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The Poor Law was extended to Ireland by an Act of 1838, based on the English Poor Law Act of 1834 and operated until 1923. The country was divided into poor law unions, each of whi

Clare County Archives and Library Service

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Album of correspondence, press-cuttings, autographs, warrants, postcards, invitations, and receipts, collected by Henry Morris. Contains materials relating to Morris’s various i

Dublin City University

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Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. He is regarded as one of the great playwrights of the Victorian Era. In his lifetime he wrote nine plays, one

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

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IE TCD MS 1209 is the collection of maps held in the Library of Trinity College Dublin and made by George Carew (1555-1629) 1st Earl of Totnes and Lord President of Munster at the

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

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John Millington Synge, playwright, poet, prose writer and collector of folklore, was born on 16 April 1871 in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. He studied Irish and Hebrew in Trinity Colleg

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

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The Papers of Michael Davitt is a collection of photographs, notebooks and diaries, personal papers, autobiographical writings, letters and pamphlets created by, for, or about, the

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

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The J.D. White collection comprises more than 900 popular slip ballads printed in Dublin, Cork and Johnstown, mainly in the 1850s and 1860s, that refer to contemporary events inclu

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

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