Inventory description: Correspondence and papers of Major Michael O'Farrell DSO, 5th Victoria Mounted Rifles, concerning his time in South Africa from 1900 - 1902. Comprised of 8 letters to his brother, Edward O'Farrell, Officer of Land Commission in Dublin, and other family members in Ireland, covering his service in South Africa and experience of campaigning against Afrikaners; together with printed accounts, booklets and other papers relating to his experiences in South Africa. 

Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).