Correspondence relating to Fr Luke Wadding OFM and the Irish Friars Minor at St. Isidore’s College, Rome, on ecclesiastical and political matters; and concerning his interests as historian of the Franciscan Order.

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.

Letters from correspondents primarily in the British Isles, but also from North America and the Middle East, encompassing a wide range of antiquarian concerns including archaeological finds, anatomy, sigillography, topography, numismatics, and Frazer's collection of autographs and prints.

Correspondence relating to O'Curry's work with the Ordnance Survey and the Royal Irish Academy and general correspondence on antiquarian, genealogical, linguistic and literary matters; correspondence as Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Irish History in the Catholic University, mainly concerning his academic and research interests; some personal correspondence, and personal financial and family documents.

A selection of manuscript material from the Irish Dialect Archive (Cartlann na gCanúintí) of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics at UCD.

Correspondence between John O'Donovan (1809-1861), and, principally, William Reeves (1815-1892): eighty letters (1832-1860) and twenty-six undated note fragments.

This collection consists largely of letters from Roger Casement to Captain Hans Boehm, during Casement's stay in Germany in 1915, as well as some associated material (photographs, medals) relating to his first contact with the German authorities in November and December 1914 and the formation of the Irish Brigade in 1915.

A collection of papers belonging to Fr. Francis A. Gleeson relating to his time as Catholic Military Chaplain to the 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers during World War I. The papers include diaries detailing life at the front and religious activities, Brigade Rolls listing mainly Roman Catholic soldiers, and correspondence from the families of men missing or killed in action.

[Notes, pencil sketches, correspondence and plans relating to County Kerry.]

[Correspondence between Françoise Henry and Cork Public Museum. Notes on stone carvings, County Cork.]

[Copy letter from Séan Ó Dálaigh (Dún Chuinn) to an unidentified recipient.]

[Fragmentary remonstrance to the exiled court at St Germain-en-Laye with an appended copy of a letter 18th September 1707.]

[Endorsed declaration on the rule to be observed at St Anthony's College, by Archbishop Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire OFM, Madrid, with seal, 13th February 1613.]

[Letter of Fr Valentine Browne OFM to Fr Hugh de Burgo OFM, Dublin, with seal, 29th August 1641.]

[Copy of a letter written after the death of Pope Alexander VIII, Rome, 4th April 1692.]

[Notes, correspondence and sketches relating to goldsmith techniques on a variety of objects.]

[Letter from Marion Gunn (Seomra C215, Áras J. H. Newman, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath 4) to Fionnuala Duane (4 Richmond House, Richmond Hill, Monkstown, Blackrock, Co. Dublin), enquiring about letters written by Seán Ó Dálaigh to Duane's father.]

[Letter from S. S. Henderson to [the Irish Folklore Commission], returning the 'enclosed' and informing the recipient of her husband's death.]

[Letter from Tomás de Bhaldraithe to Miss Fionnuala Duane (4 Richmond House, Richmond Hill, Monkstown, Blackrock, Co. Dublin), giving an initial opinion on the Ó Dálaigh manuscript.]

[Letter from Fionnuala Duane (23 Eaton Square, Monkstown, Blackrock, Co. Dublin) to Professor [Tomás de Bhaldraithe], discussing a recent book by de Bhaldraithe; and informing him of letters written by Seán Ó Dálaigh to her father.]

[Portion of letter of Fr John de Burgo OFM, with seal, 16th February 1710.]

[Endorsed copy of the attestation of priests and brothers of the Irish Franciscan province on behalf of Fr James Darcy OFM, 23rd August 1684.]

[Copy of letter of Fr James McDavitt OFM, former minister provincial to the guardian of St Anthony's College, Leuven, 1781.]

[Petition for the division of the Franciscan province of Ireland, Buttevant, 24th January 1672, signed by Franciscan superiors.]

[Authenticated copies of letters of Philip III to the Archdukes Albert and Isabel, and to the Marqués Spínola, El Escorial, 21st September 1606.]

[Authenticated copy of letter from the chapter of the Irish Franciscan province to the minister general, 23rd August 1684.]

[Printed declaration on the dispute over the right of all ex-ministers provincials to vote at the meetings of the definitory or governing body of the Franciscan province of Ireland, issued at Rome, 1711.]

[Letter of Fr Ludovico McNamara OFM to Fr James Cody OFM, Prague, 4th March 1693.]

[Endorsed copy of the Bull of Foundation for St Anthony’s College, Leuven.]

[Authenticated copy of 1613 declaration by Archbishop Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire OFM and the Commissary General’s approbation of 1617.]

[Letter from E. M. Thompson (Principal Librarian, British Museum) to William Frazer, acknowledging the presentation by Frazer of "A Series of Papers on Irish Medals".]

Letter from John Morley (95 Elm Park Gardens, South Kensington, S. W.) to an unidentified recipient, concerning the publication of an article.

[Letter from J. O'Donnell, ('Prague', Newcastle Park, Galway) to [the Irish Folklore Commission], apologising for not being able to supply any worth-while information for the questionnaire on Tinkers.]

[Letter from Patrick Lyons (Post Office Lane, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary) to the Irish Folklore Commission, providing further information for the questionnaire on Tinkers.]

[Letter from Gwen D. Thorpe, (Altikeeragh, Castlerock, Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland) to the [Irish Folklore Commission], returning the uncompleted questionnaire on Tinkers.]

[Letter from Bill Cantwell (St. Augustine's College, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford) to his father, David Cantwell, concerning the collection of information for the Irish Folklore Commission's survey on Tinkers.]

The "Co." of Pigsbrook and Co. / F. J. Furnivall

Letter from John Henry Newman (The Oratory, Birmingham) to Dr. Thomas Hayden, concerning a proposed medical lodging house.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, in which he refers to a recent letter from Baillie and discusses 'the Catholic principle' and Catholicism.

Letter from Archbishop William Walsh to Professor [Patrick Semple ?], thanking him for details of [James] Henry's full name, which has enabled Walsh to find biographical details.

Postcard from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, Stephen's Green) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie (22 Sackville Street, London), asking Baillie not to take 'those cards, that diptych' too seriously. Refers to Caphtor and clarifies several points on Egyptian grammar.

Card from Roger Casement (The Savoy, Denham, Uxbridge) to [Robert] Donovan, requesting a quotation from the 'Freeman's Journal' on the number of Irish in the British Navy in 1797, compared with [1905?].

[Letter from Sir Montague Chapman (Killua Castle, Clonmellon, County Meath) to William Frazer, making arrangements for Frazer to inspect an unspecified ornament.]

[Letter from Sir Montague Chapman (Leenane, County Galway) to William Frazer, inviting Frazer to inspect an unspecified ornament.]

[Letter from R. S. Scharff (Science and Art Museum, Dublin) to William Frazer, regarding specimens from Sligo, including a loggerhead turtle found alive at Mullaghmore.]

[Letter from John O'Daly (9 Anglesea Street) to Eugene O'Curry, discussing a transcription of a fairy lullaby entitled 'An Seoithin'.]

[Letter from William Reeves (Parsonage, Ballymena) to Eugene O'Curry, enquiring about the pedigree of MacArtan.]

[Printed letter from Mat Horgan to the editor of the 'Examiner', including a prayer in Irish with an English translation.]

[Letter from Timothy McMahon (Carrownisky) to Eugene O'Curry (No. 2, Portland Street, Dublin), concerning an inscription found on a tombstone.]

[Letter from D. H. Kelly (Castle Kelly, County Roscommon) to Eugene O'Curry, returning a manuscript and including his own transcription of the same.]