Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh and the Ryans of Tomcoole papers,
1854-1983.
Political and private papers, including a large amount of correspondence of Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh and the Ryan family of Tomcoole, Co. Wexford.
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Notes: | The Ryans were a well-known and distinguished family from Tomcoole, Co. Wexford. John (1844-1921) and Eliza Ryan, née Sutton (1848-1930) had a large farm of some 150 acres at Tomcoole near Taghmon and had twelve children. According to the 1901 and 1911 censuses John’s sister, Catherine (Kate), also lived with them, along with farm servant, Patrick [Gennis], and domestic servant, Anne Brien (1901) and farm servants, [Laurence] O’Brien, Henry [Monaghan], and Elizabeth Collins (1911). Of their children, several would take a prominent role in revolutionary politics and would be interned in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, during the War of Independence, and the Civil War, and would go on to play a political role in the new Irish Free State. Many married well-known political figures: Mary-Kate and, two years after her death, Phyllis, married Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh; Agnes married Denis McCullough, President of the IRB; and Min married Richard Mulcahy, three years after the death of Seán MacDiarmada, whom she would probably have married had he not been executed. Unusually, all twelve children received a secondary education and eleven went on to tertiary level, either at the Old Catholic University, University College Dublin or, in the case of Jack and Martin, at the Maynooth Seminary, and several went on to become remarkable in their careers. Physical description: 14 boxes. more |
| Arrangement: | Fonds |
| Provenance: | This collection was originally owned by Phyllis Bean Uí Cheallaigh, née Ryan and after her death, was sub-divided to various family members. The collection has been most generously donated by the Ryan family, specifically by Domhnall McCullough (son of Agnes and Denis McCullough), sole surviving executor of the estate of Phyllis Ó Ceallaigh, by Phyllis Gaffney (granddaughter of Chris and Michael O’Malley), and by Eibhlín O’Cionna (niece of Phyllis Bean Uí Cheallaigh). |
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Correspondence: Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh,
1923.
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| Description: | Telegrams from Gormanstown to Kit regarding Ó Ceallaigh’s illness; copy of document found on Kit at 23 Suffolk St. 18 Aug. 1923 regarding Ó Ceallaigh’s case; two letters written by Ó Ceallaigh while he was interned at Gormanston, one referring to his parole; letter from Áine Ceannt to Kit writing of the pensions received by the 1916 widows; and several letters from J. [John] Hagan, Irish College, Rome, to Ó Ceallaigh and [Kit] discussing the General Election, the continued internment of Republicans and their hunger strike, Mary MacSwiney’s case against the Bishop of Cork, Ó Ceallaigh’s release and the Bobbio Affair. Also draft of letter written by Ó Ceallaigh on 18 Sept. informing an unnamed person that he has been elected to Dáil Éireann in the constituency of Dublin North and demanding his immediate release in order ‘to attend to the duties of the office to which I have been elected’. He also writes ‘I write this letter in English because of the urgency of the matter. Experience having proved to me that letters written in Irish are invariably subject to prolonged delays’. |
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| Language: | English |
| Extent: | 12 items. |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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MS 48,452/12
(Manuscripts Reading Room) |
| Rights: | Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland. |