National Relief Fund Subscribers

A relief fund committee was set up immediately after the disaster by the government, at the initiative of William T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, who announced its membership on Thursday 9 September.

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The response to the appeal was immediate, extensive and generous. Donations poured in from all parts of Ireland, north and south, the UK, Europe and North America. They came from businesses, companies and individuals.

Amounts contributed ranged from an astonishing £500 (more than £30,000 in today’s terms) by the Guinness company to tiny but no doubt sacrificially given contributions of a few pence from anonymous children.

Here we present a database of all contributions recorded in the Relief Fund notices published in The Irish Times & Irish Independent. The details were first taken from the notices in The Irish Times and then any that were different or additional in The Irish Independent notices were added to the table. See also the links to relevant newspaper cuttings.

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newid	DATE	NAME (as given)	ADDRESS	AMOUNT	NOTES	NEWSPAPER	Link
2	09/09/1926	Mr. Kevin O'Higgins		£10 0s 0d		Irish Times
3	09/09/1926	Mr. Miles Whitehead	6 Windsor Terrace, Kingstown	£10 0s 0d		Irish Times
4	09/09/1926	The Staff of Messrs. Harris	Grafton Street, Dublin	£1 1s 0d		Irish Times
5	09/09/1926	Mr. Edwin Owen	2 Bridge Road, Brentford or 60 Kew Bridge Road	£3 0s 0d		Irish Times
6	09/09/1926	Dr. Michael J. Kennedy		£5 5s 0d		Irish Times
7	09/09/1926	Mr. Brendan Tynan		£20 0s 0d		Irish Times
8	09/09/1926	Mr. F. J. Gogan		£20 0s 0d		Irish Times
9	09/09/1926	President Cosgrave		£25 0s 0d		Irish Times
10	09/09/1926	Mr. Will Rogers	USA	£100 0s 0d	Also gave concert at La Scala Theatre, Dublin (see under George P. Fleming)	Irish Times
11	09/09/1926	Mrs. Croker		£100 0s 0d		Irish Times
12	09/09/1926	Messrs. Clery and Co., Ltd	O'Connell Street	£100 0s 0d		Irish Times
13	09/09/1926	Mr. Thomas Byrne	Chicago, USA	£100 0s 0d		Irish Times
14	09/09/1926	Messrs. Andrew Jameson and Co.		£250 0s 0d		Irish Times
15	09/09/1926	The Jam Sahib of Nawanagar		£200 0s 0d		Irish Times
16	10/09/1926	Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Kelleher	Merlyn', Sydney Parade, Dublin	£10 0s 0d		Irish Times
17	10/09/1926	Right Rev. Robert K. Hanna		£10 0s 0d	Moderator of Assembly, Presbyterian Church	Irish Times
18	10/09/1926	Professor J. M. O'Sullivan		£10 0s 0d	Minister for Education	Irish Times
19	10/09/1926	Mr. J. J. Walsh		£10 0s 0d	Minister for Telegraphs	Irish Times
20	10/09/1926	Mr. Charles J. Joze	Wellington Road	£1 1s 0d		Irish Times
21	10/09/1926	Mr. Alfred Cowan, L.D.S.	119 Harcourt Street, Dublin	£1 1s 0d		Irish Times
22	10/09/1926	Mr. C. H. Heron	377 North Circular Road	£2 2s 0d		Irish Times
23	10/09/1926	Mrs. S. M. Vaughan	Waverly Hotel, Howth	£5 0s 0d		Irish Times
24	10/09/1926	Mr. P. H. McCarthy		£5 5s 0d	Civil Engineer	Irish Times
25	10/09/1926	Mr. Andrew J. Doyle	51 South King Street, Dublin	£5 5s 0d		Irish Times
26	10/09/1926	Senator H. S. Guinness		£20 0s 0d		Irish Times
27	10/09/1926	Olympia Theatre, Dublin		£25 0s 0d		Irish Times
28	10/09/1926	Messrs. Thomas Dockrell, Ltd.		£50 0s 0d		Irish Times
29	10/09/1926	City of Dublin Assurance Co.		£50 0s 0d		Irish Times
30	10/09/1926	Sir Alfred H. Read		£50 0s 0d	British and Irish Steam Packet Co.	Irish Times
31	10/09/1926	Major Dermot McCalmont	Mount Juliet, Kilkenny	£105 0s 0d		Irish Times
32	10/09/1926	Messrs. A. Guinness, Son and Co., Ltd.		£500 0s 0d		Irish Times
33	10/09/1926	Mr. Frederick Fitzpatrick	New York	£200 0s 0d	[pledge] on behalf of himself and his wife; Head of Steel Corporation of America	Irish Times
34	13/09/1926	Independent Newspapers		£250 0s 0d		Irish Times
35	13/09/1926	Theatre & Cinema Association (Ireland)		£105 0s 0d		Irish Times
36	13/09/1926	Right Hon. Lord Iveagh		£100 0s 0d		Irish Times
37	13/09/1926	Messrs. James Bannatyne and Sons, Ltd.	Limerick	£100 0s 0d		Irish Times
38	13/09/1926	Garda Siothchana		£100 0s 0d	(first contribution)'	Irish Times
39	13/09/1926	Allied Artists Corporation, Ltd.		£100 0s 0d		Irish Times
40	13/09/1926	Mr. and Mrs. John McCormack		£100 0s 0d	the singer?	Irish Times
41	13/09/1926	Guinness, Mahon and Co.	College Green	£52 10s 0d		Irish Times
42	13/09/1926	Ulster Bank, Ltd.	Belfast	£52 10s 0d		Irish Times
43	13/09/1926	Limerick Clothing Co., Ltd.	Limerick	£31 10s 0d		Irish Times
44	13/09/1926	Messrs. Stokes, Bros., and Pim Accountants	Dame Street, Dublin	£25 0s 0d		Irish Times
45	13/09/1926	Messrs. Craig, Gardner and Co.	Dame Street, Dublin	£25 0s 0d		Irish Times
46	13/09/1926	Mr. Frank J. Sogan	New York	£20 10s 11d		Irish Times
47	13/09/1926	Mr. Brandon Tynan	New York	£20 10s 11d		Irish Times
48	13/09/1926	Dublin Telegraph Staff		£20 0s 0d		Irish Times
49	13/09/1926	Messrs. Hayes, Conyngham and Robinson, Ltd.		£20 0s 0d		Irish Times
50	13/09/1926	Messrs. L. & E. Egan	Dublin	£20 0s 0d		Irish Times
51	13/09/1926	Managers and Staffs, Metropole Cinema and Restaurant		£12 12s 0d		Irish Times
	DATE	NAME (as given)	ADDRESS	AMOUNT	NOTES	NEWSPAPER	Link

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