mss0099_0180.xml Finding aid for "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscript undated University of Delaware Library, Special Collections University of Delaware Library
Special Collections Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
Date encoded (2007 March 30) Finding aid encoded 2007 March 30 English "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscriptundated Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
 Orpen, William, Sir, 1878-1931. "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscriptundated MSS 099, F180 1 item (121 pp.) Autobiographical manuscript of Irish artist Sir William Orpen's Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself (1925). Materials entirely in English. University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Source

Purchase, 1986.

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The collection is open for research.

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 Citation

MSS 099, F180, Sir William Orpen, "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscript, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

 Shelving Summary Shelved in SPEC MSS 099 Processing

Processed and encoded by Debra Johnson, March 2007.

 Biographical Note

Dublin-born artist Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, R. A. (1878–1931) was a noted painter. He was a cousin of writer Lady Gregory and painter Hugh Lane.

Bruce Arnold, "Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague (1878–1931)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35331. (accessed April 10, 2007).

 Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of a typed manuscript with holograph corrections of Sir William Orpen's autobiographical Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself (1925).

 Selected Search Terms Topical Terms Artists--Ireland--Biography. Form/Genre Terms Biographies. Occupation Artists. Related Materials in this Repository

This item forms part of MSS 099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

 Detailed Contents List 8F180 Sir William Orpen "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscriptundated Autograph manuscript with holograph collections, 121 pp.