The following digest lists accessions to repositories in Great Britain and Ireland during 2015 relating to Irish history and reported to the National Archives: Historical Manuscripts Commission (T.N.A. H.M.C.). This information is also published on the internet via T.N.A.’s website (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) and is added to the computerised indexes of the National Register of Archives (N.R.A.) which are available for consultation at the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, TW9 4DU. Alternatively, researchers may access the indexes to the N.R.A. and certain linked online catalogues via the website. Limited and specific enquiries can be dealt with by post, or email (asd@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk).
Readers should note that dates for records in this digest are given when known, but that these are covering dates, which do not necessarily indicate the presence of records for all intervening years. Records have been included in the digest regardless of whether the deposit has yet been fully catalogued, and readers are advised to check with the relevant repository as to whether this or any other factors, such as closure periods, may affect access to the documents. Repository addresses are available in Séamus Helferty and Raymond Refaussé (eds), Directory of Irish archives (5th ed., Dublin, 2011) and in the P.R.O. publication, Ian Mortimer (ed.), Record repositories in Great Britain: a geographical directory (11th ed., London, 1999).
BELFAST: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Boyd family of Ballycastle: volume of maps including tenants’ names, rentals, 1785–1949: D4599
Macnaghten family, baronets, of Dundarave: personal, family and estate papers, 1753–1991: D4609/UNL/1&2
Pollock family of Mountainstown: deeds, family and estate papers, c.1703–1998: D4594/UNL
William H. Crawford (1932–2014), historian: papers including research notebooks and related material, c.1960–2004: D4605
Solly Lipsitz (1921–2013), musician, writer and jazz aficionado: additional papers, c.1903–2011: D4575
Desmond Rea (b. 1937), university administrator and business consultant: papers relating to his chairmanship of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, 2001–2012: D4593/UNL
Edward James Saunderson (1837–1906), Irish politician: correspondence and papers, 1866–1910: D4594/UNL/1
James Stewart (1934–2013), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland: correspondence and papers, 1955–2004: D2162/P/2/UNL/2
Samuel McCausland Ltd., seed merchants, Belfast: additional sales and stock ledgers, order books, cash books and crop inspection reports, 1963–75: D4610/UNL/1
Ballynahinch Congregational Church: baptism and marriage registers, communicant roll books, 1902–2004: CR7/12/1, 3&4
Benevolent Fund for Nurses in Northern Ireland: records, 1968–2015: D4603
Bready Reformed Presbyterian Church: records, c.1790–1991: CR5
Down Parish Church, Downpatrick: records including Hollymount chapel of ease, c.1839–1999: CR1/33
Irish Council of Churches: records, 1911–2003: D4602/UNL/1
Irish Transport and General Workers Union, Belfast branch: membership ledger, 1917–20: D4597
Reformed Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Western Presbytery: records, 1811–1973: CR5
Workers Educational Association, Belfast branch: records, 1910–2003: D4596/UNL/1
DUBLIN: Representative Church Body Library
Leslie family, Baronets, of Glaslough: diaries, episcopal charges, accounts, correspondence and papers including of John Powell Leslie (1772–1854), bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, and Charles Leslie (1810–1870), bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, nineteenth century: MS 1004
Dublin Diocesan Board of Education: minutes, accounts and papers, 1950–2014: MS D6 Adl
Love’s and Gardiner’s Charity for Educational Purposes in the City of Dublin: minutes, correspondence, accounts and papers, 1980–2006: MS 734 Adl
DUBLIN: Trinity College Dublin
John Banville (b. 1945), novelist, dramatist and journalist: additional papers, twenty-first century: MS 11517
Michael Joseph Costello (1904–86), Irish military leader: Irish Civil War intelligence messages, c.1920–29: MS 11524
John Moriarty (1938–2007), Irish author, poet and philosopher: literary papers, twentieth century: MS 11525
Edward O’Reilly (1770–1829), Celtic scholar and lexicographer: alphabetical list of Irish writers whose work in Irish is extant in verse or prose, 1815–25: MS 11522
Mary Pollard (1922–2005), librarian and bibliographer: professional and personal papers, twentieth century: MS 11518
Lilian Stokes (1878–1955), diarist: diary of the Easter Rising, 1916: MS 11507
Louis Lentin (1933–2014), film producer and director: professional and personal papers, twentieth century: MS 11496
Compilation of historical texts from library of St Mary’s Abbey, Dublin, fourteenth century: MS 15000
LIVERPOOL: Liverpool Record Office
Great Hunger Commemoration Committee, Irish famine remembrance association: letters, papers and photographs, 1994–2011: 363 IRI
LONDON: London Metropolitan Archives
Sir Stephen White (d. 1678), grocer and alderman: financial and legal letters, papers and deeds relating to Irish plantations in east Meath, 1654–77: B15/118
WARWICK: Warwickshire County Record Office
Seymour family, marquesses of Hertford, Ragley Hall: additional Irish estate records, c. 1875–1925: CR 4775
