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IE CA CP/3/151/6/1
Title
Rare Irish literary treasures found in Australia
Date(s)
- 5 Apr. 1951 (Creation)
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1 p.; clipping
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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
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A clipping of an article titled ‘Rare Irish literary treasures found in Australia’ taken from ‘The Advocate’ (5 April 1951). Reference is made in the article to the discovery of a copy of Brian Merriman’s ‘The Midnight Court’ (1780). ‘The Advocate’ was published by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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For more information on Brian Merriman’s ‘The Midnight Court’ see Professor Richard Sharpe’s blog for the National Library of Ireland at https://www.nli.ie/news-stories/stories/first-printing-merrimans-cuirt-mheadhan-oidhche which refers to a copy of this text with a ‘recent ownership label of Fr. Senan Moynihan, Saint Anne’s Hospital, Mount Lawley, Western Australia’.