Bound volume containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority. The pages include printed formatting and fields, each entry is spread over three pages. Each entry contains the following fields 'Minutes of Proceedings of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority, at their meeting held on ...', 'Present', 'in the Chair' 'Other members Present', 'Reports of Committees read and disposed of as follows, namely:', 'Record of Sanitary work performed since the date of the last Meeting', 'The following communications from the Local Government Board were read', 'The following Special Business came before the Meeting', 'The following Accounts were laid before the Meeting, and Cheques drawn for the amounts:', 'Reports of Medical Officers of Health, and Orders made thereon:', 'Monthly Report of the Medical Officer of Health read, and the following Orders made thereon:', 'The Report as to the Inspection of Common Lodging Houses was read as follows, and the following Orders were made thereon:'. It is evident that some entries relate to the business of the Urban District Council rather than the Sanitary Authority, some entries are replicated in the minute books of the Urban District Council. (See LA4). According to entry dated 5 December 1907 the following motion was moved 'That the undertaking given by the Council in the old lease of Fairhill slob lands to spend £1000 thereon in the erection of a weighhouse etc., be altered and that the Council instead undertake to layout £1000 on the erection of Labourers Cottages there, and that the new lease to the council be prepared accordingly.' A report dated from the medical officer Dr. J.M. MacDonagh dated 11 November 1918 'Owing to the severe character of the present epidemic of influenza and the wide distribution of the disease all over the town, the council should use whatever authority it has to have all schools and places of amusement closed for the present.'
Bound volume entitled ‘Leabhar Airgid 29/11/39’, containing accounts of payments made by An Taibhdhearc in terms of expenses and salaries, including actors’ wages. These accounts were presented to the monthly or bimonthly meetings of the Board of Directors 1939-1941. Also rough notes in relation to lighting and props for a number of unidentified plays but including reference to The Rising of the Moon and Jail Gate in 1953, Twelfth Night, Rossa, Merchant of Venice and Monkey’s Paw. Includes near the end of the volume six lines of poetry about the Taibhdhearc ‘We stated our venture 20 long years ago’. Red cover, green spine, approx 20x26x2 cms. [in Irish and English]
Two volumes of accounts relating to rents, the first contains accounts kept by John Brady of rents received and disbursements made, and the second was compiled in relation to the fixing of rents.
Correspondence between Enda Mooney of Burren National Park, and Robinson. Begins with a copy letter from Robinson enclosing his 1977 map with National Park Boundaries marked in red ink, asking Mooney to highlight in yellow any areas he has excluded, and seeking clarification on lands owned by An Taisce. A reply from Mooney encloses the map with the requested areas highlighted, and a photocopy of a map of the national park. The letter includes information on An Taisce, a trackway and two additional cairns and wedge tombs. A subsequent note from Mooney encloses a copy map of Keelhilla nature reserve. (3-9 Mar 1998) 8pp and 1 item;
Letter from Joe Duffy, District Manager of Coillte to Robinson enclosing maps outlining all Coillte owned forestry in North East Clare. (13 Mar 1998) 8pp.
Index card describing some of the local features of the townland of Bovroughaun, [Both Bhrocháin]. Loch Aill Mhaintáin is included in some of the descriptions of the area.
Tabula Genealogue - the Bowens of Mayo - copied out by Rev. Christopher Bowen aged 82, covers 1591-1884.
Typescript of play "Bowing and Scraping" by Michael Collins and submitted to Garry Hynes with cover letter, attached, 3 Aug 2000, noting it is a completely revised script of a previous attempt.
CD of Bowman on Sunday broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 featuring John McGahern.
Five folders of contact sheets, with corresponding negatives documenting Bob Quinn's professional, local, and family life. It includes behind the scenes images from the filming of 'Budawanny' 'The Bishop's Story', 'Into the West', 'Atlantean', 'Graceville', and 'Detour'. Images of some of the first broadcastings of Telifís na Gaeilge. Aspects of local community life in Connemara, including Féile an Dóilín in 1987, fishing, local athletics races, and the pantomime in Rosmuc. Several images of Bob Quinn's home life, featuring family and friends.
These prints are mostly black and white, there are some colour photographs.