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Cork City and County Archives
Descriptive List
Identity Statement
Reference Code:
IE CCCA/PR25
Title:
Sophie O’Brien Papers
Dates:
1880-1945
Level of description:
Fonds / Item
Extent:
63 items
Context
Creator(s):
O’Brien, Sophie (neé Raffalovich) (b1860-d1960),
Archival History
PR25, the Sophie O’Brien (Mrs. William O’Brien) Papers, were kept by
O’Brien’s friend Eoin O’Mahony, a well-known historian and genealogist
(d.1970). The papers were placed in the care of Cork City and County
Archives via Cork County Library.
Biographical History
Sophie O’Brien, neé Sophie Raffalovich, was born in Odessa, Russia, the
only daughter of Marie and Hermann Raffalovich, a wealthy Jewish banker
and/or Grain Merchant. She spent most of her earlier years in Paris, where
the family moved in ca.1863. Her elder brother Arthur was a noted
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economist, her younger brother André, to whom she was close, was a poet
and friend of poet John Gray.
She married William O'Brien M.P. (1852-1928) in London in June 1890
(PR25/3 and PR25/12). At the time, O’Brien was editor of the Irish Land
League newspaper, United Ireland. They came into contact through her and
her mother’s support for Irish nationalism during the ‘Land War’ of the
1880’s, and their proposed translation of William O'Brien’s fenian romance
novel When We Were Boys (1890).
Sophie O'Brien provided much moral and practical support to William
O'Brien, acting as his secretary and devoting herself to his welfare, and her
wealth was used in financing his political activities, however the Russian
Revolution in 1917 seems to have reduced this wealth considerably. The
couple lived in Westport Co. Mayo for the first 20 years, and following that
in Mallow County Cork (PR25/46). She was noted for her work with the
needy during her time in Ireland. Converting to Roman Catholicism prior to
her marriage, she was to become committed to her new faith, and some of
her close friends were nuns (PR25/5 and PR25/59).
She was well-read and produced a number of works including a translation
of John Morley’s biography of Richard Cobden, and a series of books
reflecting on her life and times in Ireland including Golden Memories (1929)
and My Irish Friends (1937). She wrote many articles for various
newspapers and periodicals, of which a number are found in the present
collection (Section C of the arrangement). Unlike her husband, she was not a
supporter female political enfranchisment (PR25/17).
She remained in Ireland for a few years following her husband’s death in
1928, before returning to France to live with close friends at Eplessier, near
Amiens (PR25/7). She spent the last years of her life in poverty, but was
granted a small pension by the Irish Government in recognition of her
contribution to the nation.
Sophie O'Brien’s husband, William O'Brien (1852-1928) was a journalist,
writer and a major nationalist political figure born in Mallow, County Cork.
He was particularly involved in the campaigns for land reform in Ireland in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries, drafting the famous ‘No rent’ manifesto
while imprisoned in Kilmainham gaol in 1881-2. He was elected Parnellite
M.P. in 1883 for Mallow, and later for other areas, including Cork City up
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until 1918. In 1886 he helped to initiate the ‘Plan of Campaign’ for land
reform by the Irish Land League. In 1887 O’Brien was involved in a rent
strike at Mitchelstown, and 3 tenants were shot dead by police outside the
town’s courthouse where O’Brien was brought for trial (the ‘Mitchelstown
Massacre’). In 1898 he helped to form the United Irish League, which was
more or less taken over by the Irish Party. In 1910, William O'Brien founded
the All for Ireland League, a group of dissident nationalists mainly from the
Cork area, following the rejection of his proposal for a land conference and a
policy of conciliation. Editor of the Irish People 1899-1909 and Cork Free
Press 1910-1916. He was opposed to Home Rule at the expense of a united
Ireland, and expressed support for Britain’s war effort. He did not contest
the 1918 parliamentary election.
Content & Structure
Scope and Content
The papers are divided into 4 main sections. Section A. contains some of
Sophie O'Brien’s writings and manuscripts. Her level of education is
apparent from her 1887 article on Lord Shaftesbury (PR25/1). Her writings
include a draft manuscript of her unpublished autobiography ‘Recollections
of a Long Life’ (PR25/2), a more complete typescript of the autobiography
(PR2/3), plus additional notes she intended to add to the work (PR25/4).
Also found are some ‘Intimate Notes about William O'Brien and some of his
friends’, which give a personal insight into William O'Brien’s character and
political life, and their life in Ireland (PR25/5).
Section B contains correspondence, mainly from Sophie O'Brien to her
friend Captain Lucey in 1938, concerning the proposed publication of her
autobiography. Section C.I contains news clippings of articles by Sophie
O'Brien in various newspapers and journals covering personal and nonpersonal topics. Section C.II contains other news cuttings, including a
number relating to husband William O'Brien M.P., and an article by him on
Tim Healy (PR25/30). Section D contains photographs. These include
photographs of Sophie O'Brien, William O'Brien, friends and relations, a
photo. of William O'Brien with press associates in the U.S.A. in 1887
(PR25/36), and photographs of scenes outside Tipperary Courthouse in
October 1890 (PR25/39 - /42).
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The papers contain personal insights into some of the political, social, and
economic events of the 1880-1920 period, in particular an insight into the
new Catholic Irish political élite. The background, character and opinions of
Sophie O'Brien and those of her husband are well documented in the papers.
The material in particular provides information on the political activities of
William O'Brien and his associates during his work as a journalist, as a
nationalist M.P., and as a leader of the Irish National Land League, the
United Irish League and the All For Ireland League, as well as documenting
his later views on Ireland’s role during the 1st World War, and on Home
Rule and partition. Sophie O'Brien’s writings, correspondence, and
published articles are an informative source for social history and womens’
history.
Arrangement:
4 main sections as follows.
A: Writings
B: Correspondence
C: News clippings
I:
By Sophie O’Brien
II:
Other
D: Photographs
Allied Materials:
Related Material:
CCCA:
U.289 Mitchelstown Riots material.
U.163 Padraig O’Hickey Papers, relating to eviction
U.275 Douglas Branch of Irish National League, Minutes.
U.326 Letters of the Bartlemy Branch United Irish League
U.139 Ryan Purcell Estate Papers
U.99 Smith Barry Rents
Elsewhere:
Boole Library, University College Cork: William O’Brien MSS
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National Library of Ireland: William O’Brien Papers and other papers
including correspondence with Michael Davitt, John Dillon, T.M. Healy,
John Redmond, J.F.X. O’Brien, Timothy Harrington, Lord Dunraven, and
various others.
National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division: Reference Dep. 372:
Correspondence and papers of Canon John Gray, Parish Priest of St Peter’s,
Morningside, Edinburgh, and of Mark André (Sebastian) Raffalovich, 18981932 including papers relating to Sophie Raffalovich/O’Brien.
Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana, U.S.A: The Aylesford mss., 1941-1968, includes material relating
to Sophie O’Brien.
Publications by Sophie O’Brien and William O'Brien are held by Cork City
Library, Cork County Library, college libraries of the National University of
Ireland, the National Library of Ireland, and the Royal Irish Academy.
Conditions of Access and Use
Access: Open by appointment to those holding a current readers ticket
Language: English
Finding Aid: Descriptive List
Publication Note:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 41, Oxford University
Press (2004)
A New Dictionary Of Irish History from 1800, Hickey & Doherty, Gill &
Macmillan (2003)
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Archivists Note:
Brian McGee,
Archivist, Cork City and County Archives,
June 2005, Sept 2010
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Contents
Appendix: List of Books by Sophie O'Brien ............................................... 8
A: Writings...................................................................................................... 9
B: Correspondence........................................................................................ 11
C: News clippings ......................................................................................... 18
I: By Sophie O’Brien ............................................................................. 18
II: Other ................................................................................................... 18
D: Photographs.............................................................................................. 19
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Appendix: List of Books by Sophie O'Brien
Under Croagh Patrick (1904)
Unseen friends (1912)
In Mallow (1920)
Sister Mary Eustace (1923)
Silhouettes d’Autrefois (1926)
Golden Memories: the love letters and the prison letters of William O'Brien
2 vols. (1929)
Around Broom Lane (1931)
My Irish Friends (1937)
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List of Items
A: Writings
1.
January 1887
Pamphlet in French, by Sophie Raffalovich (Sophie O’Brien) entitled
‘Lord Shaftsbury Sa Vie et Ses Travaux’, extracted from the Journal
des Economistes.
23pp
2.
(1937) 24 August 1945
MS. ‘Recollections of Youth, Middle Age and Old Age’, by Mrs.
William O’Brien (Sophie O’Brien).
11 vol. (459pp)
3.
(1937) 1945
‘Recollections of a Long Life’, autobiography, by Mrs. William
O’Brien (Sophie O’Brien). Typescript containing 35 chapters.
