Anne Hess Neville and Martin K. Manley Collection on Irish Republicanism
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Anne Hess Neville and Martin K. Manley were members of the James Connolly Irish Republican Club, which operated in Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, New York from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. The Anne Hess Neville and Martin K. Manley Collection on Irish Republicanism dates from 1963 to 2015, and includes materials collected and created by Neville and Manley through their participation in Irish republican clubs in New York state. The bulk of the collection consists of periodicals and pamphlets related to Irish republican politics, with a focus on human rights issues in Ireland, British presence in Northern Ireland, and the conflict in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection also contains periodicals, buttons, one sound recording, and one t-shirt related to Irish Republican clubs in New York from the 1970s to 2015.
Biographical Note
Anne Hess Neville and Martin K. Manley were members of the James Connolly Irish Republican Club, which operated in Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, New York from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. Neville and Manley joined the club in 1974 and 1975. Neville also served as national organizer of the Seamus Lynch Speaking Tour in 1978 and as secretary of the Irish Republican Clubs of North America in 1979. In 2015, Manley and Neville, along with Jay O'Brien, revived the James Connolly Irish Republican Club to organize a public demonstration in Troy honoring James Connolly, who lived in Troy from 1903 to 1905.
Arrangement
At the time of accessioning, periodicals in this collection were roughly grouped by title. Other materials in this collection have not been arranged by an archivist. Original groupings established by creator have been maintained.
Scope and Contents
The Anne Hess Neville and Martin K. Manley Collection on Irish Republicanism dates from 1963 to 2015, and includes materials collected and created by Neville and Manley through their participation in Irish republican clubs in New York state during this time. The bulk of the collection consists of periodicals and pamphlets related to Irish republican politics, with a focus on workers' rights issues in Ireland, British presence in Northern Ireland, and the conflict in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection also contains correspondence, scrapbooks, buttons, one sound recording, and one t-shirt related to Irish republican movements in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland from the 1970s to 2015, including Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and the Workers' Party of Ireland (Official Sinn Fein).
Periodicals include The United Irishman, The Irish People, The Northern People, Drithleog, Eolas, Teoric, Connolly News, Irish Democrat, and An Phoblacht. Most of the pamphlets in the collection were produced by Repsol and include essays written by James Connolly, the Workers' Party, and others. Other pamphlets include writings on Irish republicanism, anti-imperialism, and workers' rights.
The collection contains subject files related to the activities of Irish republican clubs in New York state between the 1970s and 2015, particularly the James Connolly Irish Republican Club. Material documenting the latter includes correspondence with members and newsletters, including Irish Republican Clubs of North America, United Ireland, and The Irish Worker. The subject files also contain correspondence, periodicals, pamphlets, flyers, posters, scrapbooks, buttons, one sound recording, and one t-shirt documenting Irish republican organizations in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The scrapbooks were compiled by Neville or Manley, and include photographs of events, flyers, tickets, clippings, and posters documenting their participation in events related to Irish republican politics.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Use Restrictions
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Anne Hess Neville, the creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public domain in 2015 by Neville. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons CC0 license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full attribution. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Anne Hess Neville and Martin K. Manley Collection on Irish Republicanism; AIA 079; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Anne Hess Neville in 2015. The accession numbers associated with this gift are 2015.070 and 2015.080.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, materials were moved into archival housing. Periodicals were grouped roughly by title, but have not been further arranged. Other materials have been retained in their original groupings. Titles supplied by donor have been recorded when present, while other titles have been supplied by the archivist.
In April 2018, newspapers were unfolded and housed in oversize flat boxes. The sound recording, t-shirt, and buttons were separated from the paper material and housed separately as appropriate. Separation sheets were created to sustain the intellectual relationship between items.
