Archives in the United States

Archives in the United States which may be of use to scholars of Irish Studies.  Please use the links provided to make contact with the archives before planning a research trip.

New York University

The Archives of Irish America
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/

Contains:
One of the largest collections of Irish-American material in the world.  Full list of collections available at http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fa_index.html#aia

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Boston College

John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
http://libguides.bc.edu/burnsresearch

Contains:
Congressional Archives
Irish Book Collection
Irish Manuscript Collection
Irish Music Archives

Points to note:
Limited dining options
Long journey on "T" system if you stay in downtown Boston
Quite cool inside the library during the summer months, bring a sweater.

See also Irish Studies Portal Page http://libguides.bc.edu/irishportal
Irish Music Archives http://libguides.bc.edu/irishmusicarchives
Access restriction information www.bc.edu/holmes


Keywords: 
W.B. Yeats / Robert Drinan / Tip O'Neill / Land League / Parnell

University of Kansas

Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Irish Collections
1450 Poplar Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045
http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/collections/special-collections/irish

Contains:
James F. Spoerri Collection of James Joyce
P.S. O'Hegarty Collection
W.B. Yeats Collection

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Emory University

Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL)
Woodruff Library
540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322
http://marbl.library.emory.edu

Contains:
Abbey Theatre Collection
Samuel Beckett Collection
Ciaran Carson Papers
Brian Coffey Papers
Cuala Press Collection
Peter Fallon Collection
John Wilson Foster Papers
Brian Friel Collection
Maud Gonne Collection
Gregory Family Papers
Seamus Heaney Collection
Thomas Kinsella papers
Louis MacNeice Collection
Derek Mahon Papers
Medbh McGuckian Papers
Ronald Schuchard Papers
W.B. Yeats Collection

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Penn State University

Special Collections Library
104 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/speccolls.html

Contains:
Lady Gregory Letters
George Moore Papers
Bernard Shaw Papers
J.B. Yeats Letter
W.B. Yeats Letters

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Keywords:
Literature / Yeats / Butler

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Morris Library, Special Collections Research Center
605 Agriculture Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901
http://lib.siu.edu/scrc

Contains:
Records of Envoy
James Joyce Papers
Papers of Lennox Robinson
Correspondence of Conal O'Connell O'Riordan
The Holy Door literary magazine
Papers of Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Letters of Nancy Cunard
Correspondence of Black List, Section H (1971), Victors and Vanquished (1959)
Papers of Mary Lavin

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Keywords:
Maud Gonne / George Moore /  Compton Mackenzie / Liam O'Flaherty / Brian Lynch / Abbey Theatre 

University of Texas

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
300 West 21st street, Austin, TX 78712
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu

Contains:
Samuel Beckett Collection
James Joyce Collection
Bernard Shaw Collection
Oscar Wilde Collection
W.B. Yeats Collection

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University of Delaware

Morris Library, Special Collections
181 South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19717
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/

Contains:
AE (George William Russell) Papers
Kay Boyle Papers
Padraic Colum Papers
Lord Dunsany Papers
Oliver St John Gogarty Papers
Lady Gregory Letters
Rudi Holzapfel Papers
George Moore Letters
Sean O'Casey Papers
Sean O' Faolain Papers
Raven Arts Press Records
Katharine Tynan Papers
Ulster Literary Theatre Playscripts
J.B. Yeats Papers
W.B. Yeats Papers

Wake Forest University

Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Special Collections and Archives
1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106
http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/

Contains:
Dolmen Press Collection
Liam Miller Personal papers

Points to note:
Wake Forest offers grant funding for visiting researchers, please visit http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/grant/ for more information

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Washington University in St Louis

Department of Special Collections
1 Brookings Drive, St Louis, MO 63130
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/

Contains:
Samuel Beckett Papers
George Moore Papers
George Bernard Shaw Collection

University of Washington

Special Collections
Allen Library South (Basement), University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195
http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/hours/specialcollections

Contains:
J.M. Hone letters
Barrett Harper Clark script collection

Points to note:
Late opening Tuesday and Wednesday

Keywords:
George Moore / Lady Gregory

University of Oregon

Special Collections and University Archives
Knight Library, 2nd Floor North, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html

Contains:
Lowell Brentano Papers
Charles Wellington Furlong Papers

Points to note:
All requests must be written, emailed or faxed
Off-site items can take 2 weeks

