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Consists of unbound typed diary entries, documents and letters relating to Lester's final months as High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig. Lester left Danzig on 22 December 1936 having been promoted to the position of Deputy Secretary General of the League. He took up his new appointment in Geneva on 16 January 1937. First diary entry, 6 May 1936, derived from UN Archives in Geneva, Pp 274, Sean Lester's Diaries, 1935-1947, see journal 1936 https://biblio-archive.unog.ch/Detail.aspx?ID=32586

Includes document written by Lester outlining the context for the file: 'The following fragments are the only notes I have of my last six months in Danzig ... The reason they are so fragmentary ... was that the crisis in Danzig developed so quickly and in such uncertainty that I could not safely keep any record of certain matters, either in my house or my Office. For three months at any rate I was not at all sure that my house and Office might not be occupied any day by the political Police or the Storm Troopers [sic].' - Document comprising of two diary entries, the first from 6 May 1936 (pages 1-3) and the second from early July 1936 (pages 4-9) combined together as a single entry. The section from 6 May 1936 is duplicated in the diary covering the period January-June 1936 in the collection [diary C1/2].

Includes diary entries (some marked 'Private Diary') from the following dates: 8, 17, [?20], 23 (two entries with this date, one titled 'Relations with Greiser'), 24, and 28 July 1936; 3, 5, 6 and 7 August 1936 (two copies); 12 September 1936; 16, 19 and 24 October 1936; 22 December 1936 and 1 February 1937. Entries were all written in Danzig apart from the final entry (1 February 1937) which was written in Geneva.

Includes undated notes on Albert Forster, the Nazi Party's Gauleiter in Danzig, that was originally filed between diary entries from 24 October 1936 and 22 December 1936, and was thus possibly written during that period.

Includes copy letters from Lester to Joseph Avenol, Secretary General of the League of Nations, from the following dates: 11, 14 and 24 July 1926; 1 August 1936 (two copies of two different letters from this date). Most of the letters are marked 'Personal', 'Personal and Confidential', or 'Personal; Secret'.

Contains the Association’s General Rules on membership, AGMs, officers, finances and standing orders.

Imprint features Theo Dorgan as host. Liam Mackey as co-host. Guests include Mulvihill, Tony Roche, Caitriona Crowe and Thomas Kilroy in a discussion about recently published science books. Leargas features a documenatary on William Rowan Hamilton. Label on outside of tape states, 'Mary Mulvihill, do not erase'.

Newspapers, magazines, postcards, flyers and other published documents mainly relating to Irish nationalism. It is possible that Kevin J Kenny worked as a commercial manager or advertising agent for some of the publications, and/or that his company, Kenny’s Press, published some of them. It is also very likely that Kevin simply collected the material in this series due to its historical significance.

Colum Kenny purchased and added some items to this series, such as item C2/1/3/13.

Includes Colum Kenny’s work on three documentaries for RTÉ and personal correspondence with various individuals relating to topics such as the media, law and Irish history.

One of the series relates to Colum’s research for a documentary about the ‘Tailor and Ansty'. The Tailor and Ansty (husband and wife Timothy [‘the Tailor’] and Anastasia ['Ansty'] Buckley) were the subjects of a book by Eric Cross about their storytelling and home in Gougane Barra, County Cork, which became a hub for notable figures of the Cork arts scene in the 1930s and 1940s. The series includes letters from Eric Cross and friends of the Tailor and Ansty including Seán Ó Faoláin and Nancy McCarthy-Allitt.

Another series (C2/3/3) relates to connections between Colum Kenny’s house, 1 Herbert Terrace, Bray, County Wicklow, and two of its former residents: Cyril Cusack and Grace Watt (née Muggeridge). This series mainly consists of correspondence between Kenny, Cusack and Watt during the early 1990s in which they reminisce about living in the house, and discuss Cusack and Watt’s personal lives.

The final series (C2/3/4) consists of the original finding aid that was included with the collection when it was donated to DCU Library by Colum Kenny on 23 November 2011. It details the original arrangement and description of the collection and was created by Kenny.

Two of the sub-series in this sub-fonds relating to Colum’s work on RTÉ television series are currently closed for access in part or in whole.

Governance, Submissions and Promotion

Guest is Evelyn Murkins.

Includes annotated material on glass making in the area. A returned questionnaire and further information from the Waterford Glass Factory and a floppy disc containing the image of Ernest Thomas Walton, the Waterford-born physicist and Nobel laureate. There is further annotated material about Walton as well as material on the Kilmeaden Steam Railway. There is also material on woodcraft along the ‘copper coast’ of the county as well as notes on chapter structure and content.

