Donegal County Archives Service of Donegal County Council

Donegal County Archives Service of Donegal County Council Services to Schools and Teachers ---Collections of use for Leaving Certificate History

Donegal County Archives: Mission ‘Donegal County Archives seeks to preserve the inheritance of the people of Donegal for present and future generations by preserving, acquiring and making accessible the documented heritage of the County’.

Donegal County Archives Ø Part of Culture Division, Donegal Co Council. Ø Remit is the whole county. Ø In temporary premises based in Lifford. Ø One staff member. Ø Private and public collections from across the county. Ø Services include to researchers, outreach, schools packs, exhibitions, events, Website, digitised archives; Facebook /Twitter.

County Archives Services Ø Research room at Three Rivers Centre, accessible by appointment. Ø Education study packs Ø Outreach events, e. g. , Bealtaine reminiscences, Heritage Week events; lectures, talks etc. Ø Peace IV Echoes of the Decade - Decade of Centenaries: main focus: events of 1920. Ø Advice on study topics; archives; evidence based . research.

History Syllabus: Leaving Certificate Donegal County Archives can assist with: Later Modern Field of Study 1815 – 1993: Ireland- archives The documents-based study- archives The role of evidence in historical research and historical writing • The main varieties of historical evidence • The main repositories of historical evidence • - advice Education packs- facsimile archives/history

History Syllabus: Leaving Cert: Later Modern Field of Study: Ireland the Union, 1815 -1870 Movements for political and social reform, 18701914 The pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912 -1949 The Irish Diaspora, 1840 -1966 Politics and society in Northern Ireland, 19491993 Government, economy and society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949 -1989

Education packs for schools The Flight of the Earls (Early Modern) Ulster Plantation (Early Modern) Donegal and the Decade of Change (Later Modern) Donegal and the 1916 Rising (Later Modern) Schools Facsimile Pack (Evidence, sources. )

Co. Donegal in 1916 pack- online

A Decade of Change, online

Schools Facsimile Pack- online

The Collections ü Overall: History, heritage, culture of Co. Donegal ü Local Authorites: Grand Jury; Donegal County Council, Rural & Urban District Councils, Boards of Guardians ü Private Collections: landed estate records; railway; photos; schools; political/military papers, social/economic studies, GAA. All available to view at Archives, by prior appointment

Donegal Grand Jury Ø Main local Authority until 1898. Administrative and Court duties; Comprised largest landowners; Ø Services: infrastructure; County Jail, hospitals, schools, prisons, piers and harbours; upkeep of deserted children. Ø Leaving Cert: Later Modern Field of Study 1815 1993 – Ireland: ØIreland the Union, 1815 -1870 ØMovements for political and social reform, 1870 -1914

Donegal Grand Jury

Workhouses: Boards Of Guardians 1840 – 1923 Poor Law Union minutes & admission registers etc. , Ø 8 workhouses in county: Ballyshannon, Donegal Town, Dunfanaghy, Glenties, Inishowen (Carndonagh), Letterkenny, Milford, Stranorlar; Ø Boards of Guardians ran the workhouses; Ø Insight into poor relief & social conditions in county from the Famine to 1920 s; Ø Themes: Emigration, vaccination, poverty, orphans; social conditions, economic necessity. Ø

Workhouses- Board of Guardians Ø Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 1815 -1993 ØIreland the Union, 1815 -1870. Ø Movements for political and social reform, 1870 -1914 ØDocuments based study Ø All online at www. findmypast. ie – free in Donegal libraries by appointment or at Archives by appointment.

Petty Sessions/ Lifford Jail Turnkey register, 1800 s Ø Petty Sessions: Ballyshannon mainly; Lifford Turnkey Report is online. Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 1815 -1993 ØIreland the Union, 1815 -1870 ØMovements for political and social reform, 18701914 ØDocuments based study

Rural & Urban District Councils Ø Local authorities, in existence from 1899 – 1925 Ø Donegal, Dunfanaghy, Stranorlar, Strabane no. 2, (London)Derry No 2, Letterkenny, Inishowen, Ballyshannon. Ø Roads, Building Labourers’ Cottages, Public Health and Sanitation; also school attendance. Ø Life during the War of Independence and Civil War.

Rural District Councils, 1898 – 1925 Ø For Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 1815 -1993: ØMovements for political and social reform, 1870 -1914 ØThe pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912 -1949 ØDocuments based study Ø

Donegal County Council Ø Established under the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898. Ø Functions include: Roads/footpaths, Housing, Planning & Development, Economic Development; Environment (Water and Sewerage), Libraries, Culture, Parks, Heritage etc. Ø Corporate- Council members; electorate and elections.

