"The Jackie Clarke Collection spans nearly 400 years of Irish history and contains over 22,000 items: rare books, manuscripts, legal papers, pamphlets, handbills, newspapers, autograph books, news sheets, circulars, reports, letters, periodicals, cartoons, maps, minute books, thesis, articles and proclamations. It was put together during the lifetime of Ballina man, Jackie Clarke, an ordinary man with an extraordinary passion for history."

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