Material includes annotated information about Annie Scott Dill Maunder (née Russell), the Strabane born scientist, who was one of the leading astronomers of her time. A letter from John A Walsh (14 Aug. 1997), to Mulvihill, enclosing information and pamphlets on the Ulster American Folk Park situated near Omagh. Information on the industrial heritage of Tyrone as well as handwritten notes on the structure and content of this chapter.

Guest is Siobhan Pearse.

Includes: Letter from Sean Watts (3 May 2000), to Mulvihill, enclosing a large amount of information about The Mining Company of Ireland and the Slievardagh Collieries between 1825-1995. Material sent to Mulvihill by professor Michael G Harrington about the physiologist and biochemist, Edward Conway, who was born in Nenagh in 1916, a returned questionnaire and additional information about Mitchelstown Cave in Cahir.

A letter from Sandra Peavoy (17 Feb 1998), to Mulvihill, enclosing research material in relation to the Silvermines site in Shalee, information on Charles Bianconi, the Italian-Irish entrepreneur who became known for his innovations in transport and was twice mayor of Clonmel, in County Tipperary, as well as colour and monochrome photographs of geological features and mining shafts within the Shalee/Silvermines area.

Guest is Paddy Ashe

Contains material on the mining industry at Berehaven Mines and the Ben Bulben Barite Mine. Annotated material on George Stokes, the physicist and mathematician who was born in Skreen. Also material on the astronomer, Edward Cooper, who resided at Markree castle near Collooney.

Guest is Julia Sigwart.

The file includes annotated research on William Wilde. Wilde was a Roscommon-born ophthalmologist and author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore. He was the father of Oscar Wilde. There is also an annotated pamphlet on Lough Key Forest Park as well as material on the Famine Museum in Strokestown House. Also material on the House itself.

Guest is Gareth Dyke.

Concentrating heavily Birr Castle and the Parsons family, this file includes: A research report entitled Ladies of Birr Castle focusing on the lives of Lady Mary Ward and Lady Mary, Countess of Rosse. Both women were scientific pioneers in the nineteenth century. Annotated material from Birr Castle Demesne and the building of Parson’s Telescope, the largest telescope in the world for many years.

Annotated research material on John Joly, the Offaly born geologist, physicist and mineralogist, information on the history of distilling in Tullamore, research material on the boglands of the county and how fuel is derived for electricity.

Guests include Nigel Monaghan and Julia Sigwart.

A folder of material that includes annotated research material on Tassan Lead Mine. Annotated material on John Robert Gregg who was born in Monaghan in 1867. Gregg invented the Gregg Shorthand method of writing that was adopted by many journalists and stenographers in the twentieth century.

Guest is Julia Sigwart.

Includes: annotated supplement to Archaeology Ireland (Vol.1, No.3), which covers the archaeological engineering involved in Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth and the River Boyne. Annotated notes accompanying a chapter on Irish Stone Bridges that was published by the Irish Academic Press in 1991. Written by Peter O’Keeffe and Tom Simington.

Colour photograph of Passage Grave at Newgrange. Information on mining in Meath and annotated notes on Francis Beaufort, the hydrographer and inventor of the Beaufort Scale. Annotated material on the practice of Ballooning in Meath, as well as notes on chapter structure.

Guest is Declan Murray.

Includes: Letter from Margaret Gallagher (3 Sept. 2002) to Mulvihill, enclosing a map of Ballycroy National Park, the area of which is marked by blue and green colours and annotated by Mulvihill, correspondence to Mulvihill from Duchas, the Irish Heritage Service, supplying information about the Cong Canal and National Parks within the county of Mayo. Returned and annotated questionnaire from the Ceide Fields Visitor Centre.

Proposal for a survey of Clare Island, published by the Royal Irish Academy and annotated by Mulvihill, information on Foxford Woollen Mills and Knock Folk Museum. Returned questionnaire, brochure and annotated notes on Doon Archaeological and Nature Peninsula.

Guest is Eimear Walsh.

Guest is Eimear Walsh.

Memorial card commemorating the death of Kevin J Kenny. Kevin died on 14 September 1954 in the Bon Secours nursing home, Glasnevin, Dublin.

