An eighteenth-century Irish manuscript in New York (NYPL, MssCol 1774)

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ABSTRACT:This article describes a photostat copy, kept in the New York Public Library, of an apparently lost eighteenth-century manuscript compiled by the Cork scribe Seán Ó Muláin in 1790. The manuscript was the property of a mid-nineteenth-century Irish immigrant to Massachusetts named Seán Sincín (John Shinkwin) and later was used by the Philo-Celtic Societies of Boston and New York before becoming the property of a Father O’Flannigan (likely Micheál Ó Flannagáin). The provenance of this manuscript is traced from Cork to New York and the first and last lines of its contents are transcribed along with scribal colophons.