland] and Brigadier-General Hubert Gough [Commander, 3rd Cavalry Brigade at the Curragh], on resignations of officers in the Irish Command over the imposition of Home Rule; copies of Hansard covering the debate on the Government of Ireland Bill, March-April 1914.

Dates: 1913-12 - 1914-03
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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House of Commons speeches, 1938-03 - 1940-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/6/1
Scope and Contents Texts of LSA's speeches on subjects including: the Anschluss between Germany and Austria; unemployment and economic conditions; the Anglo-Italian Agreement (May 1938); the Budget (1938); confirmation of the Eire Agreement [Ireland]; National Service; colonial policy; Palestine; the international situation regarding preparation for war; securing supplies, particularly from the United States, which would otherwise go to Germany; the Education (Emergency) Bill; post-war Europe; war pensions and...
Dates: 1938-03 - 1940-04
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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Inwards letters from 1st Lord Milner, 1908-03 - 1914-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/39
Scope and Contents Letters from Milner to LSA on subjects including: the Compatriots [tariff reform group]; payment for LSA's work; LSA's work on the Times History of the South African War; Milner's concerns about the new South African constitution; the political situation in Australia; LSA's visit to Australia with the Empire Parliamentary Association; the death of George Wyndham; Home Rule for Ulster; LSA's poor chances of gaining a parliamentary seat at Oxford and failure at Wolverhampton [Staffordshire];...
Dates: 1908-03 - 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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Ireland, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HTRY 1/4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes files on America, Germany, India, and on various subjects including inflation and the Bank of England.

Dates: 1912 - 1914
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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Ireland, 1985-05 - 1990-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 12/1/4
Scope and Contents

Printed papers on the Anglo-Irish Agreement and Ireland’s presidency of the European Union.

Dates: 1985-05 - 1990-02
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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Ireland, Undated, [1910-1969]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add 8904.4: 1413-1425
Scope and Contents

Envelope labelled 'Irish Gypsies (Ireland?) | Ruth's photos Ireland in 19[..]'.

Dates: Undated, [1910-1969]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Ireland[?] - Long[?] - Donegal / Pinguicula vulgaris [numbers of insects observed] / average 2.4, 1874-08-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 59.1: 104r
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1874-08-22
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Irish Boundary Question, 1914-07 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/70
Scope and Contents Includes: draft of a letter written by LSA to the Times on the breakdown of the inter-Party conference on Ireland and the Government's policy of breaking up the United Kingdom (1914); reprint of a Times article on a suggested Irish settlement; print of an address to Unionist MPs on the Irish boundary question, by Ronald McNeill [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, later 1st Lord Cushendun]; reprint of an article by Sir Kingsley Wood, on the case for Ulster; article on...
Dates: 1914-07 - 1957
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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Irish House of Commons: List of Members

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4346
Scope and Contents Lists of members of the Irish House of Commons supplied to the General Post Office, Dublin, with a view to the free delivery of post, 29 May 1790, 36 folios. The list is arranged in alphabetical order (fo. 4), and in similar order of places represented (fo. 28). On fo. 35 is a list of double returns. On fos 1v and 2 are pasted printed letters from John Lees, secretary of the General Post Office, Dublin, to all (Irish) postmasters, dated 8 and 13 April 1790 respectively. On blank leaves and...
Dates: 1790-1851
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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Irish items from the collection of Sir Norman Moore, 1650-1914

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2766.20
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, poems, prose and songs.

Dates: 1650-1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Irish legal records

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3104
Scope and Contents

Abstracts of cases, precedents, pardons, and fines, with related material, temp. Edward I - temp. Edward IV. Second hand at pp. 51-3. Third hand intermingled with main hand at pp. 147-58. Inside front cover: bookplate of Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, and on p. 1 his autograph with the date 19 Sep. 1840.

Dates: 1620 (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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Irish poems and tales

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4436
Scope and Contents

Compiled by Patrick Lamb, with additions by Eugene Duffy and James O'Donovan.

Dates: 1825-1831 (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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Irish tracts

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4605
Scope and Contents

A list of 106 tracts dealing with Irish affairs, printed between 1641 and 1650, 46 folios. The hand is the same as that of fos 1-5 of MS.Add.4603. Fos 1v and 10v-46 are blank.

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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Jane West: Extracts from tour journals chronicling travels in Wales and Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.738
Scope and Contents

Includes three poems. Early nineteenth-century hand (paper watermarked 1813), apparently not autograph. The poems are 'To Glen Luce', 'To Mrs Isted on her return from Ireland in 1807', and 'A Farewell to Leamington, 1833'. Bookplate of Samuel Sandars inside front cover.

Dates: 1813 (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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John Winston Spencer Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough: Political Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9271
Scope and Contents Political papers, mostly relating to Churchill's three offices of state: Lord Steward of the Household, 1866-7, with correspondence, accounts and papers relating to Queen Victoria's household; Lord President of the Council, 1867-8, with correspondence between Marlborough and Prime Ministers, Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Mayo, Duke of Richmond and Queen Victoria, the last mostly confined to times of Privy Council meetings; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1876-80, with correspondence and...
Dates: 1840-1880
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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Joseph Woods: Journal of a Tour of Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4342
Scope and Contents

Consists of 100 folios: (fo. 1) text; (fo. 91) notes on the text; (fo. 100) an index of place names. There are observations on local antiquities, natural history, social conditions and topography. The text is heavily corrected and appears to be a draft. On fo. 1r: 'Ireland. No. 1'. Accompanying the manuscript is a lithograph circular letter from J.B. Wells, 10 January 1829.

Dates: 7 July 1809-15 Oct. 1809
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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Letter books, 1702-03 - 1703-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ERLE 1
Scope and Contents

Copies of correspondence between the Lords Justices of Ireland and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and of correspondence between Erle and the Lord Lieutenant and others.

Dates: 1702-03 - 1703-03
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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Letter concerning a chronometer for HMS Procris under Commander Charles Henry Paget, 1829-05-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/230: 151
Scope and Contents

Sent from John Barrow to John Pond.

Dates: 1829-05-20
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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Letter from Patrick Leahy to Dr Thomas Young, 1822-11-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/44: 216-217
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Three letters and a proposal.

Dates: 1822-11-07
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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Letter from William Butler to Sir Harry Parker, 1785-09-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/44: 25
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Three letters, a proposal and a subsequent petition to the Board.

Dates: 1785-09-28
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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Letter from William Butler to Sir Harry Parker, 1787-02-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/44: 27-28
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Three letters, a proposal and a subsequent petition to the Board.

Dates: 1787-02-15
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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Letters, A - Z, 1917-01 - 1917-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/6
Scope and Contents Correspondence (mainly consisting of letters written by LSA while Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet) between LSA and correspondents including: Professor William Adams [Secretary to the Prime Minister], on LSA's memoranda about Ireland (2); Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction], on LSA's idea for extending postal rates to Empire trade; Waldorf Astor [Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister], on LSA's ideas on proportional representation; Lieutenant-Colonel John...
Dates: 1917-01 - 1917-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.