Keywords:
George Bernard Shaw / T.E. Lawrence

Montana Historical Society Collections

Research Center
225 N. Roberts Street, Helena MT 59620
http://mhs.mt.gov

Contains:
Thomas Francis Meagher Papers

University of California, Berkeley

Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley CA 94720
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

Contains:
W.B. Yeats Letters

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Keywords:
Abbey Theatre / Winston Churchill / Lady Gregory / George Bernard Shaw

Stanford University

Special Collections and University Archives
Cecil H. Green Library, Bing Wing, 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford CA 94305
http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Contains:
James A. Healy Papers
Bertha June (Richardson) Lucas Papers
Anne Hadden Papers

Points to note:
Allow 2 business days for material

Keywords:
Seumas McManus / George Moore / James Joyce / Liam O'Flaherty / Frank O'Connor / Seumas O'Sullivan

Mills College 

F.W. Olin Library
5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613
http://www.mills.edu/academics/library/special_collections/

Contains:
W.B. Yeats Letters

Points to note:
Applications in advance necessary

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University of California, Santa Barbara

Davidson Library (centre of UCSB campus, off UCEN Road)
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections

Contains:
Ballitore Family Papers
Mary Leadbeater Papers
Rom Landau Correspondence

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Keywords:
Book of Kells / George Bernard Shaw / Cecil Day-Lewis

Henry E. Huntingdon Library

1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
http://www.huntington.org

Contains:
James Starkey (Seumas O'Sullivan) Letters
Edward Dowden Papers
Charlotte Bronte Papers
James I Speech
Dorothea Jordan Letters

Points to note:
Closed Tuesday

Keywords:
King William IV / Thomas Moore

Arizona Historical Society

949 Second Street, Tucson, AZ 85719
http://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org

Contains:
Eileen Walsh Papers
 - http://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/upLoads/library_Walsh-MaryE.pdf

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University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
1000 E. University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071
http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/

Contains:
Papers of Grahame Brooke Ridley

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Keywords:
World War II


Colorado College
Tutt Library, Special Collections
1021 North Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/library/index.php/SpecialCollections

Contains:
Letters of Sinton, O'Brien and Greeves families

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University of Texas
Harry Ranson Center
300 West 21st Street, Austin, TX 78712
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu

Contains:
Frank Harris Papers
Katharine Tynan Hickson Papers
James Joyce Papers
George Moore Papers
George Bernard Shaw Papers
W.B. Yeats Papers
Oscar Wilde Papers
Lord Byron Papers
Charles Dickens Papers
RIchard Garnett Papers
Edward Dowden Papers
Sir Edmund William Gosse Papers
Letters of Liam O'Flaherty
Algernon Charles Swinburn Papers
Joseph Gustave Rountree papers

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North Texas State University Archives
Archives and Rare Books, 1155 Union Circle, Denton, TX 76203
http://www.library.unt.edu/archives-and-rare-books

Contains:
Papers of Alvin Mansfield Owsley

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University of Arkansas
Special Collections, University of Arkansas Library, 130 Mullins Library, Fayetteville AR 72701
http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/default.asp

Contains:
Papers of Arthur Swinnerton

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Mississippi Department of Archives and History
William F. Winter Archives and History Building, 200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201
http://mdah.state.ms.us/new/

Contains:
Correspondence of T.J. Kogar


Louisiana State University
Special Collections, Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA 70803
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/

Contains:
Papers of the Egglecton and associated families


University of New Orleans
Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans, LA 70148
http://library.uno.edu/specialcollections/lacol_index.cfm

Contains:
Papers of Dart and Dart law firm of New Orleans

Keywords:
Land


Nebraska State Historical Society
1500 R Street, Lincoln NE 68501
http://www.nebraskahistory.org/oversite/research.htm

Contains:
Ancient Order of Hibernians Papers
Murphy family papers


University of Minneapolis
Special Collections and Rare Books, 111 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455
https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm

Contains:
Guthrie Theatre Archive
Papers of Savel Zimand


Minnesota Historical Society
345 Kellogg Blvd. West, St Paul, MN 55102
http://www.mnhs.org

Contains:
Christie family papers
Papers of Patrick H. Rahilly


Iowa State Historical Department
State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Division of Historical Museum and Archives, 600 East Locust, Des Moines, IA 50319
http://www.iowahistory.org

Contains:
Papers of William Williams

Keywords:
Irish Republican Union


The University of Iowa
100 Main Library, Iowa City, IA 52242
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/

