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- Type/Formats:
- Text — Letter
- Publisher:
- UCD Library, University College Dublin
- Contributors:
- Curran, Constantine Peter — Byrne, Alice
- Abstract:
- Alice Byrne to Constantine Curran : death of J.F. Byrne; details of his recent health complaints; article she sent to Irish Digest went unacknowledged.
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- Dates:
- 1900-1949 — 1900
- Type/Formats:
- StillImage — Photographs
- Publisher:
- UCD Library, University College Dublin
- Abstract:
- Postcard sized photograph of young boarders in school uniforms, holding tennis racquets. On the verso of the photograph is written 'Loreto Archive, pupils Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham'.
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- Type/Formats:
- Text — Postcards
- Contributors:
- Bourke, John V. — Ó Brolcháin, Cilian
- Abstract:
- Brief manuscript post card, written in Irish, from Cilian Ó Brolcháin, 4 Bóthar na h-Ollscoile, Gaillimh, to Bourke enclosing a subscription to the memorial fund.
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- Dates:
- 1921-1922 — 1921
- Type/Formats:
- StillImage — Text — Poetry — Postcards — Portrait photographs
- Publisher:
- UCD Library, University College Dublin
- Contributors:
- Hurley, Sean, 1897-1961 — Levins, Anna Francis — Brayton, Teresa, 1868-1943
- Abstract:
- Three commemorative photographic prints of Barry, two in postcard form and one with a quote from John W. Goff on the front and a tribute in verse on the back written and autographed by Teresa Brayton.
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- Type/Formats:
- StillImage — Aerial photographs
- Publisher:
- UCD Library, University College Dublin
- Abstract:
- Aerial photograph of Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham showing the farm yard (upper right hand corner of photograph, marked with an x). The Annals Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham 1913-1916 refer to two workmen employed on this farm who participated in the rising. The height from which the photograph was taken is... [ … ]
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- Dates:
- 1900-1949 — 1900
- Type/Formats:
- StillImage — Photographs
- Publisher:
- UCD Library, University College Dublin
- Abstract:
- A corridor in Loreto College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. The corridor is mentioned in the Annals Loreto College 53 St Stephen’s Green 1914 - 1918 (SSG/3).
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- Creator:
- Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham
- Dates:
- 1916-04-24-1916-05-09 — 1916-04-24
- Type/Formats:
- Text — Diaries
- Publisher:
- UCD Library, University College Dublin
- Abstract:
- This contemporaneous account of Easter Rising 1916 captures the uncertainty, the confusion and the anxiety experienced by the religious community and their concern for their Sisters in Dublin city centre communities (i.e. 43 North Great George’s Street, 53 St Stephen’s Green & 77 St Stephen’s... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Text — Letter
- Publisher:
- UCD Library, University College Dublin
- Contributors:
- Corcoran, Mary Michael, I.B.V.M., 1846-1927 — Ryan, Father, S.J.
- Abstract:
- Letter from M. Michael Corcoran, Loreto Convent, Rathfarnham to Fr. Ryan S.J., Australia. This letter, refers to the 1916 Rising in Dublin, where three Loreto houses were surrounded by ‘fighters and two of Ours had narrow escapes from stray bullets.’ A member of the community at 53 Stephen’s... [ … ]
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- Creator:
- Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 53 Saint Stephen’s Green
- Dates:
- 1916-04-24-1916-05-08 — 1916-04-24
- Type/Formats:
- Text — Diaries
- Publisher:
- UCD Library, University College Dublin
- Abstract:
- This contemporaneous account of Easter Rising 1916 captures the uncertainty, the confusion and the anxiety experienced by the religious community and the resident boarding pupils. In 1916 the Sisters were bound by the rule of enclosure, and were not permitted to leave convent grounds, unless for... [ … ]
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- Abstract:
- The Constantine Curran/Helen Laird Collection in UCD Library Special Collections contains correspondence, including letters from James Joyce to Curran, photographs, postcards, literary manuscripts, gramophone records and a large collections of printed books, pamphlets and ephemera. This collection... [ … ]
