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1903-34 letters from Frances Sheehy Skeffington, e

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1903-34 letters from Frances Sheehy Skeffington, Oliver Gogarty, Thomas Kettle, Tim Healy, John A. Costello, William T. Cosgrave and others to Hugh Kennedy.

Provenance: Hugh Kennedy; thence by descent

Ms letter from F. Sheehy Skeffington to Hugh Kennedy 28.ix.1903; ms letter from F. Sheehy Skeffington to Hugh Kennedy 7.ix. 1903, on University College Dublin notepaper; ms letter from Oliver Gogarty to Hugh Kennedy 11.vi.1896 sympathising on the death of H.K.'s mother; letter from Thomas Kettle to H.K. 1903, letter advises on literary activity; two signed letters from Tim Healy to Hugh Kennedy on Vice- Regal Lodge notepaper, letters dated 14.7.1923 and 7.9.1926; letter from Dermod O'Brien to H. Kennedy 28.xii.1934 relating to a gift of a reproduction painting from O'Brien. [D. O'Brien was President of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Art and was a distinguished landscape painter in his own right];signed formal acknowledgement of letter of sympathy from Darrell Figgis to Hugh Kennedy; dated 24.xi.1924; letter from P. McGilligan to H. Kennedy 28.x.1934; [McGilligan was Minister of Industry and Commerce in the Free State government from 1924 and succeeded on the assassination of Kevin O'Higgins to the latter's post; in this letter McGilligan pours out profuse thanks to Kennedy for backing his successful attempt to become Professor of Law at University College Dublin; letter from John A. Costello to H.K. Christmas Eve 1914; letter from William T. Cosgrave to Mrs Kennedy 11.iii.1936; Cosgrave discusses the gift of a silver snuff box left to him in H.K.'s Will.; Letter from Lord Glenavy to H.K. no date, prompting Kennedy to invite Lord Birkenhead, former Lord Chancellor of England, to the opening of the rebuilt Four Courts; Glenavy was the last Lord Chief Justice under the British system in Ireland. He then served as the first chair or Cathaoirleach of the Irish Senate and he presided over the committee which helped to establish the new Irish Courts of Justice. (11 items)

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