Scope and content Clippings, newspapers, typewritten manuscripts, letters, and photographs concerning Ireland and individual Irish people or Irish-Americans. Includes photocopies of letters from President Theodore Roosevelt and other U.S. government officials to James B. Connolly, ranging in date from 1902-1948; essays and notes by Kathleen O'Loughlin; reports and clippings concerning the United Empire Loyalists; issues of Irish newspapers such as the Irish Independent and Irish Times concerning the 50th...

Abstract Manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, bound manuscripts, galley proofs, and broadsides by, to or about James Joyce, mainly in the early years of his writing career. Manuscripts include the earliest known manuscript of his first book of poems, Chamber Music; a typescript of the first sketch of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; an essay containing an important early statement of Joyce's literary theory; and manuscripts for parts of Dubliners, Stephen Hero, Ulysses, Pomes Penyeach,...