• Reference code  IE/UCD/SC/Ó L.L
• Title Colm Ó Lochlainn Letters
• Dates  1858–1961
• Level of description Fonds
• Extent 88 items

Creator 

• Colm Ó Lochlainn (1892-1972)

Biographical History

• Colm Ó Lochlainn was a ballad collector, Gaelic scholar, printer, publisher, binder and bibliophile, from Dublin.
• He owned the publishing company The Sign of the Three Candles and later The Three Candles Press.
• He was a Professor of Language and Literature in UCD between 1933 and 1943.
• He wrote several books, published by his own company, The Three Candles Press. 
• His most famous book is Irish Street Ballads which contains ballads selected from the many broadsheet ballads he had collected.

Source of Acquisition Purchased in 1963-64.

• The collection contains letters from Alice Stopford Green, Douglas Hyde, Stephen Gwynn, Robin Flower, Eoin Mac Neill, Eamon De Valera, Padraig Pearse, and Padraig O’Conaire.
• Most of the letters are related to his position as a publisher.
• Some are reference letters supporting his application for the position of Lecture in Modern Irish at UCD, an application in which he was successful.

Access The materials in this collection are available by appointment only to research students, teaching staff and scholars.

Research students should have a letter of recommendation from their supervisor.

Reproduction Photocopying or digital photographing of this material is not permitted.

Language English and Irish.

Finding Aid A copy of the list is available: O Lochlainn letters.

Find information on Colm Ó Lochlainn in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (UCD only).