A poem written by William Woodlock (1801-1803) for his grand-daughter Frances Woodlock 'on receiving from her a lock of her hair'. The poem is dated 12 June 1877 at Bruges, Belgium. This William Woodlock was the father of William Woodlock (1832-1890), the barrister and Dublin Police Court Magistrate.
Letter from William Woodlock, Vickery’s Hotel, Bantry, County Cork. The letter provides detail of his trip to Counties Cork and Kerry. In relation to Bantry, Woodlock wrote ‘Nearly all the names over the shops are English: in fact, it is hard to think one is in Ireland at all, with Kingstons, and Coopers, and Taylors, and Murrays, and Robinsons. The Papists are making a footing, for I saw the name of Moriarty over one of the best shops in the place’.
A file containing miscellaneous notes (mainly on legal, historical, and literary topics) compiled by William Woodlock. Some of the manuscript notes are extant on the reverse of previous correspondence or on printed material including a flier from Samuel Haughton, Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society, Phoenix Park, Dublin (February 1874), and a testimonial in favour of Philip Callan MP (1837-1902) dated 22 January 1884. Other re-used papers refer to ‘St. Vincent’s Lunatic Asylum’ (24 July 1877) and ‘M.E. Matthews, Court Dress Maker, Milliner & Florist, 49 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin’. (October 1874).
Flier seeking subscriptions for a testimonial in favour of Philip Callan MP (1837-1902) during his 'absence in South America'. The flier is dated 22 January 1884 at Dundalk, County Louth. The reverse of the document is endorsed with manuscript notes by William Woodlock.
Copybook of William Woodlock, 15 Mountjoy Square, Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the title page gives the date 28 November 1881. The copybook contains various notes from historical texts mostly from a nationalist perspective. Includes extracts from ‘The History of Ireland Ancient and Modern’ by Abbé James MacGeoghegan, and notes from various seventeenth century manuscript collections such as the Carte Papers. The subject headings include ‘The Green Flag’, ‘Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan’, ‘Earl of Clanricarde’, ‘Lord Castlehaven’, ‘Owen Roe O’Neill’ and ‘Redmond O’Hanlon’.
Letter from John Patrick Lynch, Belfield, Stillorgan Road, Booterstown, Dublin, apologizing for not being able to attend Mrs Woodlock’s funeral in Glasnevin owing to the onset of a bad cold.
Letter from Sister A.E. Woodward RSCJ, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Aberdeen, Scotland. The letter is addressed to Frances Woodlock (possibly William Woodlock’s wife) and refers to the school recently established by the religious sisters in the city. The letter adds ‘Aberdeen is a most interesting old place owing its origin to St. Machar, a disciple of St. Columba. It had many holy Bishops in the good old times and the tombs of several of them are still to be seen’.
Postcard print of Lisdoonvarna with annotations (by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.) identifying 'Fr. Tim O’Keeffe, Fr. Horgan PP, and Canon [Patrick] Sheehan'. The photograph was most likely taken at Lisdoonvarna Spa in County Clare.