Contains:
Papers of Edmund Charles Blunden
Papers of George Sylvester Viereck
Papers of Samuel Carter Hall and Anna Marie Fielding Hall


Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
210 Parkside Drive, West Branch IA
http://www.hoover.archives.gov

Contains:
Alice Park Collection

Keywords:
Suffrage movement

Henry Shelton Sanford Memorial Library
Sanford Museum, Recreation Department, City of Sanford, PO Box 1788 Sanford, FL 32772
OR: 520 East First Street, Sanford FL 32771
http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=456

Contains:
Correspondence re Roger Casement and the Congo

Points to note:
The status of this facility is unclear from an internet search.  Please check ahead!

Keywords:
Casement / Congo

University of Florida
Special and Area Studies Collections, University of Florida Library, Gainesville, FL 32611
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/

Contains:
John Wilson Croker letters
Jon Silkin Letters

Keywords:
Thomas Moore, Thomas Casey, Cecil Day-Lewis

South Carolina Historical Society
100 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29401
http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org

Contains:
Journal of tour in Ireland

University of South Carolina
South Carolinian Library, College at Sumter Street, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208
http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/rarebook.html

Contains:
Diary of George McMaster
Rev. John Bannon papers
Davison McDowell papers

Keywords:
Confederacy, civil war, Thomas Kirkpatrick, travel

East Carolina University
Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/specialcollections.cfm

Contains:
Papers of Frank C. Salisbury

Keywords:
Irish and Civil War songs

North Carolina State Archives
109 E. Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
http://www.ncdcr.gov/archives/Home.aspx

Contains:
Papers of Arthur Dobbs

Keywords:
Governor

University of North Carolina
Louis Round Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
http://www2.lib.unc.edu/wilson/

Contains:
Papers of Samuel Armanie Byrd
Papers of Desmond Clarke
Papers of the McGavock family
Diaries of Samuel Jordan Wheeler
Diary of Thomas O'Dwyer
Papers of Isaac Melson Meekins
Papers of Brownrigg family
Papers of John C. Devereux
Papers of the Hughes family
Papers of Andrew J. Sproul
Letters of Ephraim Steele
Papers of Lewis Neale Whittle

Keywords:
Confederate Army / Georgia / Ohio / Shippers registrars / Jamaica / Republican Party / Arthur Dobbs / Joyce

Duke University
Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, 103 Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/

Contains:
Diary of John Long
Papers of H.L. Mencken
Letters to Lord Angelsey
Papers of Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew
Papers of Frederick William Chesson
Papers of Sir Henry William Primrose
British political papers (1628-1915)
Papers of John Wilson Croker
Papers of John Bligh
Correspondence of Sir William Henry Dillon
Papers of Sir Edmund William Gosse
Papers of the McCullogh family
Papers of the Hutchison family
Papers of Zachariah Johnston
Correspondence of George McCartney
Papers of the McMullen family
Papers of Henry Dundas 1st Viscount Melville
Correspondence of Lord Midleton
Correspondence of Sir Robert Peel
Papers of Lord John Russell
Papers of George Townshend, 1st Marquis Townshend

Keywords:
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Irish politics, Irish economy, army, foreign affairs, military affairs, China, Madras, Cape of Good Hope, linen, George Moore, navy, Catholic Emancipation, elections, John Wilson Croker, Richard Wellesley (2nd Earl of Mornington), Denis Kelly, Irish finance, Edmund George Petty-Fitzmaurice, Irish coast, John Bruce Richard O'Neill, Irish national theatre


East Tennessee History Center
Knox County Archives, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902
http://www.easttnhistory.org

Contains:
Papers of Hugh Graham
Papers of the Watterson family

Keywords:
Merchant, Hawkins county

Vanderbilt University
Peabody Library, Vanderbilt University, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/

Contains:
Jack Allen PhD "The diary of Randal William McGavock, 1852-62"

Keywords:
Tenth Tennessee Infantry "fighting Irish"

Disciples of Christ Historical Society
1101 19th Avenue South, Nashville TN 37212
http://www.discipleshistory.org/research-reference

Contains:
Papers of Alva Wilmot Taylor

Keywords:
1910 tour

Filson Historical Society
1310 South Third Street, Louisville, KY40208
http://filsonhistorical.org

Contains:
Preson family genealogical collection

Indiana University
Lilly Library, 1200 East Seventh Street, Bloomington IN, 47405
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/

