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,
1927.
| In Collection: | Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh and the Ryans of Tomcoole papers, 1854-1983. |
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| Description: | Letters and telegrams from the family of John Chartres, previously Irish Envoy to Berlin, on his death; letters relating to the Irish election of Jun. and Sept. and the taking of the oath by members of Fianna Fáil, as can be seen in the letters of Patrick Cardinal O’ Donnell, Éamon de Valera, the secretary of the Army Council and Patrick J. Ruttledge; letters from Máire [Mary] MacSwiney unsubscribing to The Nation as the party has contemplated ‘a reunion…with those whose hands are stained with blood’; and from Robinson to Lemass stating that Duggan’s signature on the Treaty had been cut out from a signed programme and pasted onto the Treaty and then photographed. Includes letters from Sinéad de Valera and Pádraig in Irish and M. Goblet in French. |
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| Language: | English |
| Extent: | 31 items. |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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MS 48,453/4
(Manuscripts Reading Room) |
| Rights: | Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland. |