Letters from J. Graham Alexander, solicitor, 47 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, to James Pearse, relating to rent on Pearse’s premises at 27 Great Brunswick Street in Dublin.
Photographic print of two women overlooking Bray Head in County Wicklow. No indication of the identities of the two women is given, but it is very likely that they are members of the extended Woodlock family. The railway in the background of the image is the Bray to Greystones line.
Manuscript notes by William Woodlock extant on the reverse of a printed flier from Samuel Haughton, Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society, Phoenix Park, Dublin (February 1874).
A clipping of a photographic print of the unveiling of the statue of Canon Patrick Sheehan at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Doneraile, County Cork. (‘Cork Examiner’, 19 Oct. 1925). The group includes the sculptor Francis William Doyle Jones and Robert Browne, the Bishop of Cloyne.
The collection includes records created by the Property Defence Association (PDA) which was formed in Dublin in December 1880 to assist landlords targeted by the Land League or by rural agitation in general.
The Irish Landowner’s Convention was set up in early 1888 to protect the interests of landowners in the face of agrarian agitation and legislative reforms which enabled tenant proprietorship.