Contains:
Half leaf of Bede, Hist. Ecclesiastica

Purdue University
Purdue University Library, Stewart Center 428, 504 West State Street, West Lafayette IN, 47907
http://www.lib.purdue.edu

Contains:
Manuscript of A.J. Cronin's The Green Years

University of Illinois
University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1408 West Gregory Drive, MC-522, Urbana IL 61801
http://www.library.illinois.edu

Contains:
S. Brandanus: Orationes

Illinois State Historical Library / Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
112 North Sixth Street, Springfield, IL 62701
http://www.alplm.org

Contains:
Papers of Benjamin P. Hinch
Papers of the King family

Keywords:
St Francisville, Louisiana / rioting

University of Chicago
Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/

Contains:
Vitae Sanctorum
Notebooks of John D'Alton
Life of Christ in Irish
Keating's Forus feasa ar Eirinn
Commonplace book i nIrish
Papers of Amy Bonner
Correspondence of Sir Percy W. Bunting
Correspondence of Poetry magazine
Letters of Adam Clarke
Letters of Theodore Edward Hook
Embassada al roy de Fez y Marruecos par Juan Enr. Torley
William Spencer collection

Keywords:
George Bernard Shaw / Padraic Colum / Feidhlim O'Neill / Charles J.P. O'Gorman Mahon / French history / John Wilson Croker / poverty / peasantry / Admiral Gardner

Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610
http://www.newberry.org

Contains:
Visio S. Adamnani
De tribus habitaculis
Alcuin's letters
Papers of Augustine Joseph Bowe
Navigatio Brendani

Keywords:
Oliver St John Gogarty

Chicago Historical Society Library
Chicago History Museum, 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago IL 60614
http://chicagohistory.org/research

Contains:
Records of the Irish Fellowship CLub of Chicago 1910-1965
Papers of John Fitzpatrick

Keywords:
Irish freedom movement / Eamon de Valera / William T. Cosgrave / Liam Cosgrave

Northwestern University
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library, 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston IL 60208
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/special-collections

Contains:
Papers of the Dublin Gate Theatre

St Francis Seminary
Salzmann Library, 3257 S. Lake Drive, St Francis WI 53235
http://www.sfs.edu/Salzmann

Contains:
Papers of Bernard Isaac Durward

Keywords:
Aubrey de Vere

Milwaukee Public Library
814 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee WI 53233
http://www.mpl.org

Contains:
German Stock Company, Milwaukee: Pabst German Theatre Collection

Keywords:
Shaw / Wilde

State Historical Society of Wisconsin
816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/

Contains:
Papers of George A. Garrett

Keywords:
Ambassador / Conor Maguire

University of Michigan
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Bentley Historical Library, 920 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
http://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-library

Contains:
Hopwood lectures
Papers of Hazel Littlefield Smith
Records of Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church Parish
Letters to the Monaghan family
Papers of Angela Morgan
Papers of William Marcissus Lyster

Keywords:
Mary Maguire Colum / Seumas McManus / Lord Dunsany

Michigan State University
Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI 48823
http://lib.msu.edu/spc/index/

Contains:
Papers of the Dobbins family
Papers of the Slafter family

Keywords:
Fenian Brotherhood

Oberlin College Archives
430 Mudd Center, 148 West College Street, Oberlin, OH 44074
http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/

Contains:
Papers of Wesley Frost

Keywords:
World War I / diplomat

Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland OH 44114
http://www.cpl.org

Contains:
Manuscripts relating to India

Keywords:
Lord Moria / Lord George Macartney / Duke of Wellington

Western Reserve Historical Society
10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland OH 44106
http://www.wrhs.org

Contains:
Letters of Mary Jane Blair
Records of the Goodrich Social Settlement
Papers of William Sullivan

Keywords:
Tour of Ireland / Settlement / Fenian Brotherhood / Irish Parliamentary Party / Irish-American Club Company of Cleveland / John O'Mahony

Cleveland Institute of Art
Alfred Mewett Library, Gund Library, Cleveland School of Art, 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland OH 44106
http://www.cia.edu/library

Contains:
Fragment of a Liturgy in Latin containing hymns to St Dionsius and St Gall

Malone University
Everett Cattell Library, Malone University, 2600 Cleveland Avenue NW, Canton, OH 44709
http://www.malone.edu/library/

Contains:
Correspondence of Richard Shackleton

Keywords:
Ballitore School Kildare

University of Pittsburgh
7500 Thomas Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15208
http://www.library.pitt.edu/archives-service-center

Contains:
Scrapbook concerning Gaelic Arts Society
MInutes of Court No. 9 of the Daughters of Erin
Records of the Irish Centre of Pittsburgh
Records of Court No. 9 of the Knights of Equity

Points to note:
Not present on the Oakland campus, instead take a bus from the city centre or drive.

