Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to America, 1848-1918.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to America, 1848-1918.

Correspondence, memoirs, and miscellaneous papers relating to America, to Irishmen in America, and to Fenianism in Ireland and America. Includes selections from Autograph collection; MS. 331 (Thomas Clarke Luby papers, 1890-1891); MS. 2195 (Timothy Charles Harrington's American diary, 1890); MS. 3225-3226 (Hickey collections); MS. 3278 (Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, Membership ledger, 1911); MS. 3885 (Myles Walter Keogh letters, 1861-1869); MS. 4974 (Coolattin emigration record, 1847); MS. 5771 (Fenian organization in America, ca. 1860); MS. 5963 (Fenianism from April 1865 till April 1866); MSS. 7517, 7587, 7603, 7680 (Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom papers, 1851-1872); MS. 8605 (Sir Roger Casemont letters, 1915-1916); MS. 9728 (Memoir of Maj. Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, 1869).

1,400 items.4 microfilm reels.

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Harrington, Timothy Charles.

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Larcom, Thomas A. (Thomas Aiskew), 1801-1879

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Epithet: Major-General Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x0000e1 ...

Ancient Order of Hibernians

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The Ancient Order of Hibernians is a Catholic, Irish-American fraternal organization founded in New York City in 1836. Inspired by the Irish organization of the same name created in the 16th Century to sustain the Catholic faith in the face of English opposition, the American Hibernians sought to protect clergy and church property from Anti-Catholic 'Nativist' Americans and their followers. Similarly, the vast influx of Irish Catholic immigrants fleeing the famine in the 1840s prompted the growt...

Luby, Thomas Clarke, 1821-1901

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Casemont, Roger, Sir.

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Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867

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Irish-American soldier. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Horace Greeley, 1856 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270637287 Army officer and governor of Montana (Territory) From the description of Papers of Thomas Francis Meagher, 1859-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454424 Irish revolutionary sentenced to death in 1848. After escaping to the United States, he became editor of the Irish News. He served the Union in...

National Library of Ireland.

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Keogh, Myles Walter, 1840-1876

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Irish born officer who died with Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. From the description of Keogh Family papers and photographs, 1856-1894 [manuscript materials] : at the Autry National Center. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 166504780 Biography / Administrative History Myles Keogh was born on March 25, 1840 in Orchard, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland to John and Margaret Keogh. After finishing school in L...