Scrapbook album compiled by Thomas Matthew Ray, former Secretary of the Repeal Association for a Miss Seymour, containing ephemera items such as tickets and invitation cards relating to the repeal movement in the 1840's,
1871.
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| Summary: | An album of repeal cards (many engraved by Holbrooke, 4 Crow St., Dublin) and tickets relating to repeal meetings and related events, amongst them a ticket with the words "Mullaghmast Meeting, / first October 1843. / Platform, ...2s." with the words " "very rare" inscribed in manuscript hand in black ink by Thomas Matthew Ray at top right of ticket; a ticket [printed on pink coloured card] with the words "The '82 Club, / Lady's Ticket. Rotundo, 16 April, 1845. Full Dress" with the word "Dinner" inscribed in manuscript hand by T.M. Ray at left of ticket; a Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland lithographic card, numbered "24533" and inscribed with the name "Mrs. Elizabeth Cooney having enrolled 20 Repealers admitted a Member of the Association the 8th day of August 1843"; a lady's ticket to a levée on 30 May 1845, inscribed in T.M. Ray's own hand "Anniversary of imprisonment / of O'Connell, myself and others at Rotundo / T.M. Ray" and a ticket for the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland inscribed in in T.M. Ray's own hand in black ink "For Ladies - 1 Jan 1847". Note variants of copies of some of these items are also present within the general NLI Ephemera Collection which have been catalogued and digitised individually online such as those at NLI call numbers EPH A497, EPH A507, EPH A498 and EPH C636 amongst others. |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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[n.d., between ca. 1840 and 1871].
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| Notes: | Inscription on title-page "To Miss Seymour from T.M. [Thomas Matthew] Ray formerly Secretary of the Repeal Association 1871". Album transferred from the Department of Ephemera to the Department of Manuscripts in April 2017. Physical description: 1 album [of cards, tickets]: col. ill., various [engraving, etching, stipple engraving] ; 25.6 x 20.9 cm. more |
As a digital copy of this item is available, the original will not be issued.
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MS 42,481 |
Manuscripts Reading Room |
Manuscripts |
Reproduction rights owned by National Library of Ireland.