West Virginia University
1549 University Ave, Morgantown, WV 26506
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu

Contains:
Papers of Samuel Woods

Keywords:
Daniel Nesson

University of Virginia
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, VA 22904
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/small/about/contact.html

Contains:
Papers of Alida Monro
Papers of Septimia Ann Cary Meikleham

Keywords:
Charles Stewart Parnell / Delia Tudor Stewart Parnell / Cecil Day-Lewis / Frederick Robert Higgins / Michael O'Donovan

Virginia Historical Society
PO Box 7311, Richmond, VA 23221
http://www.vahistorical.org

Contains:
Papers of Francis Williamson Smith
Papers of the Scott family
Papers of the Tompkins family

Keywords:
Travels in Ireland / John Scott, Isabella Doherty Scott

College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center, College of William and Mary, Earl Gregg Swern Library, Williamsburg, VA 23185
https://swem.wm.edu/research/special-collections

Contains:
Letters of Samuel Owens Hoffman
Thomas Smith Papers

Keywords:
Scots-Irish / migration

Folger-Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street SE, Washington DC, 20003
http://www.folger.edu

Contains:
Proclamation of Don Juan del Aguila to citizens of Cork (Latin)
Letters of Privy Council in England
Letters of Robert Bagot
Letter of Mountjoy to Essex
Letter of Sir George Cary
Document signed by T. Conyngesbye and T. Harley
Patent for Admiralty of Ireland
Letters of Queen Elizabeth
Copies of letters of Sir Francis Bacon
Letters of Earl of Essex
Papers of Augustin Daly

Keywords:
Sir Arthur Chichester / Charles I / Treasurer / Troops / Earl of Ormond / Lord Buckhurst / Nycholas Whyte / Lord Lieutenant / Earl of Lincoln / Earl of Warwick / Earl of Nottingham / Earl of Ormonde / troops for Ireland / Siege of Kinsale

National Archives and Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20408
http://www.archives.gov

Contains:
Correspondence concerning Northern Ireland
Correspondence concerning sinking of Athenia
Correspondence concerning Irish Free State
Correspondence concerning Ireland
Passenger lists of vessels arriving
Letters of Roger Casement
Papers of John Hoban
Letters from American consuls
Records of the Attorney General's Office
Papers of George Scott Stewart
Despatches from US Consuls (Dublin, Cork, Belfast)
Records of the Department of State (internal affairs of Great Britain)

Points to note:
Mainly older material in the Pennsylvania Avenue archive, newer material is in College Park.  Shuttle bus runs between two sites.

Keywords:
Northern Ireland / migration / free state / ports / famine / Findlay affair / Sinn Fein / architect / John Reilly / World War I

Library of Congress
Cooperative and Instructional Programs Division, Washington DC 20540
http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Contains:
Papers of the Arthur family
Papers of Henry Robinson Luce
Papers of William de Courcy
Papers of Charles Edward Russell
Papers of William Sampson
Papers of Arthur Huntington Gleason
Reports of Sir Henry Cavendish
Papers relating to George Bernard Shaw
Papers of Philip Henry Sheridan
Standing Orders of George Sackville
Irish Parliamentary Debates 1776-1789
Papers of John Lloyd Balderston
Papers of Clarence Seward Darrow
Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Letters of Earl George Maccartney
Correspondence of John McCormack
Halsted B. VanderPoel literary collection
Papers of Thorvald Solberg

Keywords:
Irish Republic movement / Brendan Bracken / de Courcy / Eamon de Valera / Thomas Emmet / Catherine Sampson Tone / Irish questions / House of Commons / Civil War / George Moore / John Boyle O'Reilly / Caribbee Islands / George Bernard Shaw

Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institute, 750 9th Street NW, Victor Building, Suite 2200 Washington DC 20001
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections

Contains:
Papers of Alfred Leslie
Papers of Jerome Blum
Papers of Mary Fanton Roberts

Keywords:
JB Yeats / Samuel Beckett / Padraic Colum

Catholic University of America
University Libraries, 620 Michigan Avenue NE Washington DC 20064
http://libraries.cua.edu/rarebooks/

