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102 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 (Aodh Ó Cinnéide, 8 Sraid Danmarg) have been translated to English, presumably by the postal service. – A copy of ‘Honesty’, July 25 1925, including a reference to Kennedy on p. 9; – A circular from the Office of Public Works, 1923, informing Kennedy that he is entitled to receive one buck [deer] from the Phoenix Park, which can be cut up as he desires; – A typescript letter with ms. draft from John B. Lynch seeking to serve a Habeas Corpus writ on Gen. Sir Nevil Macready and others concerning John Joseph Egan, June 14 1921 (when Kennedy was a legal adviser to the Dail); – A TLS to Mrs. Kennedy from TomWalsh, 1933, mentioning his long friendship with Kennedy, old friends now gone etc.; – A Dun Emer Guild receipt to Mrs. Kennedy 1929 for a Fender Stool; – TLS to Mrs. Kennedy, November 1963, from Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (then Chief Justice) about UCD’s interest in the papers of the late Chief Justice; – TLS from John A. Costello, November 1963, concerning a portrait; – A few family letters suggesting that Kennedy did not leave much money when he died; – Hugh Kennedy’s Inaugural Address on The Irish University Question to the Literary and Historical Society of University College [Dublin], Dublin: 1900, printed wrappers [the defeated candidates for the Auditor’s position included James Joyce]; – A Gospel of St. Matthew in Hebrew, inscribed at rear (i.e. at front) with Hugh B. Kennedy’s name and address dated November 22nd 1892, ‘A gift from his father’. [Kennedy’s father was a Donegal-born surgeon who spent some years in the Society of Jesus before turning to medicine; perhaps he may have studied Hebrew while with the Jesuits]; – A manuscript letter to Kennedy dated July 1881, when he was two years old, from his Godparents, carefully kept, wishing that successive years will add to his mental advancement and culture, as well as his age and size; – Various membership cards including one for the Catholic Association, Metropolitan Branch, 1902, also a receipt dated September 1914 housed in a leather folder inscribed ‘F.F.’. • Album 5 (larger format) includes: – An attractive mounted photographic portrait of Kennedy, Signed in Irish, dated 24.8.1921, which shows his keen intelligence. – Saorstat Eireann. Uimhir 1 de 1922 .. Number 1 of 1922. An Act to enact a Constitution for the Irish Free State, etc. The founding Act of the new State, largely drafted by Kennedy, his major achievement. – Hugh Kennedy. Character and Sources of Constitution of the Irish Free State, address to American Bar Association 1928, 23 pages (printed). – Town Tenants (Ireland) Act 1906 .. edited with commentary etc. by Arthur Clery and Hugh Kennedy, barristers-at-law; and Michael Dawson, Solicitor. Dublin: Ponsonby 1907. Printer’s proofs in ten sections, unbound, with corrections. Part of the process of establishing a legal reputation. – The House of Lords against Ireland. Some Reminders of their Work of Destruction. Leaflet, 4 pages (three copies). Printed by Garrard Brothers, Dublin, no author, no date (c. 1910). Very scarce, not found in COPAC. NLI has a copy but does not name the author. Since there are three copies here, it must be very likely that this is Kennedy’s work. It shows a close knowledge of Irish history; the style is terse, effective, and accusatory. It suggests that if Kennedy had chosen to follow a political career, he would have been well equipped for success. Also a manuscript draft note in Kennedy’s hand (2 pages, one sheet), discussing the historical relationship between the House of Lords and the Commons, much amended. – Kennedy’s application for the Professorship of the Law of Property and the Law of Contracts at U.C.D., 1909/10, cyclostyled typescript, also the original manuscript draft (see below), with testimonials from the Solicitor-General for Ireland and the President of the Incorporated Law Society. It seems he was unsuccessful; perhaps they thought he was too young at 30. – D.J. O’Sullivan, typescript article on The Constitution of the Irish Free State, 1929, carbon copy, with covering ALS to Hon. Chief Justice Kennedy. – Fabian Tract no.155. The Case Against the Referendum [as an instrument of policy]. By Clifford Sharp. London: 1911. Kennedy’s copy, with several passages marked. Also R.J. Smith, Erin’s Lament and Appeal, being Head-lines for the Irish Free State Elections, Xmas 1932. Dublin: Cahill. – Keith, Prof. A.B. Certain Legal and Constitutional Aspects of the Anglo-Irish Dispute. London: April 1934, green printed wrappers, Kennedy’s copy with his signature in Irish at rear; – Kennedy, Hugh. The Plaint of an Education Board. 2 pages, extracted from an issue of The New Ireland Review, circa 1900, apparently a review of a report of the Commissioners for National Education. – An envelope of essays and research materials including typescript (carbon copy) on ‘Dublin’s Place in the Life of the Nation’, with corrections in Kennedy’s hand, apparently delivered to a student society, with a folder of notes in Kennedy’s hand on aspects of Dublin city and county; – A manuscript draft in Kennedy’s hand of an interesting address to the Central Branch of the Gaelic League, 1908 (in English) on the failure of the 1848 insurrection, expressing his view that ‘noisy failures do permanent harm ... this rebellion ... took from Ireland a generation of men of first rate talents ... who might have achieved something by recreating in a spirit of patience & tolerance the spent forces of O’Connell’s movement ... .’; – ‘Ireland a Nation’ and her New Place In The World. William G. Fitz-Gerald, 1922, typescript prospectus (carbon) for the work later published as Glór na hÉireann (1924); – The original ms. draft of Kennedy’s application for the property law professorship in UCD, with several typescript versions. – Darrell Figgis, The Gaelic State in the Past & Future (1917), inscribed to Kennedy by author, 26.1.22, with two photocopies of letters from/to Figgis (who served with Kennedy on the Constitution Committee); – Hyde’s pamphlet A University Scandal. Dublin: Gaelic League, c. 1902; – Bibliography. A small group of letters and typescripts concerning the Dublin University Review andW.B. Yeats, including three ALS from P.S. O’Hegarty, 1940s, to Seamus O’Sullivan (2) and Lennox Robinson, presumably passed to Mrs. Kennedy by one of these (Kennedy having died ). – Bouch’s paper on The Republican Proclamation of Easter Monday 1916. Dublin: Three Candles, 1936. – Manuscript copy of a minute (2pages) dated Monday 23rd June 1890, concerning the transfer of the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy to the Museum of Science and Art, Signed Saml. Haughton, probably a scrivener’s copy; – Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, statement to