Obituary of Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix, (1857-1936), Antiquarian, Historian, Solicitor,

The National Library in Dublin have a large collection of his rare papers including Cork related pamphlets which he donated.

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1857-1936 Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix ,Solicitor, Dublin Extensive writer on Cork Historical Affairs in JCHAS. Related to Arabic scholar Sir Leopold McClintock Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix (1857 – 1936) was a solicitor and scholar who was active in the Gaelic revival and also a major authority on early Irish printing and binding. He wrote extensively on Irish bibliography and antiquities and was also a noted book collector, leaving behind him a huge collection of material, much of which went to the National Library of Ireland

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Herbert Webb Gillman, BL, JP, Cork Antiquarian, in 1892 ‘The writer takes the opportunity of expressing his opinion that the greater part of our County Histories in Ireland can be, and indeed ought to be, rewritten in the light of the documents of late being made readily available by the Public Record Office. It is a Department of which any Nation ought to be justly proud; and the work done in arranging, indexing and editing by the able officers engage there, so well by their courtesy and ready help, afforded freely to all comers are beyond praise.

Herbert Webb Gillman (1832-1898), Clonteadmore, Coachford, Co. Cork, Judge Ceylon, Antiquarian, Authority on Castles of Co. Cork and Author of Index to the Licence Bonds of Cork and Ross.

Colonel James Grove White (1852-1938), Historical Notes North East Cork precursor to Dr. Casey’s of Birmingham Alabama O’Kiev Coshe Mang.

Doctor Albert Casey, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, complier of O’Kief Coshe Mange, Four Million Irish Records.

Obituary by Paddy Madden of Paddy O’Keeffe (1897-1980), Businessman, Spanish Consul, Historian, Local Sources such as Bob Triggs Beara, Mr Dennis Poet of North Side, Danny O’Donovan, Ballycomane Durrus, Fellow Historians, Canon T. J. Walsh Cork, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, Emmet O’Donovan, N.T., John T. Collins Cork.

Sketch of Cork Historian John T Collins, 1964 by Raymond Piper

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