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IRISH DOCUMENTS

HISTORIC M.S.S. DESTROYED.

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LONDON, October 2.

The “Daily Mail” states: When the Rebels entrenched on the Dublin Four Courts in 1916, masses of irreplaceable records, including wills, census returns and parish registers, covering seven centuries, were. lost. The remainder disappeared in 1922, when the Four Courts were burned, and blown up during the civil war. A reporter recently found in a London antique shop, one of these ancient parchments. It was serving as a lampshade on the manager’s desk. He was promised that any other would be returned to the Irish Government, but only twelve samples remain of the original bundle, which was bought in a market at Barrow for £2,. by the firm’s' principal. Most of the documeats were made into lamp shades, and were sold to Americans.

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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1928, Page 5

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IRISH DOCUMENTS Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1928, Page 5

IRISH DOCUMENTS Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1928, Page 5

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