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Donegal County Board of the GAA
Donated by the County Board of the GAA, documents relate to football, hurling, handball and camogie and include minute books, annual convention reports, yearbooks, posters, programmes, tickets, bye laws, regulations, players' lists, photographs, notices, correspondence, committee reports.
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This is an original thesis in two volumes written by Patrick O'Neill, entitled 'A Social and Cultural Study of Crofter Life on the West Donegal Seaboard', 1940.
The first volume is divided into chapters. The chapters include physical features, climate, soil, agriculture (corn, manures, potatoes, crop rotation), transhumance and livestock, rundale, congestion and land tenure, home industries, fishing, curraghs, housing.
The second volume includes hand drawn statistical maps of Donegal, including of structural features of a sea curragh. Also includes sketch of 'crofter's lime kiln', drawings of spools and pot for holding yarn and house types along western seaboard plus older types of 'crofter dwelling'.
Black and white photographs include of Upper Finn Valley and houses and cottages in Knockfola, Traweenagh Bay, Gibbstown, Co Meath, Ballyroarty, Stranocloc (Owenea Valley), Sthraboy, Teelin, Altnagoire (Ranafast), Drumeen, Rann na Gille, Teelin- Seamus O h-E[ ], Bunbeg, and also Norway.
Thesis was submitted to Queens University Belfast and is also available in the college library.
Archives of the District Nursing Association of Fanad, known as Fanad Health Club. The district nursing associations operated under the Queen's Institute of Nursing and the Lady Dudley Nursing Scheme.
Fanad Health Club was set up to allow district nurses operate in the area. Members paid a subscription to avail of its services. Similar Health Clubs were set up around the county.
- 1935 Annual Report and other correspondence from Donegal County Committee of District Nursing Association and Donegal County Nursing Association
- Correspondence from the Benevolent Society of St Patrick, also called the Irish Peasantry Society, regarding grants towards the association (7 July 1932- 3 August 1933)
- Photographs include two pasted into volume: one of unnamed groups of nurses; one of Jubilee Nurses Reunion photograph, including J.W. Fullerton, Lady Stewart, Miss Harte, Mrs C. Kelly, Mrs Boyd, Dr M. McGinley, Dr O Deagha and Mrs Colhoun and Mrs Magee.
- Lists of collectors of funds.
- Posters, sketches, cuttings from newspapers, invitation cards, tickets etc concerning fundraising activities, such as garden fetes, dances and carnivals for the Club.
*Digitised for Creative Ireland project 2017*