The autograph book originally belonged to John Lennon, of Killeenmore, Killeigh, and Harbour St, Tullamore. He was an internee of the Rath Internment Camp at the Curragh (1921) and later of Tintown Camp (1923). The album contains many Laois/Offaly signatories such as E. Forrestal, Tullamore (Rath); Bob Lennon, Killeigh (Rath); Frank Bulfin TD, Derrinlough, Birr (Rath); Seaghan Ó Dulchaointigh, Crinkle, Birr (Rath); J. G. Ross, Killeigh (Rath); Patrick J. Daly, Tullamore (Hut 31, Rath), Jimmie Egan, Henry Street, Tullamore (Hut 25, Rath), Denis Walsh, Tullamore (Hut 40, Rath); Séamus O’Faolain (Hut 12 Camp 3 Tintown), Patrick Boland, Ballycumber, (Camp 3 Tintown), Walter A. Mitchell (Camp 2 Tintown); Edward Dunne, Clonaslee (Camp 2, Tintown), Sean McGuinness TD, Kilbeggan, and P. Bracken, Clonaslee (Hut 12 Tintown). Later non-political entries dating from c. 1927 are by Maggie Corcoran (later Lennon) and her relatives and friends.
Lennon, JohnAutograph book kept by Séamus O'Brennan while interned at Ballykinlar Internment Camp during the War of Independence. Contains artwork, verse and signatures of fellow internees. Also includes one decorated signature page from Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London from 1920.
O'Brennan, SéamusAn autograph book which belonged to someone in the Lamb family. Contains excerpts of poetry, drawings, and signatures from friends and celebrities including:
Queen Victoria (1819-1901);
Princess Alexandra of Wales (1844-1925);
Actress Alice Ellen Terry (1847-1928);
Ada Elle Bayly “Edna Lyall” (1857-1903);
William Gladstone (1809-1898);
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930);
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882);
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892);
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900);
Charles Dickens (1812-1870);
John Ruskin (1819-1900);
Israel Zangwill (1864-1926);
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936);
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).
Autobiographical notes of Francis William Lamb, detailing his past residences.
Volumes recording individuals entering or leaving the county hospital premises, mainly of medical and clerical staff arriving and leaving work, and of deliveries of various supplies to the hospital. Details recorded include:
Name
Business,
Time of entering
Time going out
Time returning
"Geographica Antiqua: Being a Complete set of Maps of Ancient Geography from Cellarius." An atlas shared by Adam Henry Fuller and Abraham Stritch Fuller during their childhood at Woodfield House.
This file relates to the Atkinson family who took possession of Loughton and its estate in 1975 after the death of Sheelah Lefroy and Theodora Trench. Includes two certificates appointing Richard Frederick Atkinson to military positions in the infantry (1869) and as a Lieutenant in the Sixty-Seventh Regiment of Foot (1871). Also included in the file is a list of Major A.G Atkinson's deeds and papers, taken from Cangort, Shinrone, Co. Offaly and donated to the National Library. Examples include a 'copy of a translation of letters patent to Sir Edward Polton, solicitor-general, of Pallace and other townlands in Queens Co.; the manors of Prassil and Corduff in Co. Dublin; and the late Abbey of Bective in Co. Meath. 1639, Declaration of trust (French to Atkinson) about the purchase of lands in Co. Galway, 1702.
Ledgers containing Form 23 (Home Assistance List) and Form 24 (Assistance Officer's Expenditure Book showing amount paid weekly to each recipient) on double folio spreads.
Form 23 records names of patients assisted and contains the following categorising columns against each name:
Adult Males (Permanently disabled by old age or infirmity; Temporarily disabled by sickness or accident; Able bodied; Wife; Children under 15)
Adult Females (Married (deserted by husband/husband in jail); Unmarried; Widows; Children (legitimate/illegitimate)
Orphans and Children assisted without either parent
Lunatics, Insane Persons and Idiots (Males; Females; Children under 15)
Orphans and Deserted Children Boarded out
Form 24 records the names of persons assisted and the following categorising columns against each name:
Nature of Assistance (in Money/in Kind)
27 weekly columns for input of amount received.
A note at the footer of each page instructs that entries relating to assistance granted in cases of sudden and urgent necessity are to be made in red ink.
Assignment of Lease by George Williamson to John Melvin for plot in Harbour Street, Tullamore for £60.