Bowman - Ireland: the autobiography: eyewitness accounts of Irish life since 1916

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A countryman (Match-making, 1940): Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball, Family and Community in Ireland (second edition, Harvard University Press, 1868, pp. 1068). Permission granted, copyright 1940, 1968 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Advertisement (The School for Farmers Daughters, 1917): Catholic Bulletin, Vol. II, No. 4, April 1917.

Allen, Myrtle: Sunday Times magazine, c. MayJune 1994. Permission granted by the author.

Ambrose, Alfred: Wardens Report, Belfast Blitz, 1516 April 1941, PRONI T3756. Permission granted by the Deputy Keeper of Records, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

An Irish Correspondent: Spectator, 6 June 1925. Permission granted courtesy of the Spectator.

An Irishmans diary: Irish Times, 12 December 1939. Permission granted Irish Times.

Andrews, C. S.: Administration, Spring 1953, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 379. Permission granted by the Institute of Public Administration.

Andrews, Rachel: Dublin Review, No. 39, Summer 2010, pp. 2842. Permission granted by the author.

Anonymous(Witch-finders and orthodoxy-mongers, 1950): Letter to Eamon de Valera, 2 July 1950, Samus Fitzgerald Papers, Cork Archives Institute, PR/6/349. Permission granted by Brian McGee, Cork City and County Archivist.

Binchy, Maeve: Mary Kenny, Goodbye to Catholic Ireland (New Island, 2000, pp. 3257). Permission granted by Gordon Snell and by Christine Green on behalf of the estate of Maeve Binchy.

Blair, May: Hiring Fairs and Market Places (Appletree Press, 2007, pp. 1768). Permission granted by Appletree Press.

Boland, Eavan: Object Lessons (Carcanet Press, 2006, pp. ixxvi). Permission granted by Carcanet Press Limited and W. W. Norton Publishers.

Bowen, Elizabeth (1916): The Shelbourne (George Harrap, 1951, pp. 1517). Permission granted by Curtis Brown (UK) as agents for the author.

Bowen, Elizabeth (1940): Report to British Ministry of Information, 9 November 1940, National Archives (UK), Halifax Papers FO800/310. Permission contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0. Permission granted courtesy of the National Archives (UK).

Boyce, James: Spectator, 6 October 1966. Permission granted courtesy of the Spectator.

Breen, Suzanne: Sunday Tribune, 5 October 2008. Permission granted by the author.

Broy, Eamon: Eamon Broy, Military Archives, Ireland, BMH WS 1280, pp. 97100. Permission granted by the Military Archives.

Burke, Thomas: Clare Champion, 15 January 1948.

Cabinet Paper (1920): Note of W. E. Wylies testimony on Ireland to British Cabinet, 23 July 1920, National Archives (UK), CAB 24/109 CP1683. Permission contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0. Permission granted courtesy of the National Archives (UK).

Casement, Tom: Letter to J. C. Smuts, 1 February 1921, Smuts Papers, Vol. 208/40, National Archives of South Africa. Permission granted by the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa.

Charlie (A Black and Tan writes to his mother, 1920): Letter to his mother, 16 December 1920, intercepted and in Florence ODonoghue Papers, NLI MS 31,226. Permission granted courtesy of the National Library of Ireland.

Childers, Erskine: Letter to Molly Childers, 2024 November 1922, Childers Papers, TCD MS 7855/1301. Permission granted courtesy of the Board of Trinity College Dublin.

Clery, Arthur: Studies, Vol. X, No. 37, 1921, pp. 54452. Permission granted by Bruce Bradley, SJ, on behalf of the publication.

Collins, Michael: Dil Debate on the Treaty, 19 December 1921, pp. 3036. Republished under Oireachtas Adapted PSI Licence.

Connolly, Nora: Nora Connolly-OBrien, Military Archives, Ireland, BMH WS 286, pp. 5054. Permission granted by the Military Archives.

Conway, Cardinal William: Memo to Hierarchy, 30 September 1969, McQuaid Papers, Dublin Diocesan Archives, DDA/AB8/XV/C/112. Permission granted by Dr Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin.

Coyne, T. J.: Department of Justice meeting minute, 19 September 1939, NAI D/JUS 4/27/44. Permission granted courtesy of the National Archives of Ireland.

Cronin, Anthony: Dead as Doornails (Lilliput Press, 1999, pp. 1037). Reprinted by kind permission of the Lilliput Press, Dublin.

Cronin, Michael: Dublin Review of Books, Issue 36, 4 June 2013. Permission granted by the Dublin Review of Books.

Cunningham, Michael, Joe Devlin, David Lloyd George and Edward Carson: Sequence of letters commencing 29 October 1920, Parliamentary Archives, Lloyd George Papers, LG/F/15/1/1. Permission contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0. Permission granted courtesy of the National Archives (UK).

Curran, C. P.: Studies, Vol. XV, No. 58, June 1926, pp. 299308. Permission granted by Bruce Bradley, SJ, on behalf of the publication.

Curran, Monsignor Michael J.: Michael J. Curran, Military Archives, Ireland, BMH WS 687, pp. 3740. Permission granted by the Military Archives.

Curtayne, Alice, and John Rowe: Capuchin Annual (1933), pp. 748. Permission granted courtesy of the Provincial Archivist, Capuchin Friary, Dublin.

de Valera, Eamon (1943): Maurice Moynihan (ed.), Speeches and Statements by Eamon de Valera 19711973 (Gill and Macmillan, 1980, pp. 4669).

de Valera, Eamon (A Reply to Winston Churchill, 1945): Maurice Moynihan (ed.), Speeches and Statements by Eamon de Valera 19711973 (Gill and Macmillan, 1980, pp. 47077).

de Valera, Eamon (A Catholic Nation, 1945): Advice to Irish diplomatic corps, 11 September 1945, UCDA, de Valera Papers, P150/2701. Permission granted courtesy of University College Dublin Archives.

Dempsey, Michael: Michael Dempsey, Military Archives, Ireland, BMH WS 1499, p. 1. Permission granted by the Military Archives.

Department of External Affairs memo: 30 December 1947, D/TSCH 3 / S 11582B. Permission granted courtesy of the National Archives of Ireland.

Devlin, Bernadette: The Price of My Soul