Personal and Family Papers

CCCA has large holdings of personal papers i.e. where the creator is an individual or a family. These collections often contain correspondence, newscuttings, literary manuscripts, diaries, photographs, printed ephemera, and memorabilia. Personal papers may also contain material directly related to the various organisations, activities, or interests of the individual concerned, for example, cultural groups, political parties, clubs and societies, and businesses. For full details, do a search of our online catalogue.

Examples of personal papers held:

• Berkeley, George F.   Captain, Irish Volunteers, 1914-1924 (1951)  PR12
• Browne, Arthur   Governor of Charles Fort,  Kinsale (1729) c.1790-1792  SM739
• Clanchy, T.J,   Butter Merchant, 1870-1916 (1945) PR11  
• Coppingers of Barryscourt estate, near Midleton, Co.Cork  1740-1843 U405
• Deane, Lady Eliza   (Wife of Sir Thomas Deane, Architect) 1 Jan - 19 Nov 1832  PR27
• De Roiste, Liam, T.D., Councillor, Gaelic Leaguer 1902-1954 U271
• Dowden, Richard    Alderman, Mayor of Cork 1845, liberal, philantropist. c.1820 - 1860   U140
• Fawsitt, Diarmaid L.  Revolutionary, Irish Republican Consul in New York, Anglo-Irish Treaty economic advisor, Judge  PR81
• Fitzgerald, Seamus   Irish Volunteers and Fianna Fáil, 1911-1971  PR6
• Fitzgerald, Edward, (b1876 - d1958) officer, British Royal Navy PR79
• Hely Hutchinson Cork Electors MS. SM768
• Hewitt, Thomas, Merchant and Distiller, 1789-1873   U15B
• Hill, William Henry  Architect and Engineer, 1887-1930  ‌
• Hurley Family Emigrant Letters, 1871-1938 U170
• Lane, Denny   Young Irelander, businessman, 1833-1895   U611
• Langford, Riobárd   Officer, Irish Republican Army,  (1898) 1914-1973  U156
• Lynch, Rita  Soprano, 1928-1990s PR84
• MacCurtain, Tomás (Gaelic Poem)    Lord Mayor of Cork, Gaelic League, Irish Republican Army,  July 1918  G/7
• Neenan, Connie (IRA commander) 1916-1970s   PR7
• Lyons, Thomas (Mayor of Cork 1841-42) Incoming correspondence from Daniel O'Connell MP and others   SM775
• MacSwiney, Terence, Lord Mayor of Cork Files (1919) March - July 1920 PR4
• McCarthy, Jack   Kanturk Irish Republican Army, 1920's, 1970 - 1971  SM701
• Murphy, TJ and Family Archive PR116
• O'Brien, Sophie   Wife of William O'Brien, M.P. 1887-1945  PR25  
• O’Buachalla, Liam   Gaelic League activist, Banteer/Millstreet area, 1907-1927  U203  PR69
• O'Sullivan, Andy (IRA officer, Mallow) (1922) 9 August 1923 - 2 Nov 1923 (1925)
• Perrott, William and Johnson and Perrott Ltd Archive, 1903 - 1950
• Roche Family MSS. (1315) c.1642-c.1774  PR28
• Sutton, John A. (paper on Sutton mariners, sailing ships and crews, Cork, 1800s)   SM975
• Waters, Thomas P.     Irish Republican Army, 1914-1920 (1957)  SM625