Donegal County Council, 1899 - date Ø Valuation books: records of farms, shops, homes and transfer of land ownership. Ø Minutes of meetings: political and local activities. Ø Electoral registers- family & local history. Ø Housing- social, local history. Ø For Leaving Cert: Later Modern Ireland ØThe pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912 -1949 ØGovernment, economy and society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949 -1989

County Donegal Committee of Agriculture Ø Letters & Minutes of meetings of Donegal Co Committee of Agriculture, 1901 – 1970, include training in various agricultural endeavours, garden, cottage, farm prize schemes; flax shows etc. - Social, rural history: Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 1815 -1993 ØDocuments based study: ØGovernment, economy and society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949 -1989

Schools Records Lifford Endowed Schools, 1879 – 1970’s: rollbooks, registers, correspondence, minutes of school meetings; Primary schools from around the county, including rollbooks, school registers and inspectors’ report books.

Schools Records Ø Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 1815 - 1993 ØIreland the Union, 1815 -1870 ØMovements for political and social reform, 1870 -1914 ØDocuments based Study

Private Collections – Landed Estates Ø Steele Nicholsons, Falmore House, Gleneely; Cochranes of Redcastle, Inishowen. Ø Murray-Stewarts of South Donegal. Ø Alexander Stewart of Ards. Ø Montgomerys of Convoy-, rentals, photos, letters, legal deeds. Ø Groves of Castlegrove

Private Collections – Landed Estates Ø For Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 1815 -1993 ØIreland the Union, 1815 -1870 ØMovements for political and social reform, 1870 -1914 ØThe Pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912 -1949 ØDocuments based Study

Private Collections: Digitised Collections Gweedore Hotel Books 1842 - 1874 Ø Fanad Health Club (District Nursing Assoc) 1931 – 1935; Ø Rockhill House, Letterkenny Ø Lifford Jail Turnkey report (1829 – 1831) Ø Social & Cultural Study of Life in West Donegal, thesis 1940 s. http: //www. donegalcoco. ie/culture/archives/selected %20 digitised%20 archives/ Ø

Private Collections: Digitised Collections Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 1815 -1993 ØDocuments based study: ØIreland the Union, 1815 – 1870; ØMovements for political and social reform, 1870 – 1914; ØThe pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912 -1949 ØGovernment, economy and society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949 -1989

Oral History Recordings The Rabble, Islands and Home from Home: Interviews with older people on life in 20 th c. Interviews based on Anne Mc. Menamin’s book When We Were Young. Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 18151993 ØDocuments based study: ØThe pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912 -1949 ØGovernment, economy and society in the Republic of Ireland, 1949 -1989

Political/Military Papers Joseph Murray- War of Independence Vice Brigadier, in command of Fourth Brigade, South East Donegal, 1 st northern division. Army manuals, letters, memoranda, telegrams & reports on activities re the War 1919 - 1921. Minutes of local authorities 1912 – 1923.

Military: Joseph Murray Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 18151993 ØDocuments based study: ØThe pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912 -1949 ØThe Murray Collection & catalogue; and the 1916 local authority minutes are all online at www. donegalcoco. ie/culture/archives

Other Private Papers Ø Donegal Board of the GAA (1930 s – 1990 s). Ø Daniel Doherty, emigrant from Malin Head to Boston, lobbyist against partition. Leaving Cert: Later Modern field of study 1815 -1993 ØDocuments based study: ØThe pursuit of sovereignty and the impact of partition, 1912 -1949 ØThe Irish Diaspora, 1840 – 1966.

Archives online Ø Ø Ø Ø Gweedore Hotel Books, 1842 - 1874 Lifford Gaol (Jail) Turnkey Report book 1916 minutes of meetings of local authorities Fanad District Nursing Assoc. Rockhill House, Letterkenny: land stewart letters, 1893 - 1897 Social life in West Donegal thesis, 1940 s Joseph Murray. All useful particularly for second level Leaving Cert projects- social, political, local, economic www. donegalcoco. ie/culture/archives

Gweedore Hotel book

Contact Details Donegal County Archives Service, Three Rivers Centre, Lifford. 074 91 72490 archivist @ donegalcoco. ie www. donegalcoco. ie/archives www. facebook. com/Donegal. County. Archives Access is by Appointment Only Twitter @Donegal. Co. Archiv