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Typescript draft of 'All Sorts of Impossible Things' beginning 'They were out coursing on Sunday a last time together but they did not know it, the two friends, James Sharkey and Tom Lennon, a teacher and an agricultural instructor.' Contains handwritten amendments, amendments implemented in the ' Getting Through ' version of the story. Paginated pp 1-13, pagination amended by hand to 23-35.

Typescript draft of Act 2 of Thomas Kilroy's adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV , unfinished, with handwritten corrections and annotations. Beginning with various characters congratulating one another on their costumes. [Paginated 49-64.]

Typescript draft of Act 1 of Thomas Kilroy's adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV , with some handwritten corrections and insertions. The Act ends with dialogue between "Thomas", "Margaret" and the "Doctor". [Paginated.]

Typescript draft of 'Ackerley: A Biography of J.R. Ackerley' by Peter Parker, beginning 'J.R. Ackerley's reputation rests on four short books, all of them either openly or covertly autobiographical and his engaging and brilliant letters.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-5.

Typescript draft of a treatment of a film 'Amongst Women' beginning 'I see it as a novel about power, especially women who have no power in a patriarchal society, create room and space through appearing to yield, and eventually take over that world since their engagement is the stronger, the more rooted and deep.' Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of a translation of part of 'An tOileanach' ( The Islandman ) by Tomas Ó Criomhthain beginning 'Well, that much was done but the dead do not keep the living'.

Typescript draft of a translation of part of 'An tOileanach' ( The Islandman ) by Tomas Ó Criomhthain. The translation was published under the title 'Springtime comes to the turf bog' in The Irish Times on 2nd November 1991.

Typescript draft of a television adaptation of Swallows beginning 'The sergeant and the surveyor come in to the pub. They are flustered from the rain, both with their raincoats buttoned up, and the sergeant wears blacks pullups.' Contains handwritten amendments and additions, paginated pp 1-24.

Typescript draft of 'A Slip-UP' beginning 'There was such a strain on the silence between them after he'd eaten that it had to be broken.' Paginated pp 1-8.

Typescript draft of 'A Simple Story' beginning 'My Aunt and uncle left the mountains where they'd grown up as soon as they'd finished school to work in the small town, she in a shop he in a garage.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-8.