RT Diaries
T1 Diary of Arthur Oram
A1 Oram, Arthur, 1853-1919
PB Arthur Oram
PP Burrishoole, Co. Mayo
YR 2018
NO Scope and content: Includes: - Records that he attended an inquiry concerning the railway to Belmullet (14 January 1890). - Refers to the birth of his twins, a boy and a girl (20 February 1890). - Records the baptism of the twins, James and Emily (4 April 1890). - Remarks that he remained at home filling out notices for defaulting tenants (4 September 1890). - Remarks that all but one tenant looking for relief on their rents and promising to pay next month (20 October 1890). - Records that the Chief Secretary of Ireland Mr Balfour passed through Newport on his way to Achill (28 October 1890). - Remarks that on the day appointed for Mr Kennedy's tenants to pay rent, only one appeared (31 October 1890). - Records that he went to Castlebar to attend a Grand Jury assembled to deal specifically with railway business, remarks that the proceedings were 'merely formal' (24 November 1890). - Remarks that he has received a 'good many' of the rents due from Mr Kennedy's tenants (28 November 1890). - Records that he met with Mr J. O'Donel concerning Mrs Dick's consent for the use of land for the railway. (6 December 1890). - Remarks that he travelled to Newport and Mullawn and saw the railway cuttings at Kilbride and Carrowbawn for the first time (9 December 1890). - Remarks that he and Mr Kennedy walked the full line marked out for the railway on Mr Kennedy's estate (13 December 1890).
AN uri:info:fedora/ucdlib:256159
DO doi:doi:10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_256159
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SL UCD Library, University College Dublin
LL Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland