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Typescript playbill from the UCD Dramatic Society, with listings for productions of Michael Sweetman's Whether to Dine and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (adapted by Augustine Martin). Listing Thomas Kilroy as producer, and cast as "Candy" for Of Mice and Men. Containing signatures by some of the cast, and of "Gus Martin".

File of typescript notices from the English Literature Society, UCD, for ordinary and special meetings of the Society, always featuring a guest speaker or more. Including "the first meeting" (26 October), and "the inaugural meeting" (6 March), the latter with Thomas Kilroy, auditor, reading a paper "The Angry Cloth", and guest speakers including Benedict Kiely, Denis Donoghue.

Typescript copies of an essay (7 pp) by Tom Kilroy entitled "The angry cloth in American fiction". Discussing contemporary US fiction, pursuing the argument that the common protagonist "is an anxious and angry one. He is the heir of a wealthy system, which proves a responsible and exacting burden" (p.7). [Paginated.]

Typescript address for the English Literature Society, UCD, entitled "Where all the Ladders Start", and to be read by the Auditor Thomas Augustine Martin; handwritten corrections. Discussing modern verse drama, and poets Yeats and Eliot in particular. Listing as chairman the President of the Society, Professor J.J. Hogan.

Holograph letter from Denis Johnston, Lansdowne Road, Dublin, to Mr. Kilroy, apologising for having mislaid their invitation; asking them to repeat it to him. He would be delighted to come - "I enjoy visits to your College (and) the astringent witty malice of so many of the meetings I have been at".

Holograph letter from J.C. Murray, Ballsbridge, Dublin, to Mr. Kilroy, apologising that his age will not permit him to attend the literary function he was invited to in such flattering terms.

Typescript letter signed by Seumas O'Sullivan, Morehampton Road (Dublin), to Mr. Kilroy, regretting he cannot avail himself of the honour to attend the meeting.

Holograph letter from Harriet Waugh, North Dursley, Gloucestershire (England), to "dear Sir" [Thomas Kilroy], writing on behalf of her father [Evelyn] and regretting that his condition makes it impossible he accept their invitation to Dublin. "No hopes of his recovery can be entertained."

Typescript letter signed by Mary B. Moran, Irish Writing, Rathmines, Dublin, to Mr. Kilroy, regretting on behalf of the editor S.J. White that he is abroad and cannot speak to the Society.