Papers on the appointment of Sir Anthony MacDonnell as under-secretary for Ireland. Includes copies of correspondence between Lansdowne and MacDonnell, and further correspondence with A.J. Balfour, Arthur Godley, Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (Lord Lieutenant o...
Law and order, including papers on cattle-driving and other offences, 1906-1910, and on the eviction of tenants at Kilmurry, Co. Kerry, 1910, with related letters from Pierce Gun Mahony, landlord of the Kilmurry estate. Mostly printed, including “Walsh’s Fort”: A Tale of Irish Life (1910), The T...
Irish Councils Bill, 1907; Home Rule Bill, 1912-1913. Mostly printed and typewritten, including newspaper cuttings, parliamentary papers, and memoranda on the passage of the Home Rule Bill through Parliament.
The Army and Home Rule, including papers on an alleged Army plot for the coercion of Ulster; a proposed amendment to the Army Annual Bill, designed to prevent the use of the Army to enforce Home Rule in Ulster; and the Government of Ireland (Amendment) Bill (1914). Partly printed and typewritten...
Irish Federalism. Mostly printed, including newspaper cuttings, pamphlets by F.S. Oliver and others, War Cabinet memoranda by W.H. Long, and the Reports of the Royal Commission on the Rebellion in Ireland (1916) and the Irish Convention (1918).
Constitutional papers, including a memorandum of a conversation between Andrew Bonar Law and King George V, September 1912; papers on the Buckingham Palace Conference of July 1914; correspondence and copies of correspondence with Harold Cooke (lecturer in the University of Durham), Lord Robert C...
The Easter Rising. Partly printed and typewritten, including Cabinet memoranda, telegrams reporting on events in Dublin, and the report and minutes of the Royal Commission on the Rebellion in Ireland (1916), with related letters from St John Brodrick, Robert Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdo...