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.
[List, in Eugene O'Curry's hand, of enquiries from Dr. Todd concerning the Stowe manuscript of the Annals of the Four Masters; also, tracings of watermarks in same.]
[Letter from Sylvester Malone (Kilkee) to James Henthorn Todd (Trinity College Dublin), concerning Todd's translation of the Book of Leinster and the possible translation of other manuscripts, including the Book of Iniscathaig (sic), the Gospels of Roscrea and the Annals of Nenagh.]
[Irish extract, with English translation, from the Annals of Tighernach, together with a Latin extract from Giraldus Cambrensis' Topographia Hibernica, both in John O'Donovan's hand.]
[Letter from William Reeves ([Parsonage], Ballymena, Co. Antrim) to John O'Donovan, concerning mainly Irish place names; includes O'Donovan's response.]
[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.]