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File of plays by Aidan Matthews, entitled Trojans, St. Artaud, Walking Out Together, The Nativity Narratives. [See letter of 10 November 2006.]

Copy of typed screenplay by [David Mercer] entitled [ The Cellar and the Almond Tree ], divided into 53 scenes. [Marked by Kilroy as "unidentified - sent by agent". Produced by ITV 1967 - identification by Internet Movie Database. First page missing.]

File of two typed play scripts by Tom Murphy, namely The Sanctuary Lamp; and The Blue Macushla . [No indications of when these were sent, but see letter of 22 May 1980 for commentary on The Blue Macushla .]

File of poetry (some drafts) by Desmond O'Grady, with one translation from the Italian. Including fragment of an early selection of poems (20 pp); a collection of new poems by O'Grady and other poets from a reading given in Rome [1959]; some poems with handwritten note "for Gerard Ryan" and naming O'Grady's address in Massachusetts [1963].

Typescript [draft] play by Billy Roche entitled The Boker Poker Club . Listing a Wexford address for the author. Including stage directions stating "the play is set back in the early '70s in an angry small town somewhere in Ireland..."

File of records regarding Ciarán Ruby's play Six by Sundown . Including mail correspondence, two drafts of the play, and the printed programme of the play as performed at the Callan Workhouse, August 2008, listing Thomas Kilroy as an advisor to the project.

Copy "first typedraft" of the first part of a play by David Rudkin entitled Athdark and the Flood (The Saxon Shore) . Listing literary agents M Ramsay, London, and also listing Field Day, Derry [unclear]. Handwritten note about a programme on BBC 2 on 27 May [1983].

Bound copy of James Saunders's play Hans Kohlhaas (adapted from Heinrich von Kleist). Listing literary agents Margaret Ramsay, London. Incorporating "Notes on the Play" and "production notes" (xv pp).

Copy of typed screenplay by [Hugh Whitemore] entitled Unexpectedly vacant, divided into 2 parts and 35 scenes. (Marked by Kilroy as "unidentified - sent by agent".) [Produced by ITV 1967 - identification by Internet Movie Database.]

File of letters from dramatists and writers John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy, Galway, to Kilroy. Regarding private and family matters; a film proposal ("black comedy", 1973); current affairs; an essay by Arden about O'Casey; their other writing. In regard to Kilroy's [ Double Cross], Arden mentions that Brendan Bracken once addressed his school. Enclosing a press release entitled "The Non-Stop Connolly Show", asking Kilroy to add his name. (One letter is fragmented and undated.)