| Collection Description | Correspondence and other papers concerning Kathleen O’Connell’s role as private secretary
to Éamon de Valera, mainly letters from him while in prison during the Civil War or abroad for
various purposes: on publicity and fund-raising trips to the USA, 1927, 1929–30; in Geneva
for the General Assembly of the League of Nations, 1935, 1938; on his anti-Partition round-
the-world tour with Frank Aiken, March–June 1948; at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg,
1949, 1950; on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1950; and while in Geneva and later Utrecht
for treatment and surgery due to his increasingly problematic eye condition, 1936, 1951,
1952. Diaries and journals, memoirs and memorabilia, press cuttings and photographs.
A descriptive list is available (see link). |
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