Collection A6 - Grattan Freyer Collection

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UGA A6

Title

Grattan Freyer Collection

Date(s)

  • 1938-1983

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

49 items

Context area

Archival history

Grattan Dermot Freyer was born on 25 July 1915 in Cambridge, England, the second of three sons of Major Dermot Freyer (1883-1970), a writer, art collection and first Labour councillor for Cambridge Corporation and his New Zealand wife Lorna Doone McLean (

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Scope and content

This collection consists of notes and associated papers gathered by Grattan Freyer, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. They form the basis for lectures given by him at the Language Centre, the Institute for Irish Studies, the Irish Humanities Centre

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Conditions governing access

The material is accessible to all bone fide researchers, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at the James Hardiman Library. For a full statement of the conditions, please see: http://www.library.nuigalw

Conditions governing reproduction

Many of our collections are in copyright, and are subject to restrictions in their terms of use for anything other than private research. Any requests for extracts or images from the University’s archival collections for the purposes of publishing, broadc

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      Language and script notes

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      2

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      BIBLIOGRAPHY
      Obituary of Grattan Freyer in "The Irish TImes" (22 June 1983)
      Obituary of Grattan Freyer in "Cathair na Mairt", vol 4, no 1 (1984)
      Prionsias O'Conluain, "Islands and Authors" (1983)
      Peter Lamb's article 'A Kiln fired by Turf - Grattan Freyer

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      Status

      Catalogued

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

      22/12/2014
      08/08/2025

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