List of documents left in the writing desk of The O'Rahilly
List prepared by Manchán Magan.
Edited by Mark Humphrys.
Here is a list of documents stored in The O’Rahilly’s old school desk,
which he seems to have made, and carved his initials in ("M.J.R.") with a
penknife.
The documents relate to his father’s shop business and were left in
the pub/shop when it was sold in 1898. They were stored in the desk by 3
generations of the Finucane family, until Michael Finucane leased the pub out
in 2012 and gave the desk and documents into the trust of Manchán Magan.
Papers
- Some daily account dockets on long strips of paper (like till receipts)
for
April 2, April 4, April 5 and April 6, 1895.
- Provincial Bank of Ireland, Share certificates of Richard Young, 31 North Main Street, Wexford, draper.
Dated 1895, 1898, 1899, 1919, 1932.
- Unsigned Christmas card.
Printed material, 1864 to 1893
- Bow Bells, a
Weekly Magazine of General Literature, Nov 1864.
- The British
Mail (illustrated Monthly Newspaper), July 2, 1877.
- Hely, Son and Co., Paper Merchants, 17 Dame St, Dublin (catalogue), December 1879.
- The British
Mercantile Gazette (for the merchant trader and exporter),
July 16, 1880.
- Saddlers,
Harness Makers, Carriage Builders Gazette, Sept 1, 1880.
- Carters Grass
Seeds catalogue, Feb 15, 1883.
- The Implement
and Machinery Review, April 1, 1884.
- Scraps, Literary and Pictorial – Curious and Amusing, Vol II, No. 83, March 28, 1885.
- The Coach Builders', Harness Makers' and Saddlers' Art Journal, July 1885.
With prices for springs, and information on an improved sporting cart.
- Truth, No. 516, Vol XX, Nov 18, 1886.
- The Implement
and Machinery Review, Vol XIII, May 1887 to April 1888.
- Irish Messenger
of the Sacred Heart, 1888 (the inaugural first issue).
- A pamphlet advertising a cash register, 1888,
from The National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio.
(This is of interest as Richard Rahilly designed a cash register,
which he claimed an English firm copied and manufactured. He spent £100 on legal advice to stop the firm.)
- The Implement
and Machinery Review, Vol XVI, May 1890 to April 1891.
- Price List of
George Maitland, Leather Merchant, Glasgow, Sept 1892.
- Supplement to
The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder, 15 Dec 1893.
- The
Illustrated Carpenter and Builder, Dec 29, 1893.
Printed material, undated
- Brochure of the City of Cork Steam Packet Company.
Times and prices to destinations in Britain, and tourist information about tours in Ireland.