Showing 10 results

Copy of monograph by Prof. Blanche Touhill on ‘The Poetry of an Exile, William Smith O'Brien 1849 - 1956’

Photocopy of a paper by Prof Blanche Touhill on ‘William Smith O'Brien and the Principles of Young Ireland.’

Letter from Thomas Bacon of J.G. O'Connor and Co., solicitors, to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ following the death of his sister Sheila. Encloses a copy of Mrs. Moorehead’s will dated 8 November 1978, in which she bequeaths £1,000 to Fr Gwynn; an oil painting of ‘Cattle in Berkshire’ by Walter Osborne and the water-colour sketch of Fr Gwynn as a boy, also by Osborne, to the National Gallery; a lithograph of her grandfather William Smith O'Brien; a poem of his written in Kilmainham Jail and a signed poem by Thomas Francis Meagher, to the Municipal Art Gallery (5pp).

Letter from Mr Timothy Moloney (Centro Irlandes, Lerida, Spain) concerning his thesis and Denis Gwynn’s manuscript on William Smith O'Brien.

Letters from Dr Blanche Touhill to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Fr Gwynn’s health and some of their mutual colleagues including Geoffrey Hand. Encloses copies of various Irish and American reviews of her book 'William Smith O'Brien – And His Irish Revolutionary Companions in Penal Exile', (4 November 1981-17 April 1982, 6 items).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Brendan O'Brien concerning volumes of William Smith O'Brien’s diaries and family news.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various academics and archivists (including Marcus Bourke, Kevin B. Nowlan (History Dept. U.C.D.), Prof. Geoffrey Hand and Breandan Mac Giolla Choille (Keeper of State Papers, S.P.O., Dublin) ) and Prof. Blanche Touhill, Associate Dean of Faculties, University of Missouri–St. Louis) regarding Fr Gwynn’s research on William Smith O'Brien his great-grandfather.

Notes on, and from the Fenian Papers in the State Paper Office by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Breandan Mac Giolla.

Photocopies of articles from the Irish Times, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on William Smith O'Brien (17, 18 July 1974, 2pp). Includes letter published in the paper by W. Smith O'Brien (father of Blanche Touhill) on Fr Gwynn’s articles (27 August 1974, 1p.) and letter from W. Smith O'Brien to Fr Gwynn (8 September 1974, 1p.).

Typescript copy manuscript by Denis Gwynn on William Smith O'Brien, lent by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ to Timothy Moloney to assist him in writing his thesis (and later returned). Twelve chapters and Appendix.