These are some of the collections held by the KAS library:
American Committee for Relief in Ireland
| Description | Letters and statements of appeal to the American Committee for Relief in Ireland, 1921-22 from Irish people whose property was damaged during the War of Indepedence. |
| Collection no. | IE KAS Q005 |
| no. of items | 86 |
| year(s) | 1921-22 |
Flood Estate Papers
| Description | Estate valuations; tenants’ ledgers; correspondence; relating to the 4,000 acre Kilkenny estates of the Hanford Flood family. |
| Collection no. | IE KAS Q010 |
| no. of items | ledgers (6) + correspondence (444 items) |
| year(s) | 1897-1926 |
Hackett Family Collection
| Description | Hackett family photographs and a 1950s radio script by Florence Hackett. |
| Collection no. | IE KAS Q028 |
| no. of items | 1 photo album; 1 script; 4 notes. |
| year(s) | 1890-1987 |
Lá na mban 1918
| Description | Signatures, in a handwritten ledger, of 1015 Kilkenny women who signed an anti-conscription pledge organised by Cumann na mBan and other bodies in 1918. The financial accounts of customers with Danville Dairy occur in the same volume. |
| Collection no. | IE KAS Q030 |
| no. of items | 1 MS ledger |
| year(s) | 1918 + 1935-1936 |
A community project in 2018 tried to find out more about these women.
Patrick Burke Collection
| Description | Letter from Patrick Burke, Wakefield Prison, Yorkshire, to his wife Kate Burke at Kilkenny. 5 May 1916 |
| Collection no. | IE KAS Q023 |
| no. of items | 1 folio |
| year(s) | 1916 |