The Emergency Committee was a subscription-based organisation established by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland in December 1880 to uphold the rights of landed proprietors.
Circular re a general meeting of landowners ‘to take into consideration the administration of the Land Act’. James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn (1838-1913) presided over the meeting. The circular includes a list of names of individuals acting as distributors for tickets for the meeting.
Circular letter from Gilbert De L. Willis, Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention, re the forthcoming annual meeting of the Convention and a banquet to honour five recently elected Unionist members of parliament.
A small collection of records relating to the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union (ILPU), a unionist political organisation, established in 1885 to oppose the Home Rule movement. The section also includes records relating to the ILPU’s successor body, the Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA).
Flier for the South Louth divisional association of the Irish Unionist Alliance. The flier states the aims and objections of the Alliance. The flier was issued by B.R. Balfour, secretary and treasurer, Townley Hall, Drogheda.
Flier for Alexander Edward Miller promoting his candidacy in the forthcoming Trinity College (Dublin University) by-election. The file includes a list of names of committee members supporting Miller’s candidacy.
Letter to John Ribton Garstin from A. Fuller expressing his hope that Garstin will vote for Alexander Edward Miller at the forthcoming Trinity College by-election.
Flier from Anthony Traill to the electors of the University of Dublin (Trinity College). Trail affirms that he ‘shall the Church of Ireland from the misrepresentations of those who seem anxious to make further raids upon the property of the Representative Church Body, by careful financial management, has succeeded in accumulating’. He confirms that in politics he has ‘always been a Conservative’. The file includes a list of committee members supporting Trail’s candidacy.
The series comprises photographic glass plates with descriptions derived principally from annotations and captions on their original containers, boxes and covers.