Subjects include her childhood, education, life in Paris, marriage to
William O’Brien, the political situation in Ireland, and her life in
Ireland.
467pp
4.
c.1945
MS ‘Notes to be added to Recollections’, by Sophie O’Brien.
Additional material for inclusion in the autobiography, mainly relates
to her earlier years.
124pp
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5.
c.1938
MS. ‘Intimate Notes about William O’Brien and some of his friends’
by Mrs. William O’Brien (Sophie O’Brien). Contains a foreword, plus
15 chapters, including ‘William O'Brien at Work, ‘…as a Newspaper
Man’, ‘…on a holiday’, ‘Dr. Banner and Hon. Edward Burke’, ‘John
O’Donnell’, ‘William O'Brien as a Teacher’, ‘Lord Dunraven’,
‘William O'Brien as a Reader’, ‘William O'Brien as a
Parliamentarian’, ‘William O'Brien as a host’, ‘Tom Gill’, ‘William
O'Brien in the Law Courts’, ‘William O'Brien on the Platform’, ‘John
O’Meara’, ‘Mallow Friends’. (See also PR25/23)
196pp
6.
c.1938
MS. Entitled ‘Abuse’ by Mrs. William O'Brien (Sophie O’Brien).
Concerns the character of William O'Brien in responding to insults.
She ‘felt that enemies’ attacks so failed to hit him, that I had not a
moments discomfort reading the veilest abuse of him…’. Enemies of
his own he never had. He only looked on enemies those who were
against his beloved land…’. He found it harder to forgive attacks on
his wife, ‘Any unpleasant allusion to Jews made my husband angry
while in my pride of race I thought it too silly to mind…as a rule, in
Ireland, Jews are very kindly treated’. Mentions poor emigrant Jews
becoming prosperous.
7pp
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B: Correspondence
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5 April 1938
Letter, from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, near Amiens,
Somme, France, to ‘My Dear Captain Lucy’. Encloses Mr.
Macdonagh’s letter. Congratulates him on being in the Literary
Supplement of The Times. Glad to know he is friendly with Terence
O’Hanlon. She may go to London, but her plans depend on the health
of Miss Mattie Murphy. Mentions a friend from Cork, Eowen
O’Mahony.
3pp
8
27 May 1938
Letter, from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My Dear Friend’. Agrees to the proposal ‘with a deep emotion to find
such affection and understanding and sympathy…The book as it
stands will bring no money- if you make it…a popular book it will be
[a] joy to me…’. Fernande and herself will look out for photographs.
Mentions book in Dublin University on Jewish customs, her material
in Cork University, and suggests reading Mr. MacDonagh’s book
about William O'Brien.
3pp
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1 June 1938
Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My Dear Friend’. ‘As things strike me I jot them down…’. She has
gathered all the photos. and newspaper cuttings and one of her
husband’s note books and will give these over. Mentions the
‘Mulruenny forgery’. She will reply to the best of her ability to any
questions. Enclosed are notes ‘On Jewish ways’ (2pp).
3pp
10
5 June 1938
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Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My Dear Friend’. She is glad he is starting work and that he feels ‘as
I do about Jews & Irish’. She remarks how nice that his wife is
reading with him, ‘I do believe in that union of intellect as most
helpful- we women feel things in a different way, more acutely
perhaps less deeply…’. Mentions disagreement with her husband
about women in politics, ‘I wished to keep them for better work’.
Remarks on the Irish Republicans taking their inspiration from
William O'Brien, who was ‘more indulgent to the young than I was.
Some were so over bearing.’ Notes that William O'Brien’s book on
Parnell was not as good as it might have been as he was ill when he
composed it.
5pp
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9 June 1938
Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My dear Captain Lucy’. Concerns letter from Jack Nagle [brother in
law] which ‘has thrown me in perfect dismay’, as ‘the book he
sketches…is another book from the one I had in mind…the less you
will talk about the book to others, the better…’.
2pp
12
10 June 1938
Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My dear Friend’. Concerns her recollections of her wedding day 48
years previously. ‘I was perfectly calm. I had not one anxiety about
the future…he was much more worried…he dreaded for me the
change of life.’
5pp
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15 June 1938
Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My dear Friend’. ‘Your letter reassures me fully…I like to know you
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are determined…’. Fernandé will send on a ‘little volume in French of
mine: Silhouettes D’Autrefois. It may help you’. Relates incidents
concerning her husband and Frank Gallagher (Editor of the Irish
Press), ‘He is no friend..’ and ‘was quite rude’ to William O'Brien.
