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English literature -- Irish authors

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Records:

Drafts by Brinsley MacNamara

 Collection
Call Number: MS 202
Overview

Collection of unbound drafts: novels and plays.

Dates: approximately 1917-1930s

"Golden Spear" manuscript

 Collection
Call Number: MS B78
Overview

Handwritten magazine of poetry, essays, stories, watercolors issued by the members of the Golden Spear, a charitable and literary club. The Golden Spear appears to be named after a mountain near Bray, south of Dublin. The Home for Crippled Children in Bray opened by Mrs. Lucinda Sullivan in 1874, was renamed the Sunbeam House in 1930, and closed in 1960.

Dates: May 1887

Herman Teerink collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: MS P312
Overview

The collection consists of 4 letters (handwritten, signed, 9 pages total) from Teerink to P.S. O'Hegarty. Also in the collection are 4 offprints of articles by Teerink on Swiftian bibliography and some articles regarding collections/exhibitions of materials concerning Irish author Jonathan Swift, including clippings from booksellers' catalogs. Teerink was attempting to find certain rare items from Swift and enlisting O'Hegarty's help.

Dates: 1948 - 1949

Papers of Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

 Collection
Call Number: MS 24
Overview

Collection of letters received by Anglo-Irish poet Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy. The collection also contains correspondence between individuals surrounding O'Shaughnessy; some literary texts by O'Shaughnessy and others; photographs and some sketches found in letters; and other related materials. Primarily literary and artistic subjects.

Dates: 1832-1906 or later

Personal papers of Harold Orel

 Collection
Call Number: PP 615
Overview

Harold Orel was a Professor of English specializing in Victorian and Edwardian literature at the University of Kansas. His papers include professional correspondence, teaching and research materials, conference materials and speaking notes, materials related to publications by Orel and other scholars, and personal ephemera.

Dates: 1941 - 2012

Standish O'Grady papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS P401
Overview

Papers of Irish author, journalist, and historian Standish James O'Grady, whose popular English version of Irish sagas earned him the title "father of the Irish literary revival" in the late 19th century, particularly after William Butler Yeats and other Irish authors made his work more widely known. "University Club Dublin" paper was used for pieces of correspondence located at Ba:3, Bb:1, Bd:1.

Dates: 1892-1928; undated