Contains:
Dissertation by Rev. C.D. Fallon "All Hallows College: Its contribution to the Church in the United States (1842 - 1865)"
Papers relating to the Fenian Brotherhood
Letters to John O'Mahony

Franciscan Monastery
1400 Quincy Street NE Washington DC 20017
http://www.myfranciscan.org/facilities/library/

Contains:
Navigato S. Brendani

University of Maryland 
Library, College Park, MD 20742
http://www.lib.umd.edu/special

Contains:
Papers of Hubert Kelly Waldron

University of Buffalo
Special Collections, University of Buffalo Library, 420 Capen Hall, Buffalo NY 14260

Contains:
Papers relating to James Joyce

Keywords:
Sylvia Beach collection

Cornell University
Cornell University Library, 201 Olin Library, Ithaca NY 14853

Contains:
Materials relating to James Joyce
Manuscripts of George Bernard Shaw
James Joyce Collection
Scrapbook of Roland and Emily Elkus Crangle

Keywords:
Yeats / Sir George Macartney

University of Delaware
Library, 181 South College Avenue, Newark DE 19717

Contains:
Papers of Ulick O'Connor
Records of Proscenium Press
Papers of Patrick Galvin
Papers of Frank J. Hugh O'Donnell

Keywords:
Brendan Behan / Oliver St John Gogarty / Seamus Byrne / Paul Vincent Carroll / Chanticleer / Bernard Duffy

Historical Society of York County
York County Heritage Trust, 250 East Market Street, York PA 17403

Contains:
Social and Artistic history of the Scotch-Irish

Bucknell University
Bertrand Library, Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA 17837

Contains:
Papers of Oliver St John Gogarty
Records of the Shaw Society of America

Keywords:
Abbey Theatre / AE / Lord Dunsany

Penn State University
510 Paterno Library, University Park PA

Contains:
Irish family papers
Papers of the Carvill family
Papers of Eva Gore-Booth
Papers of the Harene family
Legal papers of Dennis Macgillycuddy
Papers of Lord Mount-Temple

Dickinson College
Waidner-Spahr Library, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA 17013

Contains:
Daniel O'Connell letter

Pennsylvania State Archives
350 North Street, Harrisburg PA 17120

Contains:
Papers of the Brady family

University of Pennsylvania
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th Floor, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104

Contains:
Papers of Sir George Macartney
Papers of Ada Rahan
Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Letters to Isaac Wayne
Thomas de Hibernia

Haverford College Library
370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford PA 19041

Contains:
Papers of the Carleton, Chandlee and Shackleton families
Papers of the Sheppard family
Papers of the Jones family

Keywords:
Nathan Cook / Joseph and Mary Kite / James Wansborough / Society of Friends

Temple University
Samuel L. Paley Library, Room m128, 1210 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia PA 19122

Contains:
Papers of Andrew Pritchard

Keywords:
William Archer

Presbyterian Historical Society
425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia PA 19147

Contains:
Correspondence of the American and Foreign Christian Union

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia PA 19107

Contains:
Papers of Robert Blake Cruice

American Philosophical Society Library
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia PA 19106

Contains:
Papers of Matthew Carey

Princeton University
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, One Washington Road, Princeton NJ 08544

Contains:
Papers of Charles Lever
Papers of Charlotte Bronte
Papers of William Seymour

Keywords:
William Charles Macready / JB Yeats / Countess of Blessington / Thomas Crofton Croker

Rutgers University
Archibald S. Alexander Library, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08901

Contains:
Bronte family manuscripts
Papers of William Cobbett

Keywords:
Matthew Carey

Walter Hampden Memorial Library
The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park, New York NY 10003

Contains:
The Robert Bruce Mantell Collection

Keywords:
The O'Flynn / Justin Huntly McCarthy

New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York NY 10018

Contains:
Papers of Edward Eustace
Letters of Elizabeth Dickinson
Papers of John Quinn
Records of the International Committee for Political Prisoners
Papers of Levi Parsons Morton
Papers of Albert Shaw
Margaret McKim Maloney Collection
Papers of Sir Roger Casement
Personal Papers of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
John Trelawny documents
W.J.A. Maloney collection
Correspondence of Dudley Digges
Papers on William Burke Cockran
Correspondence of John Lloyd Balderston
Papers of Townsend Walsh
Correspondence of British and Foreign Unitarian Association
Correspondence of Richard Champion
Papers of Genevieve Taggard
Correspondence of Whitford Kane
Papers of Judge Charles Patrick Daly
Literary Papers of Benjamin De Casseres
Papers of Donn Byrne
Letters of Sampson Fleming
Papers of Emma Goldman
Papers of Frank Harris
Papers of Thomas Dongan, Earl of Limerick, Governor of New York
Letters of Jane Verner
Papers of Ralph Thompson
Papers of Rodd Family
Papers of Smith family
Papers of Everett Pepperrell Wheeler

