Typescript letters including from Pat O'Brian to unknown recipient (23 Jul) detailing plans for dancing and ceilì at the Spanish Arch, Galway. Letter to Ollie Jennings, Festival Administrator, Galway Arts Festival, 13 St. Mary's Terrace, Taylor's Hill, Galway from George O'Malley, Director, The Wine Promotion Board, 33 Clarinda Park West, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, detailing sponsorship of cases of wine for the opening of the Galway Arts Festival. (31 Jul) Photocopy of letter detailing Site Criteria from Paula Clamp, Administrator, Charabanc Theatre Company, Linen Hall Street, Belfast to Patricia Forde of the Galway Arts Festival. Also includes typescript open letter on Galway Arts Festival headed paper detailing highlights from previous Galway Arts Festivals, list of current Festival staff, plans for the upcoming festival and also details of levels of required sponsorship.
Typescript letters from writer Doris Lessing, London, to Tom Kilroy, about a literary festival [Cúirt International Festival] which she eventually cannot attend. Commenting about one of his plays she is just reading [ Double Cross], and mentioning Brendan Behan.
Typescript letters from novelist Brian Moore, California, to Tom Kilroy, about attending the "Moore outing" [Moore Literary Convention, Castlebar], making travel arrangements.
"Typescript letters from [Erna Bennett] Anguillara [Rome], to Proinsias and Monica Mac an Bheatha; referring to their holidays with them in Italy, to 'Pru' [Rigby] in Sydney, a photographic commission, and describing domestic problems interfering with the writing. Enclosing missing pages of a chapter Proinsias and Monica have already, asking for their opinion (11 pp). Also attached (no reference made):
Typescript letters between Deborah Weinstein of Wilson Hartnell Public Relations Limited, 8 Appian Way, Dublin 6, James Harrold, Students Union, U.C. G. Galway, Paraic Breathnach, Administrator of the Galway Arts Group, Rory Brennan, Secretary of Poetry Ireland, 106, Tritonville Road, Sandymount, Dublin. The letters discuss the planning and organisation for the appearance by writer D.M. Thomas at the Galway Arts Festival. Details of the letters include Deborah Weinstein seeking to confirm with James Harold the arrangements for the public reading by D.M. Thomas at the Galway Arts Festival: the dates of the reading, what and where he is to read, fees and travel arrangements (Letter from Weinstein to Harold, 7 Mar). Details of expenses of the event to be shared by Poetry Ireland (letter to Brennan from Breathnach, 31 Mar) Details of Weinstein having booked D.M. Thomas booked onto John Bowman's and Kevin Myers' radio program respectively. Includes further details of publicity and also travel and accommodation arrangements for Thomas's journey to Galway. (Letter from Weinstein to Harold, 31 Mar and 13 Apr) Letter from Brennan to Breathnach, (12 Apr) details the sending of a cheque for £60 from Poetry Ireland to Galway Arts Group to part cover costs associated with the appearance of D.M. Thomas at the Galway Arts Festival. Photocopy of letters are included.
"Typescript letter with handwritten postscript and signed by Erna [Bennett], Anguillara Sabazia (Rome), to George [Gilmore], and fragment handwritten reply from Gilmore. Erna's academic work; her opinion about Collins - 'no great politician' but with wise political and economical insights into imperialism; indignation about those seeing foreign capital in Ireland as the threat that it is; the economical imperialism in disguise that they are suffering; need for neutrality as a pre-condition for Irish sovereignty and independence. - Reply agreeing with remarks on Collins - Peadar [O'Donnell] is right to see him 'trapped and destroyed by his own I.R.B. secret society mentality'. Mentioning John Mitchel, 'tragically mixed up good man'. Encouraging her research work. Praising new powerful trades unions taking a stand. (Also containing some notes on English trade unions; possibly part of the letter.)"
Typescript letter with handwritten addition from Peter Campbell, Irish representative of The Honourable The Irish Society, Londonderry, to Brendan Duddy, and photocopy reply from Duddy, regarding Duddy's proposal to purchase or lease land at Iona Park for a pony training centre, which the Society eventually refuses.
Typescript letter signed Greg McCartney, Solicitor, of McCartney and Casey, Derry, to Brendan Duddy, inviting him to discuss a matter concerning his witness statement for the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.
Typescript letter (print-out electronic mail) from [ ] to Brendan [Duddy], informing him of the latest media item featuring Denis Bradley and his role during the 1981 hunger strike where he admits he was not a direct witness when the settlement proposal from Thatcher arrived. Also enclosed, a file of press articles (from the internet) spanning July 1998 and April 2006, dealing with Denis Bradley's self-proclaimed role as an intermediary.
Typescript letter signed Valerie Fletcher, Secretary to Mr.[T.S.] Eliot, Faber and Faber Limited, London, to Thomas Kilroy Esq. While Mr. Eliot is honoured by their invitation he will not be able to travel until he goes to the US in April.