[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Parsonage House, Ballymena, Co. Antrim), concerning his work, health and his desire to emigrate to America.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Ballymena, Co. Antrim), discussing difficulties of his work.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (36 Buckingham Street, Dublin) to William Reeves, concerning the Life of Patrick.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing territories of ancient Irish clans.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Parsonage House, Ballymena, Co. Antrim), discussing his work and his impending move to Belfast.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, requesting a third opinion on deciphering MacDonnell's deed, and discussing the current census and the state of the Irish language.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing recent criticisms of their work on Irish place names.]

[Letter from Joannen Donovaniden [John O'Donovan] (Ulster Railway Hotel, Belfast, Co. Antrim), to William Reeves (The Vicarage, Lusk, Co. Dublin), discussing the Dinnsenchus of Armagh.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Parsonage, Ballymena, Co. Antrim), enclosing some answers to queries, and discussing John O'Neill's genealogy.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Parsonage, Ballymena, Co. Antrim), returning answers to Reeves's queries and reporting on his own work on the Annals of the Four Masters.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Parsonage, Ballymena, Co. Antrim), transcribing a manuscript passage about the burning of Rathmore by Edward Bruce.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, commenting on the lack of Irish political leadership and the disappearance of the Irish cultural inheritance under English rule.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing building projects of the Gaelic aristocracy in Ulster.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing the locality of Castle Drumtarsy.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (11 Panton Square, Haymarket, London), discussing the state of Irish manuscripts in a number of British archives and their interpretation to date.]

The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies.