Printed copies of The Student - a magazine of university life , published at University College Dublin, with Thomas Kilroy as sub-editor in November 1955, editor December 1955, sub-editor November/December 1956 and March 1957. Issue of November/December 1956 contains some conferring photographs.
File of notes and documents (typescript and handwritten) pertaining to lectures on drama, given by Thomas Kilroy. Notes begin with Aristotle's poetics and other antique writers, but reach through to the 19th century. Most of these only constitute 1-2 pp; most extensive is a 12-pp set of notes on late Victorian drama.
File of handwritten notes pertaining to lectures on Shakespearean drama, given by Thomas Kilroy. With general notes, and a more substantial accumulation of notes on the plays Othello , Hamlet , King Lear , and The Tempest . The most extensive set of notes (7 pp) is entitled " The Tempest first lecture BA general". Including a typed booklist for a course on Shakespeare's Comedies at Peabody College, in 1965.
File of handwritten and photocopied (printed) documents pertaining to lectures on Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists and poets, given by Thomas Kilroy. Only 10 of these count more than 5 pages, including a continuous text entitled "Marston - Q[uestion] of Satire". Including examination questions on drama (second year, unspecified institution).
File of handwritten notes pertaining to lectures on Restoration and 18th-century drama, given by Thomas Kilroy. Most of these only constitute 1-2 pp; most extensive is a set of notes (4 pp) on Etherege's The Man of Mode .
File of documents pertaining to lectures on W.B. Yeats's drama [and poetry], given by Thomas Kilroy. All are short notes, of up to 2pp; very little continuous text. Also including a list of Yeats's plays with synopses (undated) compiled by "R. Bower", and fragmentary photocopied pages from literary criticism on Yeats.
File of handwritten and typed/ printed documents pertaining to lectures [and essays] on J.M. Synge, by Thomas Kilroy. Mostly short notes of up to 2 pages. Most extensive is a notebook (10 pp) with continuous text, marked by Kilroy as "notes/essay on Synge and outline for book?", and with a fragmentary typed copy of it.
File of handwritten and photocopied documents pertaining to lectures about Sean O'Casey, by Thomas Kilroy. Mostly short notes, but including a draft lecture (7 pp); the bulk is taken up by a photocopy of O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars .