ID6877
CollectionGrehan Estate Collection
Collection DescriptionBL/EP/G are the estate papers generated by the Grehan family of Clonmeen, Banteer Co. Cork. After the sale of Clonmeen estate, the surviving records which form the Grehan Estate Collection today were removed by Mr. Peter A. Grehan to his residence in Co. Kerry after a short period of storage at Inch, Co. Tipperary. It was from Kerry that they were later transferred to the Boole Library, University College Cork in 1983 by Mr. Peter A. Grehan. [UCC Special Collections and Archives]
Collection Web Addresshttps://libguides.ucc.ie/GrehanEstateCollection/home
Alternate Collection Web Addresshttps://libguides.ucc.ie/ld.php?content_id=32181278
ReferenceBL/EP/G/837-843
Description

Diaries of Esther Chichester Grehan:
31 July 1888-29 November 1889
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898.
These diaries are more a record of events than personal reflections. Includes details of visitors to Clonmeen and details of servants, references to the children, especially as babies, her health and daily activities including household tasks, for example in the volume, 31 July 1888-29 November 1889, the entry for 13 November 1888, notes that she is, she declares, `busy in house all day changing furniture and putting away new lot of letter paper from the stores'.
Details of domestic problems are recorded, the volume for 1893 records for 31 August, `Found Julia had not been doing the schoolroom as usual while I was away. Reprimanded her severely she wanted to leave at once - but I told her she must wait her month'.
The volume for 1895 records on 27 December the birth of her son, Stephen, while the volume for 1896 records details of his first months, for example on 11 January, `My milk is beginning to go. I am very much afraid I shall not have enough for baby'.

AccessBy prior appointment
Date1888-1898
Century19th
Keywords
Repository NameUCC Special Collections & Archives
AddressSpecial Collections & Archives Q-1 Boole Library University College Cork Cork City
EircodeT12 ND89
Telephone021-490-2282
Email Addressspecialcollectionsarchives@ucc.ie
Repository Web Addresshttps://libguides.ucc.ie/specialcollections
latitude51.89288
longitude-8.49137