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(one in duplicate), together with those of six women who may
have been associated with the organization. A few display aprons
or other regalia associated with the Order, but most are standard
small or postcard-size portraits. The importance of this album is
greatly enhanced by a key on the seventh page identifying all the
men and three of the six female sitters. Most of the prints are in
fair to good condition. By the 1870s there were two orders of
Odd Fellows in Britain, the United States and throughout the
English-speaking world, and they boasted of huge membership
and abundant financial reserves. They constituted one of the
most successful of all the friendly societies, offering in effect life
and accident insurance to members and membership of an
international association. In each branch the medical officer
played a prominent role: in Dublin McCormick, who had
graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1836, practised for
many years as a surgeon and accoucheur at 5, Usher’s Island,
and according to the Address had an association with the Odd
Fellows spanning forty years. He died four months to the day
after this presentation. Of the 47 named and photographed
members here, a number can be identified as Dublin traders and
minor gentlemen, and they comprise an unusually even mix of
Catholic and Protestant families (names include Byrne, Daly,
Hurley, Power, Carmichael, Colquhoun, Carnegie and
Cochrane, Hosie and Corcoran). They include a watchmaker
(Jacob Frengley of Crow Street), a printer (Samuel Downes of
Bishop St.), a brass founder (Matthew Connor), and a grocer and
spirits merchant (M. J. Ralph of Sheriff St.). The Order had its
base at 10 Abbey Street Upper, and contemporary newspapers
show that they held public meetings there and fund-raising balls
in the Rotunda. A number of those photographed bear German-
ssounding names (including Willmann, Zipfel, Meck, Fritzler,
and Schultheiss), and most of these were presumably transient
residents of Dublin (judging by the local provenance of the
commercial photographers identified on the back of the
photographs). In the case of at least one Irish Odd Fellow
photographed, Samuel Haggerty, he had been an active member
(see Irish Times, 18 July 1872), but the key here in 1877 notes
that his provenance was now ‘Australia’.
The first opening of the Album takes the form of an Address to Brother
George Mark McCormack, retiring ‘Medical Officer of our Order in
Dublin’, indicating that it formed part of the presentation made that
evening to Dr McCormick. The illuminated page is signed by eight
Dublin and provincial officers and trustees of the Order. The album
consists of some 47 photographic portraits of members of the Dublin
society (one in duplicate), together with those of six women who may
have been associated with the organization. A few display aprons or
other regalia associated with the Order, but most are standard small or
postcard-size portraits. The importance of this album is greatly enhanced
by a key on the sixth page identifying all men and three of the six female
sitters. Most of the prints are in fair to good condition. By the 1870s
there were two orders of Odd Fellows in Britain, the United States and
throughout the English-speaking world, and they boasted of huge
membership and abundant financial reserves. They constituted one of
the most successful of all the friendly societies, offering in effect life and
accident insurance to members and membership of an international
association. In each branch the medical officer played a prominent role:
in Dublin McCormick, who had graduated from the University of
Glasgow in 1836, practised for many years as a surgeon and accoucheur
at 5, Usher’s Island, and according to the Address had an association
with the Odd Fellows spanning forty years. He died four months to the
day after this presentation. Of the 47 named and photographed members
here, a number can be identified as Dublin traders and minor gentlemen,
and they comprise an unusually even mix of Catholic and Protestant
families (names include Byrne, Daly, Hurley, Power, Carmichael,
Colquhoun, Carnegie and Cochrane, Hosie and Corcoran). They include
a watchmaker (Jacob Frengley of Crow Street), a printer (Samuel
Downes of Bishop St.), a brass founder (Matthew Connor), and a grocer
and spirits merchant (M. J. Ralph of Sheriff St.). The Order had its base
at 10 Abbey Street Upper, and contemporary newspapers show that they
held public meetings there and fund-raising balls in the Rotunda. A
number of those photographed bore German-ssounding names
(including Willmann, Zipfel, Meck, Fritzler, and Schultheiss), and most
of these were presumably transient residents of Dublin (judging by the
local provenance of the commercial photographers identified on the back
of the photographs). In the case of at least one Irish Odd Fellow
photographed, Samuel Haggerty, he had been an active member (see
Irish Times, 18 July 1872), but the key here in 1877 notes that his
provenance was now ‘Australia’.
€350-€500 (£280-£400 approx.)
929
.
IRELAND, BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Board of
Public Works. Act to facilitate the improvement of landed
property in Ireland. Erection of buildings suitable to scutch mills
for flax in Ireland, and for the formation of water courses and
weirs necessary for providing waterpower for the same, etc.
Dublin: For H. M. Stationery Office. Printed by G. and J. Grierson, Her
Majesty’s Printers.
1852
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, with 2 coloured litho plates, pages
10, (2, blank), 8vo, original limp cloth, gilt: with a small, faint,
oval stamp on the title-page: a very good to nice copy.
Only two other copies recorded: ULRLS and D. The COPAC entry
suggestes that the Instructions included were prepared by Sir Richard
John Griffith (1784-1878), surveyor and geologist, who had a
remarkable, long, and varied career as a public servant.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
930
.
IRELAND, COMFORTS OF THE POOR.
Reports of the
Society for promoting the Comforts of the Poor. Vol. I [being the
first and second reports though not so designated]. Dublin:
Printed by William Porter, for William Watson and Son, Capel-
Street, 1800. With a folding table and the 6-page subscriber list,
pages xvi, (xiii bis) - xxiv, 116; 113, (1, blank). [with:] Third
Number of the Reports of the Society for Promoting the
Comforts of the Poor. Dublin: Printed by William Porter, for
Wm. Watson and Son, circa 1801. Pages iv,52. [and:] Fourth
Number of the Reports of the Society for Promoting the
Comforts of the Poor. Dublin: Printed by William Porter, for
Wm. Watson and Son, Capel-Street, 1802.
Dublin
1800-1802
In one volume, large 12mo, contemporary half calf, gilt ruled
spine, a little worn, wanting label (lettered ‘Irish/Reports’), but
sound and strong and internally in very good to nice state.
Contains reports on friendly societies and loans, lists of committee
members and subscribers, reports from Sunday schools and local societies
and an appendix on practical matters and tables recording aid to be given
and loans distributed. A further five reports followed.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
931
.
IRELAND, HOSPITALS.
A collection of acts for erecting
and establishing public infirmaries and hospitals, and for
establishing fever hospitals and dispensaries for the poor of
Ireland. Dublin: His Majesty’s printers, 1829. [bound with:] An
act for the further encouragement of fever hospitals in Ireland.
Dublin: Printed by G. and J. Grierson, 1836 [and:] An act to
extend the powers of grand juries in the execution of an act of
the fifth-eighth year of his late majesty’s reign, for establising
fever hospitals in Ireland. Dublin: His Majesty’s printers, 1830
[and:] An act to amend an act passed in the parliament of
Ireland in the fifth year of his majesty King George the Third, for
establishing public hospitals in ireland. Dublin: Printed by G.
and J. Grierson, 1831 [and:] An act to explain and amend the
provisions of certain acts for the erecting an establishing public
infirmaries, hospitals, and dispensaries in Ireland. Dublin:
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