Fragment typescript draft of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , with handwritten annotations and corrections, in 180 scenes. [Paginated 1-123; missing pp. 42-78. Seems to be the copy referred to in Paul Donovan's notes of 14 August 2006.]
Fragment typescript draft of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , with few handwritten annotations and corrections. [Paginated 1-122; missing pp. 24-31 and the end, stopping at scene 178. Identical with preceding draft up to p.10; taking over some of the corrections made there .]
Fragment typescript draft of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , missing the beginning; with few handwritten annotations and corrections, in 183 scenes. [Paginated 7-130.]
Typescript "Draft 2" (113 pp) of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , in 154 scenes. Enclosing tabulated study of the themes and relationships explored in the play, ordered by scenes and listing page numbers; with copies. Also containing a hand-drawn graph showing development of the central relationships between "Val" and "Ford", "Val" and "Mary-Jo". [Draft is paginated.]
Typescript draft (131 pp) of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , with handwritten annotations and corrections, in 183 scenes. Enclosing "notes towards draft three" which follow on Paul [Donovan]'s notes of May 2007. Kilroy commenting on particular scenes and proposing corrections. [Draft is paginated.]
Fragment typescript draft of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , with one handwritten marking on p.43. Including the new character "Maury", from scene 62 onwards. Missing the end, stopping at scene 115. [Paginated 1-72.]
Typescript draft of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , with handwritten annotations and corrections, title page and character list, in 169 scenes. Acknowledging the assistance of The Irish Film Board and script editors Elizabeth Garner and Paula Mulroe. (Missing p.31, paginated 1-105. Original folder was marked "towards a final draft", third page inscribed "Colleen 3 towards final".)
File of correspondence between Thomas Kilroy and his literary agent, Alan Brodie of Alan Brodie Representations, London, regarding the screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy . Including early feedback on the screenplay, the legal "Option and Writer's Agreement" with Paul Donovan of Grand Pictures ([ ] February 2007), enquiries by Kilroy about withdrawing the script (reply in the negative).
File of correspondence between Thomas Kilroy and The Irish Film Board, regarding the film project for his screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy. Including a note by Kilroy [applying for funding]; a letter offering him a sum towards the project; several reports on the radio play and the feasibility of creating a film script from it (unsigned and undated) .
File of correspondence between Thomas Kilroy, script consultants Elizabeth Garner and Paula Mulroe (for the Irish Film Board), producer Paul Donovan (of Grand Pictures); co-operating on developing Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy . Containing detailed notes and commentary on plot, characters, and theme, regarding progressing drafts - naming drafts one (2005) and two (2006), and then referring to one or more unnumbered drafts (2007/2008). Including a letter from Thomas Kilroy to Paul [Donovan], expressing his deep reservations about the director, Paul Quinn [spring 2008]; e-mail print-out from [poet Mary O'Malley] to Thomas Kilroy, giving advice on some Irish phrases [that may be spoken by John Ford] (undated); correspondence ends inconclusively. [Thomas Kilroy added information about the O'Malley e-mail.]