Keywords:
Beckett / Edward Dowden / Walt Whitman / troops to Ireland / Fenian Brotherhood / Constellation  Maud Gonne MacBride / Lady Gregory / Douglas Hyde / Shane Leslie / O'Casey / Sir John Ervine / Irish-Americans / Friendly Sons of St Patrick / Padraic Colum / Edmund Burke / John Quinn / George Moore /

Pierpoint Morgan Library
The Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York NY 10016

Contains:
Missale, Roman use, the "Drummond Missal" in Irish
Documents of the Privy Council in Ireland
Gospels in Latin by St Gall
John Cusacke papers
Letters of Queen Elizabeth
Letters of the Privy Council in England

New York Historical Society
170 Central Park West, New York NY 10024

Contains:
Papers of James Fenimore Cooper
Letters of WC Greg and Cunningham
Letters of Dominick Lynch and Thomas Stoughton

Keywords:
Merchants

American Irish Historical Society
991 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10028

Contains:
Papers relating to the Home Rule Movement

Columbia University
525 West 114th Street, New York NY 10027

Contains:
Jack Harris Samuels Letters
Records of Curtis Brown
Letters from Padraic Colum
Papers of Henry Morton Robinson
Papers of Henry Willis Parker
Papers of William York Tindall
Papers of Eleanor Belmont
Transcripts of interviews re development of aviation
American Revolutionary Letters
Letters to Department of English and Comparative Lit. at Columbia
Letters to Mary Louisa Sutcliff
Yeats family papers
Papers of Marie Mattingly Meloney
Papers of Robert Joseph Flaherty
Letters to Benjamin W. Huebsch
Records of Random House
Letters of English artists
Papers of Mark Van Doren
Papers of Louis MacNiece
William Northern Appleton collection
Mitchel and Purroy family papers
Correspondence of George Moore
Transcripts of interviews with Irish-Americans
Papers of John N. Wheeler
Papers by George Bernard Shaw

Keywords:
Irish Banking Commission / Finnegan's Wake / Sean O Faolain / Cecil Day-Lewis / Richard Brinsley / Elizabeth Bowen / Sir Gerald Kelly / Padraic Colum / WB Yeats / Seumas O'Sullivan / Edmund Burke / Paul O'Dwyer / Thomas Moore

Union Theological Seminary
The Burke Library, 3041 Broadway at 121st Street, New York NY 10027

Contains:
Smaragdus (12th and 14th century)

Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase Street, Purchase NY 10577

Contains:
Correspondence of Cardinal Farley

Keywords:
Seminary / Armagh

Rockerfeller Foundation Archives
15 Dayton Avenue, Sleepy Hollow NY 10591

Contains:
Papers of Jackson Davis

Keywords:
Missionary societies

Vassar College Library
Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries, Box 20, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie NY 12604

Contains:
Papers of William Kent Rose

Keywords:
Elizabeth Bowen / Iris Murdoch

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park NY 12538

Contains:
Papers of David Gray
US President's Committee on an Inquiry on Cooperative Enterprise in Europe

New York State Museum
Cultural Education Center of the Empire State Plaza, Albany NY

Contains:
Journal of Warren Johnson

Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, 130 Wall Street, New Haven CT 06520
Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511

Contains:
Homily on the prologue of St John's Gospel
Papers of Thomas Platt Collier, Senator NY
Papers of William Kurtz Winsalt
Papers of Robert Parmlee Wilder
Letters of Maria Edgeworth
Letters of James Joyce
Letters of Lady Morgan
Letters of RB Sheridan
Correspondence of Edward M. House
Papers of George Pierce Baker
Correspondence of Angelica Schuyler Church
Papers of Harry Weinberger
Burnet Family Papers

Keywords:
Lady Gregory / Horace Plunkett / Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland / Irish-Americans / Marquis de Lally-Tollendal / Frank Harris / Granville / Newcastle

