Collection: Annie O'Donnell Letters
| Collection Description | Annie O'Donnell (1880-1959) was born in Lippa, near Spiddal, Co. Galway in 1880. She left Galway for America in 1898. During the voyage, she made friends with a 22-year-old farmer from Co. Kilkenny, Jim Phelan. Annie went to work as a children's nurse for a wealth family in Pittsburgh and corresponded with Jim for a three year period before they married. She lived in Pittsburgh until her death in 1959. These letters are a valuable record of an emigrant Irish woman’s life in the United States at that time. The letters have been published under the title Your Fondest Annie , edited and with an introduction by Professor Maureen Murphy [UCD Special Collections]. |
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| Collection Web Address | https://www.ucd.ie/specialcollections/archives/odo... |
Repository: UCD Special Collections
| Repository Name | UCD Special Collections |
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| Address | James Joyce Library University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 |
| Eircode | D04 R7R0 |
| Telephone | (01) 716-7149 |
| Email Address | special.collections@ucd.ie |
| Web Address | https://www.ucd.ie/specialcollections/ |
| Comment | Some of the information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists available in the archive. These lists were compiled by library staff and we are grateful for their assistance. Where partial or no lists were available, staff of the Women's History Project constructed an outline list. Due to time constraints, not all items in this repository were examined individually. |
| latitude | 53.30671 |
| longitude | -6.22347 |
1 Results
| ID | Repository | Reference | Date | Description | Collection |
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| 22807 | UCD Special Collections | AOD | 1900-1904 | There are 71 letters in total.6 of these include new... | Annie O'Donnell Letters |