The minutes contain mainly statistical information on the financial administration and maintenance of the workhouses under their control; includes details of the workhouse population under the following subheadings, the numbers remaining in, inmates admitted during the week, thos
Poor Law Records | Local Government Records | Workhouses
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The minutes contain mainly statistical information on the financial administration and maintenance of the workhouses under their control; includes details of the workhouse population under the following subheadings, the numbers remaining in, inmates admitted during the week, thos
Poor Law Records | Local Government Records | Workhouses
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Minutes of a meeting held by the Balrothery Board of Guardians at which the Women's National Health Association proposed that midwives employed in the district be fully qualified, and expressed concern that a number of unqualified midwives were operating in the area. The minutes
Midwives | Midwifery | Nursing
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County and Rural Districts Presentments for the county of Clare. Gives list of the first members of Clare County Council upon its establishment. It details lists of works to be carried out and costs for the rural districts of Ballyvaughan, Corofin, Ennis, Ennistymon, Kildysart, K
Grand jury | Local government | Transport infrastructure
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Letter from Oscar Wilde, Hôtel d’Alsace, Rue de Beaux Arts, Paris, to [Henry] Davray, alerting him to his postal address at the Hôtel d’Alsace. With pencil annotations by former owner Julia Rosenthal.Undated, likely around August 1899.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Correspondence | Davray, Henry-D., 1873- -- Correspondence | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Homes and haunts
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Letter from Oscar Wilde, Hôtel d’Alsace, Rue de Beaux Arts, Paris, to [Monsieur Georges], written in French, requesting to have his letters forwarded to ‘Mr. Melmoth’ at the Hotel d’Alsace and seeking to take a break from some unknown payments.Undated, but likely around August 18
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Correspondence | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Finance | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Homes and haunts
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IE TCD MS 4420: John Millington Synge’s diary for 1899.This diary was used only very occasionally. Entries are in German, French and English.
Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
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A view of a wooden field gate and dilapidated stone wall from an unidentified location on the back road between Roundwood and Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. Djouce mountain appears in the background.Description based on information found in My wallet of photographs: the collected photo
Photography--Ireland | Ireland--Pictorial works | Roundwood (Ireland)
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Souvenir cabinet card of a photograph of James Sant’s portrait of William Shakespeare as a young boy. Written on the recto: ‘Shakespeare “as youth”’. Photograph and portrait undated.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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Cabinet card of William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister, leader of the Liberal Party and supporter of Irish Home Rule. Written on the recto: ‘Gladstone’.
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898
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Cabinet card of Ellen O’Rorke from Washington D.C, who donated to the Land League’s Famine Relief Fund. Photographed by W.L. Spedden, photographer, 808 7th St. N.W., Washington D.C. Written on the verso: ‘Mrs Ellen O’Rorke 902 G. Street Washington D.C. U.S.A’. Undated.
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Cabinet card of a Miss Murray, clothed in Spanish dress. Undated.
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