ID2860
CollectionRichard Mulcahy Papers
ReferenceP7
Description

This collection includes:

Letters to Mulcahy on political topics from Annie MacSwiney (relating to photographs of her brother and critical of Mulcahy's pro-Treaty stance (P7a/44)

Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride (undated), complaining of the treatment received by her son and other prisoners in Mountjoy Jail (P7a/173)

Letter from Máire MacSuibhne in Mountjoy, 4 November 1922, informing him that she is going on hunger strike for the Republican cause (P7a/179)

There is also a letter of November 1922 to Mrs Josephine (Min) Mulcahy (nee Ryan) from her sisters, appealing to her to use her influence to save the lives of Erskine Childers and Máire MacSuibhne (P7a/181)

Other correspondents on political matters include Lady Hazel Lavery relating to Major-General Sir William Brancker and Ireland (P7b/12)

See also references to Josephine Mulcahy under the section dealing with Mulcahy's term as Chairman of the Gaeltacht Commission (1925-1926) and Minister for Local Government and Public Health (1927-32) (P7b/72-73).

The section dealing with Mulcahy's term as Chairman of the Gaeltacht Commission (1925-1926) and Minister for Local Government and Public Health (1927-1932) contains references to women and children at the Dublin Union, child welfare and shorthand Irish typists (P7b/72).This section of the collection also includes analyses of Mary Bromage's biography of de Valera (P7b/171) and correspondence of Batt O'Connor with J.A. Costello and Eileen O'Connor on the War of Independence and Bromage's work (P7b/174), as well as transcripts of conversations between Máire Bean Uí Brugha and Mulcahy on Sean McDermott and the post-1915 period (P7b/176), and transcripts of taped conversations with Josephine Mulcahy and others on various political topics (P7b/183/186); also letters from Angela Dillon (on the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising), and copy of letter to Mrs Tom Johnson relating to her husband's 1925 speech on neutrality (P7c/1-12)

There is a considerable amount of material on Josephine (Min) Mulcahy, including:
Transcription of a taped account by her of the Easter Rising (P7b/2)
Photographs of Mulcahy and his wife (P7b/4)
Letters between Mulcahy and his wife, and a letter from W.T. Cosgrave to Mrs Mulcahy (P7b/13), together with other material relating to Josephine Mulcahy and the Mulcahy family, 1932-1971 (P7b/16).
The collection also contains material on Josephine Mulcahy's Senate candidacy (September 1925), which includes information on her campaign and on that of other women candidates, together with a biographical article and picture (P7b/26)

See also references to Josephine Mulcahy under the section dealing with Mulcahy's term as Chairman of the Gaeltacht Commission and Minister for Local Government and Public Health (P7b/72-73), also the correspondence of Josephine Mulcahy and her sister, Nelly Ryan, and notes by Josephine Mulcahy on anonymous correspondence (P7c/13-15)
The collection also includes correspondence between Mulcahy and his sisters, Sister Mary Angela, Ursuline Convent, Thurles, Sister Otteran (Odran), Ursuline Convent, Waterford ), Sr Mary Senan, (P7a/44/45/174, P7b/18-24, P73/13-15)

Other material relating to family and personal matters include a notebook of copies of letters from Mulcahy's sister 'Nell' to her nephew on family history, notes on Samuel and Maria Harris written by Sister Mary Angela of the Sacred Heart (P7b/4), letters, printed matter and notes including a 'League of Prayer Bulletin' featuring Sister S M Angela (P7b/10), also draft letters from Mulcahy to Mother de Pazzi (P7b/10), condolences to Mulcahy on Sr Angela's death, correspondence with Sr Teresita, Mercy College, Passage West, County Cork, on personal and family matters (P7c/1-12), letters from Alice Stopford Green, Mollie Colum, Maud Griffith to Sr Angela acknowledging her condolences on Arthur Griffith's death, and Fr James Kelly in Australia to Nelly Ryan on the Treaty, together with letter from Hugh and Emily Jackson to Jenny and Lizzie Harris-Slattery (P7c/13-15).
There are 103 boxes.

Michael Collins's Papers
Collins's correspondence as Minister for Finance and Commander-in-Chief (integrated into Richard Mulcahy Papers) includes a letter from Mrs Alice O'Grady, Rochestown, County Cork, seeking a position of trust for her husband, together with a copy of the Cork Examiner of 14 August 1922, giving details of assistance given by her to National troops (P7a/61).
There are 3 boxes.

AccessBy prior appointment.
Date1900-1970
Century20th
Keywords
Note

A descriptive list for this collection is available here.

Repository NameUCD Archives
AddressJames Joyce Library UCD Belfield Dublin 4
EircodeD04 R7R0
Telephone(01) 716-7555
Email Addressarchives@ucd.ie
Repository Web Addresswww.ucd.ie/archives
latitude53.30671
longitude-6.22347