Item category 1: Local Studies

"Copies of all correspondence which has taken place between the Irish government, and the governors or officers of the Belfast Lunatic Asylum, respecting the case of Robert Breakey, sent to the Asylum, by order of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, from the gaol of the county of Down, in April 1836;...

In March, 1940, the valley of the River Liffey began to be flooded as a result of the construction of the Poulaphuca Dam. This book marks the 75th anniversary of the event by collecting together the living memories of some of the people who lived through the traumatic transition from land to lake.