UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 16, 1995
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YEATS:
Collectors are important for libraries
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books to advertisements to recipes.
books to advertisements to recipes. Irish immigrants fled Ireland during the 19th century, and O'Hegarty saved the ads that drew them to the loading docks. One 1873 poster read: "Shortest Sea Passage to America." Each passenger was promised a supply of "3 quarts of water daily," in addition to three meals a day.
"O'Hegarty was, if I may put it very simply, a pack rat," sald Harold Orel, professor of English.
But Alexandra Mason, special collections librarian, said H'Oegarty was more than just a pack rat.
"His collecting was not unthinking. she said."
Mason emphasizes the importance of book collectors to libraries that deal with rare books. Without them, the libraries are nothing.
"The exhaustive collecting of material without making judgments is so important," Mason said. "There's no way you or I can tell if a piece of paper will be important in 50 years. We could guess. We could be wrong."
Each piece of paper gives details about individual lives, not just a country's economic or political situation, Mason said. Today a shipping ad and an 1847 "Soup for the poor" recipe give those details. In the future, it may be a Nirvana concert ticket and a Pizza Hut menu.
Mason said that O'Hegarty never discriminated in his collecting because he was mostly self-educated and was distanced from academic snobbery.
"He collected things that not just anybody would keep but that nobody would keep," Mason said.
And then he left KU his treasures.
And we have left our thanks to
The collections and any other item
at Spencer is not restricted to scholars.
"Sc far our youngest reader is five," Mason said. "And he was doing research on Mickey Mouse."
POBLACHT NA H EIREANN. THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND.
IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, have resolutely walked for the right moment to reveal itself, she now soizes that moment, and, supported by her oxiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.
We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeable. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not exinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and assuring it in arms in the of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Indemnity and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its welfare, and of its exaltation among the nations.
The Irish Republic is entitled to and thereby claims the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past. Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National Government, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrages of all her men and women, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God. Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or rapipe. In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valour and discipline and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
THOMAS J. CLARKE,
SEAN Mac DIAMADA, THOMAS MacDONAGH,
P. H. PEARSE, EAMONN CEANNT,
JAMES CONNOLLY, JOSEPH PLUNKETT.
Signed on Behalf of the Previdential Government.
The document on the left was a filer from the Allan Shipping line in Dublin in 1873. Shipping lines were very popular in the last half of the 19th century when four million Irish immigrants came to United States and Canada. The second document is the Easter 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
Jay Thornton / KANSAN
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