Includes: annotated material on the Boyne Viaduct and Louth-born explorer, Francis Leopold McClintock, annotated material on Alexander Mitchell, a civil engineer and the original patent holder for screw-piles and moorings that were used in shipping. Annotated material on John MacNeill, the Dundalk-born engineer, inventor and architect, a map of County Louth and a photograph from the National Library of Ireland displaying an image of the Boyne Viaduct. Written notes and chapter structure by Mulvihill.

Consists of two sub-series. The first relates to personal mementoes such as newspaper cuttings, cards and photographs relating to various events in Kevin J Kenny’s life. The second sub-series relates to the Battle of Gallipoli and includes British Army transcribed signals from the front. These signals may have been written by John Murphy, Annette Kenny’s (née Murphy) brother and Kevin J Kenny’s brother-in-law.

Sub-fonds consists of a few items relating to Michael B Kenny’s career in advertising. These include a brief history of the Kenny’s Advertising Agency written by Michael, and two photographs: one of the Council of the Advertising/Press Club in 1956 or 1957, and the other of the Kenny’s Advertising Agency premises at Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. Sub-fonds also includes a short biography of Michael [?written by his son Colum Kenny].

Mainly consists of correspondence between Kenny and a number of individuals involved in a documentary researched and presented by Colum Kenny for RTÉ television about 'The Tailor and Ansty’ (husband and wife Timothy [‘the Tailor’] and Anastasia ['Ansty'] Buckley). The Tailor and Ansty were the subjects of a book by Eric Cross about their storytelling and home in Gougane Barra, County Cork, which became a hub for notable figures of the Cork arts scene in the 1930s and 1940s such as writers Frank O'Connor and Seán Ó Faoláin, sculptor Seamus Murphy, students of the Irish language, and folklorists. The book was published in 1942 and banned soon after. The RTÉ documentary included interviews with Cross, Ó Faoláin, and the Tailor and Ansty's close friend Nancy McCarthy-Allitt, and recounted the aftermath of the banning; including an episode when the Tailor was forced by three priests to burn a copy of the Eric Cross book in his fireplace. The documentary also included dramatised accounts of debates which took place in Seanad Éireann in December 1942 following the banning of the book. The RTÉ documentary was broadcast on 31 October 1978.

File consists of seven letters (dated 16 July 1978; 20 August 1978; 16 September [1978]; 1 October 1978; 7 November 1978; 18 December 1978; and 1 May 1980). McCarthy-Allitt was interviewed by Kenny for the documentary in 1978 and the letters concern her memories of her close friends Timothy (‘the Tailor’) and Anastasia ('Ansty') Buckley, arrangements for the interview, her praise for the finished documentary and Kenny's professionalism, and reaction to the documentary from customers in her chemist shop in Douglas, Cork. Other notable friends of McCarthy-Allitt mentioned in the letters include Seán O’Faoláin, Frank O’Connor and Seamus Murphy. File also includes a poem by O’Connor, 'In Memory of Timothy Buckley "The Tailor"', in McCarthy-Allitt's handwriting.

Some of the corresponding letters from Colum Kenny to McCarthy-Allitt are available in the Nancy McCarthy Collection, Archives Service, UCC Library, University College Cork.

WITS is a voluntary, independent organisation advocating, connecting and acting for women to be full and vital participants in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). As a founder of WITS in 1990, Mulvihill was central to the organisation’s vision and overall aims. She also played a vital role in highlighting the often neglected role of women in the history of Irish science. This series of papers comprises of several sub-series detailing the various structures, governance, publications, correspondence and outreach of WITS from its foundation to its contemporary achievements.

First CD provides digital imagery for the book and is accompanied by a letter from Linda Montgomery (28 Oct. 2008) of Trinity College, providing permission for use. Inscription on second CD-ROM states that it holds footage from the launch of Lab coats and Lace at the 2009 Dublin Book Festival.

Letters, programmes and reports from various organisations with ties to the European Union or European funding.
Includes: Letter from JTH Stewart (Commission of European Communities) to Mulvihill (27 March 1991) approving financial contributions to a WITS seminar to be held in Dublin late that year, invitation and subsequent conference report to the WITEC-UETP (Women in Technology in the European Community-University Enterprise Training Partnership) conference in Dublin Castle, 2-4 May 1991, WITEC document, Gender Issues in Technology - Guidelines for Action, a document outlining COMETT, the European Commission’s programme for high-level technology training.

Letters, newspaper cuttings and published material relating to the granting of a contract to publish army recruitment advertisements to Kenny’s Advertising Agency on behalf of the British government. This episode appears to have caused a significant amount of discussion and controversy in various newspapers and publications of the day, and was also discussed by Laurence Ginnell MP during a debate in the British House of Commons.

