File 1 - Early drafts of Part 1

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Handwritten notes and early typed drafts of the following chapters, includes some feedback from contemporaries, where indicated.

'Sworn to the Tower', with a note from Robinson to Liam Mac an Iomaire requesting that he proof read a piece of Irish, with response on the back. (Undated)

'Maidenhair', a letter to Robinson signed Michael [ ] from the Department of Botany at UCG with feedback on the chapter. (16 May 1993)

'Sermons in Stones'; 'Discrepencies'; 'Dwelling' and 'Iaráirne' (amalgamated in to one chapter before publication); 'Tales from the Hill.

'The Invisible Tower' (1991), with a handwritten letter to Robinson from Con [Manning] of the OPW. Manning has read one of the drafts and includes some notes about Cill Éinne, Franciscan brothers brewing ale, a note about round towers, a note on a legend in Clonmacnoise, and Mael Sechnaill, notes are incorporated in the chapter.

'Origin and Vanishing Point' with notes on St Enda; 'Dark Angel'; 'Mementos of Mortality'; 'Sometime Places' with notes on An Turlach Mor and the Committee Road; 'Development' with notes on Cill Ronain; 'Statistic and Sentimental Tourists'; 'An Ear to the Coffin' with notes on the Protestant Church of St Thomas; 'Climbing the Hill'; 'Backwaters'; 'Mainistir'; 'Among the Thorns'; 'The Fitzpatricks'; 'Gold and Water'; 'Lights in the Darkness' under the working titles of Ancient Lights, and Lights on a Hilltop; Notes on Dun Eocha; 'Evelyn's Shop'; Draft pieces on Eochaill Church (that led to the chapter "Locus Terribilis");'A Fool and his Gold'; 'In Search of Wasted Time'; 'The Four Beauties'; 'In the bed of Diarmuid and Gráinne'; 'Modalities of Roughness'. The file for 'Modalities of Roughness' includes a note from Paul Mohr on the source of the term 'Asbian'.

'The Blood of the Heart', includes photocopied annotated OS maps, and an index card on Buaile an Challa.

Handwritten notes on the famine in Aran, and a typed draft of 'Dark Harvest', the chapter that became 'Black Harvest' in the published book. Draft of 'Spuds'.

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