'Hugely significant' Irish archive donated to the State will be unveiled in Cork

Donated to Ireland almost eight years ago, the Daniel MacCarthy Glas collection will go on display at Cork City and County Archives in Blackpool during Heritage Week

Senior Cork City Council archivist Brian McGee and historian Michelle O'Mahony — who helped secure the Daniel MacCarthy Glas archive from the US — with some of the paintings which have been donated to the State.

A once long-lost archive linked to writer and historian Daniel MacCarthy Glas, a descendant of one of the great 13th-century Gaelic families of Ireland, is to go on display in Cork almost eight years after its donation to the State.

The vast trove of hugely significant material, which dates from the 1700s and 1800s, will be unveiled in the Cork City and County Archives in Blackpool later this month as part of Heritage Week.