Sub-series consists of printed personal note from Major-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, British Army transcribed signals from the first day of Battle of Gallipoli, and correspondence between the Imperial War Museum and Colum Kenny regarding the transcribed signals and recruitment advertisements (see sub-series C2/1/1/2). Some of the signals are signed 'J Murphy' who Colum Kenny suggested may have been Jack (John) Murphy, brother of Annette Kenny (née Murphy), Kevin J Kenny's wife. This could possibly explain how the signals came to form part of the collection.

Newman replies to a letter from Kenny, which had included a copy of a book by Alan Watts [according to Colum Kenny, the book was most likely Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal (1974). Kenny sent Newman the letter and book in response to some reported comments made by Newman. The letter from Newman discusses Catholic attitudes to sex and warns Kenny about Alan Watts' writings on religion: 'I would like to warn you against getting too involved in that kind of literature'. According to Colum Kenny, Bishop Newman spoke about contraception and the relationship between church and state in an RTÉ interview broadcast on 30 March 1976.

Two typed and signed letters from Cusack to Kenny dated 17 September and 4 October 1990. Cusack writes from London where he is acting [in a production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Royal Court Theatre] and thanks Kenny for passing on a letter from Grace Watt (née Muggeridge), and for Kenny’s invitation to visit his house in Bray (1 Herbert Terrace). The Muggeridge family had lived in the house in the 1920s, and Cusack and his mother had lived with them for two to three years around 1922. Cusack discusses his recent attempt at writing an autobiography and remembers Grace and the Muggeridge family fondly.

The original finding aid arranges the collection into three parts focussing on Kevin J Kenny, Michael B Kenny and Colum Kenny respectively, as with this present finding aid. The arrangement of the sub-series and descriptions differ mostly, but some have been maintained.

Miscellaneous research material covering the county of Armagh. The material includes returned questionnaires, letters, pamphlets, tourist brochures and official publications submitted to Mulvihill by scientific organisations within the county. Many of the clippings and photocopies are annotated by Mulvihill as part of her structural approach to Ingenious Ireland. Includes: a letter from Eamon Rafferty, Secretary of the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (13 Jan 1997), to Mulvihill, enclosing a photograph of the institution. Colour and monochrome photographs of scientific instruments held at the Observatory and pre-printed journal articles from the Observatory relating to Meterology and Climate.

Information from the Lough Neagh Discovery Centre in Craigavon including several pamphlets published by the Centre. A letter from Dr Greer Ramsay, the Deputy Curator of the Armagh County Museum (24 April 1997), to Mulvihill, enclosing information and a completed questionnaire about the institution, an annotated copy of a journal article about the Breens of Armagh, a family of astronomers that lived in the 19th century.

Contains the programme 12 to 1. Mulvihilll discusses women in business. The panel includes Anne Harper and Kathy Monks.

Interview with Gill Samuels (Pfizer) on working with WITS (Women in Technology and Science) on Newstalk FM (14 Dec. 2003). Interview with Samuels by RTE's Pat Kenny (15/16 Dec. 2003). Also interviews with the Morning Ireland radio show (RTE) (15 Nov. 2003) and Spin 103FM (15 Nov. 2003)

Mulvihill's audio documentary about the science of time.

Includes four '"C" Form[s], Messages and Signals' [transcribed signals] relating to units of the 86th Brigade who would have been on active service as part of the 29th Division on the Gallipoli peninsula in April 1915 [see file C2/1/2/2/3 for further context]. The forms include handwritten signals in pencil, with messages such as: 'Send reinforcements. Urgently required. I have no men.'; 'I am unable to hold out. Send reinforcements. Urgent.' and 'No answer to last message. The wire must be cut. I have sent patrol. Firing is very near.'

Some of the signals are signed 'J Murphy' who Colum Kenny suggested may have been Kevin J Kenny's brother-in-law, Jack (John) Murphy.

Series relates to three RTÉ television documentaries that Colum Kenny worked on as a researcher and producer. One of the sub-series relates to a documentary titled ‘The Tailor and Ansty’, broadcast in October 1978, and includes numerous letters from Seán Ó Faoláin, Eric Cross, and Nancy McCarthy-Allitt.

The other two sub-series relate to a documentary on the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake and a Frontline television programme on the sale of old national schools in the Beara Peninsula respectively. The sub-series on the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake is currently closed for access, while part of the sub-series on the Frontline programme is currently closed.

Includes copies of private correspondence written by various individuals relating to the complaint made by Father Clifford to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission in November 1980. This material is currently closed and access will be reviewed in 2049.

WITS Organisation, Structures and Administration

Details of the activities planned by the organisation for the initial years of its existence. Membership, projects, fundraising, publications, policy documents, seminars and regional meetings. Also includes the Minutes of the first meeting of the WITS Committee at Trinity College, Dublin (17 November 1990), a letter from Mulvihill to WITS members informing them about the organisation’s first AGM. The AGM was held in Dublin City University on the 14 November 1992. Members of the WITS Committee, 1992-1993.

Includes: delegates from WITS and VHTO (Dutch organisation for the promotion of women in SET) in Athens in June 1999, members at a Networking the Networks event in Brussels during 1999, WITS Role Model Day at Colaiste Dhulaigh in Coolock, Dublin in 2003 and the Launch of the Role Model Days book and CD-ROM in 2004.

Researched and presented by Mulvihill. Produced by Peter Mooney. Guests include Lord Rosse and Bernard Lovell.

File reflects Mulvihill’s work and interest in science communication and science related public relations. It includes: an itinerary and notes for a 1 day course in DCU entitled Media Skills for Scientists that was held there on 5 June 1997. Mulvihill was a speaker and her notes and speech are present. Workshops written by Mulvihill entitled Making News and Hitting the Headlines and Updated and Alert. A Media Training Session entitled Telling Your Story, that was written by Mulvihill and held on 10 January 2000. Also, handwritten ideas and notes about communicating successfully within the media and academia.

Writing and Telling the Weather Workshop from October 2011. Mulvihill wrote and presented this workshop. Also, a Media Interview Skills Workshop that Mulvihill attended on 31 January 2012. Printed handouts, slideshow and evaluations from the Rough Guide to Communicating Science seminar. It was written and presented by Mulvihill in May 2013. A booklet from the European Commission entitled Communicating Science (Luxembourg, 2006).

Card includes Kenny's address and other details: '279 North Circular Road, Dublin. Retailer: Geo Ed [?George Edward] Kelly, 348 N.C. Rd. [North Circular Road]. No. of persons: Eleven.'

Hand-drawn design on a scrap of torn paper. Subtitle included in the design describes the periodical as 'Ireland’s best story paper'. Part of what appears to be a printed letter is visible on the reverse of the page and is signed off with the printed name 'T.M. Kettle' [Thomas Michael Kettle].

Photocopy of a single-page handwritten note. Photocopy includes an inscription by Colum Kenny with regard to the handwritten note that reads: ‘This is in the handwriting of my late father, Michael B. Kenny.’

Handwritten and typed diary entries relating to Lester's time as High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig. Includes telegram from Bishop Edward O'Rourke, Catholic Bishop of Danzig, to Lester dated 17 March 1936 with best wishes for St Patrick's Day, and letter from the Danzig Police President dated 21 March 1936, inviting Lester to the opening of the Danzig Trophy Show.

Diary 2 PDF

Recommendations to State Bodies. Includes: submission to the Department of Education on the Green Paper Education for a Changing World by WITS (.1991), Women in Technology and Science Submission to the Second Commission on the Status of Women (1991), a WITS submission to the Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (April 1994) and a submission to a Green Paper on Social Policy (.1994).

Several documents relating to a forum held in Dublin on 11 December 2003 called Getting the Balance Right in Irish Science, Engineering and Technology. The guest speaker at the forum was Dr Gill Samuels, the Director of Science Policy at Pfizer Global Research Laboratories. Includes correspondence between Samuels and Mulvihill, as well as correspondence between Samuels and Tanaiste (Deputy PM) Mary Harney about speaking at the WITS organised forum.

Guest is Julia Sigwart.

Form relates to the importation of a '[s]tandard 10 h.p. de luxe saloon [?motor car] by John G McEntagart, Director and Secretary, McEntagart Brothers Limited’. Some of the entries in the form are filled in with typed and handwritten text.

It is likely that this car was purchased by Kevin J Kenny from McEntagart Brothers Limited.

One folder of research material on County Longford. Includes annotated material relating to the red squirrel population in the county and the efforts to stop the invasive grey species. Several annotated pieces about Richard Lovell Edgeworth, the well-known politician, writer and inventor. He was also the father of Irish author, Maria Edgeworth.