She could not get articles published in the Irish Press.
4pp
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[June 1938]
Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My dear Friend’. Mainly concerns a recollection concerning ‘F.G’
(Frank Gallagher, Editor of Irish Press), a ‘town boy’ who ‘knew little
about the agrarian problem. My husband gave him An Olive Branch
and told him it would help him to understand’. Frank Gallagher ‘had a
gift of smart writing but he was incapable of improving himself’.
Mentions arrangements for going away.
3pp
15
8 July 1938
Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de
l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Friend’. She hopes the silence
does not mean there is anything wrong. Describes her life in Paris. ‘I
make a retreat in my own fashion...I go to two masses…then I read a
book of meditations…’. Mentions meeting relatives in Paris and
Professor Chauviere.
4pp
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13 July 1938
Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de
l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Friend’. Relates that a dear friend
of hers ‘one of my Irish girls who is married to J.Costello’ wrote to
her concerning the author of ‘There’s a Devil in the Drum’ and she
‘replied that…you are a man worth knowing…’. Gives some
recollections concerning Costello and his wife. Mentions her article in
the Irish Press.
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4pp
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17 July 1938
Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de
l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Friend’. She answers his question
on her first impressions of Ireland. ‘It was the persecution of Irishmen
by Coercion that drew my heart to Ireland. I loved Ireland first I loved
William O'Brien after…’. She read of Ireland in the English papers,
and found Irish girls delightful, the older women ‘more attractive
still’. Remarks on qualities of the Irish and laments at the waste that
goes on in Ireland, such as the amount of land unused, and the fact
that many women no longer make butter. She ‘does not believe in
women in politics…’, one of the subjects on which she disagreed with
her husband.
4pp
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26 July 1938
Letter, from J.O. MacNamara, St. Edwards College, Everton,
Liverpool, to ‘My dear Mrs. O’Brien’. Encloses suggestions for
changes to her book. He is glad to know she is ‘comfortably situated
with the good Nuns’. He is almost recovered from ‘the accident’.
Mentions moving school to suburbs from ‘what has become a slum
quarter…surrounded by Orangemen’. He hopes O’Brien will find a
publisher for her book and thinks that a reader not acquainted with she
or her husband may consider it too long.
4pp
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31 July 1938
Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de
l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Captain Lucy’. She encloses a
letter from ‘a dear Christian Brother’ who sent suggested corrections
to the text of her book.
4pp
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4 November 1938
Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘Dear Friend’. Encloses an article which she is sending via London to
give her god daughter a chance of reading it.
1p
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9 November 1938
Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My dear Captain Lucey’. Concerns publisher for her book. Discusses
the partition of Ireland, ‘we must not look to England to help us…but
work it out on my husband’s policy of conciliation’. Mentions the
teaching of Gaelic, and the views of the French in the matter, ‘Our
work is to win the more sensible of the Northern by our good sense’.
Notes that Professor Chauviere of Dublin University is very much
interested in Ireland. Postscript concerning her efforts to get articles
published in Irish papers.
5pp
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17 November 1938
Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘Dear Friend’. Concerns two messages she has received , firstly that a
new priest at Mallow advised the people to read William O'Brien’s
works and secondly concerning a letter. Mentions a series of 4 articles
she is working on.
2pp
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25 November 1938
Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My dear Friend’. Concerns manuscript ‘Intimate notes on William
O'Brien’ (see also PR25/5). Asks him to look over it. ‘Please God the
French and English Premieres will do good business. I feel so grieved
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about the persecution of the Jews in Germany. Punishment must
come- but now must we wait’.
2pp
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26 November 1938
Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My dear Friend’. Sends ‘hearty thanks for welcome letter and article
in Irish Press’. Mentions typescript sent to publishers.
2pp
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7 December 1938
Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My dear Friend’. She is pleased the Irish Press is publishing so much
of William O'Brien’s book. Mentions possible publishers of her work.
4pp
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1 February 1939
Letter from Sophie O'Brien to ‘My dear John’. She has written to
Michael Doran and Mrs. Walsh. ‘I think it is only for you I could have
done such a thing’. Mentions an Irish appeal for refugees and a
manuscript she asked Gill to send. ‘There is so much real tragedy all
around, one is ashamed to think so much of one’s own little literary
interests’.
3pp
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30 April 1939
Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to
‘My dear Captain Lucey’. Mentions visit to London, ‘the political
news seems somewhat better and we are hoping the clouds of war will
lift…’. As long as England, France and the U.S.A. ‘stand firm, we
may hope to be spared the worse’. She has heard no news from
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Ireland and has ‘given up thinking of anything about my
manuscripts…’.
2pp
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3 September 1945
Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Haut Garonne, France, to ‘My very dear
Friend’. O’Brien is joyful that they are not ill and their silence was
‘due to trying to get into touch with Professor O’Rahilly and that you
are awaiting the visit of the lady he is sending you’. Refers to a
manuscript and the ‘difficulties of publishing at present’. She will put
on paper all she knows about Russia. Sends compliments on an
‘interesting’ idea, and expresses ‘thorough confidence in you...for
good and all…My husband used to tell me I was simpliste…when
things went well, I rejoiced…he foresaw all that might go wrong- and
he worried accordingly’. She used to tell William O'Brien that
Cardinal Newman had the same ‘terrible faculty of self torment. Only
my husband had an advantage…he had a wife who sometimes
succeeded in making him laugh…’. Sends warm good wishes to their
husband and children.
4pp
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C: News clippings
I:
By Sophie O’Brien
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1930-1938
File of news clippings containing articles by Sophie O'Brien, from
Irish Monthly, Evening Herald, Irish Press, Father Mathew Record,
New Zealand Tablet, Irish Catholic, Irish Independent and The
Advocate. Such as, ‘William O’Brien’s Religion’ (Father Mathew
Record, c.1930), and such as concerning Master Geraghty, the
Wandering Schoolmaster of Connaught (The Evening Herald, 21
November 1934), and such as ‘Recollections of the Holy Land (Irish
Monthly, March 1936), and such as ‘A Famous Chapter in Irish
History (2)’ concerning William O'Brien’s refusal to accept the
leadership of the Irish Party (Irish Press, 28 April 1938)
21 items
II:
Other
30
1905-1934
File of news clippings from Cork Free Press, Cork Weekly Chronicle,
Irish Independent, the Daily News, The Universe, the Catholic Herald,
New Zealand Tablet, The Tribune and Weekly Free Press. Mainly
relate to William O'Brien. Such as, concerning the resignation of
William O'Brien M.P. (Cork Weekly Chronicle 3 April 1909), and
such as, concerning a public meeting in Cork City Hall on Ireland’s
involvement in the war, with text of speech by William O'Brien (Cork
Free Press, 3 September 1914), and such as, letter from Moray
McLaren concerning the late Mr. André Raffalovich (brother of
Sophie O'Brien) (16 February 1934), and such as article by William
O'Brien concerning Tim M. Healy (The Tribune, undated)
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D: Photographs
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c.1870-1900
Full length portrait photograph of William O’Brien’s elder brother,
James O’Brien.
5 x 10cm
32
c.1880-1930
Portrait Photograph of religious sister.
6 x 8 cm
33
c.1880-1930
Portrait photograph of ‘M. Guillaume Great French Sculptor who
came to our wedding and offered to make a monument to John
Mandeville’. (Photo. by Fd. Mulnier, Paris).
6 x 10 cm
34
c.1880
Portrait photograph of André Raffalovich, brother of Sophie O'Brien.
6 x 9 cm
35
c.1880
Full length portrait photograph of André Raffalovich at age 19.
10 x 21 cm
36
1887
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Group photograph inscribed ‘Editor Wm. O’Brien and
Correspondents who accompanied him to Canada’. Shows Charles
Ryan of Dublin Freeman’s Journal, Daniel F. Kellogg of New York
Sun, William O'Brien M.P., editor of United Ireland, J.M. Wall of
New York Tribune, Denis Kilbride ‘The Evicted Tenant of
Luggacurren’, James Clancy of New York Herald, and James A. Gill
of New York World. (Photo. by C.D. Fredricks 770 Broadway, New
York).
23 x 18 cm
37
1890
Photograph of Rev. David Humphries being followed by 2 policemen
in uniform. Inscribed ‘Shadowing in Tipperary’.
15 x 15 cm
38
c.1890
Photograph of Mrs. John Martin. Inscription at rear ‘John Mitchel’s
Sister Married John Martin M.P. 1868. Both men died 1875. She
wanted to marry Devin Reilly, but Mitchel preferred Martin. Maxwell
Simpson M.D.F.R.S., Second Professor of Chemistry, Queens College
Cork 1870-91, a Young Irelander, married Martin’s sister’. (Photo. by
Abernethy, Belfast)
10 x 14 cm
39
October 1890
Photograph of street scene in Tipperary, showing armed police/army
blocking the street. Inscribed ‘Col Caddell hides his face’.
10 x 8 cm
40
October 1890
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Photograph, outside Tipperary Courthouse. Shows group of men plus
R.I.C men in uniform. Inscribed ‘”Remember Tipperary” F.W.
Hindley’.
10 x 8 cm
41
October 1890
Photograph of 2 men in discussion outside Tipperary Courthouse.
Inscribed ‘”Remember Tipperary” F.W. Hindley’.
10 x 8 cm
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October 1890
Photograph taken outside Tipperary Courthouse. Inscribed
‘”Remember Tipperary” F.W. Hindley’, and ‘after the fight in front of
Tipperary Courthouse’. Shows group of men and armed police.
10 x 8 cm
43
8 August 1894
Photographs of letter from J.Sullivan R.M., Glenhest, to Mr. Anthony
Kelly. Thanks him for the kind invitation.
2 items
44
31 August 1897
Photograph of note, from J.Sreenan, ‘Hon. Sec.’, Mulranny. ‘Sir
kindly print about 30 hand Programmes for our races…’.
1 item
45
3 April 1898
Photograph of letter from John McHale, Chairman, [of a United Irish
League branch], to ‘Dear James Kelly’. ‘As you are aware that Martin
Kiely is going back to the bastard Stoney on Monday…and watch the
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Police at their houses will be visited on same night so let [Tierney] not
be behind…Burn this for fear of strangers’.
1 item
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c.1900
Photograph of front of Bellevue House, Mallow, residence of Sophie
and William O’Brien.
11 x 6 cm
47
c.1900
Photograph of front of Bellevue House, Mallow, residence of Sophie
and William O’Brien.
8 x 6 cm
48
c.1900
Photograph of Gravestone of Pierce [Hennessy], Mallow, died 1833.
6 x 9 cm
49
c.1900
Portrait photograph of Sophie O'Brien.
3.5 x 5 cm
50
c.1900
Full length portrait photograph of a man, inscribed ‘Willis’.
6 x 10cm
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c.1900
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Photograph of portrait drawing of ‘M Planat de la Faye a great French
soldier who fought through the wars of the Revolution + the Empire.
His widow survived him, became blind and I used to read to her in
Paris’.
11 x 16 cm
52
c.1910-1916
Photograph of William O'Brien ‘after a meeting of the All for Ireland
League’.
14 x 10 cm
53
c.1900-1916
Photograph of public meeting at the Grand Parade, Cork. William
O'Brien in attendance. A banner on the platform declaims ‘LONG
LIVE O’BRIEN’. [Public rally of All for Ireland League members]
15 x 10 cm
54
c.1900-1920
Portrait photograph of William O'Brien.
4 x 5 cm
55
13 April 1902
Photograph of Father Fleming, ‘whom we met in Rome in 1901 where
he was one of the Pope’s under Council’.
11 x 16 cm
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26 September 1913
Portrait photograph of Father [T.M. O’Flynn], St Finbarr’s West,
Cork. Signed ‘To William & Sophie from your affectionate friend’.
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21 x 30 cm
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August 1918
Photograph of Darrell Figgis, Countess Marchievicz, and David Kent,
seated, ‘Taken at Kent’s place, Bonard House…After release from
Jails etc’.
11 x 9 cm
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c.1930-1950
Photograph of Sophie O'Brien and Sheila O’Rourke, her God Child,
seated.
9 x 6 cm
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7 May 1924
Portrait photograph of Sister M. Eustace ‘one of Mrs Eaton’s
children…now a nun in Australia’. Signed, ‘To dear Mrs. O’Brien
With love from Sister M. Eustace’.
9 x 14 cm
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Photograph of envelope addressed to Mr. James Kelly, Kanturk.
12 x 9 cm
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n.d
Portrait photograph of John O’Neary, Mallow. (Monty Roche
Photographer).
10 x 15 cm
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1932
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Photograph inscribed ‘Cork du haut de l’Université’.
8 x 6 cm
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[c. 1920-1940]
Envelope addressed to Mr. E.M. O’Mahony, Barrister, Dun Maedhon,
Cork, Ireland. From the Akademie für Deutsches Recht, Berlin W9,
Leipziger Platz 15, Germany.
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