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1888
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1905
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1888
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1888
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1905
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{"value"=>"VII. David James O'Donoghue Letters"}
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{"value"=>"<p>David James O'Donoghue was born in 1866 in London to Irish parents. He was a literary historian and biographer. In 1892 he founded the Irish Literary Society with W. B. Yeats and published the Poets of Ireland, a biographical dictionary. He moved to Dublin in 1896 and became a bookseller. He became a librarian at University College Dublin in 1909. Between 1896 and 1906 he published biographies of Irish authors and political figures, including Robert Emmet, and edited volumes of other Irish writers, including William Carleton. O'Donoghue died in 1917.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains letters sent to David James O'Donoghue praising his work, inviting him to lecture, and requesting he edit writings of others. Included are letters from Douglas Hyde, Standish O'Grady, George William Russell, and Timothy Daniel Sullivan.</p>"}
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