Marine Historical Association
Mystic Seaport, 95 Greenville Avenue, Mystic CT

Contains:
Letter book of Elkanah Crowell
Records of the ship Albion

Brown University
Special Collections, John Hay Library 26-36 Prospect Street, Providence RI 02912

Contains:
Papers of John Brooks Wheelwright

Keywords:
Lennox Robinson

Plymouth Public Library
132 South Street, Plymouth MA 02360

Contains:
Elizabeth I items relating to Irish affairs

College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street, Worcester MA 01610

Contains:
19 volumes of papers relating to Irish immigrants in Worcester

American Jewish Historical Society
160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre MA 02459

Contains:
Papers of Rabbi Samuel Price

Keywords:
War of Independence

Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Boston MA 02116

Contains:
Thomas Moore manuscript
Letters of Edmund Quincy
Letters to Marquis Townshend
Letters of Privy Council in England
Letters of Sir Roger Curtis

Keywords:
Richard Webb / Lord Lieutenant / troops for Ireland / Navy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Columbia Point, Boston MA 02125

Contains:
Presidential Papers
Edward M. Kennedy papers (still closed at time of writing)
Robert F. Kennedy papers
Letters of Brendan Behan
Letters of Padraic Colum
Letters of James T. Farrell

Keywords:
Kennedy in Ireland / De Valera

Boston University
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Centre at Boston University, 771 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215

Contains:
Papers of Frank O'Connor
Papers of Brian Talbot Cleeve
Papers of Ethel Mannin

Keywords:
Abbey Theatre

Massachusetts Historical Society Library
1154 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02215

Contains:
Letters of the Privy Council in England
Papers of Arthur Livermore

Keywords:
Consul to Londonderry / Troops for Ireland

Harvard University
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/

Contains:
Letters to Earl of Ormonde
Letters of Charles Boyle
Last will of Robert Boyle
Letters of Earls of Cork
George Moore papers
The Orrery Papers
Letter of Charles II
Letters of Richard Purcell
Letters to John Boyle
Letters of Richard Lord Viscount Dungarvan
Books of Irish interest
Donn Byrne manuscripts
Nativity play in Irish by Douglas Hyde
Manuscripts of WB Yeats
Poems concerning O'Byrne family
Ossianic poetry
Transcript of Micheal O Clerigh's glossary
Sean O'Conaill's Tuireamh na hEireann
Religious prose in Irish
Historic tales in Irish
Jeremiah O'Mara address in Boston
John Honohane letters
Letters of Lord Broghill
Papers of Bishop Percy
Papers of George W. Russell AE
Robert Louis Stevenson proof article
Irish verse collection
Irish Genealogies collection
Business letters of the Earls of Orrery
Biographical memoir of Captain Courtenay Boyle

Keywords:
Beckett / Charles Macklin / Actors / Boyle


New Hampshire Historical Society
30 Park Street, Concord NH 03301

Contains:
Papers of Jeramiah Mason

Keywords:
Arthur Livermore

Dartmouth College
Hanover NH 03755

Contains:
Papers of Augustus Saint Gaudens


University of Vermont
Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library, 538 Main Street, Burlington VT 05405

Contains:
Papers of Howard Crosby Rice

State University of New York
Special Collections Library, 132 Feinberg Library, Plattsburgh NY

Contains:
Election campaign material of Eugene McCarthy
Election campaign material of Paul O'Dwyer

Public Archives of Canada
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario

Contains:
Correspondence of Edward Blake
Correspondence of John Costigan
Letters of T D'Arcy McGee
Notebook of Edward Murphy

Keywords:
John Dillon / James Bryce / Gladstone / Justin McCarthy / John Mroley / FX O'Brien / William O'Brien / TP O'Connor / John Redmond / Sir JA MacDonald / Home Rule / Catholics in Canada / Volunteers of Ireland / John O'Donohoe / Irish Catholic Societies

University of St. Thomas

Department of Special Collections
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library

2115 Summit Avenue

Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105-1096
http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/special/
Contains:

A one of the top ten Irish rare book collections in the United States.

Irish American Cultural Society Records
I. A. O’Shaughnessy Papers
Austin Clarke Letters

Eamon O’Toole Papers
Patrick J. Hill Papers

Eamon De Valera Letter


See also:
Celtic Collection page: http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/special/rare/celtic/
Irish Studies portal page:  http://libguides.stthomas.edu/irish?hs=a