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British and Commonwealth Literary Studies
Healy Collection of Modern Irish Literature
The Collection
Location: Department of Special Collections, Green Library
Call Number: M0273
Size: 8 linear ft.
Finding Guides: A printed version is available in the
reading room of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions
of this finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's Internet
Explorer version 6.0 or higher, click here to connect to the XML version
on the Stanford server; if not, click here for the html version on the
Online Archives of California server. Books and periodicals from the
collection are listed in SOCRATES.
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department
of Special Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the Special
Collections' Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading
Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. Photocopies, photographs,
and microfilm can be made of some materials in the collections. For more
information about the collections and access policies, please contact
Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail
at speccollref@stanford.edu or by regular mail at the Department of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.
Highlights of the Healy Collection
James Augustine Healy was a New York stockbroker and bibliophile who
collected books, letters, and manuscripts in the area of Irish literature
from the 1930s until the time of his death in 1975. The collection consists
of letters, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, broadsides, books, and
prints. The collection includes material resulting from personal contact
between James A. Healy and Oliver St. John Gogarty, Elizabeth C. Yeats,
George Yeats, Ernest Boyd, Richard Campbell, and Irene Haugh. Others represented
in the collection are Paul Henry; W. B. Yeats's father, brother, and two
sisters; the Fay Brothers, Dudley Digges, James Joyce, John M. Synge,
Maud Gonne, and George Moore. From the estate of the critic, Ernest Boyd,
Healy obtained letters from English writers prompted by research Boyd
did for his book, The Irish Literary Renaissance.
There are over 1000 books and periodicals by these authors and on related
topics. The complete output of the Dun Emer Press, later the Cuala Press,
of W. B. Yeats is included. The press published limited editions of works
of living Irish writers, many of which are inscribed and annotated by
Yeats. These are housed in Special Collections and are listed in SOCRATES
under the heading Healy Collection. A supplementary collection of clippings,
pamphlets, correspondence, and newspapers relating to political and economic
conditions in Ireland from the Healy Collection is housed in the Hoover
Institute, listed in SOCRATES under the heading Healy, James.
Last modified:
July 12, 2006
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