The Sullivan Barry Collection

Repository: UCC Library Archives Service

Identity Statement

TitleThe Sullivan Barry Collection
Archive ReferenceIE BL/PP/SB
Web Link to this Entryhttps://iar.ie/archive/the-sullivan-barry-collection
Creation Dates1870 - 1898
Level of DescriptionFonds (The whole of the records, regardless of form or medium, organically created and/or accumulated and used by a particular person, family, or corporate body in the course of that creator's activities and functions). (Often, but not always, contiguous with an archives ‘collection’ ).
Extent Medium27 items

Context

Creator(s): Sullivan Barry Family

  • Administrative History ↴

    These papers are named after the Sullivan and Barry families who wrote and received the documents preserved in the collection. They relate to the late nineteenth-century experience of emigration among Sullivan siblings and cousins, Mary Barry and Mary Conway.
  • Archival History ↴

    Donated to UCC Library in 2013.
  • Immediate Source Acquisition ↴

    Donation

Content & Structure

  • Scope & Content: Sullivan Barry Family ↴

    The collection consists of twenty-four letters and three miscellaneous items. The letters were written in the United States of America by Denis Sullivan (10 letters); Hanorah Sullivan (6); Mary Barry (2); Annie Sullivan (1); Nora Sullivan (1); Mary Conway (1); and Jeremiah Sullivan (1). The remaining two letters are unsigned. The three miscellaneous items – a receipt, a list of accounts and a prescription – were written in Ireland.

  • Appraisal Destruction ↴

    Permanent Retention
  • Accruals ↴

    No Further Additions Expected
  • Arrangement ↴

    Minimal Arranagement

Conditions of Access & Use

Access Conditions Available by appointment with the Archives Service to holders of UCC Readers tickets.
Conditions Governing ReproductionSubject to University College Cork Special Collections and Archives’ Reading Room terms of membership and in accordance with copyright legislation.
Creation Dates1870 - 1898
Level of DescriptionFonds (The whole of the records, regardless of form or medium, organically created and/or accumulated and used by a particular person, family, or corporate body in the course of that creator's activities and functions). (Often, but not always, contiguous with an archives ‘collection’ ).
Extent Medium27 items
Material Language ScriptEnglish
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Allied Materials

There are no Allied Materials

Descriptive Control Area

Archivist NoteDr. Ben Hazard
Rules/ConventionsISADG
Date of